I dont have any problems with people asking me stupid questions the first visitor I tell !@# off!
And the second and the third after that no one talks to me for the rest of the day.
So most times when I show items I've CNCd I hear, "He didn't make it, the computer made it." Comments like that even come from machinists. When I fire up the v8 for the crowd I hear, "Looks like the computer made it."
Dave, what you say is true. It's almost impossible for me to not watch the machine work. I always plan on doing something else during machining time but I rarely ever do. I almost always watch it cut. It's fascinating.