Buxtehude wrote:
The "Speed-reading" skills of licensed engineers is a thing of beauty. Bridges tumble, buildings collapse, dams crack, levees leak and roads bank the wrong way...all because some licensed engineer....nahhh, that couldn't be....they're licensed....by older engineers.
Bux
Engineers don't license buildings, dams, levees, or roads. States license engineers though. And then I spend hours each day, trying to explain to dumb sales folk and developers"
"No, I cannot tell you how to convert torque to pressure." "What? I thought you went to school. This bolt has a tensile strength of 120,000psi. We need to do a proof load of 85,000psi. How much torque is that?"
"No, I cannot tell you how many pounds there is in a gallon unless you tell me what the gallon will be." "It'll be a gallon!" "Of what? Water, gasoline, oil?" "I don't know. A gallon's a gallon."
"How many twits does it take to tick off an engineer?" "One!" "How did you know that so quickly?" "I'm talking to him."