PTCooler "OffTopic"

Have a terrific weekend and enjoy time with the ones you love....   A team of engineers were required to measure the height of a flag pole. They only had a measuring tape, and were getting quite frustrated trying to keep the tape along the pole. It kept falling down, etc. A mathematician comes along, finds out their problem, and proceeds to remove the pole from the ground and measure it easily. When he leaves, one engineer says to the other: "Just like a mathematician! We need to know the height, and he gives us the length!"

It is snowing here today!!! Have a blessed weekend..... and I am not sure if this is true of Scotland never having been there.   A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were traveling through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train.    "Aha," says the engineer, "I see that Scottish sheep are black."   "Hmm," says the physicist, "You mean that some Scottish sheep are black."   "No," says the mathematician, "All we know is that there is at least one sheep in Scotland, and that at least one side of that one sheep is black!"

Welcome to November and have a blessed weekend.   An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician were asked to hammer a nail into a wall.   The engineer went to build a Universal Automatic Nailer -- a device able to hammer every possible nail into every possible wall.    The physicist conducted series of experiments on strength of hammers, nails, and walls and developed a revolutionary technology of ultra-sonic nail hammering at super-low temperature.   The mathematician generalized the problem to a N dimensional problem of penetration of a knotted one dimensional nail into a N-1 dimensional hyper-wall. Several fundamental theorems are proved. Of course, the problem is too rich to suggest a possibility of a simple solution, even the existence of a solution is far from obvious. 

    No photos of the World Series, but taking the opportunity/advantage of the OFF TOPIC Board to give a shout out to the HOME TEAM BOSTON RED SOX!  Congrats, Sox!   If you didn't tune in and "live" the game, you can read about it  from the New York Times here.      What was everyone else's weekend plans?  Did anyone watch the World Series?    

Have a terrific weekend.   A mathematician and an engineer are on desert island. They find two palm trees with one coconut each. The engineer climbs up one tree, gets the coconut, eats. The mathematician climbs up the other tree, gets the coconut, climbs the other tree and puts it there. "Now we've reduced it to a problem we know how to solve."   

Have a terrific weekend. Spend time with the ones you love.   An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are staying in a hotel.    The engineer wakes up and smells smoke. He goes out into the hallway and sees a fire, so he fills a trash can from his room with water and douses the fire. He goes back to bed.    Later, the physicist wakes up and smells smoke. He opens his door and sees a fire in the hallway. He walks down the hall to a fire hose and after calculating the flame velocity, distance, water pressure, trajectory, etc. extinguishes the fire with the minimum amount of water and energy needed.    Later, the mathematician wakes up and smells smoke. He goes to the hall, sees the fire and then the fire hose. He thinks for a moment and then exclaims, "Ah, a solution exists!" and then goes back to bed. 

Let's bring this board back from the DEAD!   Are you creepy, kooky, mysterious, or spooky....or FUN!  Reply back with your favorite Jack-o-lantern picture.  <Yours ...or someone else's ;)>  CAD or Not So CAD....Your choice!   I'll get us started.              

Hi, Everyone,   You may have been following the latest PTC news and heard we are moving our headquarters to Seaport Boston. Last week we got a glimpse of our new home.  Here is a sneak peek from your Community Manager's perspective <pictures courtesy of my R+D / work "neighbor" photographer @LevBass >.  Don't mind the "semi-construction" site.  The building should be ready by January! Not an evacuation. Waiting for the bus! Field Trip! Yep, that's me. I'm with our VP of Marketing-Eric Snow. There's Brian Thompson (CAD VP). 121 Seaport! Packed elevators..to "networking/social" on 16th and 17th floors. Great views of The Seaport! Definitely will look different-but open concept design! PTC on Ice! Can't wait to see logo on side of the building! Always great to hear our CEO Jim Heppelmann share the vision. Some music!  Some dancing!  More Dancing--All PTC Employee Volunteers! ​ Great day at The Seaport!   Photo snagged fro

According to the Manufacturing Institute, 80 percent of manufacturers currently indicate serious shortage of qualified applicants for skilled and highly-skilled positions? That’s why PTC partnered with Rockwell Automation and the National Association of Manufacturers to support manufacturers' recruiting efforts.  We’ve created a brand new Smart MFG app and comic book that uses augmented reality to showcase modern manufacturing by letting users manufacture a drone—from design and additive manufacturing to assembly and quality testing. We encourage you to use the Smart MFG app to launch an AR experience from the attached and comic book with your colleagues, with young people looking to better understand manufacturing careers, and with anyone interested in modern manufacturing.   Download the Smart MFG app today to get started.

