Note To Self:
Sep. 3rd, 2008 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird_ljNo, I don't care if it is on-topic.
I realise that the group was discussing accounting mistakes, and how easy it was for $5,000 to become $50,000. So yes, your comment was kinda relevant.
But please, in the future, try to remember:
If you tell a group of men (especially if that group is mostly made up of engineers) that you almost ended up paying $700 for a massage, there will probably be much hilarity at your expense...
That is all.
(ETA: mostly because it makes people very suspicious about what kind of massage I'm getting...)
I realise that the group was discussing accounting mistakes, and how easy it was for $5,000 to become $50,000. So yes, your comment was kinda relevant.
But please, in the future, try to remember:
If you tell a group of men (especially if that group is mostly made up of engineers) that you almost ended up paying $700 for a massage, there will probably be much hilarity at your expense...
That is all.
(ETA: mostly because it makes people very suspicious about what kind of massage I'm getting...)
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Date: 2008-09-03 03:42 am (UTC)I have heard some great male engineer jokes, but can't think of them offhand of course...I'll get back to you.
Just men in general are so childish sometimes- maybe if you had said 'shoes'...then they would have all rolled their eyes at 'women and their spending' instead...
and because it's about engineers... http://xkcd.com/277/
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Date: 2008-09-03 06:03 am (UTC)..meant in a non-innuendo-y way!
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Date: 2008-09-03 07:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 07:02 am (UTC)...in a non-innuendo-y sort of style.
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Date: 2008-09-03 09:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 09:32 am (UTC)So I have five:
-"this is not a victim" (Buffy)
-"this is not a vampire" (Willow, dressed as vamp!Willow)
-"this is not a demon" (Tara)
-"this is not a sister" (Buffybot)
and this one, which says
"this is not a singer"
They're all by beer_good_foamy, who makes excellent icons.
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Date: 2008-09-03 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-04 11:55 am (UTC)Why Engineers Don't Write Recipe Books:
Chocolate Chip Cookies:
Ingredients:
1.) 532.35 cm3 gluten
2.) 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3
3.) 4.9 cm3 refined halite
4.) 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
5.) 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11
6.) 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11
7.) 4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
8.) Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated
protein
9.) 473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao
10.) 236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)
To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr, add ingredients one, two and three with constant agitation. In a second 2-L reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogenous. To reactor #2, add ingredient eight, followed by three equal volumes of the homogenous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add ingredient nine and ten slowly, with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction.
Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer, place the mixture piece-meal on a 316SS sheet (300 x 600 mm). Heat in a 460K oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown. Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 25C heat-transfer table, allowing the product to come to equilibrium.
PS - don't try this at home.<<
And a reply:
1. I would tend to question the use of a #4 nodulizer for extrusion of the final reaction mixture. At that point, my preference would be to dispense empirically using a teaspoon.
2. The oven temperature is too low by 4 degrees. No sense in being imprecise.
3. One substitution that might appeal to some would be crushed walnuts in place of the peanuts, green peas, or mesquite beans.
4. I think it needs more vanilla.
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Date: 2008-09-04 07:34 pm (UTC)