I used to love that show. It was based out of Seattle and ended up getting picked up by some other stations (probably just on the West Coast). It was called "Almost Live" because it came on right before Saturday Night Live.
Bill Nye also had a recurring super-hero character called "Speed Walker". (heel, toe. heel, toe.)
Right! I'd forgotten about the speedwalker bit. You might also recognize Pat Cashman, who now does Taco Time commercials. One of my favorite bits was Billy Quan's "Mind Your Manners."
My experience was that different parts of your personality mature at different rates. I matured first with cognitive skills like science and math, but was socially clueless. However I kept maturing through my 20's and stopped being socially clueless at 30. Which was also the year I met my future wife.
That party scene brings to mind a phenomena I noticed years ago. Maybe things are different now but it seemed to me that parties involving young, single engineers on the west coast of the US were very similar to the party shown in that clip. Up and down the entire west coast, it was star trek, shop talk, and almost stereotypical nerd behavior at every party I ever got dragged to. But on the east coast it seemed that the parties were not like that. Instead, in the east, people talked about all sorts of things, cultural stuff, political stuff, philosophical stuff, and the parties seemed more mixed - engineers mixed in with artsy types, musicians, legal people, social science people, linguists and so forth. I always assumed the west coast had artists and linguists, too, but I assumed for some reason they all went to their own parties??? Maybe it was just my own particular experience back then but I was never able to figure out why the coasts seemed so different. Were they different? Are they different? Anyone care to comment? And, please, use human language. I don't speak Klingon.
I'm an East Coaster... and I WISH I had seen th eparties you talk about. All the places I've lived, the parties were only about beer, football, dirt bikes and or quads, hunting, and monster trucks. Oh, and pro wrestling! Artists, linguists, philosophers... all would have been summarily beaten and chased out! I had to learn to be a chameleon in order to survive. Still looking for some good east coast parties with physicists, astronomers, philosophers, linguists, engineers... where are THOSE parties? :-)
I'm an East Coaster... All the places I've lived, the parties were only about beer, football, dirt bikes and or quads, hunting, and monster trucks. ...
LOL! You forgot guns! That sounds more like the mid west, western PA, or Western Australia.
This reminds me of a scene from favorite old film of mine called
"Ghost World" The main character is a Jewish girl named Enid
and there is this scene where she and a friend go to a party
that is hosted by a nerd for all his nerdy antique record enthusiast friends.
The dialog from that party scene is just hilarious!
Steve Buscemi is the nerdy guy and Thora Birch is Enid.
(I identify with the Enid character)
Somebody said that to non-engingeers, engineers are undesireable for "dating", but very desireable for "marrying". Something about the large salaries, and low tendancy to wander off.
It seems to me that most male engineers have non-technical wifes. Anybody else notice this?
What happens with female engineers. Do they end up with male engineers (should be a wide selection) or do they end up with non-engineers?
Somebody said that to non-engingeers, engineers are undesireable for "dating", but very desireable for "marrying". Something about the large salaries, and low tendancy to wander off.
It seems to me that most male engineers have non-technical wifes. Anybody else notice this?
What happens with female engineers. Do they end up with male engineers (should be a wide selection) or do they end up with non-engineers?
My girlfriend isn't an engineer, but she is a biochem major... Anyway, my theory for why there are so few women in engineering (especially CS and EE type fields, and not counting bioengineering and environmental engineering):
Most women in EE and CS avoid/leave the field due to the sexist and gender based jokes.
It's similar to this, but usually based on female and male anatomy. I cringe at what some of my fellow (male) students can come up with, and so I never bring any women to the engineering hangouts. But in other respects, it (qualitatively) doesn't seem like there is any real difference in competence or creativity.
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-Phil
Bill Nye also had a recurring super-hero character called "Speed Walker". (heel, toe. heel, toe.)
-Phil
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Pretty flippin' funny though!
My worst mistake from long ago: thinking that "Silence of the Lambs" would be a great first date movie.
Memorable, not great. Never saw her again!
My experience was that different parts of your personality mature at different rates. I matured first with cognitive skills like science and math, but was socially clueless. However I kept maturing through my 20's and stopped being socially clueless at 30. Which was also the year I met my future wife.
LOL! You forgot guns! That sounds more like the mid west, western PA, or Western Australia.
PS. Nice trekkie avatar.
-dan
This reminds me of a scene from favorite old film of mine called
"Ghost World" The main character is a Jewish girl named Enid
and there is this scene where she and a friend go to a party
that is hosted by a nerd for all his nerdy antique record enthusiast friends.
The dialog from that party scene is just hilarious!
Steve Buscemi is the nerdy guy and Thora Birch is Enid.
(I identify with the Enid character)
Wish I could find a youtube of the party scene but i could only
find the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq6AOc0ATnU
It seems to me that most male engineers have non-technical wifes. Anybody else notice this?
What happens with female engineers. Do they end up with male engineers (should be a wide selection) or do they end up with non-engineers?
It's where aging surfer dudes hang up their boards and take up doing laundry and mowing the lawn.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/engineerhumor.html
Are you referring to this?
My girlfriend isn't an engineer, but she is a biochem major... Anyway, my theory for why there are so few women in engineering (especially CS and EE type fields, and not counting bioengineering and environmental engineering):
Most women in EE and CS avoid/leave the field due to the sexist and gender based jokes.
It's similar to this, but usually based on female and male anatomy. I cringe at what some of my fellow (male) students can come up with, and so I never bring any women to the engineering hangouts. But in other respects, it (qualitatively) doesn't seem like there is any real difference in competence or creativity.
Mister, you don't know what sexist is until you're the only guy out drinking with an all women's field hockey team.
To elaborate: from what I've seen, women are much, much harder on each other than guys are on women.