Funnies

Everyone needs to take a break during the day.

It could be a set half hour to read a book, an hour to go an work out, or some time spent surfing the internet for comics, funny quotes, or something to just make you smile.  On this funnies page, you will find your weekly dose of the funnies.  Some maybe related to engineering and some may not.  Sit back and get ready to relax while laughing at the funnies.

And your quick link to the office favorite, Dilbert:  http://www.dilbert.com/.

Jokes

• Engineers are notoriously frugal. This is not because of cheapness or mean spirit; it is simply because every spending situation is simply a problem in optimization, that is, “How can I escape this situation while retaining the greatest amount of cash?”
• An astronaut in space was asked by a reporter, “How do you feel?”
  “How would you feel,” the astronout replied, “if you were stuck here, on top of 20,000 parts each one supplied by the lowest bidder?”

The Dictionary: what engineers say and what they mean by it

Major Technological Breakthrough = Back to the drawing board

Test results were extremely gratifying = It works, and are we surprised!

A number of different approaches are being tried = We don’t know where we’re going, but we’re moving.

Extensive effort is being applied on a fresh approach to the problem = We just hired three new guys; we’ll let them kick it around for a while.

Drawing release is lagging. = Not a single drawing exists.

Not well defined. = Nobody has thought about it.

Exam Time!

Q: Prove that 2+2 = 0.

A: Scroll to the bottom for the answer…

Looking for some addicting games to play in your down time?  Check out the puzzles and games at engineering.com.

It seems now a days that you need a password for everything at school and work.  And of course you can’t use your pet’s name because that is just too easy.  So there are rules.  The comic below illustrates the difficulty level of some of our passwords.

 

Answer to proving 2+2 = 0:

two+two=0
tw(0+0)=0
if tw=0
than 0+0=0
0=0

Have a comic that you were sent in an email or found online and would like to share it with everyone in Region H?  Leave a comment below and include the link to the comic.  Please remember to keep it SWE appropriate.