Monday, August 29, 2005

What Civil Engineers do in their spare time

1. Write blogs
2. Read other peoples' blogs
3. Try out phrases such as counter-incomprehension during discussions to sound like its something important.
4. Create new phrases such as imcomprehensible intuitive comprehension to use in discussions.
5. Read "Direct Stiffness Matrix Analysis for Trusses Frames and counter-incomprehensible Beams" by James Whatsisname.
6. Try to program in C .
7. Watch the clock tick.
8. Look at a structure, admire the structure and move on to the next structure.
9. Does all the work and watch the credit go to some dumb*** mother******* sonofa***** architect who just sits around and dreams up of dumbass structures for us civil engineers to design.
10. Plot to kill architects.
11. Maybe strangling...but, damn...too much evidence.
12. Wait...maybe if he slips and falls on a knife...
13. No, No....following him around with a knife won't look good.
14. Aha...I got it. Maybe if I design the primary slab of the 2nd floor of the 56 story building he designed, to take only 27.392173 tons of load rather than 30.945673 tons, it'll fall down at the precise moment his body weight of 75.8234 kg enters the building thereby crushing him flat...muahahaha...Muahahahaha, MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
15. But what if they examine the building and find that the 2nd floor was designed to withstand only 27.392173 tons and not 30.945673 tons as it was supposed to be designed for....damn...I knew there was a flaw in the plan.
16. Contemplate new strategy for doing in evil architect.
17. Get back to staring at clock.