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Ask An Engineer - What FRUSTRATES you?

Submitted by Jam on August 27, 2010 - 2:53pm

Every month we ask our panel of engineers a general question from a reader. Have a question? Send us an email!

Andrew asks:

What part of your job frustrates you the most?

Jim - Cement Industry, Pennsylvania, USA

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BOOK ONE: WE ARE THE ENGINEERS

Submitted by Jam on August 10, 2010 - 11:54pm

Oh WHAT'S THIS?

So people have been asking me for a long time to make a book collection of Wasted Talent. But guys, it is not that simple!

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Ask an Engineer! ESCAPE from CUBICLE HELL!

Submitted by Jam on July 22, 2010 - 8:05pm

Brittany asks:

I’m a MechE student, and I love it - even the homework that makes you stay up all night. Unfortunately, I have despised the two engineering companies I've co-oped with. I love school, but I hate the corporate environment. Is there anywhere I can still be an engineer, but get out of the horrible cubiclefarms?

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Top Five Ways our Wedding was Epic

Submitted by Jam on July 18, 2010 - 8:31pm

Hey everyone! I feel I need to say something briefly about this before I move on, so here we go - I got married! It was pretty awesome. I have been working on that day for a year and a half. I could write a whole book about the process and the day, but for now I'll just give you the TOP FIVE ways that our wedding day was epic.

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Mini-Hiatus for everything BUT the comic during June...

Submitted by Jam on June 3, 2010 - 1:13pm

Hey everyone, just a quick heads up on a few things:

I'm going kind of crazy lately. It's nothing serious, but finishing the wedding planning, undertaking a major home renovation and trying to finish the book all at the same time is leaving me wanting extra headspace.

So I'm declaring a hiatus -- from everything that's not essential. The comic will still go up weekly (yay) BUT you will notice:

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Ask an Engineer! What inspires you?

Submitted by Jam on May 11, 2010 - 12:51pm

Neil asks:

Who (or what) inspires you as an engineer?

…you actually stumped a few of us with that question, Neil!

Many of our previous questions have demonstrated the breadth of engineering as a discipline, but I think this month’s question has finally revealed what we all have in common. “Just give us an interesting problem to solve and we’ll be happy.”

Jim - Cement Industry, Pennsylvania, USA

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Stumptown 2010 Con Report!

Submitted by Jam on April 29, 2010 - 12:11am

This is my convention report for Stumptown 2010!! Hopefully the video thing will be easier in the future, I had to re-teach myself a bunch of stuff today, heh. AT LEAST It’S DONE. I think I missed one or two “fun”s.

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Ask an Engineer! Commandments of Engineering

Submitted by Jam on April 15, 2010 - 11:44pm

Every month we at http://www.wastedtalent.ca/blog ask our panel of engineers a general question from a reader. Have a question? Send us an email! Jam@wastedtalent.ca

April, 2010

Zroya asks via email:

"What are your "Ten Commandments" of engineering? Infinite honorable mention positions are allowed. :-)"

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ASK AN ENGINEER! – What do Engineers Do Day-to-Day?

Submitted by Jam on March 12, 2010 - 1:01pm

We got so many amazing volunteers for our Ask an Engineer panel; from all disciplines and industries, all around the world! I’m amazed and honoured, so thank you to everyone who wrote in. I had to do some ridiculous editing to make this fit the blog, everyone’s full answers are worth a read and you can get them in this handy pdf!

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NEW BOOK AND NEW CONVENTIONS

Submitted by Jam on February 27, 2010 - 6:37pm

The Fourth and Best Ever Anthology by the Cloudscape Comics Collective is finally here!

Exploded View is a 200+ page collection of Science Fiction comics and there are some really stellar stories in here. Twenty Five artists from British Columbia including Camilla D'Errico, John Christmas, Jordyn Bochon, Coleen MacIsaac, Jonathon Dalton, Jeff Ellis and Yours Truly!