Tales from the Engineering Floor – Jabba’s Books

October 28, 2008

Jabba has decided to share his knowledge of the oil and gas industry with the world at large. Here are the first three books in the series:

If you want to place a pre-order, send a donation, and it will be taken off the price of the books when he ships. I’ll see if I can get some preview pages as well.


Tales from the Engineering Floor – Exorcism

October 22, 2008

Jabba must have been on fine form the past few days. He contributed the following story as a comment, but I just have to promote it to article status:

Does anyone know how to perform an exorcism. I was wondering what would happen if we try to perform an exorcism on some of the engineers in the office. It’d be a good movie to make…

Here’s a possible dialog-

Exorcist: “I command you, leave this body.”
Possessed Engineer: “Sorry sir, it’s after 5pm, come back tomorrow.”

Exorcist: “I command you, leave this body.”
Possessed Engineer: “Sorry, need to wait for the datasheet from the Process Department before we can do anything.”

Exorcist: “I command you, leave this body, you Spawn of Satan.”
Possessed Engineer: “Don’t know how, it is not in the PETRONAS Technical Standards.”

Exorcist: “I command you, leave this body.”
Possessed Engineer: “Not part of deliverables.”

This could go on forever, until you give in and accept every piece of crap the possessed engineer throws at you.

Definitely going into the ‘Anecdotes of the Engineer.’


Jabba’s Den – Exclusive Scoop

May 13, 2008

Jabba is building himself a fan base. Some have even said that Jabba and Wata are the same person, kinda like Sidious and Palpatine. Nah, Jabba’s office is nicer, as the photos below attest:
Photo of Jabba\'s den

and

Jabba\'s fan mail

Notice Jabba endorses Casio calculators. Later he will send Bib Fortuna over there to collect the royalties if he is a good mood, or all their assets if he follows SOP. And let them retain their lives.