Four engineers are taking a ride in the country when the car suddenly breaks down. The mechanical engineer says, “It must be the engine. I'd better take a look.”
The electrical engineer says, “It could be the ignition. I'll check it out.”
The chemical engineer says, “It might be the fuel system. I'll have a look at that.”
At this point all three turn to the software engineer and ask what he thinks.
“Well,” he says, “maybe if we all get out of the car and get back in again . . .”
Actually, yesterday my heating pad wouldn't come on. Power, yes, but no pad coming on. Wife says unplug it and plug it back in. I replied, "Yeah, right. Reboot a damned heating pad, right?" I did it anyway. The heating pad came on. Reboot a simple heating pad?!
Can't resist another one. This is, honest to God, a true story:
Many years ago I worked for a small company that built UNIX based computer systems. One of my colleagues was an archetypical geek: she was a UNIX programmer and systems analyst, and also an enthusiastic science fiction fan. When the movie Independence Day was released she went to a theater to see it. If you're familiar with it, you may remember it as an entertaining alien invasion film with a remarkably silly plotline, at least from a scientific perspective. One of the more ridiculous scenes is the one in which the Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum characters fly a captured alien fighter craft into the mother ship in order to sabotage it by uploading a computer virus into its (ahem) alien operating system. Of course they succeed. As the upload ends and the mother ship starts to self-destruct, my friend yelled out, “Yes! TCP/IP is the universal protocol!”
There once was a man named Fisk, who's fencing was exceedingly brisk. So fast was his action, the Fitzgerald contraction, reduced his rapier to a disk.
Reminds me of one of my favorite geek jokes:
ReplyDeleteFour engineers are taking a ride in the country when the car suddenly breaks down. The mechanical engineer says, “It must be the engine. I'd better take a look.”
The electrical engineer says, “It could be the ignition. I'll check it out.”
The chemical engineer says, “It might be the fuel system. I'll have a look at that.”
At this point all three turn to the software engineer and ask what he thinks.
“Well,” he says, “maybe if we all get out of the car and get back in again . . .”
Actually, yesterday my heating pad wouldn't come on. Power, yes, but no pad coming on. Wife says unplug it and plug it back in. I replied, "Yeah, right. Reboot a damned heating pad, right?" I did it anyway. The heating pad came on. Reboot a simple heating pad?!
ReplyDeleteCan't resist another one. This is, honest to God, a true story:
ReplyDeleteMany years ago I worked for a small company that built UNIX based computer systems. One of my colleagues was an archetypical geek: she was a UNIX programmer and systems analyst, and also an enthusiastic science fiction fan. When the movie Independence Day was released she went to a theater to see it. If you're familiar with it, you may remember it as an entertaining alien invasion film with a remarkably silly plotline, at least from a scientific perspective. One of the more ridiculous scenes is the one in which the Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum characters fly a captured alien fighter craft into the mother ship in order to sabotage it by uploading a computer virus into its (ahem) alien operating system. Of course they succeed. As the upload ends and the mother ship starts to self-destruct, my friend yelled out, “Yes! TCP/IP is the universal protocol!”
There once was a man named Fisk, who's fencing was exceedingly brisk.
ReplyDeleteSo fast was his action, the Fitzgerald contraction, reduced his rapier to a disk.
There was a young lady named Bright
ReplyDeleteWho traveled much faster than light.
She departed one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.