<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257276341597520023</id><updated>2011-10-16T14:39:29.827-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Engineering Hell</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mechtronics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/257276341597520023/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mechtronics.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>mvdhoef</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02710424988294003263</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257276341597520023.post-3402152893671059276</id><published>2007-11-28T20:20:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T20:22:41.290-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Death of an Engineer</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:13px;"&gt;A doctor, a lawyer, and an engineer are all scheduled for execution on a guillotine. As they step up to the scaffold, each is given a choice of lying face up or face down. The doctor goes first, and believing that one should confront one's fate directly, he opts to lie face up. The blade drops but then screeches to a stop just a foot above the doctor's throat. Amid the gasps of the crowd, the doctor is released.&lt;br /&gt;The lawyer goes next. She is sure that legal precedent would lead to her own release were the blade to stop for her just as it had for the doctor, so she also lies face up. Again the blade stops short, and the lawyer is released. &lt;br /&gt;Now its the engineer's turn. He figures that his best bet is to go with whatever worked before. So he lies face up and sees the blade overhead. But then, just before the blade is drops, he turns to the executioner and says, "Wait! I think I see what your problem is up there."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/257276341597520023-3402152893671059276?l=mechtronics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mechtronics.blogspot.com/feeds/3402152893671059276/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=257276341597520023&amp;postID=3402152893671059276' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/257276341597520023/posts/default/3402152893671059276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/257276341597520023/posts/default/3402152893671059276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mechtronics.blogspot.com/2007/11/death-of-engineer.html' title='Death of an Engineer'/><author><name>mvdhoef</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02710424988294003263</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257276341597520023.post-12571789121090481</id><published>2007-11-28T20:19:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T12:17:16.548-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Engineering Code</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;We are the willing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;led by the unknowing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;doing the impossible for the ungrateful&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;and we have been doing so much,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;with so little,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;for so long,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;that we are now qualified,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;to do anything with nothing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/257276341597520023-12571789121090481?l=mechtronics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mechtronics.blogspot.com/feeds/12571789121090481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=257276341597520023&amp;postID=12571789121090481' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/257276341597520023/posts/default/12571789121090481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/257276341597520023/posts/default/12571789121090481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mechtronics.blogspot.com/2007/11/engineering-code.html' title='Engineering Code'/><author><name>mvdhoef</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02710424988294003263</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bhim_fvdU44/R05BQz7vk_I/AAAAAAAAAN8/rbDRAVpV6pM/s72-c/Adium+Icon.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257276341597520023.post-8361726601022590743</id><published>2007-11-28T20:06:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T20:07:59.659-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lady Godiva</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:13px;"&gt;Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride,&lt;br /&gt;To show to all the villagesrs her lovely lily-white hide;&lt;br /&gt;The most observant man of all, an Engineer of course, Was the only on who noticed that Godiva rode a horse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;Chorus:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Engineers&lt;br /&gt;We can, we can, we can, we can, demolish forty beers.&lt;br /&gt;So come, so come, so come so come, so come along with us&lt;br /&gt;For we don't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I've come a long, long way" she said "and i would go as far,&lt;br /&gt;with the man who takes me from this horse and leads me to a bar."&lt;br /&gt;The men who took her from her stteed and stood her to a beer,&lt;br /&gt;Were a blurry-eyed surveyor and a drunken Engineer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;Chorus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The army and the navy boys set out to have some fun,&lt;br /&gt;Down at the tavern where the fiery liquids run,&lt;br /&gt;But all they found were empties for the Engineers had come,&lt;br /&gt;And traded all their instruments for gallon jugs of rum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;Chorus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div edited="true"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/257276341597520023-8361726601022590743?l=mechtronics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mechtronics.blogspot.com/feeds/8361726601022590743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=257276341597520023&amp;postID=8361726601022590743' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/257276341597520023/posts/default/8361726601022590743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/257276341597520023/posts/default/8361726601022590743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mechtronics.blogspot.com/2007/11/godiva.html' title='Lady Godiva'/><author><name>mvdhoef</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02710424988294003263</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257276341597520023.post-5116244055794106417</id><published>2007-11-28T19:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T19:53:30.439-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome</title><content type='html'>My name is Mattias&lt;div&gt;Currently, I am a Mechatronics Engineering Student at McMaster University.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- We'll see how long that lasts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/257276341597520023-5116244055794106417?l=mechtronics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mechtronics.blogspot.com/feeds/5116244055794106417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=257276341597520023&amp;postID=5116244055794106417' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/257276341597520023/posts/default/5116244055794106417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/257276341597520023/posts/default/5116244055794106417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mechtronics.blogspot.com/2007/11/welcome.html' title='Welcome'/><author><name>mvdhoef</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02710424988294003263</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
