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I couldn't decide which tradition I enjoy more, so invited my Halloween date to share in my Christmas celebration!        

Holi is a popular Indian festival, also known as the "Festival of Love", the "Festival of Colors" and the "Festival of Spring". Holi celebrates the arrival of spring, the end of winter, the blossoming of love and for many, it is a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships. The festival also celebrates the beginning of a good spring harvest season. It lasts for a night and a day, starting on the evening of the Purnima (Full Moon Day) falling in the Hindu calendar month of Phalguna, which falls around the middle of March in the Gregorian calendar.          

Diwali is the festival of lights. This festival is celebrated all over India and Indians all over the world. It symbolises the victory of light over darkness and good over evil. “Diwali” is also known as “Deepawali” which means "row of lights/lighted lamps”. It is celebrated in memory of victory of "Lord Ram" over the demon "Ravan".     The Ganesh festival marks the birth of Lord Ganesh, the god of wisdom and prosperity. It falls in the Bhadrapada month of the Hindu calendar, which falls in August-September and lasts for 11 days. Lord Ganesh is considered a symbol of wisdom, writing, travel, commerce and good fortune.      

This may be my last post for the year. We'll see how I fare after tomorrow. I am getting a total knee replacement on the right side, so I'll be out of the office until after the first of the year. Have a blessed Christmas celebrating with your family and friends.   Why do engineers often confused Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25! 

Hi,,,,before everyone in the U.S. unplugs I wanted our October 2021 Top Engagers to help wish everyone a  "Happy Thanksgiving!"  We appreciate the contributions from all our PTC Community Members!   @VladimirN @StuartBruff @ttokoro @LucMeekes @ValeryOchkov @TomU @Werner_E @StephenW    @MartinHanak @Fred_Kohlhepp @Dale_Rosema @pshashipreetham @Chris3 @KenFarley @tbraxton @AP_9587236    @Marco_Tosin @BenLoosli @STEVEG @KB_10074140 @BG_9869104    Well Done! (....not Over Done ;)....can you really "over do" engagement?  NOPE.  Can turkey be overdone?   Perhaps  🙂 Check out Dale_Rosema' s  Thanksgiving post on tips for cooking the best turkey from an engineering perspective!     Be sure to add your turkey pictures and Thanksgiving blessings!      

Have a blessed weekend. Watch a Christmas pageant or two. Enjoy this little ones in the sheep, shepherd  or wise men costumes.    Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. "What do you think this is?"   One advisor, an engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster," he said. The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer for it?" The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black. The program would use that darkness level as the index to a 16-element table of initial timer values. Then it would turn on the heating elements and start the timer with the initial value selected from the table. At the end of the time delay, it would turn off the heat and pop up

Have blessed weekend. Are you anticipating anything? This is a season of celebrating waiting / anticipating...... both past, present, and yet to come!   Out tomorrow so an early post:   The Top 10 Things Engineering School Didn't Teach 10. There are about 10 types of capacitors. 9. Theory tells you how a circuit works, not why it doesn't work. 8. Not everything works according to the specs in the databook. 7. Anything practical you learn will be obsolete before you use it, except the complex math, which you will never use. 6. Always try to fix the hardware with the software. 5. Engineering is like having an 8 a.m. class and a late afternoon lab every day for the rest of your life. 4. Overtime pay? What overtime pay? 3. Engineers rule the world until the next revision. 2. If you like junk food, caffeine, and all-nighters, then you should go into software. 1. Dilbert is a documentary.

If you are in the States, enjoy your long Thanksgiving weekend. Start a list of all the things for which you are blessed when following the instructions below. Enjoy.       Thanksgiving Day Preparation - An Engineer's Help Manual Preparing the turkey for Thanksgiving can be a monumental task. With stuffing, proper basting and long cooking times, it can be both difficult and intimidating to hold the responsibility of preparing the turkey. This helpful guide will step you through the process of preparing your turkey utilizing appropriate engineering concepts in order to reduce time, scrap and rework. Table of Contents Selection Process Procedures Software Tools and Updates Thermal Deformation Internal Components Final Assembly Assembly Troubleshooting for Build Issues Reporting Methods NOTE: No animals were harmed in the creation of this document. Some marketers were, but they will not be missed. Selection Process Procedure Collecting Raw Material Before beg

During the up coming week, start writing a list of all the things for which you are thankful. You may surprise yourself.  (Count your many blessings, name them one by one........)   George Washington Gale Ferris Jr, the man who invented the Ferris Wheel, never met Thomas Bradshaw, the man who invented the Merry Go Round / Carousel.   They ran in different circles.

