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- jasnmb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+57"The Salespeople at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions"
My two year old knows more than they do. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45"You are next in line on death row in a French Prison and you find that the guillotine is not working properly, so you offer to fix it."
Oh man, if I had a nickel for every time THAT happened! - MaddDog, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43"You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance"
I had to get a second box to store all of my power cords in! That's gold baby, gold! - Bigcat151, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40Where is "You are driving a train" ?
- Rikkochet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39Stewie: Ok, now if I get a fax can I stay online and still receive the fax without a dedicated line?
Salesman: Yeah you can put a piece of paper in here and make like a phone call, and your friend will get another piece of paper with the same picture.
Stewie: Can I possibly speak to someone who didn't come to this country on a floating door? - zediker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38*looks at diploma*
Yep, im an engineer =D - rr525356, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26I need this in flowchart or diagram form.
- pathy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28"You can type 70 words per minute but can't read your own handwriting."
Sigh =( - Pic0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22FRUGALITY
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?"
so true - plarp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23you know you are an engineer when u find this list funny.. and or have to comment on the list
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Forget that! Where is "You constantly have to tell the captain 'You're giving it all she's got'"?
- Captbob007, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20I'd say that actually bothering to shop at Circuit City disqualifies you...
- StuartRothrock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13One error -
You're in the backseat of your car, she/he is looking wistfully at the moon, and you're trying to locate a geosynchronous satellite
You would be looking for a non-geosynchronous or polar orbiting satellite. You need to see movement for it to get your attention.
Dang - I guess I are one. :) - RT55J, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10You are an engineer if you know what book that article plagiarized.
- teknotant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Same here, my box-O-cords is in the garage next to my tin full of computer jumpers. I think the title should have been "You know you are a Digg user if......" because I am not an engineer by any stretch and still fell under many of them.
- Andronicus1717, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20The PE stamp on my desk was a dead giveaway.
- Weav, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"You have more friends on the internet than in real life"
Ouch that one hurts... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12"You see a good design and still have to change it"
Where I work, you never see the good design. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Your wrist watch has more computing power than a 300 MHz pentium"
A 300 MHz Pentium! This gives us an idea about how old this article might be. - tsf5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Your wife/husband hasn't the foggiest idea of what you do at work"
This one hit home. - BadSenorRon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"You know what http:// stands for."
What does this have to do with engineering on the whole? I would hazard a guess that there are more people who aren't engineers that know what the acronym stands for.
Engineers today are not the stereotypical nerd/dork of yesteryear. Some are, but for the most part, we're not socially inept fools. (Besides, hasn't the nerd/dork category been overtaken by the WoW crowd?)
::Looks at B.S. and realize I wasted 4 years to become an engineer, only to sit and read Digg all day." - MagisterJoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Looks at dipl...wait, still in school. Getting there, though.
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You go, T-I-G-E-R.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Well...the people at work refer to me as the chief engineer.
Oh My Science... I'm geting a raging clue! - jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Or buying a CD-ROM as a present for your wife?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You're a manager, right?
- DreKor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7*looks at paycheck*
Yep! Engineer here too. - listrophy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8*looks into mirror*
Yup, engineer here, too. - ChemEng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Guilty. And I have a 1+ MB, macro-laden Excel spreadsheet that is my budget to prove it. Who needs MS Money or Quicken when you got Excel?
- tormod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm not sure construction engineers fulfil the majority of those premises.
- Zuggy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I laughed at how geeky someone must be to meet any of those. Then I realized how many apply to me.
- jguy584, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Every time you get a new toy you have to play with it/take it apart until you understand how every aspect of it works. Then you have to mod it in someway, no matter how unpractical the mod is."
- 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7*looks at business card*
Yup... I'm an engineer too. :-D - freeboarder1402, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i think some of these may apply to software engineering
- lbeaty1981, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That one hit a little too close to home here, too. Actually, quite a few of them did. I've got a big box full of power cables, printer cables, network cards, and various other computer parts that's been sitting in my closet for about 2 years now...
- ChemEng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Especially when they use staples...
- honds, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think the next one should be "have you ever used a power cord from a broken appliance."
The cord to an alarm clock that fell of my girfriend's bed and broke ended up being the power supply to my breadboard... - Trace, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6* Looks at my train *
Yup me too - billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Engineers study engineering. Then they draw things in CAD and break their computers which I have to go and fix.
- billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They have bachelor's in Internet Security now? Kinda specific for an undergrad, isn't it?
- ChemEng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Or buying a CD-ROM as a present for your wife"
Guilty of that too... Trust me, didnt go over too well. - billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, I bought mine a DVD burner and half a gig of RAM...seemed like a great gift to me...
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How about:
Your cellphone has the tone of the Star Trek Communicator... - geekymonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"You back up your hard drive."
What?? Everyone should back up their hard drives! How sad this world is when something so important is seen as a something only engineers and the like do.
Wait . . . does this mean I am one? Well, I'm a programmer. Close enough. - ChemEng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"White dunks + black argyle socks = fresh"
Only if you used Downey Springtime Fresh fabric freshener... - frankjmattia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3*looks introspectively at the past 10 years of my life*
Yep, I was almost an engineer. But then I realized how much sitting behind a computer desk all day sucked my balls. Now I'm a toolmaker. Creating things is much more interesting.
Not to mention, I get to hate on the engineers who design tools with GD&T's that absolutely do not work and/or are impractical/impossible to maintain. - mutants, on 08/17/2008, -1/+3"If you point out how unfunny a submitted humor link is -- using logic -- on Digg"
- AriseNow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm still in college and many of those apply...
How sad :(
Another:
Using the spell checker when you KNOW you have written everything correctly :sigh: - dgendreau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Okay, I admit it. I've got a storage bin each for:
A/V cables (w/ smaller container for adapters and gender changers)
Computer cables (w/ smaller container inside for ribbon cables)
Power Cords
Wall Warts: DC out
Wall Warts: AC out - lbeaty1981, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Whoa! You had 3 girls in your class? Back in my day, we were lucky to have 1!
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