Houston Airport: Why do people care that much about Michael Jackson? My theory is it is gossip – something inevitably human. It is something we can all talk about that is all involved tangentially in our lives. It is fun for the general masses (of which I am a member) to watch people fall from [...]
Houston Airport: I will go do in a sea of fire to prevent my generation from becoming the twitter generation. If it happens, then we have failed and people should just let evolution try again. Twitter for the uniformed uninformed is blogging (internet diary) combined with text messaging (cell phone communication) for 140 character (including [...]
Houston Airport: I was wondering about turning off electronic devices in airplanes. I realized the BS involved when I looked down at my digital watch and realized that it is not about electromagnetic interference. The only thing I could imagine is some military application that requires reduced emf in the upper atmosphere. That is ridiculous [...]
I have been engaged in warfare against the TLC5940 for several months. This enemy came with me to saudi arabia and back. After months of waiting after an intense battle in Indiana last February my foe was back, but this time I won. I currently have a working driver for the texas instruments TLC5940-NT – [...]
I got into the three classes I wanted to get into for fall semester at KAUST: EE 203. Solid-State Device Laboratory (1-2-3) Semiconductor material and device fabrication and evaluation: diodes, bipolar and field-effect transistors, passive components. Semiconductor processing techniques: oxidation, diffusion, deposition, etching, photolithography. Lecture and laboratory. Projects to design and simulate device fabrication sequence. [...]
After missing Elvis Costello at Bonnaroo due to a scheduling conflict I was able to see him at the Taste of Minnesota Festival on the 4th of July at Harriet Island. My original reasoning behind seeing Costello at Bonnaroo was how often do you get a chance to see Elvis Costello! Apparantly twice in one [...]