Since when does IU have an Engineering School? Or are those visitors from West Lafayette? Besides… the type in West Laf are hardly the M.I.T. prankster type. They are some of the most boring individuals on the planet.
I know, I spent 5 years with them, including 2 sems with a roommate I knew prior. Dullards… And the female engineering students… Oh! They were hideously stereotypical. And stereotypically hideous!
I never knew what I missed until I made a single visit to Ball State. Had I known… Blue Balls at Ball State are IMPOSSIBLE with such a huge deficit of males there!
When I picture Kate Mulgrew speaking in my head, she sloooowly turns into David Spade. I haven’t been able to get that damn correlation out of my head in like 15 years.
They also aren’t known for their violence, to be fair.
Andiemus
Only if you haven’t played enough TF2.
Caleb
Have an internet.
All-Purpose Guru
As a computer engineer I have a large Nerf bat for whacking the computer when it doesn’t behave.
I’ve worn out three of them.
Non-violent, my ass.
MrSmiley
You know. usually its your fauld when the computer misbehaves.
Computers are like gnomes and leprechauns. If you strike a deal with them they will carry out the letter but rarely the spirit.
MrSmiley
*fault.
begbert2
You haven’t used many computers, have you?
Generally speaking, the average person hasn’t written their computer’s programs from the operating system on up. Typically the OS and most programs are written by somebody else. And they either hated you, or they programmed malicious sentience into their code for shits and giggles. Or they just screwed it up, but what are the odds of that?
xKiv
You’ve only worn out three computers??
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You are probably just that much younger than me …
A Communications Major? Hopefully you will find some work, one of these days.
Roborat
Does a communications degree include courses on fry sales?
Nightmarewarden
I’m still a senior in high school and that make ME twitch. Does your professor enjoy torturing the other professors or something by dangling that little factoid over their heads?
Kind of like how those students can dangle that paint can over shorty-mc-shortshort’s head BOOOM, take that Galasso-disguised-amazigirl!
Tenn
Pi squared to ten I can accept, but pi to one? I don’t know where else pi pops up in astrophysics, but I’d think it would give pretty meaningless results if orbits were calculated at less than a third of their actual values.
Maybe the Count meant that they approximate it as 3 or 4. At least, I hope that’s what he meant. Because that would make sense.
Otherwise I may have to choke an astrophysicist.
David
Makes it really easy to multiply by pi!
xKiv
It works if it’s 1 [half_of_earths_orbit/AU], so
thing radius orbit
sun 0 0
earth 1 2
jupiter 5 25
…
JBO
Well I am a history major and I am still getting twitchy.
Roborat
I am still a history Captain, haven’t managed to get that promotion yet.
Ivan
You have an astrological physics class in your curriculum? I know Buzz Aldrin skipped that at M.I.T., and was really sorry about it once he got to the moon and could see all the “Signs” so clearly, and all he could remember was that the bull is stubborn.
Kelly
Have you not heard of spherical cows?
George
I’ve worked with spherical cows. The hardest part is getting them out of the frictionless vacuum when you’re done experimenting.
Have you tried shooting them? Since the collisions are perfectly elastic, neither shooting the cow nor the cow hitting the other end of the lab is going to damage anything.
John
Then you just end up with the cow and the bullet bouncing endlessly around the lab.
Lukkai
Makes for a good friday evening entertainment program though.
Just lead some unsuspecting philosophy majors into the lab and close the door behind them.
195 thoughts on “Shortstuff”
Plasma Mongoose
Engineers of Evil you mean.
John Harmon
YES it must be a thing now. If not, it will be in my head.
GrrArg42
And I thought EE meant Electrical Engineer. I should reconsider some of my coworker’s backgrounds.
Plasma Mongoose
Villainy knows no bounds.
Neospector
I have several evil engineer jokes that I can’t decide which to post. So I’ll leave with a hyperlink to a website which can do it for me.
Saucialiste
You don’t get it, all engineers are evil to some extent, I guess it comes from the ring thingy…
Roborat
I think the ring thingy is pretty much a Canadian thingy.
General Tekno
Yeah; it is a Canadian thing.
We’re a real life Lantern corps, minus the battery requirement.
Lukkai
Actually the Ring Thing is a Swiss movie.
Neospector
Does that mean Canadian Sauron asked politely before creating armies of orks?
Roborat
Yup, then apologies for disturbing you while he burns the city down around you, and hands you a Tim Hortons coffee, with the rim already rolled up.
Lukkai
Real gentlemen, those Canadian evil overlords!
Kernanator
And here I thought EoE meant End of Evangelion.
Aizat
DR DOOM and the Engineers of Evil!
Ivan
Since when does IU have an Engineering School? Or are those visitors from West Lafayette? Besides… the type in West Laf are hardly the M.I.T. prankster type. They are some of the most boring individuals on the planet.
I know, I spent 5 years with them, including 2 sems with a roommate I knew prior. Dullards… And the female engineering students… Oh! They were hideously stereotypical. And stereotypically hideous!
I never knew what I missed until I made a single visit to Ball State. Had I known… Blue Balls at Ball State are IMPOSSIBLE with such a huge deficit of males there!
KKoro
…wow, I feel kind of bad to have gone to the same school as you, now. Thanks for that.
John
See? This is why you don’t engage them in conversation!
Demon-Something
Does anyone else think that Amazi-Girl has the voice of Kate Mulgrew?
timemonkey
I now have the weirdest platonic boner.
Plasma Mongoose
Actually SF Debris’ version of Janeway would sound more menacing.
