Of the approx. 100,000 engineer jokes people have sent me, I especially like this one, I’m not sure why: “One engineer sees a friend of his, also an engineer, ride up on a new bike. The first one asks ...

I was looking at some old copies of my Editor’s Viewpoint (editorials) and came across this one from 2002 that is still relevant. Paraphrasing the old TV program “People are Funny,” this could be ...

Writing my editor’s note this week got me thinking about my favorite engineering and physics jokes. Have you heard the one about the dairy farmer meeting his daughter's fiancé? The young man is a ...

The subject line of the message read "Engineering Personality." Now, before going any further, let me apologize to my many engineer friends (and authors) for thinking the phrase announced a joke. Few ...

Had to pass this one along. Seems CIA Director David Petraeus made an amusing computer engineering joke to start of his speech at the recent In-Q-Tel CEO Summit. It goes like this: “Well, up front, I ...

Every good jibe or piece of satire has to have some truth to it, that’s probably why this little piece had me laughing out loud. I ‘borrowed’ it from engineering joke site Tripod: I think we can all ...