There are excuses, and then there are lazy excuses

I was reading through one of the blogs on zdnet this morning (here, if you must know), I found a particularly choice piece of idiocy:

For those of us incapable of such engineering George’s efforts are interesting. For those of you inclined to take on these projects yourself go for it. I’m stuck in the “buy because there’s no way I can build without blowing something up” camp.

Building a computer is easy. Really. It's pretty tedious, but it's easy. Routing out all the corners of a wood box isn't quite as easy, but...look, even I can do it. No, the only reason to not build your own boxes is laziness.