I think it all got triggered when Milad sent that note which was supposed to help us figure out if were indeed engineer-ish. So i I wilfully clicked on that link and in 3 seconds was laughing like anything… its strange how your own bizarre attitudes can be so amusing.. and its not only me — its all those people i know around me who have some of these qualities.. such as
At Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string of Christmas lights <– yeeep!!!
The Salespeople at Circuit City can’t answer any of your questions <– sadly 
! (i can see so many techy heads nodding right now!!)
You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards in the chairs to see how they do the special effects <— lol..this one really killed me. i did not realize I do this..until i read thisss…
and this one is a tribute to swats - You see a good design and still have to change it
but email-jokes apart..i started thinking if this was really true. was there some twisted reasn behind all of us selecting this field and then banging our heads on our computer screens…
so yesterday..me and Chris (a colleague/friend) were playing with Vista — finding bugs and complaining about software when somehow the conversation turned to video games. I remember as a young kid I had this reallly old nintendo on which me and sister used to play Mario all day long… along with the Mario — it had another dumb game called duck hunt which, well which mostly 3 years old played. However, it had a cheap gun which one could use to point and shoot at ducks on the screen as they appeared.. and it had, well, good precision!
However what is hilarious is, that 5 mins into the conversation and Chris confessed that since he had that game he has been wondering how do they do it. Unfortunately,me too! Now we did come up with some pretty groovy ideas so as to how it could have been done, maybe googling it would help further… but what I cannot get over is … 2 6-7 years old NOT playing duck hunt, but thinking about how the gun works…
somebody help!!!!
lol .. okayyy … I’ll admit that I’ve also wondered how the duck hunt gun worked. And that on a regular home tv?? :p
I had this funny incident when I went to a 4D ride at universal studios and all of my techie friends admitted afterwards to have taken off their special 3D glasses at some time to see how and where the images were coming from.
It’s a curse ……. you can’t run away from it now :p
well, its a curiosity thingy. so from engineer to another(?), dont worry, you’re still insane!
And the blog is frozen! But hey, we’re past winter now!