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Early search engines and a cartoon
Dec. 20th, 2006 12:56 am
This amused me when I saw it a while back: search engines of the past.
This cartoon was publicised on fliers at Worldcon. The early episodes are not the best ones - but the genesis of Molly starts to get funny. As for Princess Voluptua ... The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob.
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Note to self: Invent time machine FIRST then all the other tasks can be accomplished on time. I might look old by next week of course ... now don't say it!
The demo version of the big project I am working on just works, with an instability caused by a subtle difference between two manufacturers versions of the same chip. Of course, (by the law of the conservation of misery) there is one specific power level at which the control loop oscillates at 2 megahertz (pretty fast for a power factor corrector) and fries everything! Otherwise it works properly.
If the Christmas post delivers a few replacement chips it will be ready to demo on Thursday, third time lucky. Of course, if it doesn't work well enough for demo soon I won't get paid ... and on Wednesday I will spend all day working for a different customer for better rates than average, so there will be negligible time to fit the new chip and do a test. If it fries again an all-nighter looms.
This cartoon was publicised on fliers at Worldcon. The early episodes are not the best ones - but the genesis of Molly starts to get funny. As for Princess Voluptua ... The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob.
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Note to self: Invent time machine FIRST then all the other tasks can be accomplished on time. I might look old by next week of course ... now don't say it!
The demo version of the big project I am working on just works, with an instability caused by a subtle difference between two manufacturers versions of the same chip. Of course, (by the law of the conservation of misery) there is one specific power level at which the control loop oscillates at 2 megahertz (pretty fast for a power factor corrector) and fries everything! Otherwise it works properly.
If the Christmas post delivers a few replacement chips it will be ready to demo on Thursday, third time lucky. Of course, if it doesn't work well enough for demo soon I won't get paid ... and on Wednesday I will spend all day working for a different customer for better rates than average, so there will be negligible time to fit the new chip and do a test. If it fries again an all-nighter looms.
