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[arethinn]

Why is it that the elegant solution never reveals itself until I have spent days and days (in this case, something like a month) messing around with klugey ones? Is it some kind of test or initiation? Some gate I must pass before I am worthy of the elegant solution? Or a situation comparable to that apple tree that tricked me into walking through clouds of mosquitoes over impassable vegetation to try ask my question of the river because "I just wanted to see if you would do it"?

*humph*

Genius: n. The ability to spot the elegant solutions right off.


(speaking of elegant solutions, baxil, what was the deal with the "coal club" sandwich anyway?)

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[silussa.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, the elegant solution is not visible even when you HAVE done it...it takes someone who knows nothing at all on the subject to come along and ask "why didn't you do it THIS way?"

Which, perhaps, is one of the major values of experience....having gone through the long way, and learning the short ones. :)