From: "Jeremy H. Brown" To: all-ai@ai.mit.edu Subject: GSB: 5:30pm, 7ai playroom Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:00:56 -0500 (EST) "Yak shaving." Our very own Carlin Vieri invented the ...

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yak shaving (uncountable) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.

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I just got my copy of MAKE:. I read it in one sitting cover to cover. What an excellent mook. There were a lot of great articles. In the section Life Hacks:

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This yak shaving phenomenon tends to hit some people more than others, but what makes it particularly perverse is when groups of people get involved.

yak shaving . Done in the style of Despair Inc., here is a yak shaving poster I designed. Shaving the yak was a technical term coined at MIT refering to:

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All I wanted to do was forward my telephone calls. I decided to dive into Asterisk. I realized that all of the "easy configure" setups were limited for my purposes.

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Yak Shaving Day is a fictional holiday popularized in 1992 in the Ren and Stimpy cartoon program as a parody of the Santa Claus legend. Once a year, children decorate the hallways ...

I just re-discovered a wonderful term I hadn't heard in many years: yak shaving. Seth Godin has a great description of the concept: Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of ...

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