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To: chic_hearne who wrote (6917)	8/29/2000 4:25:08 PM
From: Epinephrine	Respond to of 275872

rube-goldberg.com <edit>"Through his 'inventions', Rube Goldberg discovered harder ways to achieve easy results. His cartoons were as he said, symbols of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results."

To: chic_hearne who wrote (6917)	8/29/2000 4:32:02 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Chic, I'm glad you asked. He died in 1970 so I suspected many here don't know the legend...but you should. Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist known for inventing complicated whacky machines that performed simple tasks. Goldberg's drawings of absurdly-connected machines accomplishing by extremely complex, roundabout means what seemingly could be done simply has meant that his name RUBE GOLDBERG has become associated with any convoluted solution to perform a simple task. rube-goldberg.com There are a number of contests each year to see who can build the best Rube Goldberg machine. Intel may well win it. Purdue is one of the best ones... expert.cc.purdue.edu