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Archive for June, 2008
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
1) You try to enter your password on the microwave.
2) You now think of three espressos as ”getting wasted.”
3) You haven’t played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.
4) You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
5) You email your son in his room to tell him that dinner is ready, and he
emails you back, ”What’s for dinner?”
6) Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
7) You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you
haven’t spoken to your next door neighbor yet this year.
You didn’t give your wife a Valentine’s card this year, but you posted one
for your email buddies via a Web page.
9) Your daughter just bought CDs of all the worst records your college
roommate used to play.
10) Every commercial on television has a web site address at the bottom of the
screen.
11) You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date. And now sells for
half the price you paid.
12) The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a
purchase is foreign to you.
13) Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags our of the
backseat of your car.
14) Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have
email addresses.
15) You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
An engineer dies and reports to the Pearly Gates. St. Peter checks his dossier
and says: “Ah, you’re an engineer, but you worked for a high-tech startup
company and got rich. You’ve had too good of a life, so now you can’t come in
here.”
So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the
engineer is dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing
and building improvements.
After a while, they’ve got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators.
The computers are all upgraded and there are speaker wires running to every
room. Even the clocks on the VCRs are set. The engineer becomes a pretty popular
guy.
One day God calls up Satan on the telephone and says with a sneer, “So, how’s
it going down there in hell?”
Satan replies, “Hey, things are going great. We’ve got air conditioning and
flush toilets and escalators. The computers are faster than ever and we’ve got
music in every room. There’s no telling what this engineer is going to come up
with next.”
God replies, “What? You’ve got an engineer? That’s a mistake, he should never
have gotten down there! Send him back up here, now.”
Satan shouts back, “No way! I like having an engineer on the staff, and I’m
keeping him.”
God says, “Send him back up here or I’ll sue.”
Satan laughs uproariously and answers, “Yeah, right… and just where are YOU
going to find a lawyer?”
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
It was a celebratory mood with the boys at NASA; they had just made the
scientific achievement of a lifetime.
As they were uncorking a bottle of champagne, Dr. Lowenstein, the head
scientist at NASA, asked everyone to be quiet as he had received a
congratulatory phone call from the President of the United States.
He picked up a special red phone, and spoke into it.
“Mr. President,” said Dr. Lowenstein, grinning broadly, “after twelve years of
hard research and billions of dollars spent, we have finally found intelligent
life on Mars.”
He listened for a second, and his smile gradually disappeared, replaced by a
frown.
He said, “But that’s impossible . . . we could never do it. . . yes Mr.
President,” and hung up the phone. He addressed the crowd of scientists staring
at him curiously.
“I have some bad news,” he said, “the President said that now that we’ve found
intelligent life on Mars . . . he wants us to try to find it in Congress.”
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Real Engineers consider themselves well dressed if their socks match.
Real Engineers buy their spouses a set of matched screwdrivers for their
birthday.
Real engineers have a non-technical vocabulary of 800 words.
Real Engineers repair their own cameras, telephones, televisions, watches, and
automatic transmissions.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
I won’t stop bugging you until I get the address of your home page.
Let’s convert our potential energy to kinetic energy.
Wanna come back to my room and see my 166mhz Pentium?
How about you and I go back to my place and form a covalent bond?
You’re sweeter than glucose.
We’re as compatible as two similar Power Macintoshes.
Wanna see the programs in my HP-48GX?
Your body has the nicest arc length I’ve ever seen.
You’re hotter than a bunsen burner set to full power!
My love for you is like a concave up function because it is always increasing.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Top Ten Things Engineering School didn’t Teach You
1. There are at least 10 types of capacitors.
2. Theory tells you how a circuit works, not why it does not work.
3. Not everything works according to the specs in the databook.
4. Anything practical you learn will be obsolete before you use it, except
the complex math, which you will never use.
5. Engineering is like having an 8 a.m. class and a late afternoon lab
every day for the rest of your life.
6. Overtime pay? What overtime pay?
7. Managers, not engineers, rule the world.
8. Always try to fix the hardware with software.
9. If you like junk food, caffeine and all-nighters, go into software.
10. Dilbert is not a comic strip, it’s a documentary.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Three freshman engineering students were sitting around talking between
classes, when one brought up the question of who designed the human body.
One of the students insisted that the human body must have been designed by an
electrical engineer because of the perfection of the nerves and synapses.
Another disagreed, and exclaimed that it had to have been a mechanical
engineer who designed the human body. The system of levers and pullies is
ingeniuos.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
An engineer, a mathmatician and an arts graduate were given the task of
finding the height of a church steeple (the first to get the correct solution
wins a $1000).
The engineer tried to remember things about differential pressures, but
resorted to climbing the steeple and lowering a string on a plumb bob until it
touched the ground and then climbed down and measured the length of the string.
The Mathematician layed out a reference line, measured the angle to the top of
the steeple from both ends and worked out the height by trigonometry.
However, the arts graduate won the prize. He bought the vicar a beer in the
local pub and he told him how high the church steeple was.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
During the heat of the space race in the 1960’s, NASA decided it needed a ball
point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules.
After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed
at a cost of $1 million. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as
a novelty item back here on earth.
The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph
is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los
Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
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