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Subject:RE: Can I Get Your Input Please From:Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 8 May 2008 11:33:48 -0700 (PDT)
Understood. I have written my share of vaporware and
phlogiston. I love trying to write a software manual
from the design specs, knowing full well that the
developers will ensure 78% of my words will be dead
wrong before the end of the month. Under some
circumstances our output would be more properly
classified technofairy stories.
But please...beer is for fishing or after football
games. Only healthy drinking in the morning - mimosas
and tequila sunrises, something with some vitamin C.
> All of us working in a product development
> environment are writing science
> fiction....like I'm doing right now....making up an
> alignment procedure for
> a complex wafer delivery system using only a
> Solidworks drawing.
>
> Is the beer cold yet?????
>
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