# Dopers who are good with their tool.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-are-good-with-their-tool/228901>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 12, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-are-good-with-their-tool/228901 "2004-02-12T19:08:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-are-good-with-their-tool/228901/21 "2004-02-17T20:02:34Z")

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Sandy, can I ask a question?

How did you find us?

Had you been lurking here for awhile and some how found _ahem_ my thread and decided to de-lurk?

Does Barclay somehow have intuitive computers that allow it to track peoples traffic in and then monitor their daily personal traffic… :eek: Is Barclay actually part of the CIA or CHAOS? 🆒

Did divine forces of Google direct you to SDMB and this thread?

Did Miss Cleo tell you about us?

Have you ever been in a Turkish Prison? 🙂

As you can see, my mind is boggling. And I really want it to Yahtzee.

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**Author:** ![evilhomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@evilhomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhomer)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-are-good-with-their-tool/228901/22 "2004-02-17T22:06:13Z")

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> [@alexanderg](#):
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> I forgot to mention that making round parts is best done on a lathe. This is a whole world of fun, and making domes and onion domes provides an excellent excuse for co-opting “he who must be obeyed.” You simply say something like “If we had a nice lathe, the shop would be a lot more versatile,” and you’ve got a lock.

You make is sound like **Shirley** would have to _convince_ her husband to buy a new tool. All my wife would have to say is “Go buy a lathe”. I’d only ask her why after I was back from the store.,

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**Author:** ![alexanderg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@alexanderg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexanderg)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-are-good-with-their-tool/228901/23 "2004-02-18T14:22:14Z")

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Like many websites, there is a snippet of code at the bottom of our pages provided by a company that helps us record our web hits and the patterns of browsing on our website - this includes the source of referrers. This information is derived from the code your computer projects when you log onto our site and includes the time of day, the page you entered, your web address, the keyword you employed in a search, and a whole bunch of stuff about your system - monitor resolution, operating system, etc. We were attracted to your thread by the sudden influx of hits (about 20 since it started) from this board - not all from you, but all from people who clicked on the link you provided in your original note. From there, it’s simply a matter of back-tracking to see who is visiting and what they might be saying.  
After that, I simply joined the list to throw in our two cents.

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