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"It's only a model"

I mentioned that I bought my wife a trebuchet. Here's a picture of it.

And where does one go to buy a trebuchet?

Well, duh.

http://www.trebuchet.com

Kim's is the tabletop version.

Oh, and if you don't know what “It's only a model” refers to, I pity you...

Published Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:30 AM by ericgu

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:36 AM by Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]

# re: "It's only a model"

ROFL.
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:00 AM by Steve Hall

# re: "It's only a model"

Hhuurruummpph! It's ONLY a model! Not even big enough to throw your favorite set of golf clubs clear down the street! Or YOU out of your easy chair! Well, I GUESS it IS better than buying bullets for her gun, eh? (Didja buy her some of those 3/4" iron ammo spheres? If so, be sure to post some pictures of the damage she does with them!)

Personally, I like the few slightly larger models of hurling machines shown on: http://www.trebuchet.com/story.php/otherfats.html

I've got lotsa of servers that are running those old sluggish Pentium II's...and I figure one of those should alleviate me the trouble of paying to have 'em scrapped. And it makes it easier for me to "contribute them" to the school across the street!

Have you ever seen the trebuchet specials on A&E or History channel? Those fun Englishmen with WAY too much time on their hands (or pints IN their hands!) slinging pianos and 30-year old Volvos make me wanna go out and fell a 100' tree to try and imitate their designs. (I have a few neighbor cars I'd like to "move"...)
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:13 AM by Tim

# re: "It's only a model"

If you don't know what "It's only a model" refers to, then you can't be a TRUE PROGRAMMER because you can't pass this test:
http://www.xmission.com/~tjmadden/trueprog.htm

(I should make a multiple guess version of it.)
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:13 AM by Clinton Pierce

# re: "It's only a model"

My kid started to build one out of spare parts in the garage. Bits of wood, some aluminum pipe, dishrag, a bucket, rocks, and twine. After a little help, this is what he wound up with: http://www.camfriends.org/users/clintp/firing.mov

Hurling a baseball 80 yards for a ten-year-old for an afternoon's work ain't too bad, I think. The first firing was the funniest. He tried it in the backyard before going to the park and gave himself about 30 feet or so of space. The ball went over the yard, fence (narrowly missing the house), front yard, across the street, over the neighbor's front yard and landed a couple of feet from the neighbor's parked car. Oops.
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:23 AM by DarthPedro

# re: "It's only a model"

Looks very phallic... And, it's a present for your wife, you say? Hmmm... :)
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 12:05 PM by James Manning

# re: "It's only a model"

building 41 - 'tis a silly place
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:31 PM by Geek Noise

# Geek Notes 2004-08-10

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:03 PM by Steve Hall

# re: "It's only a model"

Tim: I KNOW a MODEL when I see one! (And this one does NOT have the legs to which I'm accustomed! Not tanned enough...)

You reminded of an off-color (off-model?) joke I heard at a modeling BOF about 15 years ago at the first or second Borland conference in Monterey: "Those that CAN, model! Those that CAN'T, code!" by none other than Grady Booch. (Fortunately, everyone already had a few too many that night...and a riot did NOT break out... He did clarify it by saying "You noticed that I didn't say developers?!" I guess his lesson that night was "thus, if you CAN develop, you CAN model too!")
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:46 PM by Tim

# re: "It's only a model"

Steve, I CAN model, the question is, would anyone want me to?
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:34 PM by James McNellis

# re: "It's only a model"

Oh dear...

How much fun would that be to keep one of those at my desk... Or at a LAN party--as a counterattack weapon when opponents are attacking in AOE2... Hmmm.

James.
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 5:23 AM by Ross

# re: "It's only a model"


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/

Tagline: Makes Ben Hur look like an Epic

Hehehe.
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:38 PM by .net DElirium

# Have a fling!

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:38 PM by A Blog for Graymad

# Have a fling!

Tuesday, August 17, 2004 7:48 AM by Peli's Blog

# Trebuchet and C#

Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:49 AM by Jonathan de Halleux

# re: "It's only a model"

Here's the big brother of your model:

http://blog.dotnetwiki.org/archive/2004/08/17/773.aspx
Saturday, December 18, 2004 10:51 AM by MBA

# MBA

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