> > >In case ya'll have trouble telling the engineers for the program >>managers... >> >> A quiz to determine if you are an engineer: >> >> If you refer to your spouse as "woman@home.wife" you may be an >> engineer. >> >> If your favorite TV show is "Mr. Wizard" instead of "Baywatch," you may >>be an engineer. >> >> If when your family is expecting, you are more interested in the >>ultra-sound equipment than the test results, you may be an engineer. >> >> If when someone asks "What's new?" you answer "C over lambda" you may >>be an engineer. >> >> If you know Bill Gates' e-mail address, and don't remember your own, >> you may be an engineer. >> >> If you are always asking your friends from marketing to hold two leads >>to a giant capacitor, you may be an engineer. >> >> If you find your head nodding up and down every time you read Dilbert, >>you may be an engineer. >> >> If your pocket is full of too many mechanical pencils, you may be an >>engineer. >> >> If when your 3-year old asks "Why is the sky blue?" you start >>explaining it to them, you may be an engineer. >> >> If you can explain which direction the water spins as you flush the >>toilet, and why, you may be an engineer. >> >> If you go to the air show, and you start calculating how fast the sky >>divers are falling, you may be an engineer, if you start telling all the >>people around you, you definitely are. >> >> If you need a spreadsheet to figure out who owes what for lunch, you >>may be an engineer. >> >> If you plan your family vacation on a Gantt chart, you may be an >>engineer. >> >> If you are willing to debate for two hours the possible results of an >>experiment it takes five minutes to run, you may be an engineer. >> >> If you know the altitudes at which you must turn off electronic devices >>on an airplane, and why, you may be an engineer. >> >> If on a camping trip, your spouse starts complaining about bug "bites" >>and you respond that "Yes, we do need more memory in our computer" you may >>be an engineer. >> >> There's more, but how are you doing so far? Are you an engineer? Happy >>Engineers' Week!