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Thu, 28 Apr 2005

happiness is 

[kwantam@positron ~]$ set -o vi


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Sherv wrote

cuntybones
I thought happiness was gcc -ansi -I/home/group1/shervin/include -L/home/group1/shervin/lib -o fux0r fux0r.c -lm -lgsl -lgslcblas ....

Ariel wrote

Sherv, did you mean to say
make?

repak wrote

LOL
lercoasters.

Sherv wrote

Malebolge
Aw hell naw! Gimme the fuckin' crayon!!11111111one

hot sluts

...er, actually, thermal strippers.

Recently Mike, Ion, and I were sitting around talking about this and that when Ion provided a nugget that I just had to pass along to all y'all.

Ion is from Romania; before he came to the US he was a professor of EE. He's one smart dude, and he's got tons of stories and some damn good interview questions tucked into his sleeves. During our conversation yesterday, we somehow strayed onto the topic of winding inductors. One thing led to another, and I was reminiscing about burning the shit out of my hands trying to get the shellack off of Litz wire. Ion said to me, "well, of course, you just use Aspirin, right?"

Turns out, if you put the Litz on top of an Aspirin tablet (no fancy enteric coating or any of that shit) and heat it with a soldering iron, the salicylic acid reacts with the insulation and it's gone in no time.

Bad ass.


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Scott wrote


That's totally sweet. Of course there is always the option
of buying heat-strippable magnet wire...

repak wrote

yeah, but...
can you get Litz wire that way?

-repak

Mon, 25 Apr 2005

hit the road...

Summer's here, and I'm happy to say I'm finally getting back into road biking. Step one: buy a bike.

It turns out that the used bike market strongly favors the buyer. That is to say, fancy road bikes hold value about as well as a wet baby T holds in Britney Spears's implants. I was able to pick up the ridiculously hot Kestrel 500SCi (see picture, right) for about 1/4 of what it would have cost new.

A Kestrel with Dura-Ace all around for less than a new Cannondale R700 with 105s. Score.


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gwax wrote

Oh! Sex!
Holy crap, that bike is sex! Good job old chap.

Johnstoned wrote


Fsck you man: all Dura-Ace? You worthless yuppie.

Sincerely,
A 105/Ultegra guy

repak wrote


Dude, if Dura-Ace makes me a yuppie, sign me up.

If it makes you feel any better, there's no way I'm gonna spring for the Dura-Ace SPD pedals. The Performance Mag/Ti ones are lighter and about 4x cheaper anyway.

-repak

Johnstoned wrote


Heh. I actually have Ultegra SPD-SL pedeals that say
"Dura-Ace" on them. I wore out the platforms (!) and
the shop tech had only Dura-Ace parts... but of course
the two versions are identical except for the bearings.

Rodin wrote


When you guys are done pissing all over each other, I'd like to point out the elegant curves of the frame. I don't know what Gwax was talking about (I seldom do), but that dip in her lower back fires up the old nitric oxide.

Johnstoned wrote


Rodin is on to something here. Qualitatively, how noticable
is the loss of stiffness with the no-seat-tube design?

repak wrote

re: stiffness
I'll report more on this when I have more datapoints. My dad has the Kestrel 200EMS, and it's qualitatively stiffer, but it's also made of stiffer carbon.

Either way, I'm not racing this thing, and a little flex goes a long way on long hauls...

-repak

mothafuckin' hustla!

It's official: you must go see Kung Fu Hustle. It is fucking hilarious.

Watch for an incredible number of references to other movies, including the Matrix (duh), about a million other Kung Fu movies (double duh), Spider-Man, the Shining, and others.

Also, prepare to laugh harder than you've laughed at any movie since, oh, Jackass or so.

Best. Movie. Ever.


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i wrote

Shaolin!
If you liked Kung Fu Hustle, you should definitely see Shaolin Soccer -- Stephen Chow made both movies, I think. Can't wait to see KFH!! :oD

Thu, 21 Apr 2005

fun with design reviews

Once again exercising my design review announcement skillz, I just wrote and fired off this beauty:

SI3240a MADC Design Review, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ProSLIC 
Summary: SI3240a MADC design review, Friday, 2p, Gecko.
It will almost certainly not fill up all 3 scheduled hours.

-- The long form:

Gentle(wo)men... BEHOLD!  Short on notice, long on caffeine, it's...

The design review for the ProSLIC's shiny new MADC!  I'll be discussing
incremental delta-sigma theory, its application to our lovely MADC, and
the implementation thereof.  You'll be dazzled with tales of integral
nonlinearity and regaled with intimate phase diagrams you
can't get anywhere else!

...but that's not all!  Respond now and I guarantee there will be no
mention of the dreaded phase margin.  That's right!  Not a single
previously-unreviewed transistor-level block will be presented,
guaranteeing maximum design review efficiency.

Where will you find this spectacle, this marvel of modern meetings?
ConfRM.Gecko, Friday, 2PM!  Be there or 4*a^2*x^2/(b^2-4*a*c).

