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  1. Slugger926

    NASA Planetary Protection Officer

    NASA has a new position open to protect the planet from aliens.  The sallary is $187,000 which seems low given the responsibility.
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    Is Star Wars Real?

    Look at what I found in the American Research Journal of Biosciences: https://arjonline.org/uploads/articleInPress/2/70118ARJB2017005.pdf
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    Fast Job Hunt

    Well, I was let go today.  Sales have been anemic for the year after a record last year. Hopefully I can find something fast in the Tulsa area.
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    Coach Passed Away on Saturday

    My college baseball coach passed away on Saturday which made for a rough weekend after finding out.  Before that, I put a WC title on our Golden Retriever, then we hit Silver Dollar City on Sunday. The coach was old school with pushing us on and off the field.  Every morning started at 6am with...
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    Bridge Engineers or Highway Engineers?

    My company is working on penetrating the bridge repair and remediation market by doing carbon fiber reinforcement of bridges and concrete bridges to extend their life.  Our wraps have a 110 KSI yield, and the market seems really large for the applications.  Does anyone know who we can talk to...
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    Possibly Joining a Start Up

    There is a remote chance that I may get to join https://www.alphabetenergy.com/  .  They put diodes on anything that gives off a lot of waste heat, and it generates electricity.  Hiring me here in Tulsa could reduce the executives travel to Tulsa and Houston.  They still need to install their...
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    Slugger926 - RIF after 3 years - Oil/gas bust

    Well, I was RIF'd this morning by upper management who probably didn't realize besides doing management duties, I was working the most complex projects.  The executive that had me cut was also RIF'd.  My boss was very upset and had tears when he was letting me go.  We had slackers with bad...
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    Rough Weekend - OK State

    http://heavy.com/news/2015/10/bonnie-jean-marvin-stone-married-couple-oklahoma-state-stillwater-homecoming-crash-victims-dead-killed-professor-photos-family/ Thanks to being busy with kids activities of baseball and my daughter practicing for the Nutcracker, we skipped homecoming at OSU. I...
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    Dynamic Flow Problem

    Given: CO2 @ 4 Bar pressure Dynamic pressure at 0.2 mbar I have the density of CO2 at 20C with 4 Bar of pressure at 9.05 Kg/m^3. What is the velocity of the CO2?
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    Unusual Massive Storm Today to Affect 1 in 5 Americans

    http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/06/12/unusually-massive-line-storms-may-affect-one-in-five-americans/ Stay Safe.
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    Waco this morning

    This guy was way too close:
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    4130 Steel

    Can anyone help with the yield and ultimate strengths of 4130 steel heat treated to Rockwell C (HRC) in the range of 30 to 35? I am looking to see if it is needed for a new design with a where time is the ultimate constraint on the project. I found some approximations of ultimate strengths...
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    It is almost deer season - Game Cam Prank Time

    Has anyone ever taken pictures from a friends game cam, and Photoshopped mystical beings or big foot into the pictures? If it wasn't so far away, I would be tempted to do this to some of my cousins game cams...
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    Millennium Falcon found?

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    Kids TV - Dora the Explorer

    After building a bridge, Dora says "Maybe we will be architects when we grow up." The people who make educational TV shows for kids need to be educated. :)
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    New trend in recruiting engineers?

    A Los Angeles company gave this guy $11,000 cash wrapped in bacon, an oil painting of him self, beard grooming oil, a speargun, year's supply of Dos Equis, Cuban cigars, Sex Panther Cologne, a fancy tuxedo, etc...
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    Bedlam Game

    Hopefully this poll works.
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    It happened again at my school, Coaches lost in Plane crash

    http://www.okstate.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/111811aaa.html I remember a few years ago when I got an engineering tour of the new athletic facilities for the Oklahoma Chapter of American Society of Biological and Agricultural Engineers, we got to watch Coach Budke run his basketball practice...
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    Priority Changed by Boss, then thrown under buss

    I am so glad I am getting my resume cleaned up, and meeting with the the MBA Executive Career consultant next week. My boss prioritized my work on Tuesday to put in a bunch of orders for 13 projects that aren't due for weeks out over completing out three project for traffic that I got...
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    My Company's Unions in the NE Suck

    I feel like I am part of a special ops union busting survival team. Luckily, my team has been able to foil or go around most of the sabatage aimed at us people forced to come in from outside the New York area.
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