In this month’s Technopolis, you hopefully found me expounding on the virtues of (actually) reading a User’s Manual.
I’m sitting in the Tennessee Theatre, watching the tail-end of a load-out from the front-row seats. As I sit here hoping that the trucks would magically load themselves, I go over the week’s gig in my head and am reminded of one of my most common uses of a manual on-site.
Any time I’m loading fixtures on to a counterweighted fly system, I’m asked for weights of the fixtures that we’re using. Most of the time I know a pretty good estimate, having used the fixtures on various occasions before.
But when that’s not the case, I can pull out my laptop and have an accurate weight for the riggers in under a minute.
Now that’s useful!
I’ve got to go now. The truck driver’s threatening to leave my gear on the street if I don’t get off my…well, you know.
See you next week when we once again lower the orchestra lift into the bowels of the Technopolis; a place we call The Complex.
Phil
| Technopolis Tech Question of the Week: What other great suggestions do you have when it comes to a User’s Manual Let us know by replying in the comments below. |
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