[SI-LIST] Re: What do you do?
- From: "Lynne D. Green" <lgreen22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <twesterh@xxxxxxxxx>, "'Signal Integrity Mailing List'" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:20:50 -0700
Hi, Todd,
You gave me my best laugh of the day!
I had a similar experience. A few years ago, a student (an EE senior, no
less) brought over a "broken" TV. It took about two minutes to figure out
that the real problem was dead batteries in the remote.
- Lynne
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From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Todd Westerhoff (twesterh)
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 8:27 AM
To: a.ingraham@xxxxxxxx; Signal Integrity Mailing List
Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: What do you do?
Okay ... now I can't help myself.
Back when I graduated college, when people found out I was an EE, they would
describe problems with their electronic appliances and ask for solutions.
My favorite was the incident when someone spent 10 minutes describing their
color TV, bow it did one thing at turn on, something else as it warmed up,
and something different after it reached operating temperature. I got the
full description, with details on audio quality and color shifts.
After providing this very detailed explanation, the person asked "do you
know what the problem might be?"
"Yes", I said, "it's broken. Why don't you take it to a shop and get it
fixed?"
Todd ;-)
Todd Westerhoff
High Speed Design Group Manager
Cisco Systems
1414 Massachusetts Ave
Boxboro, MA 01719
email:twesterh@xxxxxxxxx
ph: 978-936-2149
____________________________________________
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-----Original Message-----
From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Andrew Ingraham
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:30 AM
To: Signal Integrity Mailing List
Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: What do you do?
> Sorry to weigh-in so late, but I thought I would contribute on what to
> tell the under 8 year-old crowd if you ever have to do "Career Day" at
> school or if you happen to be talking to anyone from Oklahoma.
>
> I am a computer doctor...I make sick computers work.
Dangerous statement, in my opinion.
You'll get a dozen parents showing up at your door the next day with their
computer problems. Probably none of them hardware related. I hope your OS
and system related skills are good.
Probably a lot safer to just say you help design computers so that they work
right. If computers are your end-product. (Seems to be a common theme
here. Is everyone in the SI community doing computer design??)
Andy
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