04/24/2006: From http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/Engineer.html
You Might Be An Engineer If…
* You have no life – and you can PROVE it mathematically. (That is empirical…I have no life!)
* You enjoy pain. (uhhh…I resemble that remark!)
* You know vector calculus but you can’t remember how to do long division. (That would be me.)
* You chuckle whenever anyone says “centrifugal force”. (Yup)
* You’ve actually used every single function on your graphing calculator. (Screw graphing calculators…real engineers draw their own graphs thankuverymuch!)
* It is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer.
* You frequently whistle the theme song to “MacGyver”.
* You know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.
* You think in “math”. (Affirmative)
* You’ve calculated that the World Series actually diverges. (Proven by inspection.)
* You hesitate to look at something because you don’t want to break down its wave function. (Well…I DO think in terms of transfer functions…oh crap!)
* You have a pet named after a scientist.
* You laugh at jokes about mathematicians. (YES!!!!)
* The Humane society has you arrested because you actually performed the Schrodinger’s Cat experiment. (No…my cat is too smart for that one!)
* You can translate English into Binary.
* You can’t remember what’s behind the door in the engineering building which says “Exit”.
* You have to bring a jacket with you, in the middle of summer, because there’s a wind-chill factor in the lab. (I’ve had that problem before.)
* You are completely addicted to caffeine. (Yup.)
* You avoid doing anything because you don’t want to contribute to the eventual heat-death of the universe.
* You consider ANY non-engineering course “easy”. (LOL…how true!)
* When your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely, that according to Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe. (I’ve never tried that excuse, but I like it!)
* The “fun” center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use. (Yupper!!!)
* You’ll assume that a “horse” is a “sphere” in order to make the math easier. (Affirmative)
* The blinking 12:00 on someone’s VCR draws you in like a tractor beam to fix it.
* You bring a computer manual / technical journal as vacation reading. (And what’s wrong with that???)
* The salesperson at Circuit City can’t answer any of your questions.
* You can’t help eavesdropping in computer stores… and correcting the salesperson.
* You’re in line for the guillotine… it stops working properly… and you offer to fix it. (only if you went to Purdue and the person in front of you graduated from Indiana!)
* You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards to see how they do the special effects. (I have done that!)
* You have any “Dilbert” comics displayed in your work area. (Used to.)
* You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work. (I still do that!)
* You have never backed up your hard drive. (Uh oh!)
* You haven’t bought any new underwear or socks for yourself since you got married. (Never married…therefore never had that problem! LOL)
* You spent more on your calculator than on your wedding ring. (No wedding ring, but LOTS of calculators!)
* You think that when people around you yawn, it’s because they didn’t get enough sleep.
* You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon (not with $3/gallon!!!)
* You’ve ever calculated how much you make per second. (I’ve done that)
* Your favorite James Bond character is “Q,” the guy who makes the gadgets. (hehehehe)
* You understood more than five of these jokes. (and your point is???)
* You make a copy of this list, and post it on your door or your home page ! (Well…)