This is not how to get kids to go into engineering...

[Ron Natalie]

http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~cbosley/pictures/P6270047.JPG

[Snowbird]

"Ron Natalie" > wrote in message >...

> http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~cbosley/pictures/P6270047.JPG

Try this instead:
Godiva was a Lady who through Coventry did ride
To show the royal villagers her fair and pure white hide
The one who took her from her steed and led her to her beer
Was a bleary-eyed surveyor and a drunken engineer

(etc etc etc etc)


OK, I guess maybe not?

[Dave Hyde]

Ron Natalie wrote:

> http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~cbosley/pictures/P6270047.JPG

You mean I had a *choice*?!

Q: What does an engineer use for birth control?
A: His personality.

Dave 'tame oats' Hyde

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On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 01:18:46 GMT, Dave Hyde > wrote:

:Ron Natalie wrote:
:
:> http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~cbosley/pictures/P6270047.JPG
:
:You mean I had a *choice*?!
:
:Q: What does an engineer use for birth control?
:A: His personality.
:
:Dave 'tame oats' Hyde


Q: How do you tell a controlls engineer from a systems engineer?
A: A systems engineer looks at *your* shoes when he talks to you.

We got back to our place. The workshop is gone, along with the
project. The house survived, with some minor exterior damage. We
were very, very lucky, the houses on either side of us are gone. The
iceplant (that my wife hated) around the house helped. So did double
glazed windows, cement shingles, stucco walls and well watered lawns.
I'm sketching out a system with a gas driven pump, running sprinklers
on the roof, in the trees and along gutters. I don't have a pool to
suck from but the neighbors do, I might try to talk him into splitting
the system with me, while he's rebuilding.

I don't know what I'm going to do about the airplane. I'm not going
to start again from scratch. So if I can find a project, or a flying
homebuilt that could use some upgrades, I think I'll buy. 4 place is
my only hard requirement.

[Del Rawlins]

On 04 Nov 2003 05:47 PM, posted the following:

> We got back to our place. The workshop is gone, along with the
> project. The house survived, with some minor exterior damage. We
> were very, very lucky, the houses on either side of us are gone. The
> iceplant (that my wife hated) around the house helped. So did double
> glazed windows, cement shingles, stucco walls and well watered lawns.
> I'm sketching out a system with a gas driven pump, running sprinklers
> on the roof, in the trees and along gutters. I don't have a pool to
> suck from but the neighbors do, I might try to talk him into splitting
> the system with me, while he's rebuilding.
>
> I don't know what I'm going to do about the airplane. I'm not going
> to start again from scratch. So if I can find a project, or a flying
> homebuilt that could use some upgrades, I think I'll buy. 4 place is
> my only hard requirement.

I'm glad to hear that at least your house survived, but sorry about the
shop/project. Was there anything salvageable out of any of it (like
tools, etc?). I know that if anything like that happened to me, even if
insurance covered everything (which it should), so much of what I would
lose would be irreplacable stuff which originally belonged to my dad.
It would suck to lose the project, but at least a kit is available now.

If you are looking for a new project, be sure to look at the Bearhawk
kits:

http://www.bearhawkaircraft.com/

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[Morgans]

> wrote
>
> We got back to our place. The workshop is gone, along with the
> project. The house survived, with some minor exterior damage. We
> were very, very lucky, the houses on either side of us are gone. The
> iceplant (that my wife hated) around the house helped. So did double
> glazed windows, cement shingles, stucco walls and well watered lawns.
> I'm sketching out a system with a gas driven pump, running sprinklers
> on the roof, in the trees and along gutters. I don't have a pool to
> suck from but the neighbors do, I might try to talk him into splitting
> the system with me, while he's rebuilding.
>
> I don't know what I'm going to do about the airplane. I'm not going
> to start again from scratch. So if I can find a project, or a flying
> homebuilt that could use some upgrades, I think I'll buy. 4 place is
> my only hard requirement.


