Girls don't exist. I've never met a real one in any chatroom I've been to, so it's clear that they are just a myth. The "girls" in allegro.cc don't count, since they're all fragments of my imagination.

Ooh, a post about engineers My favourite!

"high-tech" engineers use their feet to comb their hair (if at all).

But only azn's seem to want to study it. Union people like to inflate their ego so they add technician or engineer to everything. Technically, its against the law to call yourself an engineer if you aren't a registered P.Eng, just as is to call yourself a doctor.

I thought this was everybody? Seems like something out of seinfeld.

Only on allegro.cc and only with people other than bamccaig (aka trollmaster).

1 -- it seems most solutions to problems are hacks straight from the dark ages. The only thing that truly works is my drafting pencil and scrap paper.
2 -- only because i uncover serious flaws. I'm very good at finding corner cases

The problems we have to solve for work can be quite boring. So we come up with some solution someone else has to maintain. Then we get to the fun stuff

Total bullshit. This sounds more like a gadget geek/techy. Electricians seem to feel "good" about themselves and wire up everything. Count the number of light switches and motion sensors next time you visit their house.

Only when we're spending all day working with other guys. It's perfectly acceptable to dress like a slob when there are no girls around.

Ahmen! But isn't it funny how the captains are usually not scientific. Picard was a man of the arts and that is what made him a great leader and diplomat. Janeway though was just some bitch who was self-righteous and had greatness added through a red-pen in the script.

And every fat chick is sitting around waiting to snatch us up or are willing to pay for us to go through grad school. They got clutchy hands and never let go. I know all you compies have seen it too. Macgyver is my gaming nick

Ya i'm blunt. I don't like babies and i think a direct approach solves a lot of problems. I can explain it in computer speak: lying is a hack, too many hacks and you die. It may be painful to fix it properly but it is always worth it in the end.

Everybody does this. duh!

Wow. I was gonna use the word cheap. This has a nicer connotation to it

Sure i may spend 10 long hours working in a lab on 1 problem, but 8 of those hours are spent bullshitting with friends and 1 of those hours is spend complaining.

Only because we fear lawyers. That and killing people sucks.

No shit! I'm fed up of being dilbert'd. Engineers should demand more respect because too many PHB's are just exploiting the fact that we like our jobs.

Ego wise we're more worried about everyone else knowing that we're valuable because we all know we're smart. Gadget's are a gadget geek thing.

I learned that tool quite early on. Often I find it better to give too much information. Then people can't parse and only realise they need me more because i'm the actual expert. Sometimes the clever ones actually make big-leaps in understanding but are light-years below me I mean how many people can actually understand calculus of variations and PDE optimization. Anyone?

eg:
Any of you guys can probably explain the paradigm behind OOP to a non-oop coder. But it takes years to become an excellent software coder. Knowing java is not enough to know how to write code for the real world.

Get a Hat!
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Elves are make-believe? Since when? Those computer games must have gone to my head...

Just a bit clichéd? I beg to differ.