so i got one of these on ebay for $30:
http://www.embeddedsys.com/subpages/products/sbc1190.shtml and a rack chassis or two with power supplies, LEDS, buttons, and some other stuff for really cheap too....
DIY programmable digitally controlled tube preamp anyone?
24 TTL compatible I/O lines ... FET based switching anyone? PERHAPS!
in other news...
1: WTF IS WRONG WITH TVGUIDE.COM? IT'S THE MOST UNRELIABLE, UNSTABLE MAINSTREAM WEBSITE I'VE EVER SEEN AND IT'S COMPLETELY WRONG WITH GREAT REGULARITY.
and
2: WHY DOES COMEDY CENTRAL KEEP SHOWING THE SAME FUCKING 'TITUS' COMEDY SPECIAL? He's just a racist pig who's trying to get popular by throwing around grossly offensive crap disguised as nationalism, and is quite possibly a personification of many of the things wrong with this fucking country now.... i'm serious. he needs to die, so that america has any chance whatsoever. I mean, yeah, most of the people on comedy central basically do follow the same nationalistic racist pig mentality, but this guy is just so derivative and pathetic, he can't even manage a cheap laugh or two.
but seriously though. .. this special has been on at least two or three other times in the last week, and just today it was on at 10:00 before the Daily Show, and now it's on again, an hour later!! WTF.