"Higher Education" deserves what is going to happen to them within the next decade. An on line paradigm is going clock all of these charlatans.  I have seen the tide coming with my own boys who both have several on line class with the colleges.  Same credit as the on campus classes and seems to have much better access to professors, not english hampered TA's.

There is a house in Laurel Maryland with a caved-in impression of my backside in the wall, now covered by paneling..... I so get this video.

Last monday was the AARP entry one for me.  A wake up mention from the wife in the morning, a call from the mom @ work, and a Chinese buffet for dinner with the kids. Even all that felt like to much.

Mollie;

Does Mark know you have a lefty boyfriend at the office? This would make great fodder for the Fight of the Week .  You know what is good the goose, etc. etc.... on the next edition of the overdue podcast of The Hemingways.

My wife really enjoys listening to those podcasts while I make her breakfast.

Meh

Dave;

You cannot have her, my profession has a greater need, and besides her geeky nerd-like qualities definitely suggests engineering runs in her veins. How do I insert the smiley face here.

So who is our Reagan (or Thatcher)?

QBF

First two hit from googling "engineering job prospects".

here and here,  about what I hear from our interns.

I entered the market in the post Carter malaise, prior to the Reagan boom. This is market is as bad as that period was, I had three offers by graduation.

I have met Mark on a NR cruise... great guy, but he does have an important agenda and gathers material to boost that POV.

My global societal perspective on the engineer vs lawyer (FWIW); The former helps create the pies, the later divides them up with whatever cut they can take for their services. The larger that cut by the later, the less inclined is the former to bake them.

I was the "one" engineer in 1980, and I feel like "we" are losing the battle for societal relevance.  Amy's employment outcome is the end effect of the "get rich at other's expense" lawyer mania back in the 80's and 90's.

Amy's intelligence suggest she would have made a damn fine engineer. We need them to replace me, and I still have not heard that we have a glut of STEM majors given the urge to hand out H1B Visa's to engineers.

Wait till they get ahold of the hiring practices of the Hooters corporation.

I do not think this will be a problem, except that I have heard the devil does not like the competition. 

My Lord is this hate fest still cooking???

I can not bring myself to unfollow this vile thread and I hate myself for reading everyone  of these 2182 posts.

arghhhh stick me with a fork.

Composting pet? I thought they all created compost...

It has wings that can be pivoted back along the fuselage.  The final year of assembly was in my garage which is next to the the double door basement.  I am thinking of building another plane, but a bigger four passenger one. None fit without some dismantling. Pity 

I was expecting "What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow", which I could answer....

Seriously though, I recently posted a blurb on the real risks associated with nuclear power which is something that many folks in our society need to be able to rationally vote upon.  But this test suggests as Derb would say, "We are doomed".

Mine is the airplane I stared at for 8 years while building it in my basement. It seems like a significant chunk of my personal ethos, plus I think it is more interesting to looks at than my mug.  The image is from the day it took it first taxi test. Perhaps I should change it to this one which was it's maiden flight.

It celebrated it's first birthday four days ago,