[identity profile] badnoodles.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
A real engineer would have measured at least the gluten by weight, since it is highly variable volumetrically.

Weight measurements are usually more efficient than volumetric ones (at least for solids) anyway, and efficiency is always desirable!

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Shown up by an entomologist, by God!

What time are you arriving in DFW/at the con?

[identity profile] badnoodles.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Thursday evening. (6:30-7)

Yes, I will help you with art show setup if I'm not otherwise engaged.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
:D Thank you. I may be doing it Friday morning, because I'll have to rent a truck from U-Haul or Home Depot if nobody has one I can use, and I won't be able to keep them out for too long on Thursday night, which just adds stress.

[identity profile] dicemonkey.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Tell me about it. I'd hate to have to include packing co-efficients depending on the shape and characteristic length of whatever we are trying to measure.

[identity profile] selenite.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice to see someone writing up some clear, unambiguous directions.

;-)

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Assume a perfectly spherical chicken chocolate chip..."

[identity profile] dicemonkey.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you heard about the chicken cannon?

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The one for testing airplane windshields? :) Even seen both of the Mythbusters takes on it.

[identity profile] dicemonkey.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be the one.

I've also heard of a chicken pump, that pumps whole plucked chickens (in water of course) through a processing plant. As it is cheaper to do it that way than some kind of conveyer belt system.

its just funny thinking about chicken pumps.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
What's funnier is one of the Google ads besides the gmail notification of thos coment:

Taco Pump Sale
Circulators for hot water, solar, boilers, chillers, water towers

[identity profile] dicemonkey.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
MMM chicken taco pump (homer hungry food gurgle noise)

[identity profile] selenite.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That's physicists.

The engineering version is "Procure chocolate chips with an eccentricity no greater than 0.2" . . . no sense wasting money getting the tolerances any tighter than they need to be.

[identity profile] tygerr.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Au contraire. I have several issues with both the parts list and the process description (see Review Board comments under separate cover).

[identity profile] tygerr.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Errata:

Ingredient 8's calcium carbonate shipping jacket must be deintegrated from its collagen contents, and only the collagenic portion is to be introduced into the reactor vessel--the carbonate jacket is discarded. As the jacket removal process is painstaking and error-prone, a separate procedure should be referenced at the appropriate point in the procedure flow.

Ingredient 9 is available as a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product in several widely-varying form factors. Further physical specification is required.

Ingredient 10 is also insufficiently specified. "Legume" is an inadvisably broad term, encompassing multiple species of plant with widely varying physical, chemical, and gustatory properties.

Recommend parts list and procedure steps both be revised per above and resubmitted to the Managerial Review Board after approval by the Peer Review Board.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
*snerk*

[identity profile] pzb.livejournal.com 2006-02-22 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

My.

Gods.

I couldn't bake before......I sure as HELL can't bake now.

[identity profile] gweniveeve.livejournal.com 2006-02-22 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
And it will be the engineers, not me, who will be baking by that recipe.