Aug 17
Why Engineers Shouldn’t Draw Pictures
Everyone knows that engineers and artists are two different kinds of people. It is thought that one is logical and the other is creative.
One thing that is known for sure is that artists shouldn’t be in charge of making programs work, and engineers shouldn’t be charge of making things look good.
I came across this fact of the life the other day slaving away for my 3 bosses. I was given this by one of them.
This was the picture one of my bosses (an engineer) drew to show me what his idea about an app should look like. This was supposed to be a thermometer and a compass. All I’m sayin’ is the thing on the left doesn’t look like a thermometer.
August 17th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Your boss has a strange vision of a thermometer. Definitely Freudian haha.
August 17th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
It looks like something dirty a drunk guy would draw on a cocktail napkin to get his point across.
August 17th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Words fail me and I’m glad Brown Baron said it first!
August 17th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
I won’t even say what I thought it was. (Bad Sassy, Bad Sassy), but I can’t say a word because I failed art class. My first assignment was to draw a whale, it looked more like Nemo. And after that I didn’t attempt it again.
August 17th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Isn’t that thing on the right the Millennium Falcon?
August 17th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Hang on, I have to quit laughing first. I’m just wondering who’s temperature you boss is going to take with that thing. LOL
That is way too funny. You might want to remove the pen from your boss’s hand. LOL
August 17th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
That is a great doodle. My first impression was not too far from Angela’s.
It is only a general rule though. I am mostly invloved in programing, but recently did the design for a site (http://www.mutinydesign.co.uk) and one of the best graphic designers I know is also fluent in ASP and ActionScript.
August 17th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
That definately looks like a thermometer. I also have one, yet my parents told me is very expensive tool and, to prevent being stolen, I keep it hidden when I`m in public places.
Today`s days, if google-ing for proper term, lot of thermometers pics and videos can be find on net, mostly durring plain action of themperature measuring ..
August 18th, 2007 at 1:52 am
“That definately looks like a thermometer. I also have one, yet my parents told me is very expensive tool and, to prevent being stolen, I keep it hidden when I`m in public places.
Today`s days, if google-ing for proper term, lot of thermometers pics and videos can be find on net, mostly durring plain action of themperature measuring ..”
LOL. I simply don’t know what else to say.
August 18th, 2007 at 2:07 am
I thought that thing on the right was Patrick from SpongeBob.
August 18th, 2007 at 2:38 am
I’m going to be the one guy that claims the thermometer doesn’t look like a penis (oh wait I just did, didn’t I?). If you tilt the drawing to the left 90 degrees, it looks like a spoon.
A penis spoon.
August 18th, 2007 at 11:21 am
@Mutiny – You may be the exception to the rule ha ha. Very nice site btw and best of luck with that!
August 19th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
That’s awful. Engineers should definitely not draw pictures. Too funny!
hahahaha
August 20th, 2007 at 6:03 am
@Danielle – I hope that put a smile on your face. (#):)
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:38 pm
LOL, I saw the picture before I got a chance to read your text, and I knew exactly where you were headed! The only thing I wasn’t able to guess was that it was supposed to be a thermometer!
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
@Matt – Ha ha. You weren’t the only one who couldn’t connect those dots. The hardest part about the whole thing was I already in a “I can’t take work anymore today” mood so when he drew this, all I could say to myself was just, “Did that just really happen?”
August 23rd, 2007 at 1:09 pm
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August 23rd, 2007 at 1:55 pm
LOL@ Brown Baron’s comments. This was a great post! Thank you for the laughs! I found you through Opal’s site.
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:12 pm
@Tenni – Well hello Teeni. I’m glad you stopped over! Hope to be seeing more of you in the future!
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Is this soon enough? LOL. Just checking responses! I will be back again.
August 26th, 2007 at 8:28 am
@Teeni – I hope so. (#):)
September 5th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Hey Bush, I found another “thermometer” for you. LOL
Revver Displays An Erect Penis On Their Homepage?!
I linked to you at the bottom.
Shine on,
Aaron
September 5th, 2007 at 9:58 am
@Aaron – Good lord. HA HA I think you got my picture beat hands down!
June 21st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Great way of proving a point, you could look at it as one of those ink blot type things were you make your own choice at what you see. Picasso for instance makes brilliant paintings as i am told but to me they look a mess.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
@WebDevPerson – Well that’s no good. (#):)