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  Have a terrific long weekend (for those in the states). I will miss our city's annual truck parade; a fun parade where businesses cleanup a truck or two and then there is about a 10 mile parade. Thankful for all the laborers that work to keep our cities, counties, states, nations and world going.        A doctor and an engineer loved the same girl. The doctor would give her a rose daily and engineer would give the girl an apple. The girl got confused and asked engineer, “There is a meaning of giving rose in love, but why are you giving apple?” The engineer answered: “Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away."

Happy National Dog Day!!   If you are still around this Friday afternoon,  showcase your canine friends!  Maple and I just got caught in a rainstorm (rain in which we desperately needed) but she is still a cutie with her wet dog fur (and smell) 🙂  Love her!   Share your pooch!

Have a terrific weekend. Someone is calling you..... are you listening.....?     You’ve all heard this one when answering questions about your profession, but probably in a serious tone … What does this have to do with trains?     Why are the XYZ Company engineers like mushrooms? Because for both of them, you keep them in the dark, feed them crap, and then can them.

We took a six month hiatus on highlighting Most Noteworthy Posts and Top Community Engagers of the month. We are now ready to resume with this PTC Community Monthly Stand Out post series.  Always check back here on the PTC Cooler to see the top community engagers and the top noteworthy posts of the month.   Top July 2022 Community Engagers:     @TomU @VladimirN @tbraxton @MartinHanak @LucMeekes @Werner_E @HelesicPetr   @pshashipreetham  @nmilleson @StephenW @Dale_Rosema @KK_10171856 @ttokoro @avillanueva @VeqTor @ValeryOchkov  @XQ_10003318 @BenLoosli @S_Edgenear @HD_10225728 @d_graham @ppal_255687 @SrikanthM @Marco_Tosin   @JS_9824412  @GregoryPERASSO    MOST NOTEWORTHY POSTS   Below are some of the top engaging or most viewed PTC Community topic threads for July 2022! 

Hard to believe that some kids start school again next week. Summer is winding down and fall in on the way. Have a campfire. Make a Smore. Snuggle a little closer to the ones you love and appreciate time together.     There once was a young engineer, who having worked for several years, decided that he and his family should have a weekend getaway place.   He searched the surrounding country and found a lovely spot with frontage on a small river. They built a cabin and began spending time there every chance they got. The kids loved it, and friends came for the quiet and fishing.   The engineer, however, wanted something unique for his cabin. He had been an award-winning pole vaulter in college. He therefore built a set of poles with a crosspiece, and a mulched run. He bought a new carbon fiber vaulting pole, new shoes, and was set.   He would set off down the run, plant his pole, soar over the crosspiece, and land in the river with a satisfying splash. What a gr

Have you ever spent so much time in mapkeys that you cannot figure out why in the world a mapkey all of a sudden it not doing what it is supposed to be doing only to realize several minutes later that the mapkey is working just fine and the problem is your running the wrong mapkey!!!   🙂

What a beautiful morning here in Michigan. Have a great weekend.     Once a DOCTOR and an ENGINEER entered a chocolate store... As they were busy looking around, doctor stole 3 chocolate bars...   As they left the store, doctor said to Engineer: "Man! I'm the best thief ever, I stole 3 chocolates and no one saw me. You can't beat that"   Engineer replied: "You wanna see something better? Let's go back to the shop and I'll show you real stealing"   So, they went to the counter and Engineer said to the clerk: "Do you wanna see magic?" The clerk replied: "Yes!!!" Engineer said: "Give me one chocolate bar!" The clerk gave him one, and he ate it... He asked for the second, and he ate that as well. He asked for the third, and finished that one too. The clerk asked: "But where's the magic?"   Engineer replied: "Check in my friend's pocket, and you'll find them..!!!"

WOW! August! Hope you are getting enough fun in during the summer. Create memories.                                           Careers: Doctors make money from people’s pain. Ministers make money from people's fears. Lawyers make money from people's mistakes And…. Engineers make things just a little bit better.

