The guys from Subotica came with the big machine. Actually not that big, it's less than one meter wide and tall, and maybe a bit longer when the top plates are attached. It's a combined circular saw, router and smoother, but it's extremely heavy. Made by a fireman (ok, fireperson) for his home woodworking, then sold to this carpenter, but he doesn't really need it, because he's making furniture, and nowadays nobody uses wood for furniture. It's all this or that kind of particle board.
He came with his dad and the van driver, and the four of us were to pull out the machine out of the van. Anything that could have been dismantled off, was. Still, the frame is made out of solid iron bars, L profiles almost strong enough to be railway tracks. At the critical moment, when the frame was almost out of the van, the older guy and I had different opinions on the speed with which to lower it, so it slid my way (my side was going down faster). It fell a bit and then toppled to my side - with no damage at all, not even to the van. However, I felt I have overexerted a bunch of muscles in my lower back, but it didn't hurt much. Until later.
We slid it into the garage - luckily, didn't develop much of scratches nor cracks in the new concrete we poured last fall. Then went inside for coffee and rakija (well, the old man and I had one).
The rest of the day was, well, just work.
This on UA, about typing the search term in a textbox vs launching apps via menu or icons:
I'm using Launchy for a number of years now, even a few years before the Vista (where this "type your search" was revealed to users of the Windowses), and it's saved me a lot of time by now, and probably at least one mouse. In Launchy I just type few characters of the name of the file I want (and it's not indexing all of my tens of thousands of files for this, only the file specs defined per directory, in directories I configure) and these don't even have to be the first characters. It's got a very intelligent MRU/MFU (most frequently used) list handler, so it learns my habits and the stuff I use most frequently comes up with least keypresses. I only need to vaguely remember the name of the file.Let's face it - to find something in a menu, you not only have to know the name of the thing, but actually need to know how it's called this year (so "add/remove programs" is now "programs and features"; "printers" is "devices and printers", "display" is still where it was, but doesn't cover screen saver, theme, color scheme, screen savior etc - that's under "personalization" etc etc). Even software is not consistently arranged in the menu - I've seen Office's shortcuts at the root of it, or under a submenu; when in a submenu, the software is listed by manufacturer's name, not by what it does. Back in the day when I was still using the system menu, some pieces that I use monthly or more rarely take me a couple of minutes to find next time - manufacturers' names weren't telling me anything, and sometimes it took me at least five times to remember who makes what. Just while writing this I looked at the system menu and found something I couldn't remember what it was, so I uninstalled it.
To click on an icon? Where, on my desktop? I'd have to close a bunch of windows first, and I need those windows open, that's where I work, that's why I have the computer, to get things done on it. It's like having to place a bookmark in each book you have open on your table, and close them all and move them off the table, if you wanted to open one more. And then I'd have to open each window (book) again just to be able to continue. I have no icons at all.
15-IV-2013 - 13-IX-2024