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



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http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

"Tom Watson" wrote in message

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


Simple at it seems, you still may get questions. How do you get the drill
to take the screws out? Will I get the same results if I play different
music?

Actually, this is a great idea for a lot of service issues.

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
"Tom Watson" wrote in message

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


Simple at it seems, you still may get questions. How do you get the
drill to take the screws out? Will I get the same results if I play
different music?

Actually, this is a great idea for a lot of service issues.

Now that I've stopped laughing - I can see this as adding great fuel to the
battle between the guys in the field vs the guys in the office. Too funny!

Josie

"Tom Watson" wrote in message
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)

What kind of people are working in these field crews? The simple act of
dissembling the front of the display case should have been sufficient to be
able to figure out how to close the gap between the glass drawer and the
glass top.

Tom Watson wrote:

https://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/...ocker/cato.wmv

Windows Media Player 9 format? Figures. I hope somebody hurries up and
reverse engineers that codec.

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My drill is red instead of yellow. Can I still perform this operation??
"Silvan" wrote in message
...
Tom Watson wrote:

https://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/...ocker/cato.wmv

Windows Media Player 9 format? Figures. I hope somebody hurries up and
reverse engineers that codec.

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too complicated.


There. Done.
j4

It is really very complicated (G). You have to cut a "wood" spacer and a
piece of metal; remove and reinstall screws (new screw holes); measure; work
with mirrors and glass; work with tape and caulk; and figure out how to
watch the video while doing all that.

It is a nice video though. What software did you use?

PS: if you need some expensive help in the Denver area, just let me know.

--
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Web Site: http://www.calanb.com
Current project: http://home.comcast.net/~cabierbaum/

"Tom Watson" wrote in message
...
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)

Roger:
Again, the critics have it all wrong. I am not a big DeMillework fan as
you all know, but this this time Cecil rose to the occasion to take
this basic plot and turn it into a masterpiece. Look out Scorsese! Not
since Last Tango In Paris has a screwing been so thoughtfully
documented. The ever-so-popular DeWalt put in a good performance; keep
an eye out for more work from that direction.
Hamlisch scores big again with the soundtrack, although It did sound a
bit familiar. Nothing like recycling a bit of Joplin, and we ain't
talking Janis! *nudges Roeper*

Richard:
Roger, you misguided slut! *knocks Ebert off his chair backwards* This
movie sucks. I mean where is the nudity? Where are the car crashes? Not
a Milwaukee to be seen! The audience will stay away in droves.!

Roger:
Richard? Meet me for a drinki-poo later?
Until then, the balcony is closed.

Since it takes too long to down load the movie, it is of little value.

It sounds to me like whoever you have in the field should be replaced with
someone capable of doing the job.

--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.


"Tom Watson" wrote in message
...
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)

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:52:09 -0800, "Roger Shoaf"
wrote:

Since it takes too long to down load the movie, it is of little value.

sung to the tune of Start Me Up

If you dial up
If you dial up I'll never stop (downloading)

If you dial up
If you dial up I'll never stop (downloading)

I've been running hot
You got me ticking gonna blow my top

If you dial up
If you dial up I'll never stop (downloading)

You make a grown man cry
Spread out the cable, the T1
I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine

Dial up
If you dial up

Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got, you got
Dial up…


(apologies to the Stones)



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http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:33:33 -0700, "Alan Bierbaum"
wrote:

What software did you use?


The Windows Movie Maker that comes free with XP.

It is my understanding that the version that comes with SP2 is
superior to what came before.

Can't answer to that, as this was my first time using the software, in
any version, and I had SP2 on before using the previous version.

It did seem to be simple to use.



tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

Silvan wrote:
Tom Watson wrote:


https://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/...ocker/cato.wmv


Windows Media Player 9 format? Figures. I hope somebody hurries up and
reverse engineers that codec.

That is my thinking also. It's a shame to use a better OS and not be
able to see things made for the inferior microcrap windows.

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:07:35 -0500, Silvan wrote:

Tom Watson wrote:

https://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/...ocker/cato.wmv

Windows Media Player 9 format? Figures. I hope somebody hurries up and
reverse engineers that codec.

It's been done Kaffeine will play it.

bob

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:24:20 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
wrote:



Simple at it seems, you still may get questions. How do you get the drill
to take the screws out? Will I get the same results if I play different
music?

I fear that you may be right.

Actually, this is a great idea for a lot of service issues.



On a serious note, I think it actually might be the ticket for some
things.

