Recent content by krenim

You missed the first name from the article...Caster! Cast her Semen? Ya!

Memphis. Rotating equipment, gears, bearings, welding, etc. knowledge required.

$75k base, plus bonus and profit sharing.

Got a call from a headhunter earlier today. Said he was looking for a mechanic for Nucor. I asked him if he was looking for a mechanic, or a mechanical engineer, and he said they like to hire M.E.'s as mechanics. Actual wrench pulling mechanics. I hadn't heard this about Nucor before, can...

Did you hear about the couple in the plane crash in Alaska last fall? Left their 6 month old kid with the grandparents, and went moose hunting. Plane crashes and they were stranded in the wilderness for 6 weeks. The guy survived by drinking breast milk the whole time. What did the woman...

But only if you pronounce it "Jiggawatts".

Yes, 12th MERM has both unit systems. Expect questions on the exam that require conversion (i.e. data in one system-- answer in the other, mixed data, etc).

Another vote for expecting lots of econ problems!

Which, if allowed to happen at the end of the .com mess, would have softened the "catastrophe" we have now. Greenspan's incessant tinkering with interest rates fueled the housing bubble before and especially after 9/11.

I was also mystified by the inane questions some of the reporters asked. The "reporter" from NPR that sycophantically said "If you can't get bi-partisan support on spending money and cutting taxes on this stimulus bill, and everyone agrees that's good, how will you get bi-partisan support on...

I've never been a rpn guy, but the 35s looked like a much better calculator for the exam than the TI's (I already had 2 TI-36's). I picked one up, ran it in algebraic ("regular") mode, LOVED IT!

More importantly, who votes for a guy named "Nutter?"

We interviewed an engineer at my work that had been doing building inspections. I asked him a few questions about it. The short story was that people didn't want to pay for a PE to do it.

NC, mechanical machine design...PASS!

Got my NC results in the mail today...now I've officially PASSED!!! :party-smiley-048: :woot: :multiplespotting: :PASSED2: