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I’ve been avoiding using SMT parts with really small pins. I haven’t had any trouble soldering packages with pins on 0.05-inch centers, but I was leery of trying anything smaller. However, more and more chips are available only in TSSOP (and smaller) packages, so I figured I might as well give it a try. I’m [...]

There are a few photos from our Christmas on my flickr site here.

May you have a very happy holiday of your particular inclination. We’re celebrating Christmas (hence the timing of this post, I suppose). The cats are amused by having a tree erected in the living room, and even more amused by the wrapping paper and other stuff that gets strewn around today. Our tree is sporting [...]

There’s a good op-ed in the NY Times here. The early bit about the shock of coming back to the U.S. after visiting an Asian country rang particularly true for me, but the whole piece is good.

It seems like I spent much of the past weekend fixing things and breaking things. As previously mentioned the kitchen sink needed to be fixed. With new parts from Moen in hand I became far more intimately acquainted with our faucet than I had ever expected to do. After nearly completely disassembling and reassembling it, [...]

My sister alerted me to the presence of a new online snow globe here.

Chris just alerted me to Garfield Minus Garfield, a site that posts Garfield strips with Garfield himself entirely removed. In the words of the site’s creator, it is “a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is [...]

In a fit of gadget lust propped up by rationalization (”it’ll be great for travel!”, “I can use it to play with Linux!”, etc.) I ordered a Samsung NC10 netbook. The FedEx tracking info said that it arrived in the Denver station last night and it was delivered here this afternoon. This means that it [...]

It was -11F (yes, that’s eleven degrees below zero, Fahrenheit) when we got up around 7:30AM today. It snowed quite a bit Saturday night and Sunday morning, so it (finally) feels like winter around here. Most of the windows in the house iced up, even though they’re double-glazed. Here’s a photo of the front window:

It is such a joy to discover that there are still companies around who understand that supporting their products after the sale and treating their customers well are good things to do. I discovered today that Moen, makers of faucets and sinks and things, is one such company.
We have a Moen faucet in our kitchen [...]