Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Mad_Jack]

No one here of course.

Careful you don’t stick your nose so high in the air you bend over backwards and end up with your head firmly lodged in your own tuchus.

I personally know a number of people who look out at the world past the backs of their own teeth...

 

[CleverNickName]

I used to think I was pretty smart, but six years of engineering school cured me of that nonsense. Now I know that I'm competent.

And honestly, it's for the best. If you're building a bridge or whatever, and you're given a choice between an engineer that knows he's competent, and an engineer who thinks he's smart...well, it's not much of a choice.

 

[prabe]

I used to think I was pretty smart, but six years of engineering school cured me of that nonsense. Now I know that I'm competent.

And honestly, it's for the best If you're building a bridge or whatever, and you're given a choice between an engineer that knows he's competent, and an engineer who thinks he's smart...well, it's not much of a choice.

 

[CleverNickName]

Ah, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge...the textbook bridge example for aerostatic* flutter. (Seriously: it's in every structural engineering textbook published since 1940.)

*woops, it was aeroelastic flutter. Sorry; I'm a water engineer--not a bridge engineer.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I used to think I was pretty smart, but six years of engineering school cured me of that nonsense. Now I know that I'm competent.

And honestly, it's for the best If you're building a bridge or whatever, and you're given a choice between an engineer that knows he's competent, and an engineer who thinks he's smart...well, it's not much of a choice.

I am trying to focus on competence and craftsmanship in all aspects of my life now, rather than trying to be a genius artist, or whatever.

A great woodworker doesn't sit around, waiting for lightning to strike: He gets to work making a damned good table.

 

[prabe]

Ah, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge...the textbook bridge example for aerostatic flutter. (Seriously: it's in every structural engineering textbook published since 1940.)

I did figure you'd recognize the footage.

 

[Bedrockgames]

If this site featured pop-up affirmations, assuring all posters that they are smart and everyone respects their intelligence, I feel like most of our threads would only be about 25% as long as they end up being.

Lol. Coming to a nerdy hobby site to feel smart is just asking for butthurt

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I am trying to focus on competence and craftsmanship in all aspects of my life now, rather than trying to be a genius artist, or whatever.

A great woodworker doesn't sit around, waiting for lightning to strike: He gets to work making a damned good table.

However, a lightning strike may provide some good raw materials.

Well…not exactly RAW, but…y’know. handwave

 

[Staffan]

I used to think I was pretty smart, but six years of engineering school cured me of that nonsense. Now I know that I'm competent.

And honestly, it's for the best. If you're building a bridge or whatever, and you're given a choice between an engineer that knows he's competent, and an engineer who thinks he's smart...well, it's not much of a choice.

Smart is for scientists, who are trying to figure out new stuff, or combining old stuff in novel and interesting ways. Competent is for engineers, who are the ones building/designing stuff that's actually meant to be used, and needs to have safety margins and stuff like that.

 

[trappedslider]

*woops, it was aeroelastic flutter. Sorry; I'm a water engineer--not a bridge engineer.

so most of the time you just go with the flow?

I'll see myself out