[sdiy] What the heck is this?

[Thomas Hudson]

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 08:22 PM, harrybissell wrote:

> Sit in my chair at work and convince my boss that I'm real busy while 
> I design
> even more cool new modules ???
>
I worked with a guy that had narcolepsy, he could fall asleep while 
driving,
which is why I never went to lunch with him. But one day he fell asleep 
with
his head on his hands in a prayer position, on his drawing board. His 
boss
walked up to him, and apparently he woke up without moving and saw
his boss standing next to him. He lifted his head up and said "Amen."
His boss walked away with a disgusted look on his face.

To go even further OT, I worked for Michelin, and they wanted to try
to get away from all their custom written FEA (Finite Element Analysis,
for the non engineers out there. Oh hell, who am I kidding.) So they
gave one engineer the responsibility of evaluating Abacus FEA software.

So he got the software along with six feet of manuals; Abacus Users 
Manual.
Abacus Programmers Introduction. Abacus Programmers Reference, etc..

  As a joke we gave him a real abacus, which he put on his monitor. A 
bigwig
manager tour came by and one of the mangers said "Cool a chinese 
abacus. Do you
know how to use it?" He said, "No, but I have all the manuals" and 
opened his
cube shelf.

And just when you think I couldn't be more offtopic. I am leaving Texas 
and moving
to Seattle to work for Amazon. Any Seattle DIYers that can give tips on 
non-burbs
neighborhoods, please contact me offlist.

Tomy