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Roger Wright wrote: gorgeous
Am I? Gee, thanks. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Well, that assumes that your bio pic didn't come with the wallet. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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The real challenge is to find one CP member that this hasn't happened to.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I generally say I'm a functional illiterate ( I didn't finish high school )
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Me, I'm a code monkey, this negates any chance that they will ask me to look at their damned computer or iThingy.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Many people would not understand what a code monkey means. But as long as you avoid mentioning computer when you try to explain, you'll be fine.
Signature construction in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Damn you have the perfect signature - CBadger
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holy crap on a cracker - these threads have taken a turn for the ball-less.
I'm an EE that writes sw. Period. I do it because I love electronics and have a deathly fear of anything at and over 120V.
Do you people even understand the difference between civil engineers and electrical engineers? The civils build targets.....
Seriously, the worse thing I ever saw was in the .com boom where anyone who could hack html - and I mean old school - meant the could "do software". Yeah, I said, have fun. Call me when you are serious.....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've been nearly electrocuted at 230V, hasn't stopped me from working on electrical / electronic projects yet. What I can't understand is how people can work on things running at hundreds of kilovolts.
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S u n s h i n e wrote: What I can't understand is how people can work on things running at hundreds of kilovolts.
I suspect the correct answer is 'carefully'
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Or by running it on a very low amperage.
I have a device at home (for hairstyling) which makes 200kV.
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Talk to Roger Wright, a CP member of long-standing. He builds substations for his local electrical utility for fun.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I talk with computer in .... language. Before 15 years ago I used binary language, but now a days, the computers get more smarter and some of them can understand C# language also. I basically command to computer to do something. 
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Sanjay K. Gupta wrote: some of them can understand C# language also
Well, they can't!
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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I don't care what they do either.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Here is what I get quite often:
Them: What do you do for a living?
Me: I'm a software programmer.
Them: O so you work in IT?
Me: Yes you can say that (but far from the truth)
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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Go to Canada. In Canada you can't call yourself an engineer - software or otherwise - unless you join a legal closed shop.
Most of the professionals I've met have been idle or thieving, but hey, once you get on with the rules you're untouchable.
So, while I'm in the UK, I'm an ENGINEER, an ENGINEER by God, not by the grace of a little beadle sticking pins in dolls of free men and dreaming of jackbooted propriety and order.
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: So, while I'm in the UK, I'm an ENGINEER, an ENGINEER by God, not by the grace of a little beadle sticking pins in dolls of free men and dreaming of jackbooted propriety and order
Isn't UK the country that has given us Chartered Surveyors, Chartered Quantity Surveyors and a whole bunch of other certifications?
If that isn't regulating trade, what is?
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I'm not going ot get into a nationalist pi$$ing contest. We have chartered engineers too, but membership is strictly voluntary. If an employer wants to call some kid out of school an engineer, they can.
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Them: So what do you do?
Me: I'm software engineer.
Them: And what do you do?
Me: I'm programmer, I'm creating software.
Them (confused): Really..?
Me (admittedly): I'm a computer nerd.
Them: Oh, I see.
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Them: What do you do for a living?
Me: I work in a firm.
Simple, clear with no following questions.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I tell people I clean toilets for a living. That way the don't ask me to fix their PCs.
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I tried doing that before. I always say I make coffee for the boss/sexytary. 
They don't believe me though. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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But do they ask you to clean their toilets?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Funnily enough, I was asked yesterday by the bloke who cleans the toilets if I could come round his house to fix his computer.
I said "What's wrong with it"
He Said "Everytime I go to Facebook or other sites it doesn't display properly, the logos all blocky and you can't see or do anything"
I said " Are you on XP?"
He said yes and I told him I don't need to come round.
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