Certainly one of my personal favorite tricks ended up being increasing the chicken coop following the 7omph that is( winds knocked it straight down.

A rope, leverage, and a vehicle as well as the plain thing just zipped up. Little bit of dessert, however it impressed her. The! @#$% thing got knocked down a week later, nevertheless the trick that is same and from now on the coop is tied straight straight down.

I suggest to guy nerds is to look for chemists, since there really are a number that is large of chemists (associated with the main topic of another rant…). The essential difference between a chemist and aquatic is: they may suspect murder, but cannot prove it if you p*ss off the chemist. Within my situation, there is no doubt…

That is good advice – I’m an engineer whom married a non-engineer and I also can’t find out why he does not love to make use of logic to fix dilemmas.

He generally seems to think there’s more to a concern than bluntly saying the reality and enacting a solution that is logical.

… sexism, sexist commentary trackback we had written up a post over at EngineerBlogs yesterday called Dating information for Women Engineers. (Yeah, we forgot to create a web link here…) After we published it up and posted it, we reread it and …

“bandit” and I also could be hitched towards the exact same girl, but perhaps not as my spouse wasn’t a Marine. My wife additionally claims that I “am a freak of nature”. Another term is just “you sure are weird, but lovable”. We have been polar opposites in a lot of areas, but share a lot still of commonalities. My very first wife possessed a masters in computer technology. A smart woman, but to her, every thing was an equipment issue. Great on solving equations that are differential but could maybe perhaps not balance a checkbook!

It’s additionally difficult on young ones having techie moms and dads. Certainly one of my sons reported once we were venturing out to supper one evening that “could we speak about one thing apart from compiler designs at supper tonight! ” On road trips i might ask the children mathematics type problems that are mentalage/grade appropriate) even as we drove in the future. They complained that the families of their friends discussed sports when they got older. We asked “why? ” Never ever got a remedy. Yet all of them went into “thinking” kinds of jobs where mathematics abilities reduced (econ, physics, mathematics, insurance coverage actuaries, etc). Up to now (knocking on wood) all six are gainfully used

It requires a specific form of individual to reside having a techie and it also makes small distinction if the techie is female or male. Many designers can fix any such thing except the break of dawn or even a broken heart. But I’m focusing on doing both. It really is certainly fun living right here in Dilbertville. Definitely worth the journey. Thank you for the relationship tips!

Both my spouce and I are designers, but we consult with our youngsters about great deal of things. We’re both extremely opinionated and attempt to maintain on politics, news, etc. We are also both past history buffs and want to read, therefore we have actually lots of non-technical items that we want to speak about. I’d like to believe that offsets the ‘techie’ aspect, although there’s absolutely absolutely nothing I am able to do concerning the proven fact that we’re extremely intellectual about lots of things.

Having said that, I have a complete large amount of reviews on how smart my young ones are, specially by those who don’t understand us perfectly. I will be afraid my young ones stand out like a sore thumb, and there’s perhaps perhaps not much i could do in order to alter that (nor would I).

I’m all over this, brother! Although … my son is 3rd generation nerd. (He was condemned right away, into it) although we never pushed him. I would personally just just take him beside me often once I traveled. We might play “spot the nerd”, nonetheless it is simply too simple into the San Jose, CA airport.

<2>Six children, eh? We just had one. Her phrase after our son was created was “over your dead body”. I did *not* just take this being a figure of message.