Humbly submitted,

Riad Wahby


"Knock yourself a pro, slick."


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JW Holloway wrote

Sounds like a blast.
Makes me want to get a job.

repak wrote


I hope that wasn't sarcasm.

BTW, I have a hot idea I have to run by you. You'll love it.

-repak

jim wrote

uhh
Your e-mail contains color and pictures. Glad to see you've finally started sending HTML email.

(your blog's just full of sarcasm today)

repak wrote

yeah
These days I'm also gay, and I run Windows 2003 Server exclusively.

-repak

Tue, 19 Apr 2005

cheap Sox tickets, illness, and guilt

One advantage of watching the Sox other than at Fenway is that the tickets are MUCH cheaper. In particular, Tim and I picked up lower infield seats (section 20, row 13) at the July Sox-Rangers game at Ameriquest for just a bit more than bleacher seats go for at Fenway. Total hotness.

In other news, I managed to catch some sort of mutant superflu (which is to say, I've been sick for more than my usual 24 hours) from Cindy—no surprise there, since she works with little kids all day. I ended up staying home from work in the morning yesterday, but by the time the afternoon rolled around, guilt overtook malaise and I went in and ended up working a (very productive!) full day anyway. Oh well.


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Gautham wrote

As long as it's the flu...
...and not an STD. Wouldn't want people in LEES thinking you've got AIDS, would we?

Wed, 13 Apr 2005

strange bedfellows

What do the IEEE and Playboy have in common? Apparently, an interest in naked chicks.

"I don't care who you are, that's funny right there."


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i wrote

...nekkid?
haha I wonder what she looks like now. And whether they image the rest of her bodacious bod as well. =b

repak wrote


She looks like this:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lenna.shtml

The rest of the image is available in the Wikipedia entry, along with an explanation of why it was cropped where it was---basically, that's the size the scanner could take :-)

-repak

Sun, 10 Apr 2005

trophy husband

Damn, is this really only my second April entry? Fuck me... life has been nothing but work, and will continue that way until we tape this bitch out. Yay!

OK, no, it's not that bad. Weekends have been relaxing, and the weather here is gorgeous. Today I went to the driving range for a few hours and discovered that my swing hasn't completely left me! I had some trouble with my hands on the mid irons, but I managed to figure out what I was doing. What had left me were my callouses, and now they're on their way back—heralded by some moderately painful blisters. Maybe next weekend I'll play 9 holes instead of just going to the range...

Right now I'm watching the Discovery Channel, and I've just learned the strangest thing: the male deep sea anglerfish is actually a parasite on the female. It attaches itself permanently to the female (they even share a circulatory system!) and basically degenerates to nothing, except that its testes develop substantially, giving the female a permanent supply of sperm.


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Anna wrote

AH
I knew that! Dude the video of the male and female fish together is so funny. He's just an attachment flapping in the water.

Gautham wrote

As they say in Texas...
All work and no clubbing makes Repak a dull boy.

Fri, 01 Apr 2005

Sin City is...

AWESOME!

I wish there were something bigger than <h1>. No, really. A few reasons why:

  • Cyrus is a really big Frank Miller fan, and according to him the storyline is preserved almost perfectly from the books.
  • Quentin Tarentino is a guest producer, and you can tell. Jeffrey Westhoff's quote from rottentomatoes sums it up well (even though apparently he didn't like the movie—unwashed miscreant): "You know you've gone beyond run-of-the-mill movie violence when you need to use the plural for 'castrations.'" Yup.
  • The visual style is literally breathtaking. It's insanely cool.
  • Clive Owen is a badass.
  • Mickey Rourke is even more of a badass.
  • Elijah Wood is a fucking psycho.
  • Holy shit there are a lot of hot chicks in this movie.
  • No, really. Take a glance over the credits.

By the way, have any of y'all ever noticed how much Kurt looks like Josh Hartnett?

Also, one of the trailers before Sin City is for a movie called Domino that looks really cool. It's based on the true story of Domino Harvey, daughter of Laurence Harvey, who was a fucking bounty hunter. Samus-style, biaaaatch (but without the Metroid).


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Kristin wrote

Kurt = Josh
Dude... I always thought so too... glad to hear I'm not just nuts.
's kinda creepy actually.

where are the pics of your new hair? huh? huh?
:)
-Kristin

Holloway wrote

The Kurt comment
I don't know about that... Is this the same part of your brain that thinks I look like that dude from Dawson's Creek?

Jim wrote

Jack...
does in fact look very much like Dawson.

Jim wrote

and...
... image tags are apparently filtered out. Try this.

HOLY CRAP, CLICK THIS wrote

!@#
f'in blog.

repak wrote

HA HA!
Jack = pwned.

-repak

Mich wrote


Yeah, I agree, the whole Kurt-Josh H thing, ask Kristin, I've been saying it for years.




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