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Have a terrific weekend and be blessed:   Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and when the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, crashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin. Horrified Britons sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for suggestions. NASA's response was just one sentence, "THAW THE CHICKE

Have a terrific weekend   Customer satisfaction is believed to be assured. (We're so far behind schedule that the customer will settle for anything.) Please see me / Let's discuss it. (I need your help. I've screwed up again.) The project is in process. (It's so tied up in red tape that it's completely hopeless.) We're trying a number of different approaches. (We still guessing, at this point.) We're following the standard. (We've always done it this way.)  

Friday humor on Thursday. Be blessed and in the US, remember those who have gone before us this Memorial Day.     Dale  

Time is Running Out: Cast Your Vote Today!   Voting for the 2018 Auggie Awards ends on Thursday, May 17. The top five products in each category will advance to the final rounds based on public voting, and we need your vote to help make sure PTC makes the cut.     This year, PTC is nominated in four important categories of Best Developer Tool for Vuforia Engine, Best Creator & Authoring Tool for Studio, Best Consumer App for Vuforia Chalk, and Best Enterprise Solution for HBR3.     Time is Running Out: Cast Your Vote Today! Vote Before May 17! Vuforia Engine: Best Developer Tool category Studio: Best Creator & Authoring Tool category Vuforia Chalk: Best Consumer App category HBR3: Best Enterprise Solution category You can cast a vote from each of your devices, so vote from your phone and tablet, and ask your colleagues, friends, and family to vote!  About the Auggie Awards As part of 

So, the LiveWorx Team and a couple of our VPs, wanted to be the first to wish our community "Happy Cinco de Mayo!"    What are your weekend plans?    

Q: Why do they never serve beer at a math party? A: Because you can't drink and derive...   Q: Why wont Goldilocks drink a glass of water with 8 pieces of ice in it? A: It's too cubed.   Q: What's the integral of (1/cabin)d(cabin)? A: A natural log cabin!   Q: What is the first derivative of a cow? A: Prime Rib!   Q: What is the value of the contour integral around Western Europe? A: Zero. Q: Why? A: Because all poles are in Eastern Europe!   Q: How does a mathematician induce good behavior in her children? A: "I've told you n times, I've told you n+1 times..."   Q: What does the Ph.D. in math with a job say to the Ph.D. in math without a job? A: "Paper or plastic?"   Q: What's the derivative of Amazon with respect to cost of shipping? A: Amazon Prime! Be blessed and have a terrific weekend. Dale

Since we know a certain someone who likes her emojis:     Have a blessed weekend, Dale

We're celebrating PTC Earth Week here at PTC.  The next 5 days we are having the grand office swap and give away.  There will be a pile of stuff for FREE sitting in a section of our cafeteria for anyone to take, but what is even cooler is the "One Volunteer.  One Tree. One PTC Campaign."  PTC will donate one tree for every employee who volunteers their time during PTC Earth Week.  In other words, one volunteer equals part of our "One Tree World" by literally growing our own forest.   !   What are you doing or what is your office doing to celebrate the Earth this month?   Please post pictures!   Best,   Jaime Lee

Have a blessed Easter and enjoy time with your family.   Thanks, Dale  

Have a terrific weekend. Spend some time with the ones you love.   Thanks, Dale

Have a fabulous weekend and enjoy time with the ones you love.   A Programmer and an Engineer A programmer and an Engineer are sitting next to each other on a long flight from Los Angeles to New York. The Programmer leans over to the Engineer and asks if he would like to play a fun game. The Engineer just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks.   The Programmer persists and explains that the game is real easy and a lotta fun. He explains, "I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me $5. Then you ask me a question, and if I don’t know the answer, I pay you $5."   Again the Engineer politely declines and tries to get to sleep.   The Programmer, now somewhat agitated, says "Ok, if you don’t know the answer, you pay me $5, and if I don’t know the answer, I’ll pay you $50!"   This catches the engineer’s attention, and he sees no end to this torment unless he plays, so he agrees to the gam

Have a terrific weekend     Thanks, Dale

Today at PTC we celebrated International Women's Day (YES, I know a week later---last Thursday was snowed out). We enjoyed learning about the great accomplishments in tech by women!  I would love to hear about how a female mentor has been influential in your career or life in general. Here is your chance to make someone SHINE or give THANKS!  I owe all to my mom!  Many sacrifices made along the way and now still sacrificing for the well-being of her grandchildren! 🙂             

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Have a terrific weekend.     Be blessed, Dale

My family enjoyed the USA Luge Challenge this weekend!  Yes, I even took a spin down the hill.  What did y'all do this weekend?   

Have a great weekend and in tribute to my late aunt who would have had a birthday on Sunday   Q. What day was the world commanded to go forward (See below)     A. March 4th.   Be blessed, Dale

Have a great weekend and if you have any parties, here are some moves for you:  

Be blessed and have a great weekend.   An engineer is someone who uses a slide rule to multiply two by two; gets an answer of 3.99 and calls it 4 to the nearest significant figure.

Thought the community peeps might like a picture of their Community Manager learning about iOT and virtual reality.  These are some of my teammates (the power behind PTC Marketing Automation/ Operations) with our  iOT University guide, Than.         

The kids are happy here! About 280 schools closed for a snow day. Have a terrific weekend and be blessed.   And don't be so negative.....  

Have a great weekend - to bad Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow - six more weeks of winter  🙂  

Hopefully it is not time to panic  ......    yet! Have a terrific weekend.

Have a blessed weekend!!!