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From: Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net>
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Subject: Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 19:01:10 -0000 (UTC)
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Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:37:19 -0700, john larkin wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:11:37 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:24:02 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:47:43 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 08:16:19 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:48:00 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>>>>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:27:24 -0400, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> And the old zig-zag symbols the US uses for resistors.....
>>>>>>>>> --\/\/\/\/\--------
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> better ---====-----
>>>>>>>>> 2k2
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> What's the point of that?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Wasn't the zigzag used everywhere for 100 years?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> A rectangle could be anything.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It's a connector pin on our schematics.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I fully agree, Tom. If I saw that thing I'd immediately assume it
>>>>>>> represented a cocktail sausage.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Edible schematics. Sounds good to me. The little rectangles on the
>>>>>> lower-right can hold the dippy sauces and toothpicks.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I did wonder what they were for, but lacked the confidence to ask
>>>>> about them. Thanks, John.
>>>> 
>>>> I just got a pack of this
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001DKLAJ6
>>>> 
>>>> With the right pencil, it does great line work and photographs well.
>>>> Erases nicely too.
>>>> 
>>>> It doesn't have a grid, but it's translucent so I lay it on top of a
>>>> sheet of blue-grid paler and I can follow the lines when I draw.
>>> 
>>> And these are a positive boon for those of us tired of trying to find
>>> European dots that have fallen on the floor:
>>> 
>>> https://tinyurl.com/2972vu7c
>> 
>> I sometimes draw a schemetic by taping parts pictures to a sheet of
>> D-size vellum and drawing in the rest. I photograph that and give it to
>> one of my guys to enter into PADS Logic and eventually do a PCB layout.
>> 
>> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dxxtokrqe2cvcw6ldf5kd/B943_Sh_11.jpg?
> rlkey=asfyswunc5jbni5sugg3ix6f4&raw=1
>> 
>> That's scads faster than doing the CAD entry myself. More moving around,
>> less sitting and clicking.
>> 
>> In our new office/design center we don't have a real conference room,
>> so we go on group hikes around the Bernal Cut or in Glen Canyon. That
>> seems to really work, getting physical outdoors with the crew. I just
>> wish that more trees had whiteboards.
> 
> That physical exercise and fresh air probably will give a bit of a brain 
> boost to get the old grey cells firing at full efficiency. To turbocharge 
> that effect, give the guys plenty of strong coffee and donuts before they 
> go out. Works for me!
> 

And half a beer per hundred pounds of lean body mass, to hit the Ballmer
peak. ;)

Cheers 

Phil Hobbs 

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Dr Philip C D Hobbs  Principal Consultant  ElectroOptical Innovations LLC /
Hobbs ElectroOptics  Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics