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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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Lick her is quicker still.

Agreed ;-)

And, getting back on-topic, nothing like some good sex to relieve
anxiety ;-)

...Jim Thompson
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Of course not. You're happy to have an excuse to crack out that thermal
imager. That thing is your personal anti-depressant for fried baords. Come
to think of it you probably slipped on purpose.

robert

Perhaps you're right. The next step was a whole day of very tedious
temperature chamber testing, measuring time delay of eight different
edges to picosecond resolution at a bunch of temperatures - hundreds
of data points - plotting the data, calculating the compensation
factors, reassembling the code, checking the results, and revising the
product specs and manuals accordingly. Now, until manufacturing
replaces the chips, I can goof off on the web.

If I had a scut bunny, I could goof off a lot more. I'm looking for
one now.

John
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Who was it that said: 'I want the power to change the things I can change,
the patience to endure the things I can't change, and the wisdom to
discriminate one from the other.' It was something along these lines, only
phrased better.

I like that attitude, but it requires the ability of not *wanting* to notice
the problems that you've labeled insolvable. This leads to the situation
that if too many people live by those rules they'll never manage to change
things that can only be changed collectively, because each individual has
already decided for themselves that being concerned with those problems is
futile.

What gets on Bill's nerves (and causes him to get on ours, in return), is
the attitude of ignoring the obvious (or only paying attention long enough
to toss it into the "unsolvable" bin and forgetting about it).


That's not a correct paraphrase, IMO. Your attitude is better described by
saying that you prefer to be ignorant about the things that don't affect you
or that you can't change. Selective stupidity is the key to happiness (as
is, by the way, complete stupidity). Complete enlightenment, on the other
hand, is the key to depression. I'm trying to find some middle road.


Disagree. Ignorance is one path to happiness, but for most engineering
types, fundamentally creative and curious people, it's not a real
option. Given that one of my goals in life is to design (and sell!)
the best electronics I can, selective stupidity isn't an option at
all. Quite the contrary, what works is transcendent awareness:
appreciating the past and potential history of humanity instead of
agonizing over today's news headlines; planning your product lines
(and your life) as a longterm strategy and not just one chore after
another; looking at the physics, thermodynamics, mechanics,
aesthetics, firmware, marketing, and human interface of a product
instead of just the circuits. Doing concrete things to make the world
better instead of blaming other people and whining about how bad it
is. (Simpson! Where's that check?)

Spreading out one's interests and responsibilities is the opposite of
selective stupidity, and works better in the long run.

The internet is amazing: it gives you choices more intense than any
you had before. You can find and indulge in the news that reinforces
your prejudices (and anger), or you can spread out and learn things,
and make connections, that were pretty much unavailable before. That
choice is a matter of temperament, and that choice *shapes*
temperament.

This discussion *is* on topic, because electronic design is an
emotional process and bummed out people are rotten electronics
designers. You can exercise and train your temperament just as you can
exercise and train your body, or your dog.

John
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Do pay attention. That bit of doom and gloom was fairly specific -


Do pay attention. All your many bits of doom and gloom are fairly
specific.

John
 
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Boris Mohar

Jan 1, 1970
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This discussion *is* on topic, because electronic design is an
emotional process and bummed out people are rotten electronics
designers. You can exercise and train your temperament just as you can
exercise and train your body, or your dog.

John
I believe that the topic was shortage of TI / Burr-Brown parts. Other than
scolding me for sourcing parts which have no second source (not true), you
guys gave hijacked this thread and morphed it into a mutual adoration society
chat room. Nice work. The conversation is interesting and I have learned few
things but not what I really wanted to know.
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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I believe that the topic was shortage of TI / Burr-Brown parts. Other than
scolding me for sourcing parts which have no second source (not true), you
guys gave hijacked this thread and morphed it into a mutual adoration society
chat room. Nice work. The conversation is interesting and I have learned few
things but not what I really wanted to know.

It's always good to learn things you didn't want to know. So show a
little gratitude.


Were any Burr-Brown related posts crowded out?

And it was Sloman who forked the thread with his usual rote, gloomy
Anti-American stuff. Here is the fork:

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Does anyone have any idea on why have the INA series of analog parts from
Texas Instruments became hard to get? Has the unobtanium mine flooded or has
some old fart who does all the testing in the back room died?

More likely the economy is doing so well that demand has outstripped
supply.

The collapse of the U.S. housing market should solve the problem
fairly quickly, but if it affects you directly, you may become part of
the solution ....

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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John
 
It's always good to learn things you didn't want to know. So show a
little gratitude.

Were any Burr-Brown related posts crowded out?

And it was Sloman who forked the thread with his usual rote, gloomy
Anti-American stuff. Here is the fork:

=============



More likely the economy is doing so well that demand has outstripped
supply.

The collapse of the U.S. housing market should solve the problem
fairly quickly, but if it affects you directly, you may become part of
the solution ....

Strikes me as entirely on-topic - Stephan Goldstein's input on the
25th March is much more likely to be right, but it struck me as a
plausible explanation at the time.

The "collapse" of the low end of the U.S, housing market seems to have
been more of a media over-reaction than a real problem. There was a
lot of fuss in the media last week, and stock markets around the world
went down in consequence, but nobody seems to be worried at the
moment. The U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands - not a diplomat but
someone who contributed lavishly to Dubbya's election campaign - got
into trouble for pumping money into his low-end mortgage business in
the U.S. to tide it over the fuss - ambassadors aren't supposed to
have business interests while they are acting as ambassadors.

If mentioning the fuss is anti-Amercian, all the world's newspapers
must be anti-American - but right-wingers do believe that the press is
out to get them ...
 
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Boris Mohar

Jan 1, 1970
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Strikes me as entirely on-topic - Stephan Goldstein's input on the
25th March is much more likely to be right, but it struck me as a
plausible explanation at the time.

Stephen Goldstein is involved in Burr-Brown parts shortage? I was hoping for
a more mundane explanation. Such as bad batch of managers.
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
And it was Sloman who forked the thread with his usual rote, gloomy
Anti-American stuff. Here is the fork:

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I fail to see anything anti-American there.

Graham
 
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Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie

Jan 1, 1970
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When I was 16 years old, I figured out that it felt better to be happy
than to be depressed. It didn't take too much longer to figure out
*how* to be happy,

It's trivial.

Just have $100,000,000.00 or so in the bank.

Cheers!
Rich
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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If I had a scut bunny, I could goof off a lot more. I'm looking for
one now.

I'm available. All I need is transport up there, a place to live,
and enough money to eat, drink, smoke, and play with the
girls^H^H^H^H^Hwomen. A bicycle or company car would be nice, but
everything's negotiable.

Oh, I'd like to play in the lab on my off-duty time - I have about
5 or 10 inventions that I only need bankrolled.

You can email me at [email protected], if you elide ard.

Cheers!
Rich
 
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Rich, but drunk

Jan 1, 1970
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Lick her is quicker still.

Sign in tavern/pub:
"Liquor up front, poker in the rear!"

Notwithstanding, candy is dandy, but sex won't rot your teeth! ;-)

Cheers!
Rich
 

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