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I feel like this is every year, but: today was bike-to-work day in the rest of the US, and was snow-like-crazy day here. This is why we have our bike-to-work day in mid-June.
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My manager's been gone for three weeks and I've gotten a lot done at work and had a fairly fun time doing it, so that's nice ( Read more... ) -
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Today's work project was a fun bit of learning. My coworker pulled a waveform off an oscilloscope. Not a picture of the screen, but the actual digitized data. Neither of us had any idea just how many points modern oscilloscopes can generate. He put the waveform in Excel, which promptly truncated it because Excel can only hold a million rows. ( Read more... ) -
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I ran a test for about six days straight, that generated 300MB of data or so, that I needed to filter down. My first filter, a simple delete-unnecessary-junk excel macro, pared that down to 50MB. But then I had a problem, that I'm still trying to handle ( Read more... ) -
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Every time it gets really windy (meaning once a week or so) the flapper on the oven hood vent starts clanging, as gusts of wind suck it open briefly and then it falls closed again ( Read more... ) -
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I went into work today to find out that my manager is taking three weeks off for family medical leave starting today. He didn't say anything about this to anyone yesterday ( Read more... ) -
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I'm reupholstering the Spitfire seats. When I took one apart, amidst the half-wastebasket-quantity pile of broken-down foam, I also found a business card for a place that repaired MG's. The telephone number on the card was a seven-digit number, which probably means it was 1970's. There was also a 1974 penny in the seat ( Read more... ) -
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I stayed home sick today because I felt awful, although I can't really say I was contagious or anything.
That gave me time to go to Boulder and get a key for
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Tonight's project. You know that thing in the bottom of a dishwasher that goes around and around? Well, mine now just goes up, once, and then doesn't do anything at all.
So I'm trying to figure out how to build a little retaining ring to reinforce the fingers were supposed to hold it in place but have now apparently worn out.
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