You May Be an Engineer If...
1. You introduce your wife as "
[email protected]" or husband as
"
[email protected]."
2. Your spouse sends you an e-mail instead of calling you to dinner.
3. If Dilbert is your hero.
4. You can name six Star Trek episode titles.
5. The only jokes you receive are through e-mail.
6. Your wristwatch has more computing power than a Pentium III.
7. You look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys.
8. You use a CAD package to design your child's Pine Wood Derby car.
9. You have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than
hanging coats and taping ducts.
10. At Christmas, it goes without saying, that you will be the one to
find the burnt-out bulb in the string.
11. You window-shop at Radio Shack.
12. Your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest
sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies.
13. You have Dilbert comics displayed anywhere in your work area.
14. You carry on a one-hour debate over the expected results of a
test that actually takes five minutes to run.
15. You are convinced you can build a phaser out of your garage-door
opener and your camera's flash attachment.
16. You have modified your can opener to be microprocessor-driven.
17. You If you know the direction the water swirls when you flush.
18. You have ever taken the back off of your TV just to see what's inside.
19. A team of you and your co-workers has set out to modify the antenna
of the radio in your work area for better reception.
20. You own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts.
21. You have never backed up your hard drive.
22. You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance.
23. You have ever purchased an electronic appliance "as is."
24. You see a good design and still have to change it.
25. The salespeople at Circuit City or Best Buy can't answer any of
your questions.
26. You own a set of itty-bitty screwdrivers but you don't remember
where they are.
27. You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires.
28. You have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own
turns bread into charcoal.
29. You have more toys than your kids.
30. You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work.
31. Your I.Q. is bigger than your weight.
32. The microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work and you rush
up to the front to fix them.
33. You can remember seven computer passwords but not your anniversary.
34. You have ever owned a calculator with no equal key and know what RPN
stands for.
35. Your father sat 2 inches in front of your family's first color TV
with a magnifying lens to see how they made the colors, and you
grew up thinking that was normal.
36. You can type 70 words a minute but can't read your own handwriting.
37. Your wristwatch has more buttons than a telephone.
38. You thought the real heroes of "Apollo 13" were the mission controllers.
39. You spend more on your home or laptop computer than your car.
40. You've ever tried to repair a $5 radio.
41. Your three-year-old child asks why the sky is blue and you try to
explain atmospheric absorption theory.
42. You can understand sentences with four or more acronyms in them.
43. You have automated everything in your house, but none of it meets
the National Electrical Code.
44. You have ever tried to network your home PC, microwave oven and
garage-door opener.
45. Your spouse keeps tripping over the wire you strung - temporarily -
three years ago.
46. At a traffic intersection, you try to figure out the synchronization
pattern between your car's blinkers or wipers and the other's.
47. You take along a printout of the schedule of your family vacation.
48. You always have to explain things by drawing it out on paper or a napkin.
49. Your computer is down, you don't know what date is it today and miss
all meetings too.
50. You read through this list completely, and try to convince yourself
not to agree with at least one of them.
51. You make a hard copy of this list, and post it on your door.