“Metrosexual? What’s that – having sex with buildings?” – Ty Muller
Monthly Archive for January, 2004
“Who would want to learn how to design an operating system when they could just swallow their tongue instead? It would be more entertaining” – Marc Morganti
Woohoo! I answered a simple A/D converter question in Tutorial today, and got a free textbook for my trouble.
The textbook? “Introduction to Electronic Circuit Design” by Richard R. Spencer and Mohammed S. Ghausi.
The catch? I have to assist in the evaluation of said text… BUT I get to keep it.
So I’m watching this TLC show “Clean Sweep”. For those of you fortunate to have never seen it, here’s how it breaks down:
- People who have far too much crap in their house get a team of carpenters, a designer and an organizer to come out to their house
- They take all the crap out of the rooms in question and put it on a tarp in the back yard
- While the designer and carpenters work on the rooms without input from the owners, the homeowners work with the organizer to sort the crap from the one tarp into a Sell tarp, a Toss tarp, and very small Keep tarp.
It should be noted that at this stage, the wife usually gets to keep many of her collectibles, dresses she will never wear again, crappy, ugly furniture her father made, etc. while the husband has to throw out half of his 2 lego sets that basically define his posessions. As a whole.
- In the final stage before The Reveal, there’s a garage sale. Just prior to the garage sale, one item that has great meaning to each person is chosen FROM THE KEEP PILE and whoever sells the most gets to keep their item.
Yes: Let’s just introduce marital strife by adding uncertainty to the Keep process.
- After all is said and done, the Wife usually sells the most, and is not very concillatory to the husband, who just lost a prized posession.
Should I ever find myself married, I think I’d rather divorce first than find out how little someone cares about me and my likes.