RIP Miss Nora, my friend for seventeen years.

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may:
I'm so sorry Lucy :( she become an angel ♡
gantz:
I raised my orphaned black baby kitten Mr. Mogletons since he could fit in the palm of my hand, he looks just like Miss Nora.  Sorry to hear of your loss, cats are such peculiar and wonderful companions, I'm going downstairs right now to give Mogletons some treats thinking of Miss Nora, what a lovely cat that lived a long and prosperous life - there's nothing more we can do for the animals in our life than that so you should be so proud of the care you gave her.

Custom chip design, or what I do for fun when not SGing.

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So I designed a clock generator chip for a computer I'm designing. I checked it in a simulator, and it worked. So I programmed the design into an ATF750C GAL chip.

And then I had fun 😀😃. I got to use my second favourite child (after Heather, but before the other 4), my Hewlett-Packard HP1661C Logic Analyzer, and a metric shitload of other test gear....
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lucyamy:
@phileasfogg I fed it a 10.0000000Mhz sine wave from my Rigol DG1022U Function Generator, and it reads 10.000Mhz. So I'm happy. I've also given it 5ns pulses, and it counts them fine. Amazing for a 1979 instrument.
misterdavid218:
Awesome setup! That's some good precision on your clock. 5 ns from back then is very impressive! My first post-college "for fun" project was creating a homemade alarm clock using a 555 IC wired to an RC circuit tuned with a trim pot. I got regular pulses every 1.000 seconds, which was very exciting at the time. I'm eager to hear about your progress. Looks like a lot of fun!

Bilingual joke. Please pardon my bad Spanish 😬😬😬😬😬.

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A Mexican bandit held up a bank in Tucson. The sheriff and his deputy chased him. When they captured him, and the sheriff, who couldn't speak Spanish, asked him where he'd hidden the money. "No sé nada." he replied.

The sheriff put a gun to the bandit's head and said to his bi-lingual deputy: "Tell him that if he doesn't tell us where the money...
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rubymoon:
Hahahahaha that's a good one
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