Got to give the Indexed creator credit for the idea, though! I could get into this way of looking at life: everything quantifiable and reducible to a Venn diagram or pie chart or bar graph. It's so comforting, somehow.
That is so great! And so true- now I'm longing for my dad to get back from the wilds of Texas so that I can show him an approximation of this illustration. (He's not a papercraft perpetrator, but he does depend on x-acto knives to perpetrate circuit board mock-ups, and also performs major/minor surgery with them. He's also the only one who saw the swivel-headed x-acto knife on the top of my Christmas wish-list for two years running and actually bought me one.)
Now I have to go pore over that link some more. True genius- I love the carpet spot/dog age graph.
Yes, you would know firsthand about the dogs/carpet spots. If I were clever enough to have thought of this graph idea, I think I'd be able to come up with one involving freshly-changed sheets being the ones most likely to get peed on in the night by continence-challenged small children.
I think I must have mentioned Daddy's spectacular tonsil-spot removal surgery before, but he's used his x-acto for numerous lesser procedures, most of which involved unwanted skin growths, splinters, cactus spines or ticks.
And you know, the swivel-headed x-acto is a wonderful tool, but so exacting in its swivelability that I find that I've got TOO much control, you know? In the hands of a virtuoso, though, it would work wonders.
Oh my God, your dad is hardcore. I love my x-acto, but the idea of cutting anything out of my body with one -- let's just say I draw the line somewhere short of that point. But I admit that I'm fond of your father for doing it. :D:D:D
Is there such a thing as too much control using one? I did not know this!
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Date: 2006-09-21 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-21 11:00 pm (UTC)Got to give the Indexed creator credit for the idea, though! I could get into this way of looking at life: everything quantifiable and reducible to a Venn diagram or pie chart or bar graph. It's so comforting, somehow.
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Date: 2006-09-21 03:49 am (UTC)Now I have to go pore over that link some more. True genius- I love the carpet spot/dog age graph.
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Date: 2006-09-21 11:02 pm (UTC)X-Acto Surgery? I believe you've mentioned something like this before, but I don't recall the specific details. Might you elaborate again??
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Date: 2006-09-21 11:10 pm (UTC)I think I must have mentioned Daddy's spectacular tonsil-spot removal surgery before, but he's used his x-acto for numerous lesser procedures, most of which involved unwanted skin growths, splinters, cactus spines or ticks.
And you know, the swivel-headed x-acto is a wonderful tool, but so exacting in its swivelability that I find that I've got TOO much control, you know? In the hands of a virtuoso, though, it would work wonders.
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Date: 2006-09-21 11:58 pm (UTC)Is there such a thing as too much control using one? I did not know this!
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Date: 2006-09-21 11:03 pm (UTC)