Foolin' around on amazon.com again...
So it occurs to me that all the money I'm thinking of spending on cars would be so much better spent at amazon.com...
Twenty minutes of perusing, and I've already got $87 worth of a wishlist.
Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Third Edition by Andrew Troelsen; Hardcover
A Student's Guide to Fourier Transforms by J. F. James; Paperback
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene; Hardcover
I stopped myself from hitting the "checkout" button. Brr. An online, one-click bookstore: what a bloody awful idea.
I had to pick Sarah up at the airport yesterday, so after class, instead of going home, I spent a good amount of time at PsiU. I haven't done that much lately, as all everyone does is play videogames, and frankly, watching people speed-run through Mario games isn't my idea of a great time.
However, yesterday was different: due to it being dead-week, no electronic entertainment was allowed. This meant that people had to resort to other methods of entertainment, such as conversation. Just sitting around and talking was a welcome change.
Some may ask why I had to pick Sarah up at the airport. She was interviewing in Virginia. The interview went well, from what I can tell. However, there's no word on final offers, or final decisions, yet. Right after picking her up at the airport, we went straight to her research lab, where we spent hours debugging the PLC for a polymer extruder.
*sigh*
I haven't got my hands dirty in industrial electronics in years. It was frustrating, slow, and tedious. Most of our time was spent with an old voltmeter probing random points, praying that we didn't short anything out. The rest of the time was spent deciphering sheets and labels written by a dyslexic, epileptic engineer writing with his left foot. We left at 1AM, after almost six hours of frustration resulted in our realizing that we were missing a primary power source to one of the control circuits. ("Missing" here is used to denote the fact that it simply wasn't there. The contacts for the wires were there, the switches were there, but no actual power source was to be found. That's why it wasn't working. Diouh.)
So basically, yesterday I went from a long day to a research lab where I spent six hours, without food or water, banging my head in a futile, frustrating effort to get extruder motors to turn for someone else's project.
...and those of you who know me know that I had an absolutely wonderful time. Heh. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. In fact, I may go in and build the power supply today :-)
Meanwhile, I'm waiting at the guys at Ed Voyles' Hyundai to fix the shifter on my Elantra. There was a bushing missing where the selector wires went into the transmission, which led to a lot of play in the stick when the car was in-gear. It should be a quick fix. Here's hoping.
Right, I should probably get some work done now.
Twenty minutes of perusing, and I've already got $87 worth of a wishlist.
Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Third Edition by Andrew Troelsen; Hardcover
A Student's Guide to Fourier Transforms by J. F. James; Paperback
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene; Hardcover
I stopped myself from hitting the "checkout" button. Brr. An online, one-click bookstore: what a bloody awful idea.
I had to pick Sarah up at the airport yesterday, so after class, instead of going home, I spent a good amount of time at PsiU. I haven't done that much lately, as all everyone does is play videogames, and frankly, watching people speed-run through Mario games isn't my idea of a great time.
However, yesterday was different: due to it being dead-week, no electronic entertainment was allowed. This meant that people had to resort to other methods of entertainment, such as conversation. Just sitting around and talking was a welcome change.
Some may ask why I had to pick Sarah up at the airport. She was interviewing in Virginia. The interview went well, from what I can tell. However, there's no word on final offers, or final decisions, yet. Right after picking her up at the airport, we went straight to her research lab, where we spent hours debugging the PLC for a polymer extruder.
*sigh*
I haven't got my hands dirty in industrial electronics in years. It was frustrating, slow, and tedious. Most of our time was spent with an old voltmeter probing random points, praying that we didn't short anything out. The rest of the time was spent deciphering sheets and labels written by a dyslexic, epileptic engineer writing with his left foot. We left at 1AM, after almost six hours of frustration resulted in our realizing that we were missing a primary power source to one of the control circuits. ("Missing" here is used to denote the fact that it simply wasn't there. The contacts for the wires were there, the switches were there, but no actual power source was to be found. That's why it wasn't working. Diouh.)
So basically, yesterday I went from a long day to a research lab where I spent six hours, without food or water, banging my head in a futile, frustrating effort to get extruder motors to turn for someone else's project.
...and those of you who know me know that I had an absolutely wonderful time. Heh. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. In fact, I may go in and build the power supply today :-)
Meanwhile, I'm waiting at the guys at Ed Voyles' Hyundai to fix the shifter on my Elantra. There was a bushing missing where the selector wires went into the transmission, which led to a lot of play in the stick when the car was in-gear. It should be a quick fix. Here's hoping.
Right, I should probably get some work done now.