http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/ A conquest for an expanded World View, and the Ultimate Free Lunch Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:27:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2250 Sach Mon, 14 May 2007 12:43:21 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2250 Actually, I had never heard of it either. So I guess we all learned something today.... or yesterday or the day before that or whenever. Actually, I had never heard of it either. So I guess we all learned something today…. or yesterday or the day before that or whenever.

]]> http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2249 Will Mon, 14 May 2007 12:38:59 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2249 To sound cliché: You learn something every day GeM! :-) I didn't know it was called latent inhibition until I saw it on Prison Break I must confess! To sound cliché: You learn something every day GeM! I didn’t know it was called latent inhibition until I saw it on Prison Break I must confess!

]]> http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2247 GeM Sun, 13 May 2007 07:00:11 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2247 Interesting. I'd never heard of latent inhibition. I learnt something today. :) Interesting. I’d never heard of latent inhibition. I learnt something today.

]]> http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2246 Sach Sat, 12 May 2007 14:40:18 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2246 or rather when you are unable to put them back together... or rather when you are unable to put them back together…

]]> http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2245 Will Sat, 12 May 2007 07:03:41 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2245 Umm, I don't think so...? I was merely trying to convey the immutable desire I have to take everything apart. There's no doubt that I'm absorbed in a valuable occupation (where would the world be without engineers?), my concern is mainly for my mental health in cases when I am unable to take interesting things apart. :-) Umm, I don’t think so…? I was merely trying to convey the immutable desire I have to take everything apart. There’s no doubt that I’m absorbed in a valuable occupation (where would the world be without engineers?), my concern is mainly for my mental health in cases when I am unable to take interesting things apart.

]]> http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2216 Sach Fri, 11 May 2007 15:45:53 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2216 is this it? that you are inherently better at taking things apart than putting them back together? thereby making you question whether or not you are spending your life absorbed in valuable (and valid) occupation? is this it? that you are inherently better at taking things apart than putting them back together? thereby making you question whether or not you are spending your life absorbed in valuable (and valid) occupation?

]]> http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2134 Dave Wed, 09 May 2007 13:44:12 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2007/05/09/the-engineering-curse/#comment-2134 im cursed, like most engineers, we ain't too good at sports, so when we do play we either don't make the grade or fracture our ankles easily when we play brilliant games and spend the next week horizontal (no, not downtown either willzie) and high on panadine forte, to the point where the balloon of a thing that you once considered your ankle/foot/knee has forced the doctor to say "hey don't study for your midsemester, i forbid you to do it." and i'm of the opinion poor engineers work out how it goes back together after they have pulled it apart... after all your supposed to be good a piecing the puzzle together, not working out someone else's solution ;) im cursed, like most engineers, we ain’t too good at sports, so when we do play we either don’t make the grade or fracture our ankles easily when we play brilliant games and spend the next week horizontal (no, not downtown either willzie) and high on panadine forte, to the point where the balloon of a thing that you once considered your ankle/foot/knee has forced the doctor to say “hey don’t study for your midsemester, i forbid you to do it.”
and i’m of the opinion poor engineers work out how it goes back together after they have pulled it apart… after all your supposed to be good a piecing the puzzle together, not working out someone else’s solution

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