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.
@futurebird
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You definitely could. If you're a generally handy person and have the right tools it's not that hard to make a simple one (or even a complex one if you:re fine with it looking literally rough around the edges)
Attaching legs to things is not at all trivial. Not all table-shaped objects are sturdy tables I'd trust to climb on and fix the curtains.
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To be fair to her I was also into theatre and loved helping with set design and know a smattering of chaotic carpentry. But IDK if I could just post up and make a table.
@futurebird I'm confident I could make a crude table should the need arise. It probably wouldn't be very pretty though.
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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 Awww.
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@futurebird I'm confident I could make a crude table should the need arise. It probably wouldn't be very pretty though.
I'm considering a reality show where people have to do the job that other people THINK their job is.
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Attaching legs to things is not at all trivial. Not all table-shaped objects are sturdy tables I'd trust to climb on and fix the curtains.
Yes to all of this. "Chaotic" maybe would clash with the need for some parts to be load-bearing but hey, trial and error, no one was born knowing everything, etc.
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Attaching legs to things is not at all trivial. Not all table-shaped objects are sturdy tables I'd trust to climb on and fix the curtains.
@futurebird @gbargoud nobody said it had to be a *good* table.
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I'm considering a reality show where people have to do the job that other people THINK their job is.
@futurebird @mansr oh dear.
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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 love the term chaotic carpentry
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To be fair to her I was also into theatre and loved helping with set design and know a smattering of chaotic carpentry. But IDK if I could just post up and make a table.
@futurebird for years we kept around this small, squat table my grandfather had made as a hobby project in the basement. It was the sturdiest thing in the house.
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I'm sorry we need them to FLOAT; we have someone poppins round for tea.
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Attaching legs to things is not at all trivial. Not all table-shaped objects are sturdy tables I'd trust to climb on and fix the curtains.
The way I made mine was to make a couple of H shaped leg assemblies that the table can rest on so pretty much all of the forces are compressive.
It's held up for 5 years so far and shows no sign of breaking anytime soon, I've stood my fat ass on it more than once to change the lightbulbs above it.
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@futurebird omgooooodddddddd this is too pure and beautiful and like in some way I WISH I'd been making real tables for the last ten years
Let's retrain to be carpenters, so we can keep making tables.
@futurebird@sauropods.win @hwll@sunny.garden
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To be fair to her I was also into theatre and loved helping with set design and know a smattering of chaotic carpentry. But IDK if I could just post up and make a table.
@futurebird 'Whenever she "thought of his work" she always saw clearly before her a large kitchen table. It was Andrew’s doing. She asked him what his father’s books were about. "Subject and object and the nature of reality," Andrew had said. And when she said Heavens, she had no notion what that meant. "Think of a kitchen table then," he told her, "when you’re not there."'
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The way I made mine was to make a couple of H shaped leg assemblies that the table can rest on so pretty much all of the forces are compressive.
It's held up for 5 years so far and shows no sign of breaking anytime soon, I've stood my fat ass on it more than once to change the lightbulbs above it.
Amazing!
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The way I made mine was to make a couple of H shaped leg assemblies that the table can rest on so pretty much all of the forces are compressive.
It's held up for 5 years so far and shows no sign of breaking anytime soon, I've stood my fat ass on it more than once to change the lightbulbs above it.
I assume you have "table architecture and design" on your CV.
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I assume you have "table architecture and design" on your CV.
Absolutely not, never doing that again. It was way too much effort and I do not have the patience to do it anywhere near correctly.
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I'm considering a reality show where people have to do the job that other people THINK their job is.
@futurebird @mansr Cue the memes…
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To be fair to her I was also into theatre and loved helping with set design and know a smattering of chaotic carpentry. But IDK if I could just post up and make a table.
@futurebird Chaotic Carpentry is the name of my MC Hammer cover band
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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 chaotic carpentry is the new goat farming
