On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:54:15 -0500, Tom Watson wrote:
My company has a problem with some casework that went out assembled
improperly.
I sent out a drawing on how to repair it.
Too complicated. (Thus sayeth the field crews)
I took photographs and put arrows and text on the photographs.
Still too complicated. (Also sprach die field guys)
So I decided to make a movie about how to repair it.
I'm hoping that this simplifies things a little bit.
It made me wonder if this will be the means of communication for the
wooddorking groups of the future.
https://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/...ocker/cato.wmv
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)
Too funny! Although looking at it, that's not a bad way to generate
instructions -- it takes out a lot of potential for mis-interpretation.
For future movies, you might consider the following theme, for the really
simple (as in, I can't believe you need pictures for this) things:
http://faultgame.com/images/larhardy.wav
For the really tough stuff with lots of potential for screw-up:
http://www.danshep.net/fortuna.mid
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