I'm having a meal with some people, including Kipp from the climbing club. I show him an op-amp circuit that I'm designing at work, and he doesn't like it. "You don't even need this here", he says, "don't you know about the third rule?"

"You can't delete that", I respond, "the diodes are the whole point, the circuit won't work without them."

"No, that" he says, pointing to a 54k feedback resistor. "You don't even need that. Where did you go to school?"

I tell him that I went to University of Portland, and I took all the analog design classes they had, but I didn't know about this rule. He explains that it means if something is more than three times more than something else, the latter doesn't matter.

There was another scene involving a house, and a small hole that we couldn't climb through, but by breaking away part of it, we discovered that it was big enough. And then I'm explaining a problem, a strange contagious thing that infects metal objects, which can then infect other objects. To make things even more complicated, I explain, metal objects can also infect non-metal objects to some degree. Somehow I conquered it.