Most folks have a video camera of some sort. Mine isn't even a
digital model but Belkin makes a product that allows you to convert
the stuff to digital (VideoBus II). ($99.00)

The software that comes free with XP is easy to use and cerrtainly
seems adequate for these sorts of "inhouse" tasks.

The software allows you to output to all of the media that is normally
available to us common folk, so people who have VCR's, DVD players,
regular old computers, etc., can participate in viewing the final
result.

It isn't very time consuming to do this.

It took me about ten hours to do this five minute video but that is
because I didn't know the software, or how to get it onto my website
storage area. I also started out with not really knowing how to solve
the showcase problem, from a hands on perspective.

If I were to produce the same thing now, it would take me about four
hours.

Since the problem that I am trying to correct has a dollar value of
about $15000.00, it was well worth the effort.




tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

On 23 Jan 2005 10:49:16 -0800, "Sandman" wrote:

Roger:
Again, the critics have it all wrong. I am not a big DeMillework fan as
you all know, but this this time Cecil rose to the occasion to take
this basic plot and turn it into a masterpiece. Look out Scorsese! Not
since Last Tango In Paris has a screwing been so thoughtfully
documented. The ever-so-popular DeWalt put in a good performance; keep
an eye out for more work from that direction.
Hamlisch scores big again with the soundtrack, although It did sound a
bit familiar. Nothing like recycling a bit of Joplin, and we ain't
talking Janis! *nudges Roeper*

Richard:
Roger, you misguided slut! *knocks Ebert off his chair backwards* This
movie sucks. I mean where is the nudity? Where are the car crashes? Not
a Milwaukee to be seen! The audience will stay away in droves.!

Roger:
Richard? Meet me for a drinki-poo later?
Until then, the balcony is closed.


Brilliant !



tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

"Jody" wrote in message
Silvan wrote:
Tom Watson wrote:


https://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/...ocker/cato.wmv


Windows Media Player 9 format? Figures. I hope somebody hurries up and
reverse engineers that codec.

That is my thinking also. It's a shame to use a better OS and not be
able to see things made for the inferior microcrap windows.

LOL .. It's comforting to see that Sherlock Holmes is in NO danger of losing
his title as the master of deductive reasoning.

--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 11/06/04

On September 1993 plus 4162 days wrote:

Silvan wrote:
Tom Watson wrote:

https://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/...ocker/cato.wmv
Windows Media Player 9 format? Figures. I hope somebody hurries up
and
reverse engineers that codec.

That is my thinking also. It's a shame to use a better OS and not be
able to see things made for the inferior microcrap windows.

uhm...mplayer does play WMP9 format, after you install the codecs
package for it...I know 'cause I watched that video and I haven't
had windows installed in...uhm...9 years or so

Vox

--

Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind
of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_
technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:53:53 -0600, "Swingman" wrote:

...


Look, Swing - before ya even get started - don't start wearing my ass
out about ASCRAP and BMI on the Hamlisch/Joplin tune.

I tried getting the rights to some stuff for a show I wrote in the
eighties, that was done in a 99 seat house - and they wanted to
charge me more than I made for the whole year.

Greedy bastiges.


tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

"Tom Watson" wrote in message

Look, Swing - before ya even get started - don't start wearing my ass
out about ASCRAP and BMI on the Hamlisch/Joplin tune.

I tried getting the rights to some stuff for a show I wrote in the
eighties, that was done in a 99 seat house - and they wanted to
charge me more than I made for the whole year.

Greedy bastiges.

Ya got my blessing, Bro ... they're both thieves of the first order.

--
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Last update: 11/06/04

It begs for a commercial in the middle.


"firstjois" wrote in message
...
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
"Tom Watson" wrote in message

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


Simple at it seems, you still may get questions. How do you get the
drill to take the screws out? Will I get the same results if I play
different music?

Actually, this is a great idea for a lot of service issues.

Now that I've stopped laughing - I can see this as adding great fuel to
the
battle between the guys in the field vs the guys in the office. Too
funny!

Josie

"Tom Watson" wrote in message

Most folks have a video camera of some sort. Mine isn't even a
digital model but Belkin makes a product that allows you to convert
the stuff to digital (VideoBus II). ($99.00)

The software that comes free with XP is easy to use and cerrtainly
seems adequate for these sorts of "inhouse" tasks.


Now you've got me thinking. My digital camera has some MPEG capability and
I've never tried it. I suspect we'll be seeing some of this type of thing
on ABPW soon. Years ago it was a big deal to be able to take a Polaroid
picture of something to take back to the shop or to show a customer. Now
you can email a shot to someone thousands of miles away in a matter of a few
minutes. This would be the natural progression.
--
Ed
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:31:54 GMT, Jody wrote:


That is my thinking also. It's a shame to use a better OS and not be
able to see things made for the inferior microcrap windows.

