Stijn!!

[Jim Richards]

I need a vacation. Just sayin'

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

I mean the latter applies to everybody except the good Doctor and Tweezers.Please tell me is there metro underneath this macho mania? Operators are standing by to take your calls.....

I will admit to wearing nice clothes, cologne, and having my hair cut by a "stylist"...

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by HHI944

Ok, fuch it, I'll say it again: marry me tweeze!

You really are a slow learner aren't you?

[Jim Richards]

Oh Sidney!

[porsche4life]

What?

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

I will admit to wearing nice clothes, cologne, and having my hair cut by a "stylist"...

a Stylist?? in OK?

BWHAHAHAHAHAAahahahahaha!

[Jim Richards]

You're on the verge of metro. Please tell us you don't style your eyebrows. That would be too much.

[porsche4life]

Nope, my eyebrows are safe.

[GH85Carrera]

I saw my stylist Saturday. She trims my hair, eyebrows, mustache & beard and sometimes my ears!

The first time I had ever heard the term metro-sexual was her talking about one of her other customers. The guy get his hair cut one a week. He wears makeup, and always designer clothes and shoes. Then there is me. I show up in yard mowing shorts & a t-shirt I got for donating blood. My hair is mostly Grey. She does the dye job on many of her customers. She told me I was the most un-metro-sexual she knows. I thanked her.

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

The really good ones are really pricey. But like I said for learning, get the sub 100 auto dark from HF. We use them all the time in our shop.

The thing that bugged me was that depending on how far I had my head from the weld the mask would lighten while the arc was still going. I imagine the same thing would happen welding around tubes. So I'd have to work around that with the non-adjustable ones.

[Flieger]

I do not follow fashion trends at all. I have worn shorts, T-shirt, comfy athletic shoes (with low tops for more freedom of motion) and anxle socks every day for so many years I don't even remember how long its been. 10 years? That's almost half my life.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Flieger

I do not follow fashion trends at all. I have worn shorts, T-shirt, comfy athletic shoes (with low tops for more freedom of motion) and ankle socks every day for so many years I don't even remember how long its been. 10 years? That's almost half my life.

Same here. I wear shorts & t-shirt to work and play all summer. In the winter I go to jeans & a t-shirt. Getting dressed up for me is a shirt with buttons & a collar. At every Porsche Parade there are a few nights that the dress code for dinner is "business casual" but I feel certain their version of business casual is not my version. Shorts and a t-shirt would be out of place when most guys are wearing ties. I actually had to buy some new shoes that were not white walking shoes. I have a pair of black dress shoes that I got married in, some old work boots and my daily white walking shoes. Oh and a pair of snow boots for days when it is deep snow and some waterproof hiking shoes for the days it is light snow. That is it. I also had to buy some new slacks because the old slacks (Dockers) are what I wore to work for years at my old job and that was about 8 years ago.

I refuse to wear a tie. Ain't gonna do it ever again. Get off of my lawn!

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by tweezers74

Just for you, Flieger... Happy Monday.

The key is to find a girl that was a former nerd, like me. Well, not former. I guess if a nerd, always a nerd. Nerds are a good thing. Smart, quick and witty humor, and usually the sweetest guys ever. I have a thing for nerds. So embrace it! When I was younger, I hated being known as a nerd but nowadays, I like to be the intelligent gal.

And get it? HTML? Ha ha ha ha!!!!

Thanks Tweeze. Mechanical engineers are in a separate classification of anorak from computer nerds but I have no problem with it. Never have. I always kind of enjoyed the sort of exile from popular culture. Being outside looking in really gives one a sense of the "big picture".

Maybe I've just been listening to too much acid rock and 60's folk.

Anyway, yeah. There needs to be more women in engineering!

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by Flieger

Thanks Tweeze. Mechanical engineering is a separate classification of anorak from computer nerds but I have no problem with it. Never have. I always kind of enjoyed the sort of exile from popular culture. Being outside looking in really gives one a sense of the "big picture".

Maybe I've just been listening to too much acid rock and 60's folk.

Anyway, yeah. There needs to be more women in engineering!

I met my wife-to-be in Thermodynamics class. She's a Civil Engineer, I'm an Electrical Engineer. When I was in school, there were a lot of asian women in engineering school. Quite a few good looking ones. The hardest thing to decide was whether you're more interested in Chinese, Vietnamese, etc.

[Flieger]

There's a cute girl in my Mechanical Controls class who was also in my Mechanical Vibrations class. The lecture portion, not the lab. I don't think I've seen her in any other classes. But I've never talked to her.

Chinese vs. Vietnamese would be hard for me to choose since blue eyes are my weakness.

[Jim Richards]

LOL. When I was in engineering school, there were pretty much no non-asian women in any of my classes. So, if you didn't get excited about dark hair, brown-eyed girls, you had to look outside of the engineering school.

BTW, my wife is Chinese.

[Flieger]

Funny thing is the percentage of the women engineers here who are Asian seems pretty low. Although there are a lot of Asians here, apparently Cal Poly is highly regarded in Japan or something. Or at least that is what I had heard when I was applying.

[tweezers74]

I come from a family of engineers. My dad, mechanical. My aunt, chemical. Cousin, mechanical. My dad actually told me not to become an engineer. Lol! I was more interested in the biology sciences than math and physics, even though inwas good at them. So like any other good Vietnamese girl, I aimed for medical school. But then when I found out how much time MDs spend with patients and that many MDs don't have a lot of spare time, I went for nursing. Think my dad cried that day. So I had all classes of females. Maybe you guys should have been nursing majors.

[Flieger]

No thanks. I get squeemish and I hate being in hospitals. Plus, you may be able to tell I am not a "people person". Which makes me well suited for engineering.

I would get along fine with girls in other majors as long as it involved some sort of science or engineering. I did well in Biology in high school since it was mostly the organic engineering of cells and such.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by tweezers74

I come from a family of engineers. My dad, mechanical. My aunt, chemical. Cousin, mechanical. My dad actually told me not to become an engineer. Lol! I was more interested in the biology sciences than math and physics, even though inwas good at them. So like any other good Vietnamese girl, I aimed for medical school. But then when I found out how much time MDs spend with patients and that many MDs don't have a lot of spare time, I went for nursing. Think my dad cried that day. So I had all classes of females. Maybe you guys should have been nursing majors.

You out smarted yourself, tweezers! You should've listened to your dad! As an example, my son is now an MD and although he works a lot, including some long stretches, he gets to surf a lot (in SoCal). And snowboard in the winter. So, being a MD isn't all bad.

If it makes you feel better, his GF is Vietnamese.