Jeffrey Lebowski, PE Tech, Electrical
DRIVING TO WORK AT THE DOUGLAS ENGINEERING DEPT. LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
The Dude, memorialized by my Avitar was a Douglas Electrical Engineer who like Steve Jobs, physically went to the Stanford campus, mostly because the acid & weed were cheaper there. Then, as you know he met the Nihlists, who changed his life. Nihlism is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Electrical nihilists assert that electricity does not inherently exist, and that any established values (voltage, cycles, amps) are abstractly contrived. Nihilism can also take epistemological or ontological/metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or that reality does not actually exist.
The term is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence that one may develop upon realising there are no necessary norms, rules, or laws of physics. (or in Minnesota speak ... Captain ... "
that's different", First Officer "...,
whatever")
Now that you know Jeffrey Lebowski, who was one of the most distinguished nihilistic electrical engineers who ever graduated from a correspondence course in California, designed the system, this thoughts and madness you can better appreciate why schematics do not begin to explain the continuously variable, unknown, and unknowable electrical system he designed.
Wozniak, on acid, probably could figure it out. You or me? We just take these things on faith in little blue lights.
Recall the difference between a new MD88 pilot and an experienced MD88 pilot.
- New pilot: Delta 1407 what's your assigned...? [LEFT]"Holy Crap! Did you see what it did?"[/LEFT
- Experienced: it did that again ... Delta 1407 what's your assigned XXX ?... "whatever"