For you EEs out there (and for those that just like a funny
story) the article at the following url is a hoot. I was
ROFLMAO. A small snip from the beginning of the tale:
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<http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1348321>
No user serviceable parts inside
The good thing about being old is you've lived to tell about
it. It's an unavoidable fact of living that after a couple of
decades of breathing one will have had several occasions to
slip the mortal coil through one's own stupidity, and it's the
folks who manage to tally up sheets of documented bogosity as
long as a cow's leg that owe the most debt of gratitude to the
forces of the universe.
When I was in engineering school in the early 1980's they were
still interested in teaching some of us about big thick wires
hung from aluminum towers you needed helicopters to visit.
While my degree was to be in semiconductor physics, a
discipline involving things so small everyone is sure magic is
involved, I decided I wanted to learn how the other half lived.
I wanted to see the great big turbines. The big ball bearings.
The megavolts. The multi-Tesla magnets. The big boy toys.
So I took an elective in power generation and distribution
systems.
The nice thing about power distribution and generation was the
math was absolutely trivial compared to the partial
differential world of quantum physics. All the answers involve
the square root of two. Most power systems math can be summed
this way: take a really big number and multiply by the square
root of two. You can use three sometimes, but only when things
are totally out of control.
Now that you know the math, you're ready to be an engineer.
[snip]
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Be sure to read the ending where he decides to fix a TV. :D
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