Twiiiiig! I come out of my cave to wish you a happy Birthday. Well, no, you know where I live and all. So it's not like I can't find you in RL. Happy many-years-old. From here you're allowed to age backwards, if you like. Until you reach the age of 5, or your the year of your choice greater than 5. After that we have to go forwards again or ( Read more... )

Ages since I've posted, I know...

but this is interesting stuff!

Epigenetics? Anyone?linking this article more so I can come back to read it again later. I can see this coming down somewhere between damned practical stuff to research, and yet another ethical hornits nest. Ah well, this is why I'm in engineering and not science ( Read more... )

XKCD: Spinal Tap AmpsI know I'm late to the party on this but man. This is the life of an engineering consultant right here. I know I'm still new at the industry because after 5 years I'm still firmly in the third panel. But the senior sales guys at the office are in the know, and have kept the place in business by living in the 4th :-D ( Read more... )

It's kinda sad when you check your 'vacation days' balance at the start of december, and realize you've taken off less than a week of time all year. So much for supposedly having my luxuroius white collar job with guaranteed vacation :-) the projects just never stopped coming this year despite the crap economy (no profits, but tons of work, go ( Read more... )

Customer coming in to the office to do final testing on 'muppet system'? This morning, 9am ( Read more... )

how anyone paid 12$ for this movie and sat through 3+ hours is beyond my comprehension ( Read more... )

You know you need to cut back on the NyQuil... or the # of hours you're putting in on the project at work, when the sturdy little pneumatic RF isolation boxes you're working with start to remind you of little rectangular muppet heads ( Read more... )

Every now and again in browsing the internet for work related trivia i.e. I stagger across one of those gems of engineering documentation that make me blink in amusement at the morbid joy we seem to take in working with things that will either fry us, bake us, or make us go splat when handled incorrectly...

( Measure the voltage across the resistor and the capacitor. Don't get
zapped - you are playing with line voltages here and there is not much
between you and eternity... )

you know how your cell phone.... chirps... when it wants you to plug it in because its low on batteries ( Read more... )

Oh PXI-4071 in the past we had some good times, some laughs, oh the measurements we took together. They were grand. No more I say. No more.

( Starting today I'm looking for a new software configurable DMM to replace you with. )