| ScratchMonkey 2005-07-22, 8:33 pm |
| "Miracle Smith" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in news:42e0a6ca$1_4
@galaxy.uncensored-news.com:
quote:
> Okay, I just gotta ask- are you a rocket scientist, cleverly
> disguised as a plain ole working stiff?!?!?!? How in hell did
> you learn all of this?!?!? But more still, how do you keep up
> with all the changes?!?!?
I think it was in "Moving Violations" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0089629/),
one of those bad comedies, that some guy asks another of Jennifer Tilly,
playing her typical ditzy character, "what, you think she's a rocket
scientist?". A moment later, she walks from the remedial driving classroom
and tells him, "I work for NASA. I'm a rocket scientist." I'm sorta like
that. ;)
Partly it's because MA has a great hardware guy who tracks this stuff, as
he builds computers for his business and for his extended family.
Partly it's because I work in the industry, building automation equipment
that builds the chips, so I get it from coworkers and customers.
And partly it's because I design electronics (reading chip data sheets and
using CAD to lay out schematics and boards, but leaving the fabrication to
others) to do the automation. So I have to be familiar with the
technologies, even if I can't do them myself, so that I can spec what to
buy.
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