My Week 202: A Quick Update

So I still haven’t gotten up the nerve to ask my colleague “Jim” how exactly I’m like Jeffrey, but I’ve been doing a little ‘detective slash stalker’ work. I sent a LinkedIn invite to Jim and when he accepted it, I looked up all his other contacts until I found the one guy named Jeffrey, who also has a ton of mutual contacts with me and Jim, so it must be him. His profile said that he was “creative and agile”. I agree with ‘agile’ considering how much time I spent crawling in and out of cupboards this week. ‘Creative’ on some days, OK. I am, however, not bald in the slightest. The quest for truth continues.

Black and White Challenge Week Five

44 thoughts on “My Week 202: A Quick Update”

  4. I think the difference between technology and engineering is the difference between using a sink and building a sink. What’s too often overlooked is design which is why I really think it should be STEMD. There’s too much badly designed crap out there, like sinks that are so difficult to fix. This might be the subject of my TED talk.
    And don’t forget to give yourself credit for having a firm grasp of the STEM of your wine glass, although I think a wine glass that only holds five ounces is another example of bad design.

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  7. Quantum physics. Do quantum physics. It helps with cats.

    I sort of wish I were good at math because that always really impresses people, but I have a smart phone now, so it would only be for bragging rights anyway.

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  8. I love it when STEM stuff wanders into the realm of The Arts. There’s a general link to creativity that encompasses all of this – just look at Leonardo Da Vinci. I used to be terrible at maths (we put an S on the end in the UK cos it’s short for MathematicS) but somehow got my act together and am now an analyst playing with data in Excel.
    However, it’s your use of English I just want to address right now. There is a character on your keyboard commonly referred to as ‘slash’ and when people say it out loud they usually mean ‘insert diagonal line here’. And because you actually typed out the word ‘slash’ you changed the meaning of the following phrase:
    “…doing a little ‘detective slash stalker’ work…”
    I now imagine you being someone who investigates crimes by stalking them and then slashing them with a big knife, because that’s what a slash stalker would do, innit?
    Unless you live in the UK in which case it could also mean ‘urinate over them’, cos ‘going for a slash’ is a rather coarse euphemism for having a piss.
    Either way, it’s a rather alarming mental image.
    🙂

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  9. Corinne says:

    Do you really want to know what 5 oz of wine looks like???
    As another Ms Home Depot, congrats on the sink accomplishment and just enjoy the “5” oz wine 😊😊

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  12. I genuinely kept plasticine (very like play-doh, but can be softened again when it gets hard) in my drawer in my previous career as an engineer – and lots of coloured pencils! Engineering is great fun, until it (like everything else) is turned into project management!

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  15. I gotta catch up before Sunday!

    You’ve given me a bit of a complex today, I must admit. First, your miles ahead of me on the directions thing (it’s okay to see what I did there). North, south, east, west … they mean nothing to me. Am I turning right or left? If you can’t answer that, I’m going home. That place I was going to wasn’t worth all this. Needless to say, GPS changed my damn life.

    And projects around the house? I’m famous for saying I’m a do-it-yourselfer … if plumbing needs doing, I will call the plumber myself and get it fixed. 😉

    Say, can I call Ken sometimes, when stuff breaks? Seems a handy resource…

    Mathematics I excel at. I really do. I was good in school at the thinking stuff, just not the doing stuff. I jumped two grades in math after taking the proficiencies as a freshman but took an entire school year to not-quite-complete my first September wood-working project in shop. My hands are useless tools outside of typing. My co-worker says that wrenches are wasted on me.

    But I did figure out that if I wanted to limit myself to 10 units of alcohol at church, and a unit is 12 ounces of beer and each mug of beer is 22 ounces then if I drink 6 mugs I better call a cab.

    And I did that in my head. 😎

    Now, I’m pretty sure I missed Week 201, as well. Which way is that from here?

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  16. If Star Trek: The Next Generation is to be believed, engineers mostly alert the bridge (over the droning wail of a klaxon) about a “warp-core rupture” and then roll under a closing blast door in the nick of time. FYI.

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