minorthird

so…the law and I have found this odd obsession with a construction site near work. Every morning, it seems, we stand there admiring the deftness of the backhoe operator — I’m talkin’ real skill! Not only can he dig a hole (any size you want) but he can drive 2×6 boards into the ground to support the sides of that hole, and then fill the hole back up again. Add a chain to the boom and bygeorge! it’s a crane! We’re talking multiple skills here!

I think, all in all, we’ve admired 3 new cesspools, a new fire hydrant, and all the cooresponding pipes being installed…and it just makes me realize that my job as an Internet Developer, or a Systems Architect (what the hell does that mean!?), doesn’t really make a difference in the grand scheme of it all. Halfway through a project, I can be told to stop, laid off, done. But how many hotels do you see that are only built halfway? None? that’s about right. And once the building is complete, it would take something rather destructive, like an explosion or an earthquake to tear it down — the internet? just turn the power off, throttle the bandwidth, charge a subscription fee…not as dramatic, but…

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