| Smeghead 2005-07-22, 8:33 pm |
| On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:05:36 -0500, ScratchMonkey
<ScratchMonkey.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> wrote:
quote:
>"Miracle Smith" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in news:42e0a6ca$1_4
>@galaxy.uncensored-news.com:
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>I think it was in "Moving Violations" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0089629/),
>one of those bad comedies, that some guy asks another of Jennifer Tilly,
>playing her typical ditzy character, "what, you think she's a rocket
>scientist?". A moment later, she walks from the remedial driving classroom
>and tells him, "I work for NASA. I'm a rocket scientist." I'm sorta like
>that. ;)
>
>Partly it's because MA has a great hardware guy who tracks this stuff, as
>he builds computers for his business and for his extended family.
>
>Partly it's because I work in the industry, building automation equipment
>that builds the chips, so I get it from coworkers and customers.
>
>And partly it's because I design electronics (reading chip data sheets and
>using CAD to lay out schematics and boards, but leaving the fabrication to
>others) to do the automation. So I have to be familiar with the
>technologies, even if I can't do them myself, so that I can spec what to
>buy.
Hellmark and I have vinyl plotters.
One guy that designs electronics for a hobby was telling me that I
could, if I were so geeky, cut the traces on the plotter and make my
own circuitry.
Mind you, it's no 90 micron process, but for the hobbiest, it
evidently is effective.
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