That would take way to much effort to get their over-inflated egos stuffed into that small of a pipe..

A (BIG SHOVE) er I mean a simple slip on their part and they go into the cement hopper, then the tri-plex pump takes care of the rest.

 

what does it take to REALLY be certified as an "engineer"

i know in the military, you don't just GET a title..you earn it

and now, at my work, we use the word "engineer" as a pay level, without anyone earning the title

i am afraid that when i finish my current school they will try to drop that label on me.

that's what i mean...we have a Tahoe with an automatic mirror,
it has a thumbnail sized hole on right side, compass & temperature on the right side.

and DANG if it don't have a pencil eraser sized hole for the automatic light sensor right DEAD CENTER of the top of the mirror. so when you get the mirror adjusted to see out the back window, the mirror is square...the back window is square..and this stupid hole is SMACK DAB in the middlle...and you gotta ask, what were they thinking?. why not just put the sensor in the existing hole, there is an open corner where no digits show.


i think that must be what it is, guys who did NOT take apart EVERYTHING they ever owned. i think guys who disassembled stuff have a different eye and appreciation for stuff that is very well crafted.

 

First I wanted to be an engineer, now I are one.

For my entire professional year, I have been trying to unravel what some of these losers come up with. I look at some of the drawings I used to have to deciefer and shake my head. . . .

Damned Kids.

 

that's what kills me when you look at something..and it's STUPID...here's stuff i noticed recently:

-cruise control on a 2011 Ford...
the top bottom (the speed UP button) is....Coast?
the middle button is speed up/ resume
and bottom button (usually the slow DOWN button) is the SET button

we drove ~3 hours in the dark, and the guy driving had to cut the interior lights on several times to figure out the buttons. (they may be diff from what i listed, but they AIN'T in no common sense order)

power pedals in our 2007 Tahoe
the UP button makes the pedals go.....down?
and the DOWN button makes the pedals go...UP?
and you better NOT try to adjust them in traffic because, they won't go the way you are expect!

and why do commercial sinks NOT have a concave surface to drain water?
we live in a hot tourist area, and it looks like people try to take a bath in the McDonalds sink at the local interstate exit, and that ain't so bad, but they leave half inch water standing on the counter. it just riddles me that someone with enough sense to own a McD's don't say to theirself "we oughta tilt the sink counters down to self drain...."

look at the sink the next time you are in a interstate rest stop, it's a situation that could solve it self with a little gravity & common sense.

 

I work on aircraft. I always wonder why in the H.E. double toothpicks someone would design something that way until I realize that the FAA requires it.

They are putting those "roundabouts" in Anchorage and the Mat-Su. The only reason I can think of doing that is to keep the wreckers and body shops in business.

 

Roundabouts are going in here in Calgary too. At least our city council is honest about why they are building 'accident makers'. They are way cheaper than overpasses and move more cars than controlled intersections. In the UK, people know how to use roundabouts. In North America, not so much. You know though, I can at least respect it when someone admits why they made what seems like a stupid choice. I know full well that if I ever designed my own truck, the en result would probably be an engine bay the size of a Hummer for a 2L 4 cyl, but by heck you would be able to service it quickly and without having to have elbows that articluate in 3 directions.

 

Saw some roundabouts going in in KS too. Must be the new trend.

Talking about engine bay space, I very fondly recall my '66 Chevy pickup with 250CID straight 6. When I blew a piston on that thing, I could get into the engine bay with the engine and could pull the engine with a handful of tools and a hoist. Easy to do in an evening after dinner. Matter of fact, I'd rather pull the engine on that truck than change the spark plugs on some of these FWD cars.

 

Funny you said that. . . Jersey was the pioneer of the round-a-bout. We calld them "traffic Circles". They were everywhere. But they have been taking them out, slowing traffic down. I can never say I ever saw a bad accident in a circle. But replaced with a traffic light and now it's a killer intersection.

Point is, we're removing them and they're installing them everywhere else.

Never had a design go bad on me. 1/3 of our countries electric grid system runs on my design. It's the engineers who run them and choose to leave out safety options

 

wonder why one state sees traffic circles as bad, and another political body sees them as good?

good deal on your grid design. we are doing an "air bag restraint system" in this one class, YUCK, talk about developing requirements...


the funniest one i see is the urinals in our new building.
it has a wide square opening, and wide flat lip, about 1 inch wide by 4 inches...and it's perfectly FLAT...and there's always a large puddle on the lip, so it always smells like yesterday's pee,
is that common sense?