{"id":381,"date":"2006-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paragonis.com\/Emails\/?p=381"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"You Might Be An Engineer If...","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"You Might Be An Engineer If&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only jokes you receive are through e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>At Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string of Christmas lights.<\/p>\n<p>Buying flowers for your girlfriend or spending the money to upgrade your RAM is a moral dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone else on the Alaskan Cruise is on deck peering at the scenery, and you are still on a personal tour of the engine room.<\/p>\n<p>In college, you thought Spring Break was a metal fatigue failure.<\/p>\n<p>The Salespeople at Circuit City can&#8217;t answer any of your questions.<\/p>\n<p>You are always late to meetings.<\/p>\n<p>You are at an air show and know how fast the skydivers are falling.<\/p>\n<p>You bought your wife a new CD ROM for her birthday.<\/p>\n<p>You forget to get a haircut (for 6 months!).<\/p>\n<p>You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.<\/p>\n<p>You can type 70 words per minute but can&#8217;t read your own handwriting.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t write unless the paper has both horizontal and vertical lines.<\/p>\n<p>You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.<\/p>\n<p>You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards in the chairs to see how they do the special effects.<\/p>\n<p>You have Dilbert comics displayed anywhere in your work area.<\/p>\n<p>You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance.<\/p>\n<p>You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.<\/p>\n<p>You have never backed up your hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>You have never bought any new underwear or socks for yourself since you got married.<\/p>\n<p>You have used coat hangars and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts.<\/p>\n<p>You know what http:\/\/ stands for<\/p>\n<p>You look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids&#8217; toys.<\/p>\n<p>You own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts.<\/p>\n<p>You see a good design and still have to change it.<\/p>\n<p>You spent more on your calculator than you did on your wedding ring.<\/p>\n<p>You still own a slide rule and you know how to use it.<\/p>\n<p>You think a pocket protector is a fashion accessory.<\/p>\n<p>You think that when people around you yawn, it&#8217;s because they didn&#8217;t get enough sleep.<\/p>\n<p>You wear black socks with tennis shoes (or vice versa).<\/p>\n<p>You window shop at Radio Shack.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re in the back-seat of your car, she&#8217;s looking wistfully at the moon, and your trying to locate a geosynchronous satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Your checkbook always balances.<\/p>\n<p>Your laptop computer costs more than your car.<\/p>\n<p>Your wife hasn&#8217;t the foggiest idea of what you do at work.<\/p>\n<p>Your wrist watch has more computing power than a 300 MHz Pentium.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve already calculated how much you make per second.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve ever tried to repair a $5 radio.<\/p>\n<p>Your four basic food groups are:<br \/>\n     1.Caffeine,<br \/>\n     2.Fat,<br \/>\n     3.Sugar,<br \/>\n     4.Chocolate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only jokes you receive are through e-mail. 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