If I had a hammer

Now is that an extremely analog brain machine he's about to whack with the hammer?

Looks like a sinister lefty to me.

>1 bam2001: That hammer is going to do pretty well against old-school analog computers.

Although it might be a rubber hammer, in which case no.

I mean, get a ballpeen or claw hammer if the sledgehammer is too big for you.

🎶if he had a hammer, he'd hammer all the big brains.🎵 but it would probably be easier if he wasn't squinting all the time.

>3 GSSex-noob: … he’d hammer in the morning, hammer in the evening, all over this land …?

This brings back memories of my early days in IT support. especially the clothes!
As a side note...I never used a hammer, but I would use the handle of a screwdriver to tap on the Sony/Apple hard drives that had the "stiction" issue. Good times!

Well now which of us hasn't had that urge at one time or another towards a computer which isn't doing what we want it to do?

Oh, it's only me then? *squintily slinks back into her cave.*

>6 MrsLee: No, not only you ...

>6 MrsLee: Many, many years ago as a not-so-young undergraduate (I liked college so much I went through twice), I saw a guy literally punch a monitor in our undergrad computer lab when his program didn't work the way he wanted to. So, no, not just you.

The guy, incidentally, was like that. I don't know what caused him to be this way, but I was in a store across from campus when he stormed out yelling something about the cashiers watching him like they thought he was going to steal something....

It's called "percussive maintenance", people.

At least that's what we called it in the big iron days when Mr. xn and I met.

>9 GSSex-noob: Applied the concept to my sometimes-cranky laser printer. It worked well enough to get my document printed.

>10 Hammy_JLK: I had an old car with analog gauges once. You bet the concept was the only thing that kept those dials going.