Tuesday, September 13, 2005
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I have a hypothesis. Actually, I have two hypotheses. They are perhaps contradictory in nature and your assistance in determining which is more correct would be greatly appreciated.
First: Engineering produces the kindest individuals. I know you are reading this and thinking immediately that Gaintner is the counterexample to prove this wrong. I mean in general. There are obviously extreme assholes who are engineers and there are extremely nice individuals who are not engineers. However, I would propose that if the following experiment were conducted, the results would favor my hypothesis.
Experiment: Knowing the professions of your friends and neighbors, ask each of them to help you perform a task somehow related to their profession. Ask your accounting friends to do your taxes. Ask your business friends to choose the right stocks for you to buy. Ask your engineering friends to design your new back patio or fix your broken __(insert broken object, not heart, here)__. Ask your medical friends to replace your knee. Record all responses.
Known counter examples: My father is an accountant/business person guy, and he does teach me about stocks and does help me do or does do my taxes. My cousin, Dan, is also an accountant. He would probably help me do my taxes as well, if I asked him real nice.
Possible reason(s) I formed this hypothesis: I don't have (m)any friends who are anything but engineers/scientists.
Second: Engineering is more difficult than any other profession and so engineering related tasks are the most often executed tasks which require assistance.
Experiment: Keep records of how many tasks you require assistance and what variety these tasks are. Record your education in various tasks. Also, keep a record of your itchy-assholes.
Known counter examples: I often require help for my taxes, for medical services, and some plumbing issues too girthy for the plunger. Theoretically, if the others were easy, no one would go to school to specialize in them.
Possible reason(s) I formed this hypothesis: My friends and I get asked often to help people with engineering related tasks. I seldom am asked to help someone with their taxes.
I want to podcast very badly. I will not be doing any podcasts this weekend for the reasons mentioned before... I will be in the Harz mountain area on Thursday and Friday. Saturday and Sunday I will be in Frankfurt for the IAA. I purchased 4 rolls of color film for that badass show. I am very excited.
Moreso, I am excited because my Alex purchased her tickets to come visit me in November yesterday. That is very exciting.
Also exciting, I found out that at the RA meetings, they still carry on a practice I started. Rating the meetings and the attendants. That makes me happy. I hear a certain individual still gets points taken off for babbling. Some things never change. However, I miss very much going to Breakfast Club. Damn I wish I could make it to one this year. Maybe I will be in TH or something for one after the Trainee Pool ends. We shall see.
Speaking of the trainee pool... All of us in the trainee pool have our desks in a place called the Lichthof, which means "light hall" or something. It is a biiiiig room in the middle of the building. The room starts at the ground floor and there is a skylight in the ceiling, 3 stories up. The room is probably close to 50 meters long and 20 meters wide. There are four floors of windows from the offices around the lichthof looking in on us. There are many names for the place. The fishbowl, or the aquarium, is a favorite. I think of it more as the colliseum. Every day I picture all those other employees coming to the windows and giving us a thumbs up or thumbs down, then a lion being released from one end of the room to devour us unless we can impale it on the umbrellas that we have to set up in order to be able to see our computer screens and keep from dying in the sunlight. The reason I wanted to describe this room to you is because of the weekend happenings. I work in the R&D department at a tire producing facility. A component of tires is Carbon Black. This is exactly how it sounds. Carbon and Black. Every weekend they fill the tanks at our plant. When they do, a crapload of this stuff comes into the lichthof through the louvres in the ceiling. As a result, our desks and our chairs and EVERYTHING is covered in this carbon black dust. I spent 20 minutes cleaning everything monday morning. I would continue to do this weekly, except that one of the other guys whose desk is pushed up against mine and I decided that we would buy a tarp and cover our desks every friday so we would not have to clean every week. I hope it works because that was shitty work. Its not like its just dust and you can wipe it up. It manages to work its way into the tops of the desks and so you have to use alcohol and scrub and wash it three or four times and I am whining but it pisses me off!