Join us in Orlando, FL at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Orlando, Florida at Sea World on October 3-6, 2022 for insightful conversation with your peers and the PTC product management team. See the registration page for details. PTC/USER 2022

WOW! The last Friday in July. Enjoy the weekend, the vacation, or the holiday! Create some memories....     An engineer dies and is met at the Pearly Gates by St Peter. St Peter asks the engineer his name as he searches for it in the big Book of Life.   St Peter looks up and states, “There’s been a mistake, you’re not due here for another 50 years!” The engineer is distraught and asks what can be done.   St Peter replies, “No problem, this happens more often than you think. Follow me.”   So they walk through the gates and to a room with several bins in it. This is the body parts room. St Peter takes the engineer to the legs bins and states, “We have all kinds of legs to choose from, but relative to all the good you have done in life so far, you only get $500 worth to play with.” The engineer sees this as the usual ‘get the most for the least’ cost exercise so decides to pick carefully and asks, “how much are super strong legs?”   “$10 each” replies St Pete

Have a great weekend. Hug the ones you love. My son head's back out of state after being home for almost 8 weeks.   "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.   (Before the crash the stock market was at 381.17)   "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.   "Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

Happy mid-summer (from the calendar - not from the actual season). Back to schools sales have started much to the chagrin of my pre-school teachers at home.   What has someone said to you to hold you back and how did you prove them wrong?     "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." --1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.   "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training." --Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.   "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." --Drillers who Ed

What are you up to this weekend? Any nagging projects that can be put off until next week so you can go to the beach or hangout with friends?     "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." --Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M"Post-It" Notepads.   "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.   "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981

Here is an interesting fact about Independence Day, 1826:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Ev9m7Qx8I

In the States, have a terrific long Independence Day Weekend. Give thanks for those set the foundation for our country. For others, pause to reflect on your own country and what makes it special to you.     "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies   "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.   "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

For all the engineers out there, the last Friday in June is Engineer's Day at the Soo Locks linking Lake Superior to Lake Huron in the St. Mary's River.   https://www.lre.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/2980183/engineers-day-2022-will-allow-visitors-across-locks/    

What a beautiful day here in West Michigan today!!! Summer hours, and outta here at noon. Have a terrific weekend. Go dig in the dirt. Watch some critters (bugs, worms, birds, squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits....) Spend time with their creator.     "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977   "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." --Western Union internal memo, 1876.   "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

Have a terrific weekend. Go to the beach. Have a campfire. Swat some mosquitoes.     "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)   "Who the (world) wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.   "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."

There was no post last weekend as I was "up north", which is a thing in Michigan. Top photo - Northport Marina Friday morning Bottom photo - Arcadia Overlook - Saturday night.... and yes I happened to get a bonus with a freighter passing by during the Sunset. The James R Barker - 1000 foot long carrying ore to the mills at the southern end of Lake Michigan.    

Went fishing with the buddies yesterday. Started out of the harbor at 6:30am, immediately came across this little gator (about 3 feet long). He was minding his own business when we made a pass around him. This was in the intercoastal waterway, saltwater, Matagorda Harbor Texas.    

Hi, so I told @Dale_Rosema in last weekender post that I would share photos from chaperoning my daugher's senior homeschool semi-formal / formal "Red Carpet" event.  With so many great movies releasing right now (i.e. Jurassic World Dominion and Top Gun: Maverick) our Jurassic Jeep was an instant photo opportunity. We had a movie theme. (Yes, I got my hubby in a tie and suit jacket).   The jeep was provided by  Bill Shea, (www.88mphtimemachine.com) great supporter of Michael J Fox Parkinson's research.       Below are a few of the fun decorations we had to compliment our movie themed "photo booth" area. Everyone had a great night!   Red Carpet Into the Event 🙂   Popcorn Party Favors Movie Themed Centerpieces!     Some movie titles we had featured as centerpieces on the table were the following:  Pretty In Pink, Breakfast Club, Jurassic Series (of course 😉 Back to the Future, Avatar, How to Train a Dragon 2, Harry Potter

Have a great weekend. Enjoy a campfire. Eat a s'more. Gaze into the heavens and observe their beauty.   Have you ever verbalized your thoughts about the probability of something happening only later to find out it did happen.   "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949.   "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943   " I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

In the US, have a great long weekend. Take time to remember those that have served their country.   Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer, correct?!      

First week back at the desk - thing are going well. Have a terrific weekend. Spend time with the ones you love.     Phases of a Project 1 -- Exultation 2 -- Disenchantment 3 -- Search for the Guilty 4 -- Punishment of the Innocent 5 -- Praise for the Uninvolved  

Tulip Time 2022 is winding down this weekend in Holland, MI (USA). The flowers have been beautiful. Tonight we are going to enjoy carnival cuisine (aka junk food night). We might even watch the fireworks tomorrow. Have a great weekend.     Why engineers lose more friends every day….                                   Do you know what Sin City is? Yes, that’s Las Vegas.                     Well, do you know what Den City is? I have no clue.                                             It’s mass over volume?   &nb