01-28-2013, 01:25 PM
If someone wants to spend the time and effort to "build a database", I suppose I would be willing to try to use it. In the mean time, If I need a part for something, I can build it. If it is something I cannot build, there are people I can ask about where I can find this thing. If that fails, I will attempt to build it, or find a reasonable facsimile.
Years back, when I was maintaining Microfiche printers, duplicators, readers, and reader/printers, I started a list of all my rolling stock, and was able to update it, and print it to fiche, as a test program for the printer I had just completed repairs on.
I spent more time updating that list than I did building models.
Every time I flipped the coin, it came up "building models is more fun", I never saw it land "building databases is fun".
I stopped flipping that coin.
I am having more fun, building models - - - - - - - - - and re------searching !
:o :o a n d... by the way....., yes, I reached "old fossil status" a couple of years ago, and I'm sure my comments here reflect that.
To the ambitious one who would build that database? If that makes you happy, go for it ! I will be happy to use it.
As Ngauger put it: "and then there's the inevitable.....While I'm Re-Searching for "that"... I always stumble upon "this" one item that I was looking for previously and did not find... Therefore, now I know where it is"
and next time, and there will most likely be a next time, I'll remember what I learned, and go right to where I can find it.
Years back, when I was maintaining Microfiche printers, duplicators, readers, and reader/printers, I started a list of all my rolling stock, and was able to update it, and print it to fiche, as a test program for the printer I had just completed repairs on.
I spent more time updating that list than I did building models.
Every time I flipped the coin, it came up "building models is more fun", I never saw it land "building databases is fun".
I stopped flipping that coin.
I am having more fun, building models - - - - - - - - - and re------searching !
:o :o a n d... by the way....., yes, I reached "old fossil status" a couple of years ago, and I'm sure my comments here reflect that.
To the ambitious one who would build that database? If that makes you happy, go for it ! I will be happy to use it.
As Ngauger put it: "and then there's the inevitable.....While I'm Re-Searching for "that"... I always stumble upon "this" one item that I was looking for previously and did not find... Therefore, now I know where it is"
and next time, and there will most likely be a next time, I'll remember what I learned, and go right to where I can find it.
We always learn far more from our own mistakes, than we will ever learn from another's advice.
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!