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Hung out with the guy who restored Maillardet's Automaton. 127 linear feet of programming, XYZ plotting, capable of reproducing details less than a mm across. In 1790. He showed me an unsigned vienna grande sonnerie movement that's probably 270 years old. It still works. It has a fusee chain that would be dwarfed by angel hair pasta. Somebody made that. By lamplight. With nothing more technologically sophisticated than an archimedes drill. Me? I spent 45 minutes turning a larger Delrin cylinder into a smaller Delrin cylinder on a shitty Taiwanese lathe. Having a hard time being enthusiastic about my education at the moment.