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Subject:RE: Best technical writing of the season From:"Mike Hiatt" <mhiatt -at- vocaldata -dot- com> To:"Jeff Hanvey" <jewahe -at- comcast -dot- net>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:13:02 -0600
It was Jon Stossel on 20/20 and it was a roller coaster. Very intersting that some of the boys who were interested and thought they could do it became frustrated.
I can't remember if any of those they had trying to do this had prior K'Nex experience or not.
Mike Hiatt
Manager, Tech Pubs
VocalData, Inc.
Dallas, TX (yep, that one) mailto:mhiatt -at- vocaldata -dot- com
www.vocaldata.com
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From: Jeff Hanvey [mailto:jewahe -at- comcast -dot- net]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:57 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Best technical writing of the season
I think you've hit the key - there has to be a level of interest. Even the
kids that were put through the paces thought it was too complicated. But,
then, they just may not have had interest in that particular type of toy.
The toy in question was some kind of racetrack, I think, and the idea was to
have parents put it together so it was ready to go when the kids woke up
Christmas morning.
