RE: Engineering On Friday: The Field Engineer

tarz — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:24:35 GMT

DAB...I feel your pain. I thought, too, that the rats nest of wires also represented

the state of our technologies and how hard it is the navigate within them.

An Existential Cartoon? On Friday no less.

RE: Engineering On Friday: The Field Engineer

DAB — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:58:12 GMT

I can relate. I have had to untangle more than one "rats nest" of wires in my day.

I always liked to hear one of the scientist complaining about noise or cross talk after they just tossed thier cables on top of whatever was already in the wire racks. It took forever to explain to them that you do not put signal wires on top of power cables and expect that your 60Hz problem would go away.

Brilliant people can be incredibly obtuse about practical engineering.

Thanks

DAB