Engineering Daze

– you have timed yourself taking at least six different routes to the stream for water, under different weather and light conditions, and under different wild animal threats, in order to find out which is more efficient and results in less loss of life, on average.

(Tork, caveman engineer, the first engineer in history, make that pre-history, returns for this week on engineeringdaze.com.)

– most anyone in your family, if asked to describe you using one word, would take no time to think about it and say, “Engineer”, and consider the response all that is needed.

– you ask a beautiful woman on an outing to “view the aqueducts”, she accepts, and, really, that’s all you do with her, view the aqueducts (and explain the hydraulic principles of how they work).

– you have taught your 8-year-old child to do a b/c (benefit/cost) calculation before deciding on whether to purchase a video game (and the kid has never bought one because of this).

– you made a spreadsheet to track ALL of your child’s hitting and fielding stats, complete with weekly, monthly, and 5-game running averages, and with color graphs and charts – and your child is only 6 years old.