My husband is a network admin; I'm a programmer. He once related to me a story about a user that was having a problem with his computer. As soon as he arrived at the users cube the problem disappeared. The user was amazed and baffled that his computer was now working and couldn't understand what had been done to make it work. My husbands reply was "By force of will alone".
I have since witnessed this many times myself. On a related note, I brew beer. When I first started brewing I got books on the subject, read up on it all over the internet and on rec.crafts.brewing and basically immersed myself in brewing lore for weeks on end. I make good beer now. My brother-in-law also wanted to make beer so I gave him the books I bought and pointed him to good sites on the internet to read. He has tried three times to make beer and each time has reported that his beer came out tasting like crap. He had all the same resources and used the same kind of water and ingredients as I did and still could not do it. So, "By force of will alone" I, "goddess of beer and programming" perform my arcane arts with fabulous results.
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My husband is a network admin; I'm a programmer. He once related to me a story about a user that was having a problem with his computer. As soon as he arrived at the users cube the problem disappeared. The user was amazed and baffled that his computer was now working and couldn't understand what had been done to make it work. My husbands reply was "By force of will alone".
I have since witnessed this many times myself. On a related note, I brew beer. When I first started brewing I got books on the subject, read up on it all over the internet and on rec.crafts.brewing and basically immersed myself in brewing lore for weeks on end. I make good beer now. My brother-in-law also wanted to make beer so I gave him the books I bought and pointed him to good sites on the internet to read. He has tried three times to make beer and each time has reported that his beer came out tasting like crap. He had all the same resources and used the same kind of water and ingredients as I did and still could not do it. So, "By force of will alone" I, "goddess of beer and programming" perform my arcane arts with fabulous results.