So far, I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to write here, but I’m sure I’ll think of something. I guess I can start with the origin of the very dumb name of this site. I was sitting with my 3 year old daughter watching Peppa Pig when I couldn’t stop noticing how much the shape of Peppa’s head matches a certain style of centrifugal pump drawing I have seen on Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams. Since I was not following the plot of the episode very closely, I whipped up the following diagram with the help of MS Paint:
Not content to let such a remarkably idiotic and engineering-specific sight gag go to waste, I decided I must find an appropriate domain to host such things. VeryProfessionalEngineer.com fit the bill perfectly. Unfortunately, when I went back to find a more appropriate web address for more serious matters, I found that most were taken. So here we are. We’ll see where this goes.