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I will wait till things are back to normal, I do not mind longer hair. For our dogs its a different story, the Rottie is no problem, he looses hair naturally, esp. now in Spring, but the Shi Tzu always went to our groomer for bath/ haircut. She was shut down, so Logan will become quite hairy. Maybe will have to trim hair blocking his vision ourselves

 

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My wife cut my hair this morning for the first time ever. She did a good job. I figured if she hacked it up too much there ain't nobody gonna see it but her, right?

 

Have a very Happy Passover.

 

I finally got so sick of my shaggy hair I took a pair of scissors, a comb,and a mirror into the bathroom with me tonight. I figured how hard can it be to cut some hair? Right? WRONG!!!

 

Good thing about being nearly bald....haven’t paid for a haircut since 2009? I have a $20 pair of clippers that i use to buzz down every week or so and I am right as rain.

 

I try the hipster hairy look , my wife hate that but as all hairdressers are closed she understood. Fun sometimes to try a new look.

 

Bald headed comedians have used the following one-liner for many years: “There are many types of men’s heads - and the ugly ones are covered with hair!” I am proof of that:


My 90th birthday party - fortunately we didn’t burn the house down.

 

When our daughter was a teen, she was terribly embarased by photos of herself as a baby with her mother do to hair styles and clothing. I can not imagine what the children and grandchildren of those kids have to say about those pictures. I was relatively immune to the seventies and eighties because I was in the Army and they had rules about being too fashionable. Thank you Army.

 

Stop murdering your parents, grandparents, and other people in Kirkby In Ashfield!!!
As the weather gets warmer, you might be tempted to go out and spend time in parks or on beaches. Don't do that. You will be an accomplice in the mass-murder of millions of people.

If you go out, there will be no difference between you and Adolf Hitler. Stay at home!

This is one of the messages posted on a website directed at my town
I get the point but, a little OTT don't you think.

As of this morning we have 0 confirmed cases from a population of around 27.5k.

 

Using Godwin's Law to illustrate Poe's Law. Nice.

Fingers crossed for your community, but remember that by the time a case gets confirmed the patient has already been contagious for days, if not weeks. Caution is still wise.

 

I had 30 min between meetings yesterday.

 

The site @-jeffB is called Ovulation calculator, a random site that popped up when I searched for Coronavirus uk Kirkby in Ashfield

Not spending much time in front of a computer ( no FB or Twit ) I had not heard of those Law's but, the law of extreme caution is and will continue to be applied without thought.

 

Hey guys, just because I haven't posted in a while and some of my coins are on sale, some people have PMd me worried. I am alright...still around. I haven't died.

I am selling some coins to free off some cash for my astronomy hobby to buy some ridiculously priced gear that I need to take my astronomy observations to the next level. I'll be back to collecting coins soon enough... probably towards the end of this year or the beginning of next year, and will probably focus on medieval coins for a while instead of ancients (an area I never really got into before..but I want to explore). In the meantime I still read the threads on a daily basis. I hope you guys stay safe.

 

Glad to see that you are OK. I actually sold my 18" Obsession Dob a few months back. Am using the proceeds to buy a C11 Edge SCT for planetary viewing/photography. I got tired of the light pollution. By now I've seen most of the DSO's visible from my backyard. I've even started observing the moon through my 6" Achromat.

 

That’s great news, @Sallent ! I was afraid we were going to have to elect a new President of the Bottom Feeders Club.

 

C'mon, dish!

 

I wish. I'm just upgrading my solar telescope, and I'm acquiring a 7 inch maksutov telescope for better planetary viewing. A refractor telescope is also on my shopping list. I am also upgrading some of the accessories and lenses in my inventory to make it easier to do my observations and to get the best views possible. I'm also investing in new astronomy software and astrophotography software and accessories. After years of doing amateur astronomy on a budget, I decided to go for the best that I can afford... even if it means taking a hiatus and stepping away from some of my other hobbies for a while, and selling some stuff off.

Being able to view stuff that's billions of years old and many light years away has been a humbling experience. It's made me appreciate how insignificant and small our place in the universe really is, and has really filled my imagination in ways that no other hobby ever did.

Anyway, I'll be around even if I'm not actively posting... And once I return to collecting coins as I know I will eventually do, I'll be sure to share those new numismatic adventures with you guys. As Arnold Schwarzenegger said, "I'll be back".

 

I chopped down most of a bush in front of the house today - it's been on the "To Do" list for ages and coming back from bringing in the rubbish bin this morning it caught my eye. I'll need a skip now to remove the remains (and some junk from the back). I even mowed the lawn yesterday, so this might be a productive time.

Here's something interesting I found last night - a box with three of these in it - my third chip, from 1996:



It's a bandpass Sigma-Delta ADC - it chops the input to DC and has an analogue FIR filter and then digitizes the filtered signal using two second-order Sigma-Delta ADCs, giving I&Q outputs. If I can kludge together up a clock and power supply, I'll try it.

It was on a 2.4um process, which was old even then and is nearly prehistoric now - our last chip at work was on 28nm and we've done 10nm and 12nm chips in the last couple of years. The numbers refer to the minimum feature sizes - a transistor gate length or a metal track - so 28nm could have gates about 1/86th the length of a 2.4um technology. If everything scaled, you could get ~7300 times as many devices in the same area on 28nm as on 2.4um. There were only two metal layers here; nowadays, we might have ten layers.

I have two older chips somewhere around the house that further Covid-induced cleaning may throw up

ATB,
Aidan.

 

I understand some of those words...
oh, what the hell...never could pretend to understand Irish anyways...

 

Nice. I've designed a certain amount of digital stuff on the hobby side (culminating in a video display card, but with early-1980s technology, text-only), but I've never designed my own IC. Never even configured an FPGA. So many things to tinker with, so little time...