Well I don't know about Rant....or that I'm somehow prophetic..
But let me digress briefly,.....to someone worthy of the moniker.
My good friend Ray Hasbrouck, built a beautiful #10 steam launch engine. Very nice...I asked him, "Ray? Would it offend you if I turned your engine into a compound launch engine by using your #10 as the HP, and creating a larger cylinder for the LP?" I had the utmost respect for Ray, and did this question by letter, and he wrote back to me square away.
"Dave, that would be Great! I love when anybody builds a steam engine!"
Now, if you look at that with today's prism, I say "Great! I love it when someone builds Something!"
Listen, we have the hots for engines, and machine tools....well me personally.
I've also spent five years discussing Ad-nauseum RC racing on these very pages....yeah that was a lot, and yeah I built a lot RC stuff....and if you don't think thats Engineering...you weren't paying attention!
But it's all kinda the same thing.. We're all a bunch of "Doers"....and expecting anything else from this lot is tantamount to trying to put rain back in the clouds. To expect the next generation to be different because they know a PCs better than us, or use a lot of
to communicate....is just silly!.
(listen to me getting all progressive and %*&^! ...don't worry I'll revert..)
Dave
PS William is in his room building another airplane...from plans he created...and I've been told to bugger off with the help
Good!!! The Crew chief has done enough wrenching for a while!