Philip Poburka on wed 7 aug 02
> This is a widely applied truth. I once heard a VP of Engineering for
> Toshiba talk on the subject of "Engineering in the 21st Century." His
> advice to his engineers was to make sure that they did not mistake the
> computer driven image of what they were designing for the reality of how
it
> would be used, or even the clean room environment where it would be
> manufactured.
>
> Wes Rolley
Deare Wes,
I found this interesting...
I think I should find it hard to avoid construeing (or confuseing) a 'vp' of
engineering from
'toshiba', as other
than 'virtual', now that I think of it...
Maybe if I met 'im it would help
decide
matters...one way or the other, but then again...maybe not.
Maybe I feel a mite 'harsh'' today, as to apprehending of the tender
interests
in Life which the corporate-bizzness-engineering 'world' hath taken to ever
new heights these
last few six or seven decades or so, 'heights' as make me a
little dizzy at times...heights as would have made ol' Mr. Rockafeller
himself get a touch of anoxia and some palpitation...
At least "Kerosene" took some of the heat off of them 'Whales', for to
light the 'Lamps-of-the-World'...
I can get a little woozey...contemplateing these 'heights'...or
more like the prologemnons as announce
of a 'salmonella' ingestion havin' happenned, oh, like maybe seven or eight
hours 'earlier'...more
like that 'feeling' I think...
I think of the boy in the film, "The Emerald Forrest"...and I think too of
how
his'dad'...decided after a while, to think a mite differently about the
'dam'...
'Senior Beeeel'...if memory serve...
One may infer something of the 'virtual' to have characterized the
experience of some of them 'engineers' too...and maybe a lot else as well.
What is a 'dam', exactly?
Something as 'mediates' a River?
As fate would have it, my little 'Lap-Top' Computer is a 'Toshiba'...
It mediates a 'river' of sorts too...but not quite as 'dams' may be said to
do...
I wonder if I can download a picture of of a 'toshiba-vp' on it?
Or to brush up on me uh-dough-be 'photo shop', and give him an arrow thru'
the head and
a 'goatee'...and a missing 'front-tooth', and 'glasses' maybe, just for fun,
as one may recall doing, or as one may still tend to do, with magazine
cover
'pictures' or other, in the
odd moment of 'waiting-room' enui or the like?
And why not?
Anyway...
...food for thought...
Phil
ell vee
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