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Just a note to wish everyone a happy National Engineers Week!
https://www.nspe.org/resources/partners-and-state-societies/national-engineers-week

I hope you're all planning a wonderful week of joyous celebrations with your loved ones. I love this festive time when we get to decorate our homes with antique decorations like slide rules, drafting sets, and floppies. I used to really love going around our neighborhood singing traditional engineering carols for our neighbors, but that was before that damn restraining order.

(I've been putting the EE into GEEK since 1984.)

For those of you who aren't members of our proud profession, be sure to do something nice for an engineer this week!

:)
 
Half Fast said:
Just a note to wish everyone a happy National Engineers Week!
https://www.nspe.org/resources/partners-and-state-societies/national-engineers-week

I hope you're all planning a wonderful week of joyous celebrations with your loved ones. I love this festive time when we get to decorate our homes with antique decorations like slide rules, drafting sets, and floppies. I used to really love going around our neighborhood singing traditional engineering carols for our neighbors, but that was before that damn restraining order.

(I've been putting the EE into GEEK since 1984.)

For those of you who aren't members of our proud profession, be sure to do something nice for an engineer this week!

:)
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Yay us!
 
wanttaja said:
I'm going to be in LA this weekend, with my (pre-retirement) team, accepting an award from the National Engineer's Council for my last project.....

Ron Wanttaja
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Hopefully it's not the "Thank God he's retiring" Award!
 
In honor of Engineer's Week. This was on all the bulletin boards back when I started at Boeing in the early '80s.

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Ron Wanttaja
 
In lieu of any awards or cards for the occasion, I'll happily accept cash. Which... is what I've been doing as an engineer for like 20 years or so.

I fix it, you pay me. Have a nice day. :)
 
paflyer said:
Hater!
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Negative! He's being inclusive. Haters would deny President Davis any honors . . . .

In Junior High, I carried a flag in the Confederate Memorial Day parade in town, along with other members of my Boy Scout troop, in uniform. No, this was well before I moved to Alabama--we were in Georgia while the Marine Corps had dad on an unaccompanied tour floating around the South Pacific.

My, how times have changed! Never thought I would miss the 70s . . . . .
 
Hank S said:
My, how times have changed! Never thought I would miss the 70s . . . . .
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The music was a hell of a lot better. You actually had to know how to play the instruments.

Even this old tech engineer knows music from machines sucks. And can hear the difference between even the best drum tracks and Purdy doing the real deal “Purdy Shuffle” on this Steely Dan track.


Laid down on tape too. No effing ProTools or digital editing!
 
asicer said:
You pay me, I break it. Nice racket we have going, eh? :)
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Yep! I love IT in this particular regard. LOL...

The rest of it, is kinda getting old. But old and comfortable, like worn in leather shoes... I guess.
 
denverpilot said:
The music was a hell of a lot better. You actually had to know how to play the instruments.

Even this old tech engineer knows music from machines sucks. And can hear the difference between even the best drum tracks and Purdy doing the real deal “Purdy Shuffle” on this Steely Dan track.


Laid down on tape too. No effing ProTools or digital editing!
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Long live Jeff Porcaro!
 
Used this one in an email today:

An optimist sees the glass as half-full. A pessimist sees it as half-empty. And an engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 
rpadula said:
Used this one in an email today:

An optimist sees the glass as half-full. A pessimist sees it as half-empty. And an engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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This is accurate, but may not apply to EE or computer "engineers."
 
rpadula said:
Used this one in an email today:

An optimist sees the glass as half-full. A pessimist sees it as half-empty. And an engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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Us space systems engineers say, "The glass has a 100% design margin."

Ron Wanttaja
 
Still more in honor of Engineer's week.

I saw this cartoon on a machinist's toolbox on my very first week at Boeing. I'm guessing it dates to the '70s, if not earlier.
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Ron Wanttaja
 
And being something of a connoisseur of fine engineering poetry, here's one of my favorites:


THE DESIGNER

The designer bent across his board,
Wonderful things in his head were stored,
And he said as he rubbed his throbbing bean,
"How can I make this thing hard to machine?
If this part here were only straight,
I'm sure the thing would work first rate.
But would be so easy to turn and bore,
It never would make the machinist sore.
I better put in a right angle there,
Then watch them babies tear their hair.
And I'll put the holes that hold the cap,
Way down here where they're hard to tap.
Now this piece won't work, I'll bet a buck,
For it can't be held in a shoe or chuck,
It can't be drilled or it can't be ground,
In fact, the design is exceedingly sound.
He look again and cried, "At last!
Success is mine, it can't even be cast."​
 
Since we're posting Engineering Day Carols...

The Last Revision Authored by: Ken Lipka
The Draftsman and the Engineer
are men of skill and vision.
At least they are until they hear
the hated word -- REVISION.

The Engineer with practiced eye
surveys his grand design.
The Draftsman draws so expertly
each complicated line.

"Complete," they sigh contentedly,
"Miraculous Precision."
Oh, Optimists! Tomorrow brings
catastrophe! REVISION!

Revision One adds this piece;
Revision Two improves it.
Revision Three makes it just right;
then Revision Four removes it.

"You can't do this, you can't do that."
"We'll wait for a decision."
"But in the meantime, just revise
that last revised Revision."

Revise! Revise! The very word
fills Engineers with dread.
Tho' die they must, they'll be revised
to make damn sure they're dead.

They hope that God's no Engineer
when he makes his decision.
If once they win their wings they hope
there'll be no Last Revision
 
jsstevens said:
Since we're posting Engineering Day Carols...

The Last Revision Authored by: Ken Lipka
The Draftsman and the Engineer
are men of skill and vision.
At least they are until they hear
the hated word -- REVISION.

