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looks aren’t everything

well, looks aren’t everything… because if they were, then janell wheeler wouldn’t have gotten voted off _american idol_ last night. she was definitely the most attractive girl on the show. so that’s too bad; i would have liked her to stay longer, but america didn’t seem to share my fondness for her. i’m astounded that [...]

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Fri, February 26 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

quick blip

hey people, it’s almost 7pm, and i just got out of a 1.5 hour meeting that was like pulling teeth. so i’m going to make this short and go home. my meeting was about static timing constraints, and if you know what i’m talking about, then you will know that it is one of the [...]

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Thu, February 25 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

never trust the code

i guess that’s the motto of a verification engineer. code is never verified unless you test it. otherwise, you have to assume that it doesn’t work. that’s what happened today. we got a new release of the AC code, so i ran through my basic sanity tests. things were fine. but then, this test had [...]

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Wed, February 24 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

suicide bomber

i had a crazy dream this morning at 6am. (i always seem to wake up at 6am these days.) i was part of a military force, and i was packing a pistol. my regiment was scanning around a plaza or something, and suddenly, we identified a suicide bomber. (i remembered that i thought he looked [...]

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Tue, February 23 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

bathroom double dip

so today, i was in the office bathroom, taking a dump. when i finished, i wiped (twice, of course), got up, flushed, zipped up, and then stepped out of the stall. then, i realized that i needed to take a piss. however, someone was at the urinal (there are two). i didn’t want to use [...]

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Mon, February 22 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

the sendoff

friday night, my cousin D was visiting SF from LA, and he took the 8:40 caltrain down to come to my place. before he got here at 9:50pm or so, i watched the celtics/trailblazers game. rajon rondo can’t really score, but he’s a pretty damn good point guard otherwise. i picked up D from the [...]

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Mon, February 22 2010 » weekend updates » No Comments

hyperspace

this morning, i had a really scary experience. i got to work, and i sat at my cubicle and immediately started to do some work after a few minutes. then, my brain just started to freak out. it sped up faster and faster, and suddenly, i felt like my head was in hyperspace. it’s hard [...]

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Fri, February 19 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

race condition

so i found a weird issue in my test today, one which could explain why it’s failing. so suppose you have a clock that’s sampling another signal. and in your simulation, at the clock’s edge, the other signal changes at the exact same time. which value do you get then? ah, that’s the million dollar [...]

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Thu, February 18 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

jumping on the chance

since vegetarian coworker R is in india, i’m taking the opportunity to eat lunch at places where we couldn’t go before, i.e. places with no veggie options. so today, i suggested that the four of us go to adamsons french dip in sunnyvale. the only non-meat options that adamsons has are french fries, onion rings, [...]

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Wed, February 17 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

piling it on

so at work, last week, i reported a problem in the audio clocking. yesterday, at 8:30am, i had a conference call with a bunch of people that lasted an hour and a half that involved talking about how to fix it. it ended with us assigning the task to our israel branch to fix the [...]

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Tue, February 16 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments