Re: Gauge blocks

"Snag"  wrote in message news:v5l5ro$34lll$1@dont-email.me...
Well ...
   I can see Bad Shit coming down the road . If y'all have read The Mote
in God's Eye , ...
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I identified with the engineer who realized that everything in the museum was broken, it was a personality type test. That resembles my second-hand shopping trips, the trick is to figure out what's wrong and if and how I can easily fix it before negotiating a deal. (Clean the carb?) The narrow nerdy stereotype of electronics people the book magnifies is common among liberal arts types, who were visibly annoyed that I could also discuss art and literature.
Jerry Pournelle's blog was very intelligent and interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle
"He was one of the founders of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy, which developed some of the Reagan Administration's space initiatives, including the earliest versions of what would become the Strategic Defense Initiative."
The only thing I caught him on was the argument that an eye is too complex to have evolved.
https://earthlife.net/nautilus-anatomy/
"The nautilus eye is a simple pinhole style eye, similar to a pinhole camera."
It's not much more than a snake's heat sensitive pit yet it can form images.
I don't have a can seam mike, but my vehicles carry compact 4" dial calipers that can stay within a shirt pocket when rummaging through industrial "stuff". The 4" may fit under the mill head when 6" is too bulky. The can mike could be useful like my miniature 0-0.5" Fowler mike when picking through unlabeled sheet metal.