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22nd July 2008, 02:17 AM
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An engineers holiday
Ordinarily, I don't pass along stuff that gets sent to me in the email, but once again ... I think this one is worth it.
http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/pla...CeeWCejXnHAS/c
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22nd July 2008, 02:23 AM
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How they read that break with the Putt is beyond me 
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22nd July 2008, 02:24 AM
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Whooa! I can't believe I watched that till the end
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22nd July 2008, 03:51 AM
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That is Awesome!
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22nd July 2008, 04:16 AM
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i helped my nephew build one of those things for a physics class
http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/rube/rube.index.html
ours was mush smaller 2x2x2 ft . getting it to work in such a small space was " fun"
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22nd July 2008, 05:18 AM
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Purdue!?... You're in Ann Arbor, and you post a link to Purdue? Isn't that some sort of blasphemy by Ann Arbor standards?
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22nd July 2008, 05:02 AM
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Whew! Somebody has waaaaay too much time on their hands, and doesn't get out much  On the other hand ya gotta love a good Rube Goldberg, I really liked the bit with the chess board hehehe.
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22nd July 2008, 05:12 AM
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Can engineers take holidays? Don't they look at everything and think "I wonder how this thing works?" or "I wonder how I can make it better?"
A bit like psychiatrists really
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22nd July 2008, 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Wayne
Can engineers take holidays? Don't they look at everything and think "I wonder how this thing works?" or "I wonder how I can make it better?"
A bit like psychiatrists really
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That's so close to the truth it hurts. Engineers just work on things they like, all the time, and if someone pays them, so much the better.
Typical remarks heard by customers:
Technician - "It's broken. Should have it fixed in an hour or so."
Engineer - "It's broken. What were they thinking when they made this? I would have never have done it that way. And this bit here is just asking for trouble. Fix it? No idea. But this whole section needs to be replaced and .... heck, I should just design a better one. Give me six months."
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22nd July 2008, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Evil_Bert
Engineer - "It's broken. What were they thinking when they made this? I would have never have done it that way. And this bit here is just asking for trouble. Fix it? No idea. But this whole section needs to be replaced and .... heck, I should just design a better one. Give me six months."
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indeed
and this video: that's simply amazing
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22nd July 2008, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Wayne
Can engineers take holidays? Don't they look at everything and think "I wonder how this thing works?" or "I wonder how I can make it better?"
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You may consider this the blessed curse and cursed blessing of engineers.
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22nd July 2008, 08:26 AM
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Engineers never seem satisfied when they "fix" things. Rather than be content that something is "working as designed" they continue to "fix" them until something else breaks I have first hand experience, as my father was an electronic engineer who worked for Gestetner in the UK, before radically changing careers
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22nd July 2008, 09:35 AM
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The best engineers are lazy. Not only is laziness the mother of invention, but also laziness makes an engineer stop when the standard is met or the customer is satisfied.
After all he/she could be drinking beers instead.
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22nd July 2008, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Evil_Bert
The best engineers are lazy.
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Not lazy, efficient! Extra time to watch sci-fi...
Umm, well, lazy too
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23rd July 2008, 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Evil_Bert
laziness makes an engineer stop when the standard is met or the customer is satisfied.
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not really but when an engineer thinks "enough of this"
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