|
Arguing
with an engineer is a lot like wrestling in the mud with a pig. After a
couple of hours you realize the pig likes it.
It seems that I have an uncommon number of engineer types who stop
here; I don't know why. Either it's because they like the mental
gymnastics; i.e., I am always one step ahead of them; or they enjoy
shooting at a stationary target? At any rate, I once chose
Journalism
as a major because it was the only course of study in all of the
University of Maryland that had not a single math requirement.
And
that's odd too, because all the various aptitude tests I've taken
show music and mathematics as my strong suit. I can only conclude
that
all that is trumped by recklessness, another trait, which has me
doing stuff like
this ,
or plain carelessness.
Bottom line then is, when it
comes to astro physics I'm a spectator who could not if you put a gun
to my head understand the numbers behind Particle Fever, but am
nevertheless enthralled by them. BTW, I was rooting for a 140 GeV.
Why? I know, but can't explain it. Also, if I was
involved, Monica would give me a boner, for some reason.
|
|
engineer types who stop here; I don't know why.
ReplyDeleteI know, I know! It's the untidiness.
Sort of like the British holiday boys who wander into the dark side streets of North Sarasota -- they're looking for something they can't get at home.
Smiiile when you say "engineer," son.
ReplyDeleteScientists come up with ideas that should work, often because the math does.
Engineers then build devices to test those scientists' ideas by employing the ideas which scientists and mathematicians earlier showed do work.
Rinse, repeat.
And machinists keep it all going. They're the ones who have to take the crap engineers put down on paper and figure out a way to make it so it will actually work.
ReplyDeletewildbill
Rodge, Did the same thing. Got a BFA without taking math. Took deductive logic in summer school as a replacement. Hell, it was just algebra without numbers. Made an A,B,C,D,F. Went down in a controlled crash, but average allowed me to pass.
ReplyDeleteEntered sales 'cause I couldn't make any money doing anything else & had to use Excel. Found I also had an aptitude for math & that writing the formulas in Excel was just like algebra.
Shoulda paid attention in high school.
All that stuff -- the math, the engineering, the maintenance -- is worth diddly without someone to actually buy and use the product.
ReplyDelete[signed]
Proud User Of Technical Stuff He Doesn't Understand