Engineering Practical Jokes

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Rapid prototyping with TI Stellaris: Easy and...fun?

Murat Ozkan

6/22/2011 2:10 PM EDT

Think you've seen some awesome bachelor-party pranks? They're nothing compared to this...

  post comment   11 comments    last comment  Bob Lacovara
What an outrage! This is an intolerable prank for several reasons. (1) Where's the coffee? How do ...

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10 great April Fool's jokes for engineers

Brian Fuller

4/1/2011 5:01 AM EDT

Searching for a great engineering prank today? Search no more!

  post comment   1 comment    last comment  Douglas.Stunkard
Remember the good old days of DOS, when you could open command.com with a simple text editor and ...

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And the best practical joke was...

Brian Fuller

4/1/2011 12:01 AM EDT

What's the funniest engineering practical joke? One that involves a sales guy.

  post comment   2 comments    last comment  David Ashton
OOPS. Just. I'm a pretty good speller but I'm a dlysixec typsit, ko?

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A joking matter

Brian Fuller

3/17/2011 6:16 AM EDT

Time to vote for best engineering practical joke of the first quarter

  post comment   6 comments    last comment  zeeglen
Being engineers we should be able to design new improved whoopee cushions by April 1. Here is a ...

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Snap, crackle, prank

Derek Mitchell

2/16/2011 8:00 AM EST

A snap of the fingers and, voila, phantom display artifacts

  post comment   2 comments    last comment  robbie
My first job out of school was for a hardware virtual reality company (mid 90's). We had a simulated ...

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Not just blowing smoke

Ken Neltnor

2/15/2011 7:50 PM EST

Remember when you could smoke in the workplace? Some new hires sure do.

  post comment   6 comments    last comment  RES
Back in the mid 1960's I was working as a design engineer in an integrated circuits goup at one of ...

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What a relief

Chris de Courcy-Bower

2/10/2011 2:51 AM EST

When you gotta go, you gotta go, but there are ways to modify one's behavior

  post comment   4 comments    last comment  Jeff.Petro
And every electrical utility company has a story about some guy who relieved himself on a high ...

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Stupid printer tricks

Thomas Hildebrandt

2/9/2011 7:40 PM EST

It's all fun and games until you nearly set the office on fire

  post comment   6 comments    last comment  BDSmith
In the late 70s, I had a job servicing line printers for a number of clients where we installed ...

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What happens when the power goes out

Harold Rabbie

2/9/2011 2:35 PM EST

The demo wasn't actually working but that wasn't going to matter...until the power went out

  post comment   12 comments    last comment  Duane Benson
Years ago I was responsible for all of the demo equipment in a tradeshow booth. Over night, we kept ...

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Engineering practical jokes--video edition

Brian Fuller

2/3/2011 1:20 PM EST

Engineering practical jokes from DesignCon 2011 in Santa Clara, Calif.

  post comment   20 comments    last comment  Ham Salad
Our manager commandeered the company van, our vehicle for picking up supplies and parts, for his own ...

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