So sorry about the shop and project, but glad you didn't lose the house.
Life goes on. Some times it sucks a little bit. :-(
--
Jim in NC

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On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:31:47 -0800, "Morgans"
> wrote:

:
> wrote
:>
:> We got back to our place. The workshop is gone, along with the
:> project. The house survived, with some minor exterior damage. We
:> were very, very lucky, the houses on either side of us are gone. The
:> iceplant (that my wife hated) around the house helped. So did double
:> glazed windows, cement shingles, stucco walls and well watered lawns.
:> I'm sketching out a system with a gas driven pump, running sprinklers
:> on the roof, in the trees and along gutters. I don't have a pool to
:> suck from but the neighbors do, I might try to talk him into splitting
:> the system with me, while he's rebuilding.
:>
:> I don't know what I'm going to do about the airplane. I'm not going
:> to start again from scratch. So if I can find a project, or a flying
:> homebuilt that could use some upgrades, I think I'll buy. 4 place is
:> my only hard requirement.
:
:
:So sorry about the shop and project, but glad you didn't lose the house.
:Life goes on. Some times it sucks a little bit. :-(

When I look at our neighbors, believe me, life doesn't suck even a
tiny bit. I feel totally blessed.

[Bob U.]

wrote:

>When I look at our neighbors, believe me, life doesn't suck even a
>tiny bit. I feel totally blessed.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

What's the scoop concerning the errant answering machine?



Barnyard BOb --

[Snowbird]

Dave Hyde > wrote in message >...

> You mean I had a *choice*?!
>
> Q: What does an engineer use for birth control?
> A: His personality.

All birth control methods have failure rates

*ducking*
Sydney ("everyone at MIT has a trench coat lined with batteries")

PS nice failure(s)

P2S so when does the taxi testing start

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On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 01:46:22 -0600, Bob U. > wrote:

:
wrote:
:
:>When I look at our neighbors, believe me, life doesn't suck even a
:>tiny bit. I feel totally blessed.
:+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
:
:What's the scoop concerning the errant answering machine?

Telephone poles burned. I was thinking that I could have left a cell
phone in the kitchen, turned on, with an extended battery pack, but it
turns out a bunch of the local cell towers burned, too, so it would
have given me the same false indication.

I can't believe that some people still have shake roofs. You might as
well live under a pile of matches.

[Me again]

>:What's the scoop concerning the errant answering machine?
>
>Telephone poles burned. I was thinking that I could have left a cell
>phone in the kitchen, turned on, with an extended battery pack, but it
>turns out a bunch of the local cell towers burned, too, so it would
>have given me the same false indication.
>
>I can't believe that some people still have shake roofs. You might as
>well live under a pile of matches.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I FINALLY got rid of the shakes... <g>
cedar shakes that is.

In the wealthy areas surrounding Kansas City, most of
the upscale homes are being constructed with 'em.
In some subdivisions, they are/were required by
home owner associations.


Barnyard BOb - survivor of a wood roof fire.

[Russell Kent]

BOb wrote:

> I FINALLY got rid of the shakes... <g>
> cedar shakes that is.
>
> In the wealthy areas surrounding Kansas City, most of
> the upscale homes are being constructed with 'em.
> In some subdivisions, they are/were required by
> home owner associations.

Another triumph of aesthetics over engineering.

The number of new roofs constructed of cedar shakes has declined
substantially here in North Texas. Dunno if it's the rather spectacular
house fires or regular occurrence of hailstorms that is the motivating
factor. A few years ago there was a live broadcast of a chain-reaction
housefire that destroyed three $500K+ houses (IIRC).

My and my neighbor's houses were built by the same builder at the same time
in 1983. I replaced the original shake roof with composite in 1999. This
last April, a hailstorm swept through our neighborhood annihilating every
skylight in the neighborhood (peach-sized hailstones). My roof (and I
think every other roof in the neighborhood) was damaged enough to require
replacement, although it is still holding and leak-free (plan to replace
soon). My neighbor's original 20 year old shake roof merely slightly
delayed the hailstones before they proceeded to penetrate the ceiling
sheetrock. He has a new composite roof now. :-)

Russell "INCOMING!" Kent

[Del Rawlins]

On 05 Nov 2003 07:56 AM, posted the following:

> I can't believe that some people still have shake roofs. You might as
> well live under a pile of matches.

Because they are cool. I still have my dad's old froe and mallet out in
the garage and want to make a shake roof someday, but it probably will
end up being for a shed.

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