Funny stuff about engineers (mostly):

• The turboencabulator!
  And the Retro Encabulator!
• Some of my favorite cartoons.
• Engineer's Guide to Drinks (from FlowingData)
• xkcd "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language"
• more Engineering Humor
• Our research uses the swimming mouse model, which much more effective than surfing.
• Engineer Traits
• Do you have The Knack? (sound file)
• 25 Ways To Confuse Your Professors
• 50 Fun Things To Do in a Final That Does Not Matter
• 50 Fun Things for Professors to Do on the First Day of Class
• Mathematical Humor (Mathematicians aren't engineers, but most are good people).
• Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Be sure to read the Open Letter To Kansas School Board.)
• A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer, also known as "If Dr. Seuss were a Technical Writer".
  More stuff by Gene Zeigler.
• Humor at Microsoft's Expense. Be sure to read about the new things MS introduced.
• Some of my favorite UNIX fortunes:

  • Scotty:	Captain, we din' can reference it!
    Kirk:	Analysis, Mr. Spock?
    Spock:	Captain, it doesn't appear in the symbol table.
    Kirk:	Then it's of external origin?
    Spock:	Affirmative.
    Kirk:	Mr. Sulu, go to pass two.
    Sulu:	Aye aye, sir, going to pass two.

  • It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task. — Sydney J. Harris
  • ...she was taking to them like a fish takes to tartar sauce – that is, not exactly willingly, but, nevertheless, very well. — Robert Haynie, "Girl Days"
  • The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." — Isaac Asimov
  • All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there. — Arthur C. Clarke, "2010"
  • What a privilege, what a rare privilege it is, to live in a community of high expectation, a place with standards, in contrast to living in a dull introspective environment that demands nothing, gives nothing, stimulates nothing. — James Luther Adams (not a fortune, but still a winner)
  • It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President

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Frederick J. Vetter, Associate Professor
Department of Electrical, Computer & Biomedical Engineering	401-874-5141
University of Rhode Island	401-782-6422 (fax)
4 East Alumni Ave.	vetter@ele.uri.edu
Kingston, RI 02881-0805	www.ele.uri.edu

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Fred Vetter