My baby cactus is really starting to bloom!

That makes me happy. Also, I found out there is a lacrosse team here in hannover so next week I will be going to their practice.
Embarassingly, I recieved two emails from different people which began, "Sehr geherte Frau Kyle Schroeder" (except they replaced the oe with an o with the two dots on top of it. Like that face that makes the big yawny mouth.) This is embarassing because not only have I made up the word embarassingly, I have miss spelled its roottwo three times. Also because that phrase means "Dear Mrs. Kyle Schroeder". The girl who helped me proofread my german email back to them laughed when she saw that I had to say "by the way, I'm a guy, not a girl", so its ok if you laugh too.
Who wears short shorts? Germans wear short shorts! Nair! (Notice: Not all germans wear shorts way too short for them...just...more than I like to see.)
You're an ass for laughing, you know.
I watched Super Troopers in German the other day while satiating my thirst with a liter cola. That made me happy.
I think that dude on that one Simpson's episode was inspired by watching two 6'-4" German dudes ride around in a smart car. I think that guy just licked his knee.
It was pointed out to me by W that many of you may not know the size of the two Euro coin I used as a size reference for my cactus. A two Euro coin is about the size of a half dollar, approximately.
Unfortunately, Germany seems to import all of its prime time TV from the US. First Watch, 3/4 of the CSIs (~10), some of those courtroom shows, Friends, etc. This sucks. The german shows I have watched are much better than most of these shows. Exceptions include Scrubs and Stargate. However, I never seem to be watching when these shows come on.
The german version of Cops is extremely exciting! They caught three people hanging out in the fussgangerzone (refer to earlier entries) who had been shoplifting! SHOPLIFTING! They didn't even try to run away. Actually, that one dude did have a big bag full of PlayStation games. Then they chased some people away where they were playing near this little waterfall/damn. I don't even think these cops carry guns. Another event to reinforce my feelings that America, as a society, is extremely immature. Don't take it personally, I'm American too. We're just violent, stupid, and wasteful, sometimes without even realizing it, that's all. This is the third case of loud music that they've had to handle. My guess...there is more to come. More germans partying waaaaay too late for their neighbors.
First: Engineering produces the kindest individuals. I know you are reading this and thinking immediately that Gaintner is the counterexample to prove this wrong. I mean in general. There are obviously extreme assholes who are engineers and there are extremely nice individuals who are not engineers. However, I would propose that if the following experiment were conducted, the results would favor my hypothesis.
Experiment: Knowing the professions of your friends and neighbors, ask each of them to help you perform a task somehow related to their profession. Ask your accounting friends to do your taxes. Ask your business friends to choose the right stocks for you to buy. Ask your engineering friends to design your new back patio or fix your broken __(insert broken object, not heart, here)__. Ask your medical friends to replace your knee. Record all responses.
Known counter examples: My father is an accountant/business person guy, and he does teach me about stocks and does help me do or does do my taxes. My cousin, Dan, is also an accountant. He would probably help me do my taxes as well, if I asked him real nice.
Possible reason(s) I formed this hypothesis: I don't have (m)any friends who are anything but engineers/scientists.
Second: Engineering is more difficult than any other profession and so engineering related tasks are the most often executed tasks which require assistance.
Experiment: Keep records of how many tasks you require assistance and what variety these tasks are. Record your education in various tasks. Also, keep a record of your itchy-assholes.
Known counter examples: I often require help for my taxes, for medical services, and some plumbing issues too girthy for the plunger. Theoretically, if the others were easy, no one would go to school to specialize in them.
Possible reason(s) I formed this hypothesis: My friends and I get asked often to help people with engineering related tasks. I seldom am asked to help someone with their taxes.
I want to podcast very badly. I will not be doing any podcasts this weekend for the reasons mentioned before... I will be in the Harz mountain area on Thursday and Friday. Saturday and Sunday I will be in Frankfurt for the IAA. I purchased 4 rolls of color film for that badass show. I am very excited.
