Funny moment from work on Friday

[cjsmith]

One of the things I'd been doing for the past couple of days is moving my stuff into a window cube that had been vacant for several weeks. It made a nice cover for moving a lot of my personal crap home, too.

You can always tell who's an engineer by the fact that they can't move into a modular-furniture cube without rearranging SOMEthing. I'm no exception. Friday evening, after most folk had gone home, I was hanging out with Chief Architect and New Boss (two of the three people who know I'm leaving and why), and we were all chewing the fat while I was loudly whacking shelving into place.

I was being clumsy about it, of course, since I'm short and can't reach well, but I eventually got it. I looked up at them, stuff half-assembled dangling from my hands, and I said "Be afraid. I'm going to learn surgery." I gave the shelf another good thump and it latched onto its support.

Chief Architect shook her head. "I trust you, and all," she said, eyeing the hapless shelf, "but I don't want you disassembling my cat."

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[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

*laughs ass off*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I promised not to disassemble her cat until I wouldn't end up with parts left over afterward. At least unintentionally. :)

[brooksmoses]

After similarly laughing quite a lot, I am now wondering if SymbianOS comes with a "cat" binary and if your devtools include a disassembler....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hah! No, but I could create a binary named that, chown it to her, and send her the command line. ;-)

[brooksmoses]

Hee. That could be worth it. :)

[ken_r]

I was being clumsy about it, of course, since I'm short and can't reach well,

(mental image here of CJ reaching up to the too-high operating table, waving instruments around and unable to see)

"Be afraid. I'm going to learn surgery." I gave the shelf another good thump and it latched onto its support.

Wouldn't the correct surgical approach be just to tie it in place with lots of string or tape or something, until it's ready to stay in place by itself?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, except shelves don't heal too well and are solid structural things, so we'd probably need those nifty titanium screws.

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, all of a sudden it becomes "Ikea Cat."