cerealjoe | TEH BRAIN - decipher that. (Reply)

Let me tell you about a pet peeve of mine about mechanical engineering research (and well, most research) - acronyms. Yes, everything has a witty acronym. Every single tool, theorem, method, etc. is not a name made out of words, it's an acronym made of up of random letters from some words describing the tool... why yes, the "duper super fantastic unlimited" tool would be USEFUL - dUper SupEr Fantastic UnLimited tool. It makes sense, perfectly!

Obviously that example is a tad extreme but sometimes you fall on some stuff it just makes you wonder how long the guys spent working on that.

All this because in the scope of my work I was told that it would be cool not to call my project "bla bla bla tool" but rather come up with a flashy name... and then later I have to find a name (read "acronym") for my future research project. Obviously I'm not creative enough to come up with anything great... so I've put the first letters together to make a pseudo word but that actually sounds nice. But I was told that when it gets deciphered (we're not researchers for nothing, we love deciphering random acronyms) the "early" aspect doesn't appear. So I just added an "E" at the front.

If you've read this far and have understood a bit of the content, bravo. Just rereading the text made me cringe at the confusion it generates in my own head and I'm supposed to understand myself.

Argh. Let's move on to something that destroys my mind a bit less... the Zeiss. Yep, still totally in love with it. 1963 must have been a good year! And the colours, I love how the colours came out, the Kodak Gold is always pretty good but here it seems even better.