Moreso, I am excited because my Alex purchased her tickets to come visit me in November yesterday. That is very exciting.
Also exciting, I found out that at the RA meetings, they still carry on a practice I started. Rating the meetings and the attendants. That makes me happy. I hear a certain individual still gets points taken off for babbling. Some things never change. However, I miss very much going to Breakfast Club. Damn I wish I could make it to one this year. Maybe I will be in TH or something for one after the Trainee Pool ends. We shall see.
Speaking of the trainee pool... All of us in the trainee pool have our desks in a place called the Lichthof, which means "light hall" or something. It is a biiiiig room in the middle of the building. The room starts at the ground floor and there is a skylight in the ceiling, 3 stories up. The room is probably close to 50 meters long and 20 meters wide. There are four floors of windows from the offices around the lichthof looking in on us. There are many names for the place. The fishbowl, or the aquarium, is a favorite. I think of it more as the colliseum. Every day I picture all those other employees coming to the windows and giving us a thumbs up or thumbs down, then a lion being released from one end of the room to devour us unless we can impale it on the umbrellas that we have to set up in order to be able to see our computer screens and keep from dying in the sunlight. The reason I wanted to describe this room to you is because of the weekend happenings. I work in the R&D department at a tire producing facility. A component of tires is Carbon Black. This is exactly how it sounds. Carbon and Black. Every weekend they fill the tanks at our plant. When they do, a crapload of this stuff comes into the lichthof through the louvres in the ceiling. As a result, our desks and our chairs and EVERYTHING is covered in this carbon black dust. I spent 20 minutes cleaning everything monday morning. I would continue to do this weekly, except that one of the other guys whose desk is pushed up against mine and I decided that we would buy a tarp and cover our desks every friday so we would not have to clean every week. I hope it works because that was shitty work. Its not like its just dust and you can wipe it up. It manages to work its way into the tops of the desks and so you have to use alcohol and scrub and wash it three or four times and I am whining but it pisses me off!
My baby cactus is really starting to bloom!

That makes me happy. Also, I found out there is a lacrosse team here in hannover so next week I will be going to their practice.
Embarassingly, I recieved two emails from different people which began, "Sehr geherte Frau Kyle Schroeder" (except they replaced the oe with an o with the two dots on top of it. Like that face that makes the big yawny mouth.) This is embarassing because not only have I made up the word embarassingly, I have miss spelled its root
Who wears short shorts? Germans wear short shorts! Nair! (Notice: Not all germans wear shorts way too short for them...just...more than I like to see.)
You're an ass for laughing, you know.
I watched Super Troopers in German the other day while satiating my thirst with a liter cola. That made me happy.
I think that dude on that one Simpson's episode was inspired by watching two 6'-4" German dudes ride around in a smart car. I think that guy just licked his knee.
It was pointed out to me by W that many of you may not know the size of the two Euro coin I used as a size reference for my cactus. A two Euro coin is about the size of a half dollar, approximately.
Unfortunately, Germany seems to import all of its prime time TV from the US. First Watch, 3/4 of the CSIs (~10), some of those courtroom shows, Friends, etc. This sucks. The german shows I have watched are much better than most of these shows. Exceptions include Scrubs and Stargate. However, I never seem to be watching when these shows come on.
The german version of Cops is extremely exciting! They caught three people hanging out in the fussgangerzone (refer to earlier entries) who had been shoplifting! SHOPLIFTING! They didn't even try to run away. Actually, that one dude did have a big bag full of PlayStation games. Then they chased some people away where they were playing near this little waterfall/damn. I don't even think these cops carry guns. Another event to reinforce my feelings that America, as a society, is extremely immature. Don't take it personally, I'm American too. We're just violent, stupid, and wasteful, sometimes without even realizing it, that's all. This is the third case of loud music that they've had to handle. My guess...there is more to come. More germans partying waaaaay too late for their neighbors.