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Monthly round-up!

Feb 21, 2010 21:47

with your host, me!

A very slightly edited version of my Sherlock Holmes article is now a permanent feature at the Bartitsu web site! (on the "Pages" sidebar, under "The Bartitsu Legacy"). While not quite the same as being "properly" published, it's an encouraging thing and a good start. I corresponded with Tony Wolf, a martial artist and fight ( Read more... )

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thehunter February 22 2010, 02:34:25 UTC

I don't think I ever told you, but I was really impressed with your article on Sherlock Holmes. I'm very glad that you've had it published somewhere, and I'm inclined to agree with Tony. :D

thevigilante February 22 2010, 22:55:37 UTC

Thank you! That means a lot coming from you, as I know you are very critical of writing.

p.s. love the icon

gingervere February 22 2010, 05:24:37 UTC

Wow, awesome! And I am so glad to know that you are pursuing your dream of studying martial arts on all levels. You must be very excited.

Oh, and...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

thevigilante February 22 2010, 23:01:08 UTC

thx o#" ^_^

I am very excited, it's really great to finally have the resources (and proper state of mind) to do this. Once I got the car my training went up from 3-4 hours a week to 10-12.

btw remind me sometime to show you my animal gashapon, I have/will have some really awesome stuff that you would just love! Looking forward to getting the set of crustaceans that includes a hermit crab with a little sea anemone on the shell omg

trishtrash February 22 2010, 07:39:24 UTC

"On this basis I think that you absolutely should pursue non-fiction writing."

Couldn't agree more!

Oh, and Happiest of Cake Days :)

thevigilante February 22 2010, 23:01:33 UTC

Thank you my dear, you are most kind!

the_stony_1 February 22 2010, 20:51:05 UTC

For the two of you who will care, I've got to figure out how to implement an ultrasonic liquid flow sensor on an FPGA. Time to dust off those VHDL notes, woo
If you have the choice, seriously consider Verilog. I picked it up in no time and it's very C-like so you might even be able to dredge some of the info up from your brain ;-)

Good stuff on getting some Real Work to do though. I'm in Preston having just had a guided tour around these so I'm not exactly living it up but still having fun :-)

And as per the text, hippo birdy. Hope you have/had a good meal out.

thevigilante February 22 2010, 23:03:28 UTC

Thank you!

I think the boss is into VHDL so I'm not sure if I have the choice, but I will definitely have a little look at Verilog anyway, for completeness.

the_stony_1 February 23 2010, 07:30:22 UTC

They kinda come at the problem from different angles - VHDL is more like 'I need a state machine to do this and a 4-input and gate to do that' and Verilog is more functional/high-level stuff, describing what you want it to do rather than the structure you want to use. I'd use VHDL where you're using small devices and want to maximise utilisation and/or understand exactly what it synthesises to; if you don't care and just want it to work (and have a reasonably-sized device to put it in) then Verilog is more hackable. Not better, just different :)

Be aware you're reinventing the wheel - it's quite a common way of measuring flow so there're already plenty of options if you just want to have someone else do the measuring and tap into their analog/digital flow output.