Have a blessed weekend. Enjoy some time outside. Hug the ones you love.     Pilots and Engineers My brother-in-law, a pilot, related this incident between a fellow pilot and an engineer/mechanic at the airport. These two chaps were forever squabbling and trying to drive the other one nuts. The pilot once turned a plane into the shop with a complaint that read "Unfamiliar noise from engine." The next day, the plane was ready for him. The engineer's logbook entry read "Ran engine continuously for four hours. Noise now familiar."   Normal People vs. Engineers Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Noteworthy October 2021 Posts ENGAGE= KUDO, REPLY, or SOLVE!   Below are the top engaging or most viewed PTC Community threads for October  2021!  See if your community username made this list! Or, read more about a topic that interests you!    Mathcad:  @NS_10096872 received an Accepted Solution from @Werner_E  for the inquiry [Mathcad Prime 2.0]- Struggling to solve Newtonian differential equation of 2nd order Thank you, @LucMeekes  @Fred_Kohlhepp , and @AlanStevens  for also participating in the thread! https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/Mathcad-Prime-2-0-Struggeling-to-solve-newtonian-differential/m-p/755138   Mathcad:  @DS_10024912 asked How to Copy/Paste Equations from PTC Mathcad (ver. 7)into Word, Powerpoint, or similar? @ValeryOchkov   @VladimirN   @StuartBruff   @LucMeekes , and @DJF .  Thank you for sharing in the discussion! h

For those in the mid-west US or where ever you might be and if you going out hunting Bambi (deer season), enjoy time out in creation, watching all the critters. Be safe.   Nerd Season A truck driver hauling a tractor trailer filled with computers stops for a beer. As he approaches the bar, he sees a big sign on the door reading, "Nerds Not Allowed -- Enter at Your Own Risk." He enters the bar and sits down. The bartender comes over to him, sniffs him, says he smells kind of nerdy, and asks him what he does for a living. The truck driver says he drives a truck, and the smell is just from the computers he is hauling. The bartender says okay, truck drivers are not nerds, and serves him a beer. As he is sipping his beer, a skinny guy walks in with tape around his glasses, a pocket protector with twelve kinds of pens and pencils, and a belt at least a foot too long. The bartender, without saying a word, pulls out a shotgun and blows the guy away. The truck driver asks him why he did th

Have a fun and safe weekend. Happy All Saints Day on Monday.     When you child wants to be a transformer for Halloween and your parent is an engineer.    

Sharp NOT Scary!!   We love and appreciate September's Top Engagers!   @VladimirN  @StuartBruff @LucMeekes @TomU @ttokoro @Hidetaka @tbraxton @Telles @BenLoosli  @Dale_Rosema @AP_9587236 @LawrenceS @Werner_E @Chris3 @Fred_Kohlhepp @MartinHanak  @SurajPatil @KenFarley @StephenW @STEVEG @kdirth @Patriot_1776    How was the last weekend of October for you?   See first reply for pictures of our trip to Narnia and add your own!          

I live on the outskirts of Asheville, NC, on the US East coast. Regularly during the summer and fall, we receive the visit of black bears. They live in the surrounding mountains and freely roam around the neighborhoods, looking to see if there is anything interesting in our trash, or just hang out…  This one was doing just that as I was working on the porch… Thought I’d share with the Community!   (view in My Videos)

Have a great weekend. Text someone three things for which you are thankful for the next 30 days and see how much more grateful you become.     Salesman vs Engineer An enthusiastic but somewhat unscrupulous salesman was waiting to see the purchasing agent of an engineering firm. The salesman was there to submit his company's bid, or price quote, for a particular job. He couldn't help but notice, however, that a competitor's bid was on the purchasing agent's desk. Unfortunately, the actual figure was covered by a juice can. The temptation to see the amount quoted became too much, and the salesman reached over and lifted the can. His heart sank as he watched thousands of BB pellets pour from the bottomless can and scatter across the floor.

Below are the top engaging or most viewed PTC Community threads for September 2021!  See if your community username made this list! Or, read more about a topic that interests you!   1.  Mathcad:   @Mko started the Running Mathcad with Windows 11 post Thank you @o.svahn @VladimirN @ppal_255687    and  @MartinHanak  for contributing to the conversation!   https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/Running-Mathcad-with-Windows-11/m-p/748123   2.  Mathcad:   @jadornonunez asked about Reference Tables in Mathcad 7 and received helpful advice from @terryhendicott @VladimirN @LucMeekes @Fred_Kohlhepp , and StuartBruff ! Thank you everyone for your contributions!    https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/Reference-Tables-in-Mathcad-7/m-p/748537   3.  Mathcad:     @SS_9781956 received an Accepted Solution from @Werner_E   for the post Program

Have a great weekend. Enjoy some time outdoors. Be blessed.     Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.

