Remarkable Device
We bought a tool, at the weekend, that borders on the miraculous.
You might think that getting enthusiastic over a piece of diy equipment would tend to suggest to the reader (ie you) that the writer (ie me) was teetering on the precipice of implement obsession. You may be right. But so might you - you just don't know it yet. The contrivance in question is a Nail Puller -and it obeys full nomnative determinism - it does what it says on the tin. Why is this such a fabulous gift to homo sapiens habilis? Because, before Nail Pullers (or Before NP) , nails well nailed into wood were, well, nailed - They were irrevocably embedded. Ok, so the application of a good crowbar might prise apart the two ennailed pieces of wood - but, this contest of human and nailine wills would almost inevitably result in the two pieces of wood shattering into a fountain of splinters - defeating the whole point of the endeavour. So the decision to Nail , before NP, was an irrevocable, irreversible one. But with the advent of Nail Pullers, this is no longer true. One can now unnail. With this revelation - i'm now on the look out for a tool that can be applied in a similar fashion outside the world of carpentry. Wouldn't it be great to have a tool that can reverse previously irrevocable decisions in the Real World?
You might think that getting enthusiastic over a piece of diy equipment would tend to suggest to the reader (ie you) that the writer (ie me) was teetering on the precipice of implement obsession. You may be right. But so might you - you just don't know it yet. The contrivance in question is a Nail Puller -and it obeys full nomnative determinism - it does what it says on the tin. Why is this such a fabulous gift to homo sapiens habilis? Because, before Nail Pullers (or Before NP) , nails well nailed into wood were, well, nailed - They were irrevocably embedded. Ok, so the application of a good crowbar might prise apart the two ennailed pieces of wood - but, this contest of human and nailine wills would almost inevitably result in the two pieces of wood shattering into a fountain of splinters - defeating the whole point of the endeavour. So the decision to Nail , before NP, was an irrevocable, irreversible one. But with the advent of Nail Pullers, this is no longer true. One can now unnail. With this revelation - i'm now on the look out for a tool that can be applied in a similar fashion outside the world of carpentry. Wouldn't it be great to have a tool that can reverse previously irrevocable decisions in the Real World?