Overheard in Maplin

Robin2:
At least the guy was honest.

IMHO the best place for pseudo knowledege is listening to a sales guy trying to sell a PC to a naive customer in PC World.

...R

Get into scientific instrumentation for a while.

What's bad is that once sales gets done promising that it can do the impossible and gets the sale, I have to show up and make the impossible actually happen. And when I can't bend the laws of physics far enough it's somehow my fault.