  Enjoy the fall colors, the leaf raking, apple cider and time with the ones you love.     Sack of Gold One day, an engineer and a mathematician walk around and meet a very rich man who tells them that if they can get all the way over to it, they are allowed to take the sack, filled with gold, standing on the ground 20 m away. However, they are only allowed to take steps of a length of a maximum of half the remaining distance. The mathematician knows it isn't possible to get to the sack on these conditions, so he does nothing. Then the engineer walks half the distance, half again and then half again. Finally, when the sack is in arm's reach, he grabs the sack and walks back. "But...." says the mathematician, "...how...?" "Measurement insecurity!" says the engineer, ".... close enough!"

Hello PTC Community!   This month we decided to leave the BEST...most important September PTCooler post for the very last day! This exquisite leaf is a symbol of the change of season and our official "new PTC Community year" begins tomorrow! Thank you to all our Top August Engagers!  We appreciate all your contributions to the PTC Community.   @AP_9587236 @LucMeekes @TomU @VladimirN @Patriot_1776 @ttokoro @StephenW @Raiko  @StuartBruff @Werner_E @ValeryOchkov @terryhendicott @DmitryTsarev @MartinHanak @jwagh @avillanueva @BenLoosli @Trebla @ScottMorris @Telles @SFares @Fred_Kohlhepp @SYNDAKIT @S_Edgenear @KenFarley @tbraxton @d_graham           

Noteworthy August 2021 PostsENGAGE= KUDO, REPLY, or SOLVE!   Below are the top engaging or most viewed PTC Community threads for August 2021! See if your community username made this list! Or, read more about a topic that interests you! 1. Mathcad: @SPRstructur started the discussion Error CalculatingThank you, @LucMeekes, @ttokoro, @terryhendicott, and @ChrisKaswer for participating in the conversation!   https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/Error-Calculating/m-p/743500   2. Mathcad: @SFares received an Accepted Solution from @LucMeekes for the post about Nonlinear Incremental/ Iterative solution Newton-Raphson Thank you, @StuartBruff, @VladimirN, @tokoro, and @Structures_401  for participating in the conversation!   https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/Nonlinear-Incremental-Iterative-solution-Newton-Raphson/m-p/745718   3. Mathcad: @ValeryOchkov post about the  New bilingual book on Mathcad  received top views in August. Be sure to chec

Long weekend for me. Have a great one. Be Blessed.   Redneck Professional Engineering Exam (continued….)   A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch centers with a field rock foundation. The span is 8 feet and the porch length is 16 feet. The porch floor is 1 inch rough sawn pine. When the porch collapses, how many hound dogs will be killed? A man owns a house and 3.7 acres of land in a hollow with an average slope of 15%. The man has 5 children. Can each of the children place a mobile home on the man's land? A 2-ton pulpwood truck is overloaded and proceeding down a steep grade on a secondary road at 45 mph. The brakes fail. Given the average traffic loading of secondary roads, how many people will swerve to avoid the truck before it crashes at the bottom of the mountain? For extra credit, how many of the vehicles that swerved will have mufflers and uncracked windshields? A Coal Mine operates a NFPA Class 1, Division 2 Hazardous Area. The mine employs 120 miners p

I don't think we have to worry about AI anytime soon.  

What a beautiful start to the day - clear crisp skies with a wonderful sunrise. Enjoy the changing seasons (if you have them)!   Redneck Professional Engineering Exam 1. Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will support a 10 Lb. possum. 2. Which of the following cars will rust out the quickest when placed on blocks in your front yard? A) 66 Ford Fairlane B) 69 Chevrolet Chevelle C) 64 Pontiac GTO 3. If your uncle builds a still that operates at a capacity of 20 gallons of shine per hour, how many car radiators are necessary to condense the product? 4. A pulpwood cutter has a chain saw that operates at 2700 rpm. The density of the pine trees in a plot to be harvested is 470 per acre. The plot is 2.3 acres in size. The average tree diameter is 14 inches. How many Pabst Blue Ribbons will be consumed in cutting the trees? 5. If every old refrigerator in the state vented its charge of R-12 simultaneously, what would be the decrease in the ozone layer?

Gotta love fall!  Going to be a beautiful day here. Enjoy time out in creation around you.     The Recommended Practices Committee of the International Society of Philosophical Engineers' Universal Law for Naive Engineers   Law #17: If more than one person is responsible for a miscalculation, no one will be at fault. Law #18: Identical units which test in an identical fashion will not behave in an identical fashion in the field. Law #19: If, in engineering practice, a safety factor is sent through the service experience at an ultimate value, an ingenious idiot will promptly calculate a method to exceed said safety factor. Law #20: Warranty and guarantee clauses are voided by payment of the invoice. Law #21: The rule for engineers: "Change the data to fit the curve."