Re: boom!

On 12/03/2025 12:09 pm, Phil Hobbs wrote:

On 2025-03-11 15:24, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:20:51 -0400, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
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On 2025-03-08 17:53, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 08 Mar 2025 22:34:38 +0000, Cursitor Doom
<cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:36:05 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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https://emrtc.nmt.edu/media/pdf/EMRTCPromotionalBrochure.pdf
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That's cool, a little university department with a 40 square mile lab.

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The kind of job I'd actually look forward to getting up in the morning
to do! And that's saying something at my age.

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It would be cool to get into the detonator business.
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What I really want is some Husha Boom, the Silent Explosive. ;)

 

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I have a relative who blows things up at Sandia. He says it's no fun
because he doesn't get to see the booms... he only gets the data.
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He has a PhD in Engineering Mechanics. He is highly offended if anyone
calls him a mechanical engineer.

 He's probably pretty lifelike.  If he were a Civil Engineer, he'd probably be more polite, though.

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We had a house guest, the dean of a biggish computer science school.
She was highly offended when I asked her what sorts of computer
languages they teach these days.

 As Bertrand Russell famously said, "The reason that academic politics are so vicious is that the stakes are so small."
 Cheers
 Phil Hobbs
 

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Gotta be careful about this sort of thing, Dr Hobbs.
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 Dear Abby:
 An old pal of mine has started yanking my chain by calling me doctor.
 How do I tell him that it's only in my sig for the advertising value?
 Para Doc

You are advertising that you were dumb enough to act as highly skilled grunt labour for your supervisor at a very low rate of pay, compensated only by the academic qualification which you got before you ran out of gullibility?
I managed to learn enough about electronics while doing mine to qualify for tolerably well paid jobs after I'd got the degree, but it probably wasn't a cost-effective exercise.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney