Goosed scribed:

On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Shannon Richmeyer wrote:

Engineers Explained
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SOCIAL SKILLS

Engineers have different objectives when it comes to social interaction.
"Normal" people expect to accomplish several unrealistic things from
social interaction:

  *Stimulating and thought-provoking conversation.
  *Important social contacts.
  *A feeling of connectedness with other humans.

Ooh, I'm grouped among the normal!  Yaaaay!!  8)

Normal?  Then what are you doing on the FFML?

[snip]

FASCINATION WITH GADGETS

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of
two categories: (1)things that need to be fixed, and (2)things that will
need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them.
Engineers like to solve problems.  If there are no problems handily
available, they will create their own problems.  Normal people don't
understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix
it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough
features yet.

There are also the mad-scientist types who have a fascination with
gadgets.  And then there are the fanfic prodders.  *giggle*

The scary thing for me is that both of these apply to me. @_@

[snip]

FASHION AND APPEARANCE

Clothes are the lowest priority for an engineer, assuming the basic
thresholds for temperature and decency have been satisfied.  If no
appendages are freezing or sticking together, and if no genitalia or
mammary glands are swinging around in plain view, then the objective
of clothing has been met. Anything else is a waste.

Oh, good.  I'm not an engineer.  8)

Oh, good.  I am :P

[snip]

FRUGALITY

Engineers are notoriously frugal.  This is not because of cheapness or
mean spirit; it is simply because every spending situation is simply a
problem in optimization, that is, "How can I escape this situation while
retaining the greatest amount of cash?"

Frugality is deeply instilled in engineers during their life as poor
college students.  ;)

heh.

EGO

Ego-wise, two things are important to engineers:
    *   How smart they are.
    *   How many cool devices they own.

I think everybody is into the cool devices thing, except for the
liberals.  They're much too busy saving the planet from the
Republicans.  The Republicans, on the other hand, aren't worried about 
saving the planet.  ;)

ROTFL!


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