Robert
When I picture Kate Mulgrew speaking in my head, she sloooowly turns into David Spade. I haven’t been able to get that damn correlation out of my head in like 15 years.
Rex Hondo
Well, now I do.
RJF
“Well, if you’re so smart, how come you used a double negative? Eh? EH? EEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHH? Learn English, dumbass? Feelin’ dumb? Feelin’ dumb?”
Plasma Mongoose
Are engineers normally known for their mastery of the English language?
Spiny Creature
I can assure you they are not.
Geegles
They also aren’t known for their violence, to be fair.
Andiemus
Only if you haven’t played enough TF2.
Caleb
Have an internet.
All-Purpose Guru
As a computer engineer I have a large Nerf bat for whacking the computer when it doesn’t behave.
I’ve worn out three of them.
Non-violent, my ass.
MrSmiley
You know. usually its your fauld when the computer misbehaves.
Computers are like gnomes and leprechauns. If you strike a deal with them they will carry out the letter but rarely the spirit.
MrSmiley
*fault.
begbert2
You haven’t used many computers, have you?
Generally speaking, the average person hasn’t written their computer’s programs from the operating system on up. Typically the OS and most programs are written by somebody else. And they either hated you, or they programmed malicious sentience into their code for shits and giggles. Or they just screwed it up, but what are the odds of that?
xKiv
You’ve only worn out three computers??
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.
You are probably just that much younger than me …
Plasma Mongoose
Humanities and Sciences rarely mix well.
Vabolo
For instance, the Hindenberg, a wonder of science.
OH THE HUMANITY!
Ivan
Now THAT was funny!
Cybersnark
No, engineering students don’t speak English.
They generally just point at things and grunt.
[/ENGLISH MAJOR]
Wonder Wig
“And yet your facial hair claims otherwise.”
Yotomoe
Or maybe it’s the biggest confirmation.
Wonder Wig
Is that a big confirmation in your pocket or are you just happy to see Amazi-Girl?
Josh
Amazi-Girl should speak in the third person from now.
Mogotoo
This engineering student sure has a hell of a time growing facial hair.
Valdrax
That’s the only proper way an engineer can be clean-shaven.
All-Purpose Guru
Only if it continues down to his neck.
Kernanator
Wait, what?
B-But you’re criminals! You’re supposed to be a superstitious cowardly lot! You aren’t supposed to be this smart, dammit!
Yotomoe
You’re supposed to have one fat one and one skinny one and you guys engage in wacky schtick before I come in and beat you up.
GrrArg42
Dibs on the skinny guy with the schtick!
Wack'd
Does he speak softly?
John
No, it’d be the fat one whose schtick is “big”.
Aydr
I dunno, it’s pretty common for skinny guys to have pretty big schticks, if you know what I’m sayin’.
Kernanator
What skinny guys do you know?
Sensedog
Indeed, vigilantism is itself illegal.
Count Dracula
Pfff, you’d never see a Physics major like me out on a Friday night vandalizing, ruckus-raising and causing mischief and mayhem. Lousy engineers.
I mean, you’d never see a Physics major like me out on a Friday night PERIOD, but still.
Ragnal
Except I think it’s still Tuesday here.
Count Dracula
Tuesday is within an order of magnitude of Friday. It’s a reasonable approximation.
Pie
‘Reasonable approximation’? Charlatan! You must really be an engineer! (or an astrophysicist).
Count Dracula
In my astro class, we’re allowed to approximate pi to one, and pi squared to ten. When I tell my math major friends that, they twitch.
Valdrax
Oh, you’re in the observational sciences. Well, that explains the lack of rigor.
/noblewoman’s laugh
Kernanator
Hell, I’m getting twitchy, and I’m a Communications major.
Plasma Mongoose
A Communications Major? Hopefully you will find some work, one of these days.
Roborat
Does a communications degree include courses on fry sales?
Nightmarewarden
I’m still a senior in high school and that make ME twitch. Does your professor enjoy torturing the other professors or something by dangling that little factoid over their heads?
Kind of like how those students can dangle that paint can over shorty-mc-shortshort’s head BOOOM, take that Galasso-disguised-amazigirl!
Tenn
Pi squared to ten I can accept, but pi to one? I don’t know where else pi pops up in astrophysics, but I’d think it would give pretty meaningless results if orbits were calculated at less than a third of their actual values.
Kernanator
Maybe the Count meant that they approximate it as 3 or 4. At least, I hope that’s what he meant. Because that would make sense.
Otherwise I may have to choke an astrophysicist.
David
Makes it really easy to multiply by pi!
xKiv
It works if it’s 1 [half_of_earths_orbit/AU], so
thing radius orbit
sun 0 0
earth 1 2
jupiter 5 25
…
JBO
Well I am a history major and I am still getting twitchy.
Roborat
I am still a history Captain, haven’t managed to get that promotion yet.
Ivan
You have an astrological physics class in your curriculum? I know Buzz Aldrin skipped that at M.I.T., and was really sorry about it once he got to the moon and could see all the “Signs” so clearly, and all he could remember was that the bull is stubborn.
Kelly
Have you not heard of spherical cows?
George
I’ve worked with spherical cows. The hardest part is getting them out of the frictionless vacuum when you’re done experimenting.
sidhe3141
Have you tried shooting them? Since the collisions are perfectly elastic, neither shooting the cow nor the cow hitting the other end of the lab is going to damage anything.
John
Then you just end up with the cow and the bullet bouncing endlessly around the lab.
Lukkai
Makes for a good friday evening entertainment program though.
Just lead some unsuspecting philosophy majors into the lab and close the door behind them.