[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Mike Hebel]

In a fit of angst Sheldon T. Hall gargled the following:
> Says Phil Stracchino ...
>> Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>> >  Quoth Phil Stracchino ...
>> >> http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_341.html
>> >
>> > ... and then there's the old story about the physicist, the
>> > mathematician, and the engineer....
>>
>> Which one?  :)  The cooktop, the bunker, ...?
>
> The value of pi, natch:
>
> The physicist goes on at some length about the cosmic forces involved in
> establishing the roundness of things, and finally says that pi is just an
> expression of the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference.
>
> "Well, sure," responds the mathematician, "but it's more convenient to
> express it as a number.  3.14159, say."
>
> Replies the engineer, "Yep.  Pi's about three."

Fire in the room:

A physicist and engineer and a mathematician were sleeping in a hotel room
when a fire broke out in one corner of the room.

Only the engineer woke up he saw the fire, grabbed a bucket of water and
threw it on the fire and the fire went out, then he filled up the bucket
again and threw that bucketfull on the ashes as a safety factor, and he
went back to sleep.

A little later, another fire broke out in a different corner of the room
and only the physicist woke up. He went over measured the intensity of the
fire, saw what material was burning and went over and carefully measured
out exactly 2/3 of a bucket of water and poured it on, putting out the
fire perfectly; the physicist went back to sleep.

A little later another fire broke out in a different corner of the room.
Only the mathematician woke up. He went over looked at the fire, he saw
that there was a bucket and he noticed that it had no holes in it; he
turned on the faucet and saw that there was water available. He, thus,
concluded that there was a solution to the fire problem and he went back
to sleep.

Mike Hebel
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