Be blessed:   Life is complex. It has real and imaginary components.    How do you prove in three steps that a sheet of paper is a lazy dog? 1. A sheet of paper is an ink-lined plane. 2. An inclined plane is a slope up. 3. A slow pup is a lazy dog. 

Have a terrific weekend:   One day, Jesus said to his disciples: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9." St. Thomas looked very confused and asked St. Peter: "What does the teacher mean?" St.Peter replied: "Don't worry - it's just another one of his parabolas."   Q: What's a polar bear?A: A rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.

Be blessed, stay safe, and have a terrific weekend during the coming of the fall season.   A mathematician, an engineer, and a chemist were walking down the road when they saw a pile of cans of beer. Unfortunately, they were the old-fashioned cans that do not have the tab at the top. One of them proposed that they split up and find can openers. The chemist went to his lab and concocted a magical chemical that dissolves the can top in an instant and evaporates the next instant so that the beer inside is not affected. The engineer went to his workshop and created a new HyperOpener that can open 25 cans per second. They went back to the pile with their inventions and found the mathematician finishing the last can of beer. "How did you manage that?" they asked in astonishment. The mathematician answered, "Oh, well, I assumed they were open and went from there."

Be blessed and have a great weekend.... and if you are on the east coast of the US, stay dry.   Math and Alcohol don't mix, so... PLEASE DON'T DRINK AND DERIVE        

Have a terrific weekend. Enjoy time with the ones you love. Be blessed:  

For those in the States, have a terrific long Labor Day weekend. Be Blessed.   An engineer thinks that his equations are an approximation to reality. A physicist thinks reality is an approximation to his equations. A mathematician doesn't care.   Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.    

Have a terrific weekend and be blessed.   What did the tectonic plates say to each other after the earthquake?     It's not my fault man!   Why was the thermometer smarter than the graduated cylinder?    He had more degrees.   A physicist gets pulled over. The Cap says, "Do you know how fast you were going!?"    Physicist says, "No, but I know exactly where I was."

Be blessed and have a terrific weekend....   What do Batman and 15 Sodium atoms have in common?                 NaNaNaNaNa NaNaNaNaNa NaNaNaNaNa BATMAN!   Why did the electron throw up?                 He was spinning.   Man I really like that band 1023MB. You probably haven’t heard of them though.                 They didn’t have a gig yet.

So, I took my girls to "work" with me.  Here is how we did PTC Family Day! Some cool science experiments with the Acton Discovery Museum, learned from Marketing Director, Mark Gallant, how ThingWorx makes it easy to make giant Oreos? (not really-- cool demonstration of what IoT and AR can do on a Factory floor!)    and Silly hats.  Of course, the day would not be complete for my dog lovers without hanging out with PTC Social DeAnna and meeting some PTC Dogs!  What kind of "Family Day" events do you do at your workplace?  Please post a reply.  

There is a fine line between a numerator and a denominator.     Have a terrific weekend, Dale

Be blessed:  

It will be a hot one here this weekend. I hope you can enjoy time doing what you like.   Rugged. (Needs major equipment to lift it.) Robust. (More than rugged.) Light weight. (A little less than rugged.) Fax it to me. (I'm too lazy to write it down.) I haven't gotten your email. (It's been days since I've checked my email.)

Enjoy time with the ones you love this weekend.   Tell us your interpretation. (Let's hear your bull.) We'll look into it. (Forget it! We've got so many other problems already, we'll never get to it.) No maintenance. (If it breaks, we can't fix it.) Low maintenance. (If it breaks, we're no likely able to fix it.) All new. (None of the parts are interchangeable with the previous design.)   Thanks, Dale

Have a great time.... and those at LiveWorks - safe travels.   We're preparing a report with a fresh approach. (We just hired a couple of kids out of college.) Preliminary operational tests proved inconclusive. (It blew up when we flipped the switch.) Test results proved extremely gratifying. (Yahoo! It actually worked.) Please read and initial. (We want to spread around the responsibility.) Tell us what you are thinking. (We'll listen, but if it disagrees with what we've already done or are planning to do, forget it.)   Thanks, Dale

So...does this mean we really really really want it to be 45° but only .250 ish otherwise we would have said 45° x .250x.250x.250, right?  

Have a terrific weekend. Enjoy time with the ones you love.   Close project coordination. (We met together and had coffee.) Years of development. (It finally worked.) Energy saving. (Turn off the power to save electricity.)We'll have to abandon the entire concept. (The only person who understood the thing just quit.) We had a major technological breakthrough. (It's boring, but it looks high tech.)