Re: facetime:connie/patrick
[Connie nods.] If you're going to make a really complex cake, you need the recipe. So, dad didn't come up with how to build the machines-er-cake on his own. He found this and took what he could from it to bake his own cake. The problem is- well you can't make a great recipe out of just tasting a cake. He probably had no clue how this was made, or I'd be juggling time balls by now. He had to guess what made it tick and then try to replicate it.