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Re: "You Might Be an Engineer If..."

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If your spouse sends you an e-mail instead of calling you to dinner
I hate to admit it, but this actually has happened.
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If you can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie
Mr. Creosote, would you like an after-dinner mint? It's wafer thin!
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If you know the direction the water swirls when you flush
In the northern hemisphere, and the southern hemisphere.
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If you use a CAD package to design your son's Pine Wood Derby car
Well, we did use Photoshop to design the graphics and paint scheme. Of course, to do it correctly, we had to have an accurate image of the shape of the car to use as the background image in Photoshop. So it just seemed easier to knock together a quick CAD model instead of taking a photo...
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If you have "Dilbert" comics displayed anywhere in your work area
See the "Dilbert Zone" poster hanging in my office.
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If you don't even know where the cover to your personal computer is
It had a cover?
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If you have never backed-up your hard drive
Backups are for wussies.
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If you have more toys than your kids
Guilty. And they are bigger and more expensive.
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If your I.Q. number is bigger than your weight
I am not even going to touch that one...
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If you have memorized the program schedule for the Discovery channel and have seen most of the shows already
Monster House is on Mondays at 8:00, followed by Monster Garage, and then American Chopper. If you stay up until 1:00am you can see them all again.
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If you own a set of itty-bitty screw drivers, but you don't remember where they are
I actually OWN at least six sets. I can FIND one.
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If you have ever owned a calculator with no equal key and know what RPN stands for
Reverse Polish Notation. I once wrote an algorithm to convert from conventional notation to RPN and back again, just because I felt like it.
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If your 4 basic food groups are: 1.Caffeine 2.Fat 3.Sugar 4.Chocolate
And I can consume all four of them with two tiems: Diet coke and a chocolate covered Krispy Kreme donut.

So just stamp "GEEK" on my forehead, and let me get back to watching "Myth Busters"

-dave
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