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back in the saddle
This is what's called convergence.
First, I went back to my gym-in-the-morning schedule. It makes me 1000% happier. Anyone who doesn't get up at 6a is a heathen.
Next (actually, I've known this since last week, but didn't blog about it), the Monitor ADC works. That was one of the first circuits to be in an known working state once we figured out that there was a PLL problem at powerup (and FIBbed some parts to fix it). It's also completely badass, because that fucker was complex as shit and I was worried that somewhere along the line I'd failed to specify some aspect of the digital controller properly with some catastrophic failure (think: powering the chip up causes a tsunami) as the result. Fortunately, no Pacific Islanders were harmed in the testing of revA silicon—as far as I know...
Third, it appears that as of last night we're confident that the other ADCs are doing their thing. I haven't gotten to testing them just yet (I want to run the piss out of the MADC first), but Ion reported that he was able to get it working in a mode that requires several blocks, the DC ADC included, to work. Hua.
Fourth, I'm spending all my time in the lab now. Damn does it make me happy. I'm an engineer again! I'm soldering shit, poking at stuff with meters and scopes, controlling the thing via USB... OK, scratch that last one (all real engineers—in the Roberge sense—despise USB instinctively).
...and finally, I think I'm becoming convinced that I can actually control the neon JUST FRIENDS sign that apparently floats overtop my head whenever women are around. Who'd'a thunk it?
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Cyrus wrote
Now you're a man! A mann-manny man!
Then turn that fuggin sign off and get in there and fuck, or you'll be sleepin with the fishes, see!
JW Holloway wrote
Indeed!
"Anyone who doesn't get up at 6a is a heathen." I couldn't agree more, ya lazy SOBs. As for your gyming it, here's to a limitied range of motion!
Congrats on the silicon. Pretty badass.
I don't know what to comment on the womens...
-JW
i wrote
Dude
Dude -- I learned today that engineers are highly skeptical and extremely like whoa about biologists. haha Good thing I'm becoming an engineer, I guess... otherwise, ya'll would never take me seriously. =b
Btw, where's the RSS feed for your blog? I'm trying to add it to my bloglines list, but...
Sherv wrote
no man named for the great cyrus
... should be using the word "fug."
Also, if you are convinced that you are becoming attractive, there are two possibilities (as I saw it when I felt the same conviction bloom):
1. You actually are getting some interesting vibes off the ladies. You will be checking their oil soon.
2. You have become so enmeshed in your devil-may-care worldview and studied nonchalance regarding matters of the heart that you no longer understand that you aren't attractive. A vicious cycle of narcissism lies ahead, with your subsequent transformation into the Gorgeous Gerjes blossom merely a footnote to the self-induced pining.
Proceed with caution!
Lubs,
Julian the Apostate
i wrote
Dude
Dude -- I learned today that engineers are highly skeptical and extremely like whoa about biologists. haha Good thing I'm becoming an engineer, I guess... otherwise, ya'll would never take me seriously. =b
Btw, where's the RSS feed for your blog? I'm trying to add it to my bloglines list, but...
Sherv wrote
Buh?
How did you *not* know that, Issel?
repak wrote
why...
...did you never before come up with Gorgeous Gerjes? I shall start using that epithet post-haste.
repak wrote
rss10
http://blog.jfet.org/index.rss10
Sherv wrote
I really don't know...
... why I never came up with Gorgeous Gerjes. I just saw Gorgeous George the other day on Something Awful, though, which gave me the inspiration.
May wrote
That whole friends sign...it only turns on if you neglect to hit on a woman within the window of opportunity when first meeting her. Meet one, hit on her, and you'll be golden. I promise. *Oh, and don't forget to knock her socks off with reasons why she should let you check her oil.*
Come to think of it, it's kinda like a job interview.
Sherv wrote
The dipstick, the oil, the Pentagon soil.
Ahahaha! May, you're the best. Thanks for using my coinage (and I'm not talking about my rock-solid penny roll). Rowr!
I think that you can definitely luck out and have the sign turn off on its own, even if you've not hit on her within whatever narrow window. Witness Leslie deciding that I was the bee's knees months after we met!
woz wrote
down with sherv: sure, you could pick 'em up at a career fair, but maybe there exists the opportunity to woo them again at a trade show. never underestimate the power of connections and information.
silicon is hot.
hippo wrote
sherv, checkin her oil is not your coinage---my lame high school friends said it all the time.
Sherv wrote
THANK YOU CAPITAN DELICIOSO
Fair enough. Maybe I should've said "turn of phrase," since that's more akin to what I meant, in any case.
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