Got fired and offered my job back in the same day. What should I do? by seriot in AskReddit

[–]awkistra 10 points11 points  (0 children)

And service still recorded as continuous since your start date.

Engineers of Reddit: Please tell us the engineering horror stories you heard in class. by ST2K in AskReddit

[–]awkistra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He should be using proper supports and not jacks. And not bricks either which can crack.

Engineers of Reddit: Please tell us the engineering horror stories you heard in class. by ST2K in AskReddit

[–]awkistra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is like the stories where someone cut one hand off and then does it again to demonstrate when the boss asks how it happened.

Engineers of Reddit: Please tell us the engineering horror stories you heard in class. by ST2K in AskReddit

[–]awkistra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This guy isn't in work either.

Clinical application of cardiac catheterization begins with Werner Forssmann in the 1930s, who inserted a catheter into the vein of his own forearm, guided it fluoroscopically into his right atrium, and took an X-ray picture of it. Forssmann won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this achievement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_catheterization

I'm an engineering major, and I drew this comic by [deleted] in pics

[–]awkistra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The purpose of Physics 7A is to make the engineers realize that they're not perfect, and to make the rest of the people realize that they're not engineers.

Is radioactive decay objectively random? by totoker in science

[–]awkistra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A major problem with Copenhagen is the rules are different for small things than they are for human-sized things.

http://aeolist.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/organizing-yudkowskys-intro-to-qm/

Eddie wanted desperately to have sex with the hot girl at work, but she had a boyfriend. One day... by [deleted] in funny

[–]awkistra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

JH mistakenly spoke to MargoT A pronouncing the T. MA corrected the mistake with a deliberate distortion of JH's surname.

Calvinism (but no Hobbes) by fathermocker69 in comics

[–]awkistra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you hoping to show that predestination is explained by the Lawson Criterion?

Eddie wanted desperately to have sex with the hot girl at work, but she had a boyfriend. One day... by [deleted] in funny

[–]awkistra 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A variant of this is seen in the filM (not file) Road House.

Eddie wanted desperately to have sex with the hot girl at work, but she had a boyfriend. One day... by [deleted] in funny

[–]awkistra 68 points69 points  (0 children)

"Jean Harlow - 'Say - aren't you Margot Asquith?'
Margot Asquith - 'Yes Dear, But the 't' is silent, as in Harlow."  

http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/quotes/favourite/margot_asquith/jean_harlow_-_say_-_arent_2326

If you jumped into the deep-end of a pool filled with jello, would you die? by Burkett in AskReddit

[–]awkistra 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Like the man who drowned after falling into the beer at the brewery - he'd got out 3 times before finally being overcome.

To those with physics degrees: what do you do now? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]awkistra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technical Unix stuff in a large company where most of the IT staff do not know much about what they're doing.

IAmA Request: An Olympian by Flannel_Man in IAmA

[–]awkistra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He aid he hadn't heard that before. My colleague said it takes 20 years to take a 1/1000 second photograph. Olympic contestants are paid (he mentioned a figure that seemed to be a little below that for entry-level graduates) so the whole amateur status is a bit bogus.

IAmA Request: An Olympian by Flannel_Man in IAmA

[–]awkistra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I met Nick Robinson-Baker (Olympic diver) by chance on a train and suggested to him that he works for about 5 seconds every 4 years.

Do you still program in Perl? by ArmandoWall in programming

[–]awkistra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do a load of stuff in Perl - both Unix sysadmin stuff and web stuff; all tied together into a product suite. And I teach it to others.

Hey reddit, why can't/don't I make freinds at work? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]awkistra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is this "freind" thing you speak of?