Caring and Sharing I think I have a better photo of this still on my phone, but you can still tell that Matt loves charity: 
Either that, or he's just trying to claim ownership of the local Bennigans. Link to this article Posted at 09:26:49 PM EST by copus
My Skin Will Thank Me I ordered a replacement solenoid valve online tonight. It controls the water flow to my whole-house humidifier, which, judging from how dry my skin is, hasn't worked since I bought the house. Fixing stuff in my house like this is kind of fun, if not terribly cheap. Now all I have to do is put in a whole-work humidifier and I'll stop being able to start fires by rubbing my hands together. Link to this article Posted at 10:09:19 PM EST by copus
Awkward Awards I got to go to a Women in Engineering Awards banquet last week. It was more than slightly awkward (or was it awesome?) being in a room with over 300 college-aged women, and maybe 10 men who were all professors or industry representatives. The keynote speaker, a person who is a Vice President in charge of one of my company's main competitors (and a customer on one of the programs I work on), started talking about how poorly she was treated by the male engineers in the industry. A part of me REALLY REALLY wanted to tell her to quit whining and get back into the kitchen. She actually had a good perspective on how much the industry has progressed (or hasn't), but I just wanted to see if I would get beaten to death by the crowd. At least I kept my mouth shut for one of the few times in my life. Link to this article Posted at 07:24:51 PM EST by copus
Sasquatch Block Watch It turns out I happen to live in Bigfoot Country. If *I* were a hard-to-find mythical creature, I would spend my time foraging near major metropolitan areas. Nobody would ever think of looking there. Except, of course, the International Bigfoot Society. Link to this article Posted at 09:06:39 PM EST by copus
Snow Daze I think I'm done with the 14 (or more) hour days for a little bit, so I'm going to post a couple of archives of the first big snow at my house: 
I don't have a snowblower (yet), so how did I scam people into helping to shovel my driveway? "Hey, guys, let's build a replica of the sphynx in the snow! By the way, I think we should start by using the snow in the driveway!" 
We got a little sick of this towards the end, so the face was made with bottles. Yes, bottles. I heard that the sphynx in Egypt was built using the same method. Link to this article Posted at 10:19:44 PM EST by copus
DISMOUNT Why do you UNmount a hard drive? You don't unmount a horse (or umount one, if you're a UNIX geek like me)!!! Link to this article Posted at 12:19:06 AM EST by copus
valentines emergency i've got some nice photos of my house buried in the snow.... I'll try and get them posted whenever i get out of the airport. It was sort of a miserable morning.... It took an hour to get to work; A half hour to get out of my driveway and a half hour to get the rest of the way. What made my morning was my daily calendar of worst-case scenarios and how to get out of them. Today it was detailed directions on How To Escape a Bad Date. The final instructions: do not worry about any minor nicks and cuts. Just run. A fitting Valentines day warning. Link to this article Posted at 07:28:50 PM EST by copus
To the extreme How do you reach the young kids of today? A flashy trailer, bicycle tricks, rebellious youths... and you get Extreme Mormons. I don't think Latter Day Saints will appreciate it quite as much as I did. Link to this article Posted at 10:14:59 AM EST by copus
Interstate Subway Love Song Maybe I'm a little loopy from spending all my free time at or thinking about work lately, or maybe this picture of the U.S. Interstate Highway system done up as a subway map really is the coolest thing I've ever seen. (via Boing Boing) Link to this article Posted at 10:58:18 PM EST by copus
To the moon Astronaut tried to kidnap love rival. And where was she going to dump her when she got her? At any rate, you can tell she was an engineer.... she wore diapers while stalking, just so she wouldn't have to stop to pee while driving. THAT's proper planning. Link to this article Posted at 10:16:24 PM EST by copus
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