Form and Function

I’m always interested in the concert between form and function.

Theo Jansen is a “Kinetic sculptor”. His creations live or die by their simultaneously complex and elegantly simple design.

This guy is like DaVinci reincarnated and locked in a room with an Erector set ..that’s a really old toy for generationally challenged out there.

On another front, I just wrapped up 5 weeks on a contract job. ..now just a few days to revise and polish.

This was a great reminder of why contractors should keep in mind that Murphy’s law always applies, and no matter how certain you are about a schedule and the work involved, something will always happen that you can’t predict.

That’s why I include a 15% margin for error in delivery times.

I estimated the job at 5 weeks, that’s 25 work days. A 15% margin for error could mean as much as 3 and 1/4 days, give or take.

Well, the Murphy effect that I didn’t predict this time was that I forgot to include my 15% rule in the estimate…