Engineers often devise some great practical jokes. No doubt you've been involved in a technical practical joke more than once. Perhaps the greatest practical joke that required some technology and ...

Writing my editor’s note this week got me thinking about my favorite engineering and physics jokes. Have you heard the one about the dairy farmer meeting his daughter's fiancé? The young man is a ...

Engineering humor thrives on the absurd that often seems plausible and sensible. Engineers can take the obvious and turn it into a 12-step experiment. The punchline comes when an engineer solves a ...

I was looking at some old copies of my Editor’s Viewpoint (editorials) and came across this one from 2002 that is still relevant. Paraphrasing the old TV program “People are Funny,” this could be ...

Had to pass this one along. Seems CIA Director David Petraeus made an amusing computer engineering joke to start of his speech at the recent In-Q-Tel CEO Summit. It goes like this: “Well, up front, I ...