Took off Monday evening for Texas to visit a customer for some development guidance and discussions. Hit work early Tuesday to bring up the latest revision of hardware. Had a couple false-issues – one with a temp sensor and another with a couple FETs on the board which I erroneously… Continue reading
Some random photos from the set I took while in Shanghai. Some take around the city itself, others from the aquarium. Aquariums and zoos are always good camera fodder. The skyline looking across the river. Because, when you have an LED display the size of a building, you shoulddisplay fireworks…. Continue reading
So, Saturday night, we all went out for a nice dinner. It was a very nice dinner. That being said, there are two cultural differences that came up. First, I had forgotten about the Asian way of drinking at dinner though. It’s completely acceptable, and rather encouraged it would seem,… Continue reading
On February 16th, Josh and I took off from Grand Rapids with a final destination of Shanghai, China. Our mission was to spend a little over a week serving as support for a customer’s supplier’s plant trial. The work details are largely confidential, but conveniently also rather uninteresting to most… Continue reading
Michael and I arrived in VT in the late morning of Saturday, unloaded a bit of stuff into the condo and promptly started sleeping. Ideal case was that we would have been arriving sometime around 3AM and have had five or so hours to sleep. As it turns out, due… Continue reading
I am currently residing in Austin, TX for the weekend as there is more work to be done Monday. Steve was busy for the weekend, but Friday afternoon he was kind enough to provide me with a list of suggested sites to visit. Despite not feeling so grand, I did… Continue reading
So, I’m sitting in the Houston airport right now with a flight that doesn’t leave for a few hours and looking at weather is likely to be delayed. And, given that I have time on my hands, I’m thinking that some people out there might be interested in what I’ve… Continue reading
So, here in list form is recorded some of the fun of visiting Taiwan for a week. Additions as well as an actual literary rundown may happen. General: Typhoon – disappointing. The gov’t got all worried after underestimating the last one, so this one was all the rage… at least… Continue reading
I just returned from the GLSKS up in Grand Marais, MI. It was a highly successful weekend, as judged by me. Doug and Corrina headed up early Wednesday on Doug time – meaning they left about 1:00 in the afternoon. I didn’t want to take the day off just for… Continue reading
Last weekend was the annual Western Michigan Coastal Kayakers Association symposium. It runs from Thursday evening through noon Sunday and is pretty much two full days of various classes, events, talks and socializing with other semi-local kayakers. Since Doug and I started kayaking in ’05 it has kind of marked… Continue reading