So, you bought an eight track. So did I. I got over it.

Watson - who has been folding laundry, watching the Eagles kick the
Falcon's ass, and diddling in the Wreck all afternoon - and that's a
pretty nice afternoon.


tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:54:15 -0500, the inscrutable Tom Watson
spake:

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.

Now watch, they won't have a computer which can run it.
/Murphy


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

Let's hope not. I HATE that song.
(Otherwise, that was fun. Finding a lot of time on your hands, are ya,
Tawm?


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"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in
:


"Tom Watson" wrote in message

Most folks have a video camera of some sort. Mine isn't even a
digital model but Belkin makes a product that allows you to convert
the stuff to digital (VideoBus II). ($99.00)

The software that comes free with XP is easy to use and cerrtainly
seems adequate for these sorts of "inhouse" tasks.


Now you've got me thinking. My digital camera has some MPEG
capability and I've never tried it. I suspect we'll be seeing some of
this type of thing on ABPW soon. Years ago it was a big deal to be
able to take a Polaroid picture of something to take back to the shop
or to show a customer. Now you can email a shot to someone thousands
of miles away in a matter of a few minutes. This would be the natural
progression.

Note also that there are more camera phones in existance than regular
digital cameras. There has to be a business use in there somewhere.

Patriarch

Windows Media Player 9 format? Figures. I hope somebody hurries
up and reverse engineers that codec.

That is my thinking also. It's a shame to use a better OS and not be
able to see things made for the inferior microcrap windows.

LOL .. It's comforting to see that Sherlock Holmes is in NO danger of
losing his title as the master of deductive reasoning.


Wait! I remember the Mac converts saying much the same thing over the
years. (I know they use X these days too, so we needn't run down that
trail...)

Patriarch

"Roger Shoaf" wrote in
:

Since it takes too long to down load the movie, it is of little value.

It sounds to me like whoever you have in the field should be replaced
with someone capable of doing the job.


When you send them a $.50 cd, with the rest of their mail, it shouldn't
matter. It's not like it needs to load in real time.

Patriarch

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






+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

On a serious note, I think it actually might be the ticket for some
things.

More than you may realize. This sort of thing is done (seriously) all the
time. Most of the time there is a narration instead of Scott Joplin music
but even as is this would probably be a very useful training aid. Keep in
mind that the procedure that seems simple and second-nature to you may not
be quite so obvious to someone in the field.
I have done numerous training videos over the years. One of the first was a
safety orientation for new employees of an explosives manufacturer. OSHA
required all new employees to undergo this training and it routinely took
the instructor away from his normal duties, so they produced a video so the
workers could get their orientation without inconveniencing other staff.
I have also done videos for Duracell to instruct new workers in the proper
steps for manufacturing certain types of batteries, and for Otis to show
their field technicians how to service a particular model of elevator. And
not long after 9/11 I did a video for Sikorsky Aircraft which consisted of a
complete explanation of the security clearance procedures which was required
viewing for all sub-contractors before they would even be allowed on the
premises.

Lee


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Vox wrote:

uhm...mplayer does play WMP9 format, after you install the codecs
package for it...I know 'cause I watched that video and I haven't
had windows installed in...uhm...9 years or so

Hrm. Maybe I need to go digging or something. I've got everything I'm
aware of as being available, and I just confirmed I have no codec for that
at all. URL?

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Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
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http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

On September 1993 plus 4164 days wrote:

Vox wrote:

uhm...mplayer does play WMP9 format, after you install the codecs
package for it...I know 'cause I watched that video and I haven't
had windows installed in...uhm...9 years or so

Hrm. Maybe I need to go digging or something. I've got everything I'm
aware of as being available, and I just confirmed I have no codec for that
at all. URL?

Being a mandrake user, I just urpmi them from plf.zarb.org but I
think this mirror should work for you:

http://mirror.eepis-its.edu/debian-e...Player/codecs/

If your mplayer isn't compiled with support for the win32 codecs,
you'll need to re-compile it with the appropriate option.

Vox

--
Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind
of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_
technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.

Vox wrote:

Being a mandrake user, I just urpmi them from plf.zarb.org but I
think this mirror should work for you:

http://mirror.eepis-its.edu/debian-e...Player/codecs/

If your mplayer isn't compiled with support for the win32 codecs,
you'll need to re-compile it with the appropriate option.

Well, all of that is interesting. I hadn't looked at this problem since
about a year ago. I'll check it out, and thanks for bringing this to my
attention.

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Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
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