Meme O’ The Week: Specifications

Whenever I think of specifications, I think of a probably apocryphal story I tell that I have been regaling engineers with for decades (never let the facts stand in the way of a good story).

When the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system was being built, they rejected everything railroad and embraced everything aerospace. Westinghouse won the bid for the signaling system, which tracked each train through a signal induced into the track. During testing, a train stopped and disappeared from the board. “If this were real, we’d run a train through there!” said Bart. “The specification didn’t include stopped trains,” Westinghouse said.

Specs


Meme O’ Rama

In the end times, who doesn’t want a bunch more memes?

Cartoon Glass

Here is the original:

Glass

I couldn't find it for a while, so I asked an AI whiz (my nephew Paul) to recreate it. Here are the Large Language Model Efforts

 

Glass1

Glass2

Only a human could dream up the original concept, and execute it better than a machine that is little more than monkey-see / monkey do.

 

 

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