It amazes me that the Earth moves at 19miles/s (30 km/s). Every second, right now, you are moving 30,000 metres.
What's the difference between an engineer and a computer scientist?
The engineer thinks a kilobyte is around 1000 bytes, a computer scientist knows a kilometre is 1024 metres.
http://www.sanitarium.net/jokes/getjoke.cgi?59An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shown a pasture with a herd of sheep, and told to put them inside the smallest possible amount of fence. The engineer is first. He herds the sheep into a circle and then puts the fence around them, declaring, "A circle will use the least fence for a given area, so this is the best solution." The physicist is next. She creates a circular fence of infinite radius around the sheep, and then draws the fence tight around the herd, declaring, "This will give the smallest circular fence around the herd." The mathematician is last. After giving the problem a little thought, he puts a small fence around himself and then declares, "I define myself to be on the outside!"
