Oddballs & Tidbits — My Opinions
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Interview Tales
I dislike interviewing – though I don’t suppose it’s on anyone’s favorites list; to me, it’s like making a commitment […]
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A Tale Of Our Times
This came from someplace. Seems pertinent. One day the King was looking over his wardrobe and saw only the same […]
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Advice To “Garage” Inventors
“It’s cynicism when young, experience when old.“ I don’t deny the truth of this – Hewlett and Packard; Wozniak and […]
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Observations Of An ASIC Design
Not mine but I know/knew the author on a design team I was part of at a company – “Semiconductor […]
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Past Performance
I have heard it said that “Past performance is an indicator of future results“. Not so! Think of it: This […]
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I can’t help it; my curiosity sometimes carries me into weird and dark corners. In this case – after I […]
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Foolish Things I’ve Done In My Career #3
Or in hindsight, maybe #1. This man personally offered me a job once upon a time. In early 1989. Jim […]
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Occam’s Razor (“novacula occami”)
The foundation for the KISS principle – “Keep It Simple, Stupid” “entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem“ Words to the […]
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Good Enough
I find one of the phrases that seems to have become prevalent in my profession – electronic gizmos – since […]
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So You Want A Million Dollars
“I’m going to start my own business and get rich!” Could be. Maybe. It’s happened. Casinos brag about the big […]
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How Much Does A Mistake Cost?
Kick the can down the road, spread the blame … Mistakes can be expensive. Depending on one’s accounting method. I […]
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Interviews
This is a “Tales from the Cubicle” type story. I had an interview a while ago … it was one […]
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An Oldie But Goodie
After a hard day’s work the boss rewards his best workers – today an engineer and physicist tied in their […]
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5 Reasons To Stay in Electronics Engineering
As I’ve mentioned, I’m going through my files and posting some of what I’ve experienced over several decades. I had […]
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Memorization
On memorizing equations: “It is not a good idea to try to memorize that, because that just ensures that you […]
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An Article I Read – “Questioning the Cosmological Doppler Red-Shift”
I read an article in Principia Scientific International some time ago that proposes that it is the wavelength of light […]
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In The Beginning
I don’t know where this came from, but it was old when I first saw it on my first job […]
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Mostly A Joke
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, “Someone […]