Just like dogs, working with engineers is a constant circus of hilarity and fun. We meet one day over bug reports. Validators of an audio subsystem report they are experiencing noise under certain conditions of operating system, background traffic, etc. Various driver patches and configuration settings are tried but to no avail. A hardware bug is suspected. Consternation ensues. Finally, a workaround is found and the day saved. The fix to reduce noise: Don't play Iron Maiden. Ha ha ha ha ha. Seriously, I don't know how I can stand it.
Trying to get what's going on around me is sometimes like watching a sport I don't understand. Once awhile ago I happened upon a game of hurling. A Belgian industrial designer and I were in a bar in Portland watching men run around on the flatscreen. No idea what they were doing, just a lot of noise and fury, sticks waving like swords, balls flying through the air, the crowd erupting at odd moments. Obviously it made sense to someone, but not to us. That sort of describes my work environment, except I'm on the field, and next week I'm going to wear a suit and tie and participate in giving detailed play by plays to some extremely interested parties who know more about it than I do. Well, maybe they don't. They're not supposed to. But I think they do.
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Cuteness!!
Remember when those suits told me my FireFox was upfucking the copier? Hahahaha. (It was their moldy old software.)
That reminds me of this joke. Stop me if you've heard it. An engineer and a Belgian industrial designer walk into this bar in Portland...
Oh yeah, and the punchline is something like where the bartender says, you can't put the screen there, the wireless adapter antennae won't be at right angles. Hilarious, man. Even better than that one about the EHCI host controller.
Bailee Descending the Staircase, complimented by its twenty first century counterpart, Bailee Ascending the Staircase. The old big dog is not amused. Or is she? Who can resist Bailee's charms?
March Movie Madness. Get over there!
Personally, I laugh so hard when I hang out with engineers that I just can't do it anymore. I mean, I get paralyzed . . . uh, with laughter, I mean.
I remember the good old days when Wide World of Sports used to show the All-Ireland Hurling Championship from Croke Park in Dublin. Ah yes...and this was before my finding out the other mneaning of hurling, I'm happy to say.
I had the same experience watching Rugby with a friend of mine. We decided that we would watch the weekly game on Fox Soccer channel and we had a blast trying to figure out what the rules were and what the strategies were.
He also was an engineer, but switched to a different department.
I've lived with all that engineering "stuff" for 33 years (uh, don't tell my parents that part since we've only been married 30). I just want my husband to go to TequilaCon '08 with me and talk about geeky blog stuff, and beautiful dogs and cats! Damn, I miss my Woofie. One day, I WILL have another "rat" dog as Woofie was once called. She was the best dog in the world to me, and she sang along when I played my saxophone. What more could one ask?
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