Just a continuing of the Bar’s & Stripe’s message.
Building things you know nothing about is hard!
I mean, sure the guy who is writing the manual thinks he has made it as dumb person friendly, and just about as darn basically easy as he thinks is needed to be … but it isn’t enough for someone like myself!
Let me try and explain this a little better, it is not a door knob but it wouldn’t matter at this point to me, my mind is so shot out.
Example: How to unlock and then open a door know:
1) Take Out Key
2) Put Key in Hole, Then Turn
3) Turn, Remove Key and Pull Door Open
Yeppers, sure sounds easy doesn’t it, let me tell you what I am thinking after each one of these simple steps …
1) Take Out Key – Me, Key? What key? My car key? Where is the key located? Do I have to search for this magical key? O’ com on, can we be a little clearer here please I have a lot of keys … O, that one … ok glad I looked at 5 websites for another list of directions to figure it out … couldn’t have just put it all on one could they?
2) Put Key in Hole, Then Turn – Me, Found the key … you have to be joking me, 2 holes? Dead Bolt or the one on the knob? Darn it another search to figure it all out. Well that isn’t exactly how they described it … O wait I have the older free version and that’s why it isn’t working … darn it! GET THE HAMMER I WILL MAKE THIS KEY FIT!!!
3) Turn, Remove Key and Pull Door Open – Me, I guess I shouldn’t have used the hammer … Wait, do I turn the key or the knob. O great, I hit them both with the hammer and now neither of them will turn. LA WIFE!!! We must have a virus. No something you did I am sure. Your wrong, you most have used the computer sometime in the last 3 months … just come fix it!
Yeppers, that sounds about right.
This brings me on to another subject, not really, but I am feeling foggy so lets jump.
Who names things?
Like Door Knob and Key.
HEHE
The reason I ask is I have some strange named animals.
OK, so the guy who fins a new critter gets to name it some scientific name that is normally something that’s sounds like there own name in some way.
If my Father were to find a frog, it would most likely be named after him.
Something like Flatulence-Anura (AKA the Farting Frog)
With a sub blurb about how it is especially noisy around stairs … hehe
The reason I bring this up is I have come across a bunch of strange animals and am wondering who thought that this was a good name.
Critter names:
Zonkey – it’s part Zebra and part Donkey … I still think it is part Monkey …
Stinkpot Turtle – Who are we to complain about how messy someone keeps there home?
Least Weasel – That’s a real ego builder now isn’t it?
Psammomy Obesus – Wow, who cares what it is we are openly saying it’s fat???
Dracula Bat – Poor little guy, who can live up to a name like that?
KAKA – Sure it’s the sound it makes, but also what its food makes …
Wahoo – That’s just a cool name! It’s a Kangaroo Rat from Australia
My personal favorite … hehe …Wonderpuss – look it up yourselves!
Now I get how names of things change over time.
Simple pronunciations or words from generation, or geographic location can be completely different.
Like how Yankees can for some reason not pronounce the letter ‘H’ when it starts a sentence?
Something’s we can look at and see roots in it from some Latin dialect or some other old language.
Then we have other things that just don’t make any connections such as the African Language of Xhosa.
Almost makes you wonder about that whole Tower of Babel thing now doesn’t it?
That’s it for now.
I have to go back to working on this darn comic ideal … I hate myself!
