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homodachiI was thinking about joining the Society of Women Engineers to get my nerd-girl networking on, and then I saw the Pacific Northwest regional chapter's website. Holy shhhhhhhhhhhhhhwtfomgomgomg
...I guess I should think of it as an opportunity to contribute to the group but it just seems like a giant warning sign. =/
Also:
...I guess I should think of it as an opportunity to contribute to the group but it just seems like a giant warning sign. =/
Also:
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Date: 2010-01-04 06:01 am (UTC)my problem is that when i'm job hunting, and i come across a website that looks godawful, i immediately write off the group as scallywags and can't take anything they say seriously. speaking in general terms, i always think: "this is the public face of your organization, and you can't even make it load properly or look decent?? then why should i join your group??"
and speaking of proper html, allow me to present
SWE PN chapter: No, no, I just want you to know... I just want you to know how sorry we are that things got so fucked up with our website. We got into this thing with the best intentions and I never...
SWE PN chapter: What?
SWE PN chapter: What? What? Wh - ?
SWE PN chapter: What?
SWE PN chapter: Yes! Yes!
SWE PN chapter: Yes!
SWE PN chapter: What?
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Date: 2010-01-04 08:01 am (UTC)totally with you on the reaction to crappy websites. butbutbut they purport to represent female engineers! >O
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Date: 2010-01-04 11:24 pm (UTC)---
...
SWE PN chapter: What?
SWE PN chapter: It v-v-validates...
SWE PN chapter: It's markup...
SWE PN chapter: What?
SWE PN chapter: No!
SWE PN chapter: I didn't.
"It v-v-validates..."
Date: 2010-01-05 12:00 am (UTC)Re: "It v-v-validates..."
Date: 2010-01-05 04:31 am (UTC)also, in random news, i got the sartorialist for christmas and the first thing i thought was "boy oh boy, mon's going to be jealous!" XD
Re: "It v-v-validates..."
Date: 2010-01-05 07:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-05 04:38 pm (UTC)Maybe it's part of an elaborate initiation process: prospective members who tactfully offer to redesign the website are invited to join the Society for Women Engineers with Exceptional Taste, an elite crack team that gets invited to all the good parties.
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Date: 2010-01-05 08:23 pm (UTC)Oh well, I'm sure I can find other tech girls at regular industry gatherings. =)
What do you think, fellow woman of tech? Who do you usually talk shop with?
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Date: 2010-01-09 09:49 pm (UTC)How do you get involved with these industry gatherings? Is there an expected minimum experience level?
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Date: 2010-01-17 09:20 pm (UTC)I guess I kind of stumble across events based on what I'm interested in... I like advertising & graphic design, so I keep an eye on the events calendar at the design firm down the street. I love UI design so I'm planning to start going to CHIFOO events.
Go, Region J! Fight! Fight! Fight! Engineer! Engineer! Engineer!
Date: 2010-03-04 07:28 am (UTC)[I've had such a tune running through my head for a while now, overrunning every decent tune I usually have running through my head. I think I made it up, but it could have been something I absorbed unwittingly from somewhere. Most likely it's a tune I heard somewhere and subconsciously reworked it quite a bit in the futile hope of increasing the hipness molecule content of a "fight song" kind of tune, which is something direly lacking in hipness molecules, unless maybe it can be shuffled into a minor key, or have John Cage or Neil Innes or Charles Mingus or Charles Ives or Captain Beefheart rework it.]
But it could work for Region J even in its present major key. It just needs some words, some engineerin' words, like "reinforced concrete" and "amperage" and "XML." Not to mention GHz. Maybe the whole thing should be 3-letter abbrevs and acronyms.
Damn, I was going to get to sleep early, until this weirdness took over. Sorry, both to you and to me.
What's funny is that right now I can't "hear" the tune, though I'm afraid it will be back in the morning.
Go, Region J! Fight! Fight! Fight! Engineer! Engineer! Engineer!
Date: 2010-03-04 07:28 am (UTC)[I've had such a tune running through my head for a while now, overrunning every decent tune I usually have running through my head. I think I made it up, but it could have been something I absorbed unwittingly from somewhere. Most likely it's a tune I heard somewhere and subconsciously reworked it quite a bit in the futile hope of increasing the hipness molecule content of a "fight song" kind of tune, which is something direly lacking in hipness molecules, unless maybe it can be shuffled into a minor key, or have John Cage or Neil Innes or Charles Mingus or Charles Ives or Captain Beefheart rework it.]
But it could work for Region J even in its present major key. It just needs some words, some engineerin' words, like "reinforced concrete" and "amperage" and "XML." Not to mention GHz. Maybe the whole thing should be 3-letter abbrevs and acronyms.
Damn, I was going to get to sleep early, until this weirdness took over. Sorry, both to you and to me.
What's funny is that right now I can't "hear" the tune, though I'm afraid it will be back in the morning.
Re: Go, Region J! Fight! Fight! Fight! Engineer! Engineer! Engineer!
Date: 2010-03-05 05:01 am (UTC)We are the women engineers of Region J,
And if blah-blah-blah-blah, we will make your day.
Etc. etc. etc.
Blah blah blah
(to be continued...?)
Re: Go, Region J! Fight! Fight! Fight! Engineer! Engineer! Engineer!
Date: 2010-03-05 05:15 am (UTC)We are the women engineers of Region J,
And if blah-blah-blah-blah, we will make your day.
Etc. etc. etc.
Blah blah blah
(to be continued...?)
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Date: 2010-03-04 08:15 am (UTC)"As a result, there is cognizance across the region for implementing succession planning and updating the section bylaws."
If you get rid of whoever wrote that, the website might automagically start looking better, too, eh?
CHIFOO??? Gesundheit!!!
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Date: 2010-03-04 08:16 am (UTC)