Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina -- Jackie sends her condolences and declares (once again) that only engineers should have to put up with the idiosyncrasies of engineers. Best regards, Dave (not an actual engineer but an even-worse facsimile) On Nov 22, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Tina Manley wrote: At 06:17 AM 11/22/2008, you wrote: > There are several among us Leica users who suffer from a personality > disorder that causes us to become engineers and given this > psycological pathology we are more comfortable using our tools when > we know how and when and by what process our tools were created. > Some of us even take the equipment apart, analyze how it works and > what design choices were made, in order to better understand the > tool's strengths and weaknesses. Humor us. > > Doug Herr I'm married to an engineer and know exactly what you mean. I've always thought there should be a support group for the wives (or husbands) of engineers so we could commiserate about the personality disorders that affect engineers! I don't understand at all this fascination with the technology behind the cameras and lenses but I do know that it's very important to some left-brained people ;-) Tina Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information