Signs you may be an engineer: ======================================== *At Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one that find the burnt-out bulb in the string of Christmas lights *For you, it becomes a moral dilemma to decide whether to buy flowers for your wife or spend the money to upgrade the RAM on your computer *On the Alaskan Cruise, everyone else is on deck peering at the scenery and you are still on a personal tour of the engine room *In college, you thought the Summer break was metal fatigue failure *The only jokes you receive are through e-mail *The salespeople at the local computer store can't answer any of your questions *You are always late to meetings *At an air show, you know how fast the skydivers are falling *If you were on death row in a French prison and you find that the guillotine is not working properly, you would offer to fix it *You bought your wife a new CD-ROM for her birthday *You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie *You can type 70 words per minute but can't read your own handwriting *You can't write unless the paper has both horizontal and vertical lines *You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel *You never have matching socks on *You save the power cords from a broken appliance *You have more friends online than you do in real life *You have never backed up your hard drive *You have never bought any new underwear or socks for yourself since you got married *You know what http:// stands for *You look forward to Christmas only to put together your kids' toys *You see a good design and still have to change it *You still own a slide rule and you know how to use it *You laptop costs more than your car *You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep
Lol It's funny how many of those actually apply. But I don't know anything about a slide rule though...
Ya, I read those and couldn't help but laugh because of how many were true. We are no longer "Geeks" or "Nerds"....now we are "Engineers"
Matched more than I cared to.........didn't and don't know anything about the 'Slidy Rule thingy'..... ......When I think about it tho' maybe the fact that I 'Served' my time as a Steam and Diesel Marine Engineer might have something to do with it....... Cochise,
Here's another sign that is appropriate for the season... *Most of the items on your Christmas list make no sense to the rest of your family -or- *You tell everyone what you want for Christmas and they look at you like you are speaking greek
Slide Rule thingie was what we "old timers used before calculators ". Now we use it to fix our Computers.TV'S etc by giving them a good whack with the slide rule to make them work. Grand Dad