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Christmas for engineers

December 24th, 2008 No comments

christmas_for_engineers This landed in my inbox this morning, and I wanted to share it. (I am not the author).

Happy Holidays!

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A few good engineers

April 18th, 2007 1 comment

This came in my inbox, and I thought it was appropriate for this blog. Unfortunately, I don’t know who was the author of this parody.  UPDATE: source of the dialogue is here: http://www.sputoandlammert.com

Movie Remake: “A FEW GOOD ENGINEERS”

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: You want answers?

ARCHITECT: I think I’m entitled to them.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: You want answers?!

ARCHITECT: I want the truth!

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: You can’t HANDLE the truth!!

Son, we live in a world that has BEAMS, GIRDERS AND COLUMNS. And those things have to SUPPORT THE BUILDING. Who’s gonna DESIGN THEM? You?

You, Mr. Architect?
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Magical Leader Tread

February 28th, 2007 No comments

Magical leader treadThis came in my inbox this morning, and its really funny. Click on the image and see if you can find what’s wrong.

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It’s a Calatrava

January 8th, 2007 No comments

Structural engineers have their opinions about architects. The relationship between the two requires synergy, but sometimes the architect’s “vision” conflicts with the engineer’s sense of constructability.

So I smiled when I saw this cartoon by Steve Duenes, published in the New Yorker on Oct. 30, 2006.

Steve Duenes New Yorker cartoon

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