Back in NYC

Last week I was in the Bay Area for Maker Faire, which I sort of forgot to announce here. But lots of people were there, and it was great fun!

Before I left there was some hecticness due to my cat being sick for unknown reasons. One of the silver linings is that the ASPCA takes xrays and immediately uploads it online so now everyone can check out MOSFET’s kittyinnards.

Filed under: random — by ladyada, posted April 28, 2006 at 2:35 pm

Valley girl

Today, for your amusement, I present my very best impression of a valley girl engineer. Does anyone out there have a Final Cut Pro filter to cut out the audio every time I say “like” “so” and “umm”? kthxbye!

Also, Israeli Minty! Ironically if I actually showed up in Tel Aviv with one of these I’d probably get shot cause it looks like a detonator. Whee!

Filed under: x0xb0x — by ladyada, posted April 17, 2006 at 3:46 pm

Scatterbrained

An email from the inimitable Michael Baker reminded me that I have a blog. “Hello blog! I apologize for locking you in a closet and forgetting to feed you.”

Today we will look at what happens when electronics companies have bad web-designers. To wit, I am currently designing more cellphone jammers and I was visiting my favorite source of high frequency VCOs, MiniCircuits, to spec some parts. Click on that link. Now lets start with the main image.

OK, now, what exactly is going on here? There are 10 guiding principles, some sort of dodgeball game going on, and only ‘SPEED’ is in all caps. Why is passion getting attacked? What exactly is a “Quality Culture”?

For bonus points, please explain why the “Dynamic Product Search Engine” (which works pretty well) is named with a synonym for “vagina”:

To quote my friend, the German, “i think design by committee is to blame, no one person could fuck up that bad”
Filed under: EE — by ladyada, posted April 16, 2006 at 8:53 pm

Join in!

Hi guys, sorry for the delay. just wanted to let you know I’ve become totally excited by this new piece of web social networking software called WEBringr. The public beta started today (i got in early cause i’m friends with a devloper, etc etc.) so join the HackingRingr today!

HackRingr: Have fun while voiding your warranty!
Copyright WEBRingr 2006
Filed under: announce — by ladyada, posted April 1, 2006 at 3:20 am

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