Engineer Jokes II
Really is an ongoing series now… So I am working on why a particular board with a micro on it keeps hanging whenever I plug a DC power source into it. A colleague notes that because there’s a laptop plugged in at the “top” of an isolation barrier, and the DC power source plugged in [...]
Il c’est contaminé!
There must be something wrong with me, must be ill or something. I found myself checking a liveblog of MacWorld. The heresy must be burned out…
Hint:
Knives are dangerous, mmkay?
Engineer Jokes I
The first in presumably an ongoing series… There is a debounce problem with a circuit I am troubleshooting which requires a couple of pullup resistors. I ask my boss where I can find a couple of leaded resistors, and he tells me the cupboard in which they are in. I then reply – “actually don’t [...]
His Thompsonness
Clive Thompson has written quite a good column on the apparent “death” (and inherent nonsense) of audiophilia: But audiophiles? Audiophiles are jackasses. You know who I’m talking about: The guys — and they’re almost always guys — who own $54,000 stereo systems and have their entire apartments dominated by thousands of vinyl albums of rare [...]
On Dual-booting
I’ve gone through this exact process before, except it was Suse 9.0 pro and sans the sharks. (Edited to link only as full picture breaks layout a bit)
They know of the YouTube MySpaces
Yet again, the Intarwebs will let us print the monehs!
