F95729563 - Sheep, Guns, and Robots.
+1 memesheepage. Yoinked from teya_uk and xinamarie equally.
1. Go into your LJ's archives.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
From one of my favorite posts, "Don't Question My Authority" (back in the days of song lyrics and short sentences!)
"I think it's funny that my first thought was, "Are they really taking this route? Or is this a ruse? Because if I was a t*rr*rist, this map would be golden.""
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I wanted to link this last time, but forgot:
Slate recently had a very interesting article about the motivations behind the Columbine shootings that will probably change the way you think about it. Not topic of the day, I know - but interesting.
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A few months ago, out on site, I got a nasty wake-up call when a rather pricey system I had designed failed in a big, big way. I hadn't crunched any numbers on it when I probably should have, but it was way behind schedule already and "seat-of-the-pants" design is not uncommon around here. What made it even more embarrassing was that our salesman, who was on site with me and has exactly zero engineering background, was the one who came up with our temporary solution.
Since then, I have spent a lot of time thinking about it, talking about it, crunching the numbers, and everything has told me that the damn thing should have worked. After going back through my notes, I thought I figured out the (simple) problem.
Today, I finally hooked it up to a test system in our shop identical to the one on site.
It worked like a bloody charm.
I was ecstatic.
My boss drove back up to the plant today to discuss a revamp of the system, and I've brought this success up at every opportunity. The customer wants the temporary fix made permanent, and the boss wants to use most of my design ideas in the process.
It sounds like I've redeemed myself on this one.
To make the day better - we've got four robots out in the shop, and I've been given the job of setting them up. *smiles and stretches* Sorry, honey - I'll probably have to put in some long hours on this one...
Yeah. This is a good day.