Something unusual about myself that I have discovered is that no matter what a person has done to me in the past, there is a part of me that can hang out with them as if the past never existed. Everything seems to be reset completely, or to a specific point in the past when everything was cool ( Read more... )

While learning more about current dividers and parallel circuitry as well as voltage dividers and series circuits; something occurred to me. In a current divider circuit, the value of total resistance is less than the sum of the individual resistances. In fact, it is less than the value of the lowest resistor ( Read more... )

The following quote is from a less-than-happy owner of a Kindle ( Read more... )

"If you try to use an LED without a power supply, you will be highly disappointed ( Read more... )

I've been bitten by it again... This fascination with electronics and the itch to get my hands dirty with some project to help me better understand it. I've been scouring the web for info and even have a few textbooks on the subject in ebook form, but I've found that reading a dry text is even more difficult to get into when you can't curl up with ( Read more... )

(This is a reply I left for a question that was asked in response to the previous post ( Read more... )

I have bitten my tongue and put away my quill for a while concerning this but for some reason it just gets to me. It does. Well beyond a minor annoyance. What the fuck is with hollywood and the hack, assembly-line, pseudo-romantic, soulless authors these days ( Read more... )

I've found that plants, like many other things, tend to flourish when quality time is spent with them every now and then. I'm not talking about watering or feeding (although that is important to). I'm talking about just sitting with and enjoying them, petting them, and occasional grooming. Its amazing the kinds of things a little tender-love-and- ( Read more... )

Like an IV drip ( Read more... )

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

-Nietzsche