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Thu, 30 Mar 2006 Sweet. The foo bathroom display has been resurrected. That's some funny shit. [ permalink | 0 comments (add one you lazy bastard!) ] Sun, 26 Mar 2006Tonight, in a rousing round of Trivial Pursuit pitting me, Katie Todd, and Katie Butler against Matt, Cyrus, and Mike, we pulled off a victory that verged on humiliation. In the process, I pulled answers ranging from "James Cagney" to "Baghdad Betty" straight out of my ass, laying them on the table in exchange for slices of pie. Apparently my ass is a gamer. Once again, the master of minutiae pulls off the ridiculous victory. Score another for the fat man. [ permalink | 2 comments ] Fri, 24 Mar 2006I went to a Nine Inch Nails concert tonight with Cyrus, Jame, Dylan, and Katy, and dizzam was it badass. We were pretty high up in the nosebleeds, all better tickets having sold out within minutes of the box office opening (I called continuously until I got some and we still ended up on the second level), but it was nevertheless a stupendous concert. Having seen Nine Inch Nails from the moshpit before (on the Fragile tour with Christine, Rodin, Matt, Amrys, Tanis, LeeAnn, and Stephanie), I actually kind of appreciated being able to see throughout the concert and not being bruised and battered by the end of it. It cannot but be said that Trent is a consummate performer. He had superb control over the mood of the audience throughout the show, bringing them "up" in time to introduce songs from their new album, relaxing the tempo a bit to encompass Hurt, gradually bringing things back up, and ending on the frenzied screams of the audience singing along to Head Like A Hole. Listening to him perform, it's no wonder he's credited with having revolutionized (or is it created?) the genre. Head (almost) back down: layout calls this weekend, but football, the driving range, and probably some biking lie in wait as well. [ permalink | 8 comments ] Thu, 23 Mar 2006Whoa dey! A warm welcome to Dr. Dahlsim, a.k.a. gva. Bad ass. [ permalink | 0 comments (add one you lazy bastard!) ] Fri, 17 Mar 2006I'm not bitching here, I'm explaining: my silence is not due to lack of interest, but lack of time. I have averaged over 12 hours of work a day since returning from Boston last week. Tapeout has been delayed due to an error in the generated digital route (a complete rework takes nigh on two weeks because our timing is so fucking tight), which means that firmware freeze (Mike and I, both nominally analog designers, are making the lion's share of the code changes, mostly having to do with self-calibration routines) is pushed back, cal work can continue, and I'm now in charge of all layout fixes and verification. The good news is that, other than being exhausted, I'm very happy with work at the moment. I take great satisfaction in the steady-to-breakneck pace of progress, and believe it or not my social life isn't actually suffering all that much—only my ratio of waking hours to those spent in much-needed (just look at me, for Chrissake) beauty sleep. [ permalink | 0 comments (add one you lazy bastard!) ] Mon, 13 Mar 2006I only did three things this weekend. They were:
Guess which one took up all but 19 hours of the weekend? [ permalink | 0 comments (add one you lazy bastard!) ] Fri, 10 Mar 2006—and by that I mean Sherv, a.k.a. fates at berkeley dot edu—a new entry can be found in the blogroll. Yo Stephanie. [ permalink | 0 comments (add one you lazy bastard!) ] Fri, 03 Mar 2006
another milestone along the road to the perfect email subject line
From: Riad Wahby <riwahby@...> To: DL.ProSLIC@... Subject: the lkgcal or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the discrete BOM [ permalink | 0 comments (add one you lazy bastard!) ] Thu, 02 Mar 2006It's official: as of two(ish) weeks from now (when we tape out), I'll be working for our newest company fellow. Tim Dupuis is a cool guy and a card-carrying Analog Ninja, and I'll be the lead designer on a chip with his mentorship. I'm psyched as all hell. So much so, in fact, that I've already started designing one of the hard blocks. Yay. |
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