R & D, retrograde

I've recently had a chance to embark on a very interesting experience. Under pressure to build a prototype as quickly as I could, I had to design a printed (read as: permanent) circuit board with previously untested electrical components. Today I finally received excess amounts of the mysery component and was able to try some testing in the lab. It's an interesting feeling when you've already sent off the design only to find that it's not going to work the way you plan. Or it's just not going to work, period. In a last ditch effort to prevent me from having to perform major surgery on this board, I will have to call the PCB place and rework the error. In other news, I'm very ready for a four day weekend.

Also, here's a highly recommended movie for the holiday season.

[blogger's note: I was surprised to see that I wrote a comment about the movie on imdb over four years ago. I was awfully harsh, it would seem. One star?]

Now time for some turkey...