The Case List, Version 2.1
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Written by: rxv8, paf4, sxp22, kak2, jcg8, ewb4, jst8, njw2 and tlk3 (@po.cwru.edu)
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YOU KNOW YOU'RE AT CASE WHEN:
- Personal relationships are analogous to StarTrek episodes.
- Even the band cheers are equations.
- You talk in SI units.
- More people understand '42' than '69'.
- Einstein T-shirts outnumber heavy metal.
- You remember people by their Freenet ID.
- 2 + 2 = (-4)*exp(i*pi)
- You know your computer better than your girlfriend or boyfriend.
- Lewd comments are often related to computer hardware.
- Physics is the high point of your day.
- Calculus is your blow off course.
- You hear a conversation about the inconsistencies in last night's
ST:TNG episode -- and understand!
- Free body diagrams excite you.
- You see -Picard-Riker '92- bumper stickers everywhere.
- You show up at the football games to laugh at your own team.
- You consider getting your computer silicon implants.
- Your molecular model kit is a fun toy.
- You discuss nucleophilic substitution over dinner.
- The movie Real Genius is autobiographical.
- You understand that 'Bohr' is not a verb.
- Foundation is a social handbook.
- You think of Gallium as a sex toy.
- S'n'M follows SNL.
- Trans-1,2-dibenzoylethylene is one of the words that you type rapidly.
- Social status is determined by Computer Power and number of network accounts.
- You talk to your suite mates via E-mail due to:
- Not being seen by them for over a week.
- This being your normal mode of communication with people in the next room.
- You find yourself wishing the washer and dryer were networked to CWRUnet and
a message would pop up on your computer screen when your laundry is done.
- You find yourself anticipating your weekly trip to Microcenter more
than your upcoming date on Saturday.
- You are able to pass a large inductor without wincing!
- You make a rodent wheel for your mouse because it looks bored sitting
there in DOS...
- Your purity test score is two times as high as your IQ.
- You regularly refer to an integration table at lunch...
- You determine experimentally that the half life of a Fribley french fry
is less than that of plutonium.
- You verify Heisenberg's uncertanty principle by noticing that you can
never be quite certain where the Fribley burger you just ate is and how
fast it's going.
- You walk by two frat guys and you hear one say "Dude, I was really
drunk last night when I tried to set up my FTP server"
- People get into screaming fights over whether to use cgs or mks units.
- There are late night discussions of the merits of hp calculators at
Denny's.
You understand more than 10% of the above references.
The ideal woman to a Case engineering geek would:
- Have a complete understanding of Matlab, Mathematica, and PSpice.
- Like men with large and fast computers.
- Consider IRC a form of sex.
- Use the Zeno Paradox as a method of birth control.
- Prefer sex to Thermodynamics, but not Differential Equations.
- Find pocket protectors sexy.
- Think Kibo truly is a god.
- Truly understand Beavis and Butthead.
- Cook, clean, and fix the car.
- Be able to explain the meaning of existance without needing to introduce the concept of 42.