Re: New Google Scholar search engine

From: Rich The Philosophizer (null_at_example.net)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:42:05 GMT

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:47:04 +0000, Guy Macon wrote:

>
> Rich Grise wrote:
>
>>Heh. Thanks for this, Guy, but just because I'm addicted to the
>>illusion of integrity, I have to report that I'm not a "real" Engineer.
>>The closest I could really technically get might be "de facto" engineer,
>>with a lower-case 'e', but things like "engineering technologist,"
>>"engineering consultant", and so on might sound impressive, but the
>>"highest" I've ever "officially" got along those lines has been
>>engineering tech.
>
> Time to expose this fraud... <grin>
>
> Folks, I had lunch with Rich one fine day. Don't believe what he
> say above; he knows more than quite a few who have "engineer" as
> their job titles.
>
> As for education, consider Michael Faraday, the discoverer of
...
> All without a scrap of formal education.

Um, is this kind of a left-handed complement? Yes, we had lunch, and you
bought, but I do, in fact, have a scrap or two of formal education. I'd
prefer to think of myself as an Edison who hasn't found his Rockefeller
yet, or a Tesla - yeah, that's the one! ;-)

Maybe it's safe to post this:
http://home.earthlink.net/~entheos_engineering/

You'll see my self-listed job title, "Contract Inventor."

But thanks for the publicity!

Cheers!
Rich

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