Recently, when I was looking for an EE position, I did look at defense company openings. The need to pay the mortgage and eat makes you cast a wider net.
One position at White Sands NM had a substantial list of specific skills that looked like a good match for me until I got to the last requirement:
Experience flying fighter aircraft.
Holy crap! Not your everyday combination. I don't remember that course being available: EE453 Fighter Aircraft Piloting
That sort of threw my search back into private sector.
...captains have always been very strong people...until Bakula.
I hear you bubba! What Enterprise needed was a swaggering alpha dude like Wil Wheaton. I'm talking about the rebellious Wheaton who hangs with space Indians and does astral travel, not the weenie from early episodes.
Slashdot Mirror
On a closed beach (due to incoming storm), late at night, doing doughnuts in the sand...
and the car gets stuck.
We tried getting traction by putting the (many) empty beer cans under the wheels. Still no luck.
Then a park ranger stops by, shines a flashlight on the wheels (illuminating the cans) and gives us the 'you are too stupid to live' look.
Ahhh.... spring break!
I have to second this, and not just for career building.
For some strange reason, when I was in school, I thought math and physics was what I had to suffer through to get to the 'good stuff' (EE courses).
Now, 20 years later, I'm revisiting the math and physics for the luxery of deeper understanding. It is a real and rare pleasure.
Wait! I'm having a vision:
Aan-dee!
What is it Aunt Bea?
Howard was pretty fowl.
It's simply rediculous to have a pint sized non-human battling evil like that.
Wasn't Jabba played by Sally Strothers?
That would make it a lesbian sex fest!
But I doubt few here would complain.
Recently, when I was looking for an EE position, I did look at defense company openings. The need to pay the mortgage and eat makes you cast a wider net.
One position at White Sands NM had a substantial list of specific skills that looked like a good match for me until I got to the last requirement:
Experience flying fighter aircraft.
Holy crap! Not your everyday combination.
I don't remember that course being available:
EE453 Fighter Aircraft Piloting
That sort of threw my search back into private sector.
Throw in some Slashdot posts and it becomes an absolute metaphysical certitude.
Are you NUTS!?!?
That's were I keep all my stuff!
Plus, the world is kind of shaky now anyways. Something like this would probably just sink us all into some barbaric, warring state.
Are you, by some chance, the dialog writer for Zero Wing?
Both are far superior to Scoggins!
What were they thinking?!?!
I hear you bubba!
What Enterprise needed was a swaggering alpha dude like Wil Wheaton.
I'm talking about the rebellious Wheaton who hangs with space Indians
and does astral travel, not the weenie from early episodes.
No way dude!
I'm complaining to Slashdot, as usual.
Reminds me of a Babylon 5 quote:
If leave, Zathris dies.
If stay, Zathris dies.
Either way: is bad for Zathris.
Hah! I'd rather deflate mine than let the courts have her!
Excellent.
These will far surpass Dr. Evil 's shark based, head mounted weapons.
There is no way that would fit on the head of a dolphin.
So what use is it to me?
That sounds vaguely illegal, but fun.
I doubt that many slashdotters will make it to heaven.
...and others are even dumberer.
Looking at Balmer and Gates, I suspect the physical education portion is still vaporware.
Great, another Mac fanatic.
HAL! Open the bathroom door!
I'm sorry Dave, you shouldn't have had that last burrito.
I'll just try that now...
*FLASH*
Bill Gates appears as large light cylindar and booms:
"You will all run Windows and make macaroni pictures to honor my name."
Yow!
... `till WINE won't run.
Good old Microsoft.
Same as it ever was.
Nothing to be ashamed of, that's a pretty average size.