I like the cataloging, but I dont see the periodic part of this.
The Periodic Table of Tools
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#12This displays what I would consider to be a fairly limited knowledge of tools. Saws, for instance, take a variety of forms, and lumping all of the large ones into "big saws" rather ignores the fact that their use is fundamentally dependent on what kind of saw they are. Not their size. And perplexingly, miniature table saws are lumped in with other big saws. I'd also submit that a bung hole auger (lumped in with antiq…
Too pedantic. I don't think the categories are meant to imply that the tools are similar to each other.
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#13This is really cool. He sure owns a lot of tools! You could make a pretty neat display of them in a museum. Way more interesting than endless paintings and porcelain.
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#14I like the cataloging, but I dont see the periodic part of this.
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#15Woohoo! There's tools here I don't have.
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#16Woohoo! There's tools here I don't have.
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#17I like the cataloging, but I dont see the periodic part of this.
"The arrangement follows loosely the characteristic of the regular periodic table: tools with similar functions in each column, getting heavier as you move down the rows."[1]
I can see perhaps not agreeing with their decisions, so maybe the groupings don't look correct to you, but they seem to have made some effort to be "periodic".
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#18I like the cataloging, but I dont see the periodic part of this.
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#19Was I alone in expecting software engineering tools?
I indeed thought about software tools although not software engineering in particular. More like classic Unix tools.
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#20This has a great auxiliary use for those of us who don't know about all the tools, and/or don't know the names of the tools. It's going to make me sound a lot less stupid at the hardware store!