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ParticipantWhile out of town last week I managed to catch a killer cold that incapacitated me over the weekend (with the bonus of making the flight home super enjoyable), meaning I’m now scrambling to make up time for an important demo Thursday.
TL;DR: Nothing from me again this week. 🙁
ParticipantCongrats to aspidites for the individual win and to Ranger Joe/cameraflage for the combined win. The Weekly Reports post has been updated with the latest stats.
ParticipantI’ve got stuff that I shot back in the 80’s that I was really looking forward to going through and scanning. Unfortunately, it and my scanner are 1500 miles away right now.
Good luck everyone!
ParticipantAppreciate it, Farktographer, but since I’m heading to the airport in 30 minutes, I’m not gonna have time to scan anything so there’s just no way for me to enter this one.
Participant… I can OBO for you, rav.
Strike that. Just got sent out of town, so I’m not even going to be able to do this one myself. Sorry.
ParticipantOn another note, olavf and kat, would you mind keeping your freaking earthquakes confined to out your way? 🙂 I always assumed that was the deal – Californian’s get the nice weather and earthquakes, and we get the tornados and terra firma.
For those that don’t follow OK news, we had the largest earthquake in state history last night – a 5.6. It was preceded by a 4.8 Friday night. I know you’re thinking “big deal, we eat 5.6’s for breakfast,” but it actually buckled the highway in several places near the epicenter. No actual damage here that I’ve found, but I’ve experienced 6 quakes now (3 in Cali and surprisingly 3 in OK), and this is the first one where the experience went from “ooh, cool, earthquake” to “oh sh!t, maybe I oughta stand in a doorway!” 😯
ParticipantI don’t normally offer to OBO for TF’ers since I know y’all like to get in early, but since I’m temporarily a TF’er (thanks much again to someone who wishes to remain anonymous!), I can OBO for you, rav.
ParticipantCongrats rav on the sweep of both individual and combined. The Weekly Reports post has been updated with the latest stats.
Participantfluffy, uploading doesn’t work, you’ve gotta pick one from the gallery.
ParticipantOur little cupcake’s first Halloween:
Aw, that’s cute.
And here’s the circle of life in action: As you have one just starting the trick-or-treating journey, this is the first Halloween that none of mine are trick-or-treating. But more importantly, it means no goody bags for dad to pilfer from (the “dad tax”, as I called it). 🙁
ParticipantOK, caradoc, I found a challenge for you: http://www.studioarthur.co.uk/
I don’t think the photography itself is as good as yours, but the recreations are pretty funny.
ParticipantThat’s it, I move we have no more animal themes, can I get a second on that motion? 🙂
That raccoon shot is just something else, aspidites.
ParticipantYeah, that’s pretty much the impression I get of both of them, too, from my hardware-related readings. Them and SparkFun. I dabbled in uCs and digital logic while in/shortly after college and I still subscribe to Nuts & Volts while laboring under the possibly mistaken impression that I’ll eventually get more free time to play in that arena again. I used to subscribe to Circuit Cellar Ink (a mag by Steve Ciarcia from early Byte) but they blew past my level years ago.
Man I’m old.
You and me both, brother. 😉
But don’t make the mistake I did when I first came to the forums and assume that everyone must be younger here. Aside from a couple of whippersnappers in post-grad (plamadude30k & farktographer), I think most everyone else here is somewhere between “mature” and old fart. 🙂
ParticipantFunnily enough, I just recently had a similar conversation with my son. He’s working on his senior project in EE and was talking about the UART built into the PIC he’s using. He got a big laugh when I described how we used to do RS-232 strictly in software by bit-banging on the 8085, which limited the baud rate 38.4K as that was the fastest you could loop to watch the receive line (assuming you coded in assembly).
ParticipantThanks, I’m glad you like it. I actually did it mostly just for myself, but knowing that others enjoy it is a really nice bonus.
I work exclusively in C#, Windows, and ASP.NET. On the business (paying) side of things, the Microsoft plaform has been pretty good to me over the years so I’ve never found a reason to explore others much. Back in the days when mainframes roamed the land and 64K was all the memory anyone would ever need (i.e., late 80’s/early 90’s), I wrote some apps in C for various *nix platforms, but from a developer’s standpoint, a console was a pretty much a console then.
Before moving to C#, I worked mostly in C and C++ and used Visual Basic for the GUI side. We (my company) also dabbled in Java for a couple of years, but it was the Microsoft version that Sun eventually ixnay’d, which has turned out to be a major pain for us. At one time, I was also fairly proficient in assembler, to the point where I could pretty much translate 8085 opcodes by memory, but those days are long long gone. I’m kinda melancholy on that – it used to be a much simpler thing to write a program and you had TOTAL control over the whole machine; on the other hand, you can now code such rich UI’s and have access to such a vast API (both O/S and tons of opensource stuff) that you can create complex apps in a short time that would’ve been unthinkable then (and likely impossible with the resource limitations).
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