(BTW: A friend of mine whose parents were missionaries in Ethiopia once gave me some good advice, hard won by himself: NEVER throw a rock at a baboon. The understand the concept, and they’re damn good at it. They will throw rocks back. So will all their friends. You WILL get hurt.)
We engineers need real reality to design with,
or stuff goes terribly, terribly wrong
Even so, we still kept our motto posted:
When all else fails,
Beat to suit, file to fit, paint to hide.
Comment by dick, not quite dead white guy — February 4, 2013 @ 2:14 pm
Dick, ya left out “Measure with a yardstick, cut with a torch.”
It begins:
“Baboons Begin Making Coordinated Attacks on Village in Saudi Arabia”
Pity-ful Hu-mans! You will be exterminated!
(BTW: A friend of mine whose parents were missionaries in Ethiopia once gave me some good advice, hard won by himself: NEVER throw a rock at a baboon. The understand the concept, and they’re damn good at it. They will throw rocks back. So will all their friends. You WILL get hurt.)
Comment by mojo — February 4, 2013 @ 1:11 pm
^ Baboon-on-baboon crime is sooo sad.
(What? Well, I didn’t mean mojo’s friends, but okay.)
Comment by DougM (Progophobe) — February 4, 2013 @ 1:26 pm
PS:
Argentina Insures Massive Shortages Of All Commodities
Comment by mojo — February 4, 2013 @ 1:46 pm
We engineers need real reality to design with,
or stuff goes terribly, terribly wrong
Even so, we still kept our motto posted:
When all else fails,
Beat to suit, file to fit, paint to hide.
Comment by dick, not quite dead white guy — February 4, 2013 @ 2:14 pm
Dick, ya left out “Measure with a yardstick, cut with a torch.”
Comment by rickn8or — February 4, 2013 @ 3:06 pm
^ … while reading drawings spec’d in thousanths of an inch.
… after expensive, specialized heat-treating.
Comment by DougM (Progophobe) — February 4, 2013 @ 3:09 pm
“If it won’t go, FORCE it!”
Comment by mojo — February 4, 2013 @ 3:23 pm
^ Mojo – Nice avatar!
Comment by PeggyU — February 5, 2013 @ 3:28 am
I’m trying to start an “Alien Reptile” party. Resistance is Futile! Fleet Lord Zzzzrghk’k for Planetary Overlord!
Comment by mojo — February 5, 2013 @ 9:58 am
And Doug forgot the classic:
An Optimist says the glass is half full
A Pessimist says the glass is half empty
An Engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Comment by mojo — February 5, 2013 @ 3:18 pm