{"id":2872,"date":"2011-09-24T22:03:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T02:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2011-09-25T07:03:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T11:03:34","slug":"saturday-night-the-f-u-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/09\/24\/saturday-night-the-f-u-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – the F.U.F."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi friends.. sitting here in the bathroom.. waiting for the tub to fill. I’m covered with white paint.. a misadventure with the paint sprayer.. but\u00a0\u00a0 the bell tower is getting close to being painted..!<\/p>\n

I had a good day of manual effort… . not much abstract thinking.. just.. how do i DO X’. i LOVE THE CONCRETENESS OF A REAL PROBLEM. NOT A STRATEGY.. NOT A VISION.. JUST.. A SIMPLE QUESTION OF HOW TO DO A complex TASK WITHOUT THE TOOLS, MONEY OR TIME REQUIRED.. NOW THATS A CHALLENGE.<\/p>\n

aCTUALLY.. THE MISTAKE HERE WITH CAPS.. REMINDS ME OF THE TOPIC ON MY MIND<\/p>\n

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i started the day at homers.. I love working with him.. he’s one of the few folks (my brother\u00a0 and my kids\u00a0 .. my friends scott f, mike r and bill p\u00a0 .. probably the only others) that I can work with without having to think too much.. a simple rhythm of combining things to make working machines.. it’s a real joy.. Today Homer and I were working on two projects together.. one was ‘project-x;.. the pumpkin robot and the other is an art project for another friend.. I so enjoy just puttering together in his shop.. designing, drilling, cutting,<\/p>\n

Today we talked aout the F.U.F. (the F**k up fairy) .. the malevolent creative spirit that punishes creative thinkers that don’t know when to stop.. i.e. you design a cool new gadget.. but don’t know when to stop refining .. The F.U. F. will come in to get you to stop.. you’re 99% complete.. the last thing you try will destroy the project and put you back to square one.. It’s not just\u00a0 ‘murphys law’ >. ‘Murphy is a blind application of chance. ‘anything that can go wrong ,.. will go wrong:.. while the F.U.F>\u00a0 is more mindful.. it finds the most dreaded logical gap in a design and homes right in..\u00a0\u00a0 Homer was telling me about the F.U.F’s intersecting\u00a0 with his new metal landscapes.. causing massive ‘paint failures’
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\nI met the F\/U\/F on the interactive device I was building.. with sensors that appeared by turns too sensitive.. and not sensitive enough.\u00a0\u00a0 (fixed now.. I hope !)<\/p>\n

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The F.U.F was lying in wait for today’s big project, the resurrection of \/project x. the giant pumpkin robo<\/a>t for the haunted forest..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’ had been lying outside in homers yard.. and needed a major rewiring.. it’s now on its 4th year of service…. wwhich hcih is well beyond its designed life..
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right in front of it\u00a0 was a rotting skunk homer had found.. lovely
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we dragged the beast out of its resting place..<\/p>\n

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how the heck did this thing work again ? Who designed this ? How did it EVER work ?<\/p>\n

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oh yeah.. it was us..<\/p>\n

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\nwell.. despite the F.U.F> we made progress today.. hopefully tomorrow we can re-finsih the design.. I’m installign a radio control option to simplify\u00a0 the rats nest of 20 foot cables.. .<\/p>\n

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I sure hope it works..<\/p>\n

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\nI’lll make an offering to the F.U.F tonight to ensure it goes somoothly..<\/p>\n

ok.. I need my beauty rest.. more tomorrow.<\/p>\n

nite all nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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Hi friends.. sitting here in the bathroom.. waiting for the tub to fill. I’m covered with white paint.. a misadventure with the paint sprayer.. but\u00a0\u00a0 the bell tower is getting close to being painted..! I had a good day of manual effort… . not much abstract thinking.. just.. how do i DO X’. i LOVE … Continue reading Saturday night – the F.U.F.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[270],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-f-u-f"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}