Re: lightbulbs and coffee cans

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 14:03 11/11/99 +0000, Barlow Newbolt wrote:
> Gang:
>        The story about the light bulbs reminds me of an incident
> that happened to my sister.  She was teaching in a small
> day-care/nursery-school environment. ...
> the teaching staff and the children []
> were not discouraged, and they eventually found out what
> was going on.  They had to check the literature, find a
> consultant who would work free (yours truly), and be
> certain about their experimental facts, but they did
> eventually figure it out! ...                              WBN

> Barlow Newbolt

Is this anecdote intended to be a scathing indictment? -
or am I to construe it as high praise?

That a day care group checked the literature (!)
and consulted a domain expert (!!)
to discover a truth that eluded Galileo (!!!)
is ..well.. astonishing.

And that's what I CALL an experimental proposal.

(But, yes, we didn't hear about the many well-intentioned folks
who gave up on it - blaming themselves, I suppose...)

Sincerely

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK