Absolut Patriotism
Rufus Smith, Gunther International

Today’s pyramid dream
Manuel E. Balzac, Bio Energy

Let the music begin; turn on the brightest electronic engineering devices in the world, which show the red and white stripes, the blue sky and white stars; with our proud American flag–atop the tallest building in the world–our world–on this Immortal Works Holiday! We shall never forget it!
Joseph Peter Miller, The Miller Company

Bin Laden has a nightmare.
Taliban sees stars.
The Army Reserve engineer has trouble keeping his mind on his work.
An Attention flag was triggered.
The drummer they danced to.
Joseph M. Kusmiss, Mitre Corp.

The engineering community will respond to the call to arms!
Let engineers everywhere unite to build a better future.
That Christmas tree must have been built by a civil engineer.
A digital call to colors.
I wish I were back in Kansas, Dorothy.
It was a good idea to camouflage that skyscraper as a Christmas tree.
Now that’s one heck of a laser display!
Of course, it would only be an electrical engineer that could create this display.
Team EETnet: Don Swaab (Inrange Technologies); Jim Randazzo

Charming the hat ferrit!
Blow that trumpet! Don’t suck!
Remembrance of the scene that launched a thousand retaliatory air strikes.
Norm Dancer, Luminous Networks

The DEA suffers some embarrassment when their new headquarters is revealed, with some fanfare, to look like a used syringe.
Scott Haney, Rockwell Collins

Design Victory:
Tali’banished’ and ‘Chip’istan released
Rahul Deokar, Cadence Design Systems

We, at OSHA, recognize that these are troubled times, but we question the 5-minute break every half hour to demonstrate patriotism.
Team EETnet: Don Swaab (Inrange Technologies); Jim Randazzo

A test of the Star Wars anti-missile defense system. Three sales reps compete for the same customer’s business.
What the Intel Blue Men do in their day job.
H-1B engineers are allowed to stay in the U.S. if they sing the national anthem.
A typical company sales meeting.
Although they have different specifications, they are a matched pair.
The band is warming up before the fat lady sings!
Big BLUE is protecting you!

Team EETnet: Don Swaab (Inrange Technologies); Jim Randazzo

Something tells me that the time for a .flag Internet domain has come.
Reno Rossetti, Fairchild Semiconductor

Wondering what that chip on our shoulder is this Christmas? Play it again, Sam.
Daniel G. Newell, Xsonn KM

The Department of Justice is surprised when Microsoft selects anti-trust monitors from the Redmond High School marching band.
Scott Haney, Rockwell Collins

Have a very merry, well-structured, properly engineered, OSHA-safe Christmas!
David C. Barber, Acinta Inc.

Geez, I had no idea my problem spike would prompt such patriotism.
Karen Hille, Interconnect Systems Inc.

We’re having the sendoff party for our new bomb.
It gets them wherever they’ve bin Hiden. You
can even see the energy source within the warhead.
James Allen, Eastman Kodak

Opening 2010: New York’s newest and largest building, the Galactic Trade Center.
Michael Wright, Motorola

Amid great fanfare, the Segway is revealed to be . . . just a skateboard with batteries.
Scott Haney, Rockwell Collins

There were claims of higher priZes at TRUMPETER Electronics, but they were later refLuted.
Ivan Cowie, Time Domain Corp.

Soldier on the right: "Sound retreat! We have to make it back to PhotoShop! Somebody clipped my plume."
Soldier on the right: "Help! My pilot light went out!"
Soldier, if you suck my plume into your horn one more time, I’ll have you court-martialed!"
"I’d give my right arm to be able to play like these fellows! Ow!
Fred Myers, Actia Inc.

I said, "Make sure the bends are uniform," not "make sure the men are uniformed"!
Company heralds its new pyramid tower network server. Lots of FLASH but no visible substance.
Dan Hughes, Northrop-Grumman

Patriotic Layout
Mark Klemkosky, Intel Corp.

The pay in this Nutcracker Band isn’t as much as our unemployment was, but at least we’re helping raise the spirits of our working EE friends in this holiday season!
Frank Swanson, SVP

2 Legit. 2 Legit 2 Quit!
Johnny Ancich, Dalsa

There’s nothing quite like an old-fashioned narrowband signal tree for flagging cosmic events.
See, I told you that if the harmonics were right we could develop enough bandwidth to outperform IEEE 802.11b.
Russ Kraft, Bill Pollock, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute