Having finished our smart Hamster synchronizer, Mountain Girl and I are moving on, but the smart synchronizer has not yet released its hold on us. Dr. Smith offered to have a printed circuit board version of our design made up, so we duly worked up a schematic, a parts list, notes about the needed layout, and collected a batch of references. Then we sent it all to him. All of it, let me repeat. Because I figured he'd be wandering in and out of the lab, asking for more bits and pieces, and this way, whatever he asks for, we can just tell him that he already has it.
I'm too clever for my own good.
"Can you send me the parts list?"
"We already did. It's in the spreadsheet; each part of the project has its own worksheet." I am smug.
"Can you separate out the parts list?"
Still smug. "We already did. It's in the notes we wrote for whoever does the layout."
"I didn't read that. Can you separate out the parts list?"
I wilt. "Okay."
179 words | April 6, 2005 08:26 PM | Ivory tower