The Engineer with practiced eye
surveys his grand design.
The Draftsman draws so expertly
each complicated line.

"Complete," they sigh contentedly,
"Miraculous Precision."
Oh, Optimists! Tomorrow brings
catastrophe! REVISION!

Revision One adds this piece;
Revision Two improves it.
Revision Three makes it just right;
then Revision Four removes it.

"You can't do this, you can't do that."
"We'll wait for a decision."
"But in the meantime, just revise
that last revised Revision."

Revise! Revise! The very word
fills Engineers with dread.
Tho' die they must, they'll be revised
to make damn sure they're dead.

They hope that God's no Engineer
when he makes his decision.
If once they win their wings they hope
there'll be no Last Revision
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There was a cartoon circulating our place years ago called "The Last NOR," a NOR being a "notice of revision" in our lingo. It showed a Saturn V leaving the pad with an engineer running toward it waving a piece of paper and shouting "Wait! Wait!"

Wish I still had a copy of it.
 
Half Fast said:
And being something of a connoisseur of fine engineering poetry, here's one of my favorites:


THE DESIGNER

The designer bent across his board,
Wonderful things in his head were stored,
And he said as he rubbed his throbbing bean,
"How can I make this thing hard to machine?
If this part here were only straight,
I'm sure the thing would work first rate.
But would be so easy to turn and bore,
It never would make the machinist sore.
I better put in a right angle there,
Then watch them babies tear their hair.
And I'll put the holes that hold the cap,
Way down here where they're hard to tap.
Now this piece won't work, I'll bet a buck,
For it can't be held in a shoe or chuck,
It can't be drilled or it can't be ground,
In fact, the design is exceedingly sound.
He look again and cried, "At last!
Success is mine, it can't even be cast."​
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Kind of related are the guys who go GT&D ape**** all over a part, putting ridiculous true positions on parts, leave out necessary basics to support the TP, and yet add non-relevent basics.....ARGH!
 
Half Fast said:
And being something of a connoisseur of fine engineering poetry, here's one of my favorites:


THE DESIGNER

The designer bent across his board,
Wonderful things in his head were stored,
And he said as he rubbed his throbbing bean,
"How can I make this thing hard to machine?
If this part here were only straight,
I'm sure the thing would work first rate.
But would be so easy to turn and bore,
It never would make the machinist sore.
I better put in a right angle there,
Then watch them babies tear their hair.
And I'll put the holes that hold the cap,
Way down here where they're hard to tap.
Now this piece won't work, I'll bet a buck,
For it can't be held in a shoe or chuck,
It can't be drilled or it can't be ground,
In fact, the design is exceedingly sound.
He look again and cried, "At last!
Success is mine, it can't even be cast."​
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Ron Wanttaja
 
rpadula said:
Used this one in an email today:

An optimist sees the glass as half-full. A pessimist sees it as half-empty. And an engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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My mom would say...."Finish your milk..!!!"
 
Half Fast said:
Just a note to wish everyone a happy National Engineers Week!
https://www.nspe.org/resources/partners-and-state-societies/national-engineers-week

I hope you're all planning a wonderful week of joyous celebrations with your loved ones. I love this festive time when we get to decorate our homes with antique decorations like slide rules, drafting sets, and floppies. I used to really love going around our neighborhood singing traditional engineering carols for our neighbors, but that was before that damn restraining order.

(I've been putting the EE into GEEK since 1984.)

For those of you who aren't members of our proud profession, be sure to do something nice for an engineer this week!

:)
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Merry Engineers Week!!!! Do not forget your pocket protector.
 
I've posted this joke before, but worth repeating here.

Q: How do you tell an extroverted engineer from an introverted engineer?

A: An extroverted engineer looks at your shoes when he talks to you.
 
Two engineers met, with one riding a brand-new bicycle.

"Where'd you get the bike?" asked the first engineer.

"It was the strangest thing," said the second engineer. "I was walking along, and this woman rode up, got off the bike, took all her clothes off, and said, 'Take anything you want'."

First engineer thought a moment. "Yeah, that's a good choice. The clothes probably wouldn't have fit you...."

Ron Wanttaja
 
Please rise for the Engineer Anthem:

(to the tune of 'Battle Hymn of the Republic")

Chorus: We are, we are, we are, we are the engineers,
we can, we can, we can demolish forty beers,
so, drink up, drink up, drink up, drink up, and come along with us,
for we don’t give a damn for any man who don’t give a damn for us.

Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride,
without a stitch of clothing on her beautiful white hide,
the only man to notice that Godiva rode a horse,
was a drunken old bum, a son of a *****, and an engineer of course.

(Chorus)

My father was a miner way up in the town of Butte
my mother was a mistress in a house of ill repute
the last thing that they said to me is still ringing in my ears;
get out of the house you son-of-a-***** and join the engineers.

(Chorus)

Ron Wanttaja
 
wanttaja said:
Please rise for the Engineer Anthem:

(to the tune of 'Battle Hymn of the Republic")

Chorus: We are, we are, we are, we are the engineers,
we can, we can, we can demolish forty beers,
so, drink up, drink up, drink up, drink up, and come along with us,
for we don’t give a damn for any man who don’t give a damn for us.

Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride,
without a stitch of clothing on her beautiful white hide,
the only man to notice that Godiva rode a horse,
was a drunken old bum, a son of a *****, and an engineer of course.

(Chorus)

My father was a miner way up in the town of Butte
my mother was a mistress in a house of ill repute
the last thing that they said to me is still ringing in my ears;
get out of the house you son-of-a-***** and join the engineers.

(Chorus)

Ron Wanttaja
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Oh, but we can't forget that most holy of engineering hymns:

 
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