Aunt: Do you still make furniture
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
Way back, my father was always slightly disappointed I never learned a proper trade, and was very happy to hand me all his old agricultural engineering books when I allowed as how I'd helped a friend weld up a bed.
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird at one point I worked for a software company and my mid 80s grandmother asked, "textiles?"
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
I LOVE THIS
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@beemoh @lordkhan @futurebird Context! This sketch is 10 times funnier if you've seen the one it riffs on (The Two Ronnies: 4 Candles).
It's still funny on its own, but really, Treat yourself.
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@futurebird that’s a very cute story and it made me think about how our jobs might have confused people easily in the past: installing Windows, sorting folders and files, infrastructure architecture, routing packets and something with penguins.
@lordkhan @futurebird This reminds me of, way back, when I worked in a university library, when the only computer systems on campus were for finance and course enrollment and they used punchcards.
Me: What does your wife do?
Coworker: She installs software packages.
Me, with no clue: So, … so, she refills the toilet paper rolls? -
@lordkhan @futurebird This reminds me of, way back, when I worked in a university library, when the only computer systems on campus were for finance and course enrollment and they used punchcards.
Me: What does your wife do?
Coworker: She installs software packages.
Me, with no clue: So, … so, she refills the toilet paper rolls?@lordkhan @futurebird She actually worked for one of the Silicon Necklace companies around Boston - DEC maybe? - and she made close to three times as much as he was making working in the library. We all had a good laugh, and she did too when he told her about it!
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird They were spectabular.
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
Clearly, she selected from the wrong view.
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird Reminds me how funny my mother could be, recognizing open doors:
Decades ago, I was in an issue of Dog & Cat magazine (Kathy Najimy on the cover) as a vet examining a dog. Several silly photos (half day shoot). Mom bought one at her checkout (!) and showed it to an acquaintance there at the grocery, explaining I was an actor.
Years later, the woman asked if I was still a veterinarian, and my mother said yes. -
@futurebird @gbargoud Add columns; merge cells. Voila!
@ColesStreetPothole @futurebird @gbargoud
Sawhorses are columns, big sheet of plywood is cellsTable!
I could make one of those — if somebody gave me the sawhorses
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird I read this twice before I fully felt the difference between kitchen tables and data tables.
There was a moment there when I thought you did programming for a furniture manufacturer.
Time to go to bed.
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
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@futurebird I read this twice before I fully felt the difference between kitchen tables and data tables.
There was a moment there when I thought you did programming for a furniture manufacturer.
Time to go to bed.
“programming for a furniture manufacturer”
Making tables for the table-maker has got to be a well-paid gig, right?!?
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird
Interesting. Designing databases. Never heard of this piece of furniture. Where in the house do you use it?
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird it turns out I make certain assumptions about your posts when skimming the timeline; this reads very different when you're having a conversation with an ant rather than an aunt
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