Brendan
4421
I found out that our government is considering handouts to highschool girls who don’t get knocked up.
Also my new job requires me to bone up on trigonometry. I haven’t done trig since over 10 years ago at school and ot wasn’t exactly my strongsuite back then. Trig is not like riding a bicycle, let alone a tricycle.
What the hell sort of job requires trig? I remember my math teachers in high school and college telling me all about how complex jobs required a lot of higher math skills and I’ve never used anything more complex than introductory algebra in my job. The calculus, trig, or even geometry stuff never comes up at all. It makes me a little sad because I stand ready to calculate the volume of a cone at a moment notice!
Brendan
4424
I’m working with a bunch of mechanical and electrical engineers on a project that requires some pretty detailed stuff involving the behaviour of air in the upper atmosphere and radar/gps tracking. It’s really interesting stuff.
Oh, that does sound interesting. Good for you! Now I have job envy since mine grows a little more mind-numbing every day.
Brendan
4426
Don’t envy me too much, I’m in a little over my head.
One thing I’ve decided is that us software “engineers” need to stop using engineer in our titles. What we do pales in comparison to what real engineers do.
Pop quiz, hotshot – you’ve got eight ounces of ice cream and a three inch diameter ice cream cone, four inches tall. What do you do?
OK – you guys win this round. But I’m watching.
Shadarr
4431
Really? My grade 8 math teacher told us on the first day that everything we learned from here on out was unlikely we would ever use outside the classroom.
You apparently had more honest teachers than I ever had.
Griddle
4433
Ha, true. The only thing I honestly used outside the classroom was basic geometry. But that was only because I used to build subwoofer enclosures for competition cars, so I needed to calculate interior port air volumes in order to tune the enclosures. Other than that, not much else translated to the real world.
Running for president, of course.
-xtien
Rward
4435
No-one said that, but that’s how it has been…
Sarkus
4436
Last week one of my co-workers excitedly told me she was going to be talking to MC Hammer on her break. Further investigations revealed that another co-worker was saying he knew MC Hammer because he used to write and perform with him. According to the first co-worker she did later talk to someone who was (she thinks) MC Hammer.
I don’t have any reason to think the second guy is lying based on what I know of him. However, I haven’t really been able to confirm anything on the internet. One early Hammer video seems to show someone who might be him in the background, but isn’t clear enough to be sure, plus that was over 20 years ago.
Kind of interesting if it’s true, though.
I borrowed my father-in-law’s motion-sensitive surveillance camera a couple of nights ago, hung it on a fence post and threw a leftover chicken carcass on the ground. Look what I caught!
We lost all 5 of our chickens to a red fox last summer, but our local animal expert says this one’s a gray, which are seen much less here in the Northeast US.
Leah_C
4438
Awww he’s cute. How big is he? It’s hard to tell with nothing around for reference. I bought a gray fox skull over the weekend and it’s itty bitty. He looks bigger than I imagined them to be.
Lorini
4439
I just fell off my bike with clip pedals as I was trying to get off the bike, so sad to get old :)
Heh. I did this on my very first bike with clip pedals… 17 and in a busy intersection.
