If You Cheat In Engineering Classes…

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This is so true that my curriculum actually included a course where they spent the semester showing us that medical doctors get to bury their mistakes one at a time, while us engineers had no limit on how many people we could kill due to gross stupidity.

If you consider a career that involves public safety in any matter (in other words, if you will be working on something that can make a difference between somebody living and dying), the moment you are contemplating to cheat on a test is when you have to take a really hard look at your priorities and ask yourself why in the hell you are pursuing that career path.

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On sleep deprivation and Incan Monkey Gods

From: Dilbert comic strip for 08/03/1992 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. I was trying to show this strip to a coworker who is dangerously toying with the harsh mistress that is Insomnia. What shocked me is how quickly I was able to look up the strip, which was published when he was just 11 years old, and two weeks before my just-out-of-college ass shipped out to US Army Basic Training.

The Black Hole

If this was a minigolf hole, you can't reach B from A. Ever. If this was a room lined with mirrors, and you lit a candle at point A, you can't see it from B, not even reflected. Update: I guess I didn't explain this all the way through. You can't reach B from A with just one stroke, there's no direct line between them, and there is no way to bounce the ball (assuming perfect conditions). Thanks to Ben for pointing this obvious error.

The Insomniac Coder

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