LJ Rich visits a Cornish boatyard where nutcrackers and other elaborate contraptions

[sailorman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22083752

 

[Achillesheel]

That's my boat on the left, as the presenter walks into the workshop at the beginning. Rob Higgs is a genius, very inventive, and he's a thoroughly nice bloke.

 

[Babylon]

He's totally right: to be a design-engineer these days involves sitting at a computer most of the time, whereas he's able to connect to all parts of his creativity.

Thanks for the link.

 

[prv]

He's totally right: to be a design-engineer these days involves sitting at a computer most of the time

Seems to be the case with most "brain" jobs as opposed to "hand" jobs (errm, maybe I should rephrase that ). I'm a software engineer so it could never be any other way, but my brother's a geologist and he also spends the vast majority of his time in front of a computer, usually also writing software code. The only time he goes out and hits rocks with hammers is when he's teaching the basics to undergraduates.

Pete