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February 17, 2009,

Those magnetic numbers would be okay party favors, but it'd be a better gift giving holiday.

--Jerry

 
That clock is an interesting idea, Jerry, but we can only imagine our horror as we woke up every morning and tried to figure out what time it was in hexadecimal or binary. We'd either never get up or never get back to sleep, and neither option is that appealing.

However, it's funny that you sent us a link to that particular page. Down near the bottom there's a link to another kind of strange clock, and just last week we ran into someone who had that one. We couldn't figure it out until they told us how. That doesn't bode well for us.

 
February 19, 2009,

The answers to the Engineers Week/Stimulus Package Story Problems:

1. 5 years
2. 675,000 feet
3. The unknown distance is 5m and the amount of money needed is $833,333.

Thanks for the mid-week brain stimulus! Keep up the great work.

--Jon S.

 
Correct-a-mundo, Jon! We'll give you credit even though you didn't show your work.

Incidentally, if you want to get reallllly technical about it, that $833,333 figure is slightly off. The real answer would need to be 833,333.3 with the three repeating. But tearing a dollar bill into thirds wasn't what the problem required. More than anything, this is an example of what we hated most in any math class we ever took: a poorly designed problem. We should have set up the problem so the answer would be an even number. Oh well. You made it past our mistakes! Good job!

 
February 20, 2009,

Regarding drive-throughs- my recently deceased mother spent the last few years of her life battling cancer, which took her from senior swimming instructor and enthusiastic golfer to a weak shell of herself. She still enjoyed being able to go out and be around people when she was up to it though, and being able to park close to a door was important the process. Handicapped spaces are a good thing. I certainly have never minded walking the extra 100 feet it might mean, especially when I consider that spot would likely be taken by the person that parked 90 feet from the door anyway. As an engineer, you should consider it a cheap and useful solution to a real problem.

Long time reader, I like your work, not your politics, but think there's hope for any thinking person such as yourself.

--Nick

 
We never said we were engineers, Nick. We just make jokes about them, and they're not always positive jokes. We do, however, think that they're at least somewhat accurate in representing how some engineers think. As we referenced in the ALT tag of last Friday's strip, sometimes engineer jokes don't result in the most compassionate of stereotypes. But that's okay. They're just jokes.

On the other topic, we're changing our politics! Yes, we're now full-fledged Obama supporters. We changed our minds after learning that the stimulus package contains $4.6 billion to be distributed to the authors of web comics. Yes, really. It's right there on page 768. Didn't you read it? Ha! Of course not! Nobody did! Psych!