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2003-03-18 - 8:31 p.m. Could someone who�s had less caffeine translate? A couple of us, we�ve got this idea, we, um, use solar sails, and big mylar things whoosh out and, then I think someone�s who�s had less caffeine better explain this. Doc, could you please translate? - dialogue from the movie Armageddon Funny things said on the way to an engineering design � �I don�t understand this logic. Rather than prototype with a part no one will use, pick one that at least half the people are upset about.� In the heat of arguments and mad philosophy ask �what is a real risk, anyway�: �That�s not a risk. It�s been downgraded to a fear.� �We ask and ask about that box interfaces, and every time it changes radically and, then, oh no, it�s the Poseidon adventure all over again.� In the category of things best left unsaid in software/hardware interface meetings: �Well, that takes intelligent software.� Runner up to the crazy promise �And that will come with a limited amount of huge disk space.� �We should change our baseline rate sensor. I�ve heard a lot of �anti-sunshine� concerning the manufacturing process of our first pick.� [Thanks, guys � how do I write that into a risk?] Under the heading too much honesty was when I said �Hell no!� with my outside voice to �So, I�ve made this [incredibly complicated] example of how to present your schedule. Who wants a copy to [spend five hours] filling in?� Yeah, they are still ribbing me about that and I still have to write the damn schedule. �We can give in that area. It�s part of the everything on the table, all love management style.� �Propellant, not fuel. Propellant, not fuel. Don�t call it fuel. [gasp for breath.] Sorry, everyone, but I�m going to say that once a week for the next five years.� Our poor propulsion experts trying to correct terminology. The award for most unique question on ground data interfaces goes to �So we know how to talk to them when they do their groove thing?� �You don�t scare me. I�ve got a bigger Dogbert.� Wins for strangest threat I�ve gotten this week. Concerning my habitual nickname for our star electronics designer �Wally? That�s too informal. You can�t call him Wally. He�s a legend. You can�t call a legend Wally.� [Why not? He doesn�t care.] �Isn�t 0% margin kind of a misnomer?� Last, the penultimate description of my work lately: �This is exactly what happened to Spinal Tap with Jazz Odyssey� Gotta top off the diet coke and work on dynamics analysis for tomorrow. � � � 
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