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Blog Thread III : Look Who's Blogging Now
Jimmy the Squid:
Tomorrow I have the day off work so I'm going to hang out with Rizzo and Liz and we're going to go junk fooding which will basically consist of Liz and I going to various fast food places and eating stuff. Shit yeah.
Also as a present for letting them crash at my place, Riz and Liz bought me Wolverine: Origins, Uncaged Edition which is easily one of the most blood thirsty games I've played and, for a movie-tie-in, is actually a lot of fun. Awesome.
Oh oh oh! For Valentine's Day we woke up at 1pm, played video games, ate bacon sandwiches, did some grocery shopping and then all went out for Indian food for dinner. Good day.
Barmymoo:
Nom nom nom pancakes :-D
redglasscurls:
So I am taking this class right now, called ecological design, as a final class in my major of the same name. It's a really new/developing field, and the first few weeks of class have been spent discussing how to define the field and what it encompasses.
And it is completely infuriating. Half of the group are engineering types who are all butthurt that the college of engineering doesn't want to let it be called "ecological engineering" because there are ecology classes replacing some of the less useful engineering classes, and as the sole person interested in sustainable residential design, I spend EVERY discussion trying to defend the right of my concentration to belong under the "ecological design" title.
It's kind of hard to explain, but basically this group of people who are supposed to be interested in holistic incorporation of ecology and natural patterns into the human-designed world have become OBSESSED with limiting and excluding and generally being as much of assholes as the rest of engineers just so they can join the exclusive little titled club with all the blockheaded anti-innovation civil and environmental engineering douchesacks.
ARGGHGHAJFHHF
A Wet Helmet:
Your argument is invalid.
I am an engineer. I am neither an asshole nor a douchesack.
Q.E.D.
Wait... That was a little douchesacky, wasn't it?
Humor aside: Sorry 'bout your class. One of the unfortunate side effects of being inclined to engineering disciplines is the propensity to believe that you are almost always right. Nothing says 'argument' like a meeting with 8 or 10 engineers all of whom have different opinions. Looking back on it now, I suppose I could see some of that behavior manifesting itself at school too.
Edit: typo
redglasscurls:
They want to limit it to only things with a biotic/self-designing component. I mean, I understand that things like living machines and anaerobic digestors need a title outside of environmental engineering, but where does that leave everything else?
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