What you did today

[Humodour]

Helo i luve you won't you tell me hyour name

[Humodour]

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[Shryke]

^^ is someone a tad drunk or something?

[Humodour]

"A tad drunk" would have been an understatement. I believe I staggered out of Burger King last night screaming about how the service was unsatisfactory and how they'd all be hearing from my lawyers very soon.

[Walsingham]

We didn't think we were drunk last night until I pointed out we were in the middle of singing Danny Boy in the street, following a one hour discussion about the correct shape for young ladies.

[Shryke]

i made a poor decision tonight

 

i decided to partake in some alcohol, and... less than legal drugs before coming to work

[SteveThaiBinh]

And what exactly is your job and how worried should we be?

 

I played NWN2 all day while waiting for my various Sims2 expansion packs to download from EA.

[Shryke]

nothing life threatening

 

well... mostly not life threatening

 

just telecommunications sorta stuff for police/hospitals/city councils

[Humodour]

...

 

lol

[Xard]

man shryke is such a tough guy

[Shryke]

^^ uhh... what?

 

i'm pretty much all sobered up and everything, so it's all good

[SteveThaiBinh]

I'm sure the police officers, doctors and councillors of Wellington are pleased to hear it.

[Shryke]

not that they would've noticed

 

unless i'm really really wasted, i can hold it together pretty well

[Xard]

I just read "Guns N' Roses" aka Axl Rose has finished Chinese Democracy after 13 million dollars and 14 years

 

This is impossible. What the hell.

Edited April 11, 2008 by Xard

[Walsingham]

I'm ashamed to say that one of my best days of work ever happened after being up all night drinking. I had to pretend I was sick. By brute force of will I held it together and I think as a byproduct my output was very hard nosed and coldly analytical.

[Tel Aviv]

I've got to finish my dissertation before the night is out so it can be bound tomorrow and handed in on Monday. I'm looking forward to all this being over. Sweet relief!

[taks]

first i got up, then i had a piece of toast...*

 

i installed a leadless chip-scale package (CSP) on a printed circuit board (PCB) this morning. it's a board i designed (with another engineer) that produces a clock for an analog to digital converter (ADC) circut as well as a local oscillator (LO) for an RF circuit. the part is only 4 mm on a side, with 6 "pins" on the underside along with a "paddle" designed as a heat-sink for the part (which is a low-dropout voltage regulator). since the "pins" are on the underside of the board, it is impossible to solder it down using a soldering iron. i had to heat the board with a heat gun until the solder i had put on each pad melted, then i had to drop the part in place taking care not to move it too much (else solder bridges between pins may connect - which happened on my first attempt). this has to be done under a bench microscope (designed for PCB work).

 

i have one more part to do, but it has 16 pins in about the same package size. these pins are space only 6 mils apart (6 thousandths of an inch, or 0.1524 mm), so alignment is critical. i've been working under a 'scope for nearly 13 years so that's not a problem. the problem is that i'm getting old and my hands shake enough that it is difficult to hold the heat gun in one hand and the part in the other (with tweezers) while maintaining proper alignment . there's a reason i'm not a surgeon.

 

taks

 

*futurama joke.

Edited April 11, 2008 by taks

[Fionavar]

Working on an agenda for a workshop using Scared Sacred DVD ...

 

Working on another somethin' somethin' for the WoT/OBS Fora ...

 

Working on a presentation ...

 

That's too much working!

[Gfted1]

WooHoo, its Friday! I plan on getting good and liquored up with my wife tonight then chase her around the house.

[Walsingham]

i installed a leadless chip-scale package (CSP) on a printed circuit board (PCB) this morning. it's a board i designed (with another engineer) that produces a clock for an analog to digital converter (ADC) circut as well as a local oscillator (LO) for an RF circuit. the part is only 4 mm on a side, with 6 "pins" on the underside along with a "paddle" designed as a heat-sink for the part (which is a low-dropout voltage regulator). since the "pins" are on the underside of the board, it is impossible to solder it down using a soldering iron. i had to heat the board with a heat gun until the solder i had put on each pad melted, then i had to drop the part in place taking care not to move it too much (else solder bridges between pins may connect - which happened on my first attempt). this has to be done under a bench microscope (designed for PCB work).

 

[buzz lightyear] You're mocking me, aren't you? [/buzz lightyear]

[Pidesco]

I got a job today, translating National Geographic documentaries. Woohoo!

[kirottu]

Woohoo!

 

Well, actually, nothing remotely worth mention is happening, but I just didn

[taks]

[buzz lightyear] You're mocking me, aren't you? [/buzz lightyear]

of course not. i just happen to have one of those jobs that allows a very high level of daily geekness.

 

actually, i'm all but out of the board design biz. this is the first actual design i've done in about 4 years. i'm mostly an algorithm developer now (which implies lots of software). we just had a need and i've got the right experience. i've done several dozen board designs, actually, though this one ranks on the low-end of the complexity scale of the boards i previously designed. i'm kicking myself for not using an alternate part with actual leads on it, btw. i wasn't thinking in terms of what it would take to assemble this board myself before i built it (i can also do assembly/soldering, but my quality sucks compared to a good tech).

 

right now, i'm testing a phase-lock loop (PLL) eval-board (the LO from above) that mounts on top of the board i designed. it's performance is not nearly as good as the danged site claims (national semiconductor). i think my reference oscillator is the source of the issue, however. it's an old HP8648A, but i am using the reference output (10 MHz). hopefully the double-oven crystal oscillator i have on my board provides better performance.

 

taks

[Tigranes]

Going to work out how I can play the first 45 minutes of football, probably in goal despite being 165cm tall, then in 15 minutes of half-time getting changed, making myself non-filthy, going to church, then doing church practice, then come back, and do an official 'sample run' of the daily online ethnography to be conducted by yours truly every day for the next 10 weeks for my honours thesis.

 

edit: No, it's not Obsidian, though it'd be easier if it was.

[Dark_Raven]

Called in to work.

 

Went shopping with friends.

 

Went out to dinner.