I QUIT!

I'm out of the place I go to work every day for the last 4 years. I'm done with the nonsense. This event requires a post here, even though I have been neglecting it too much.

A Gem By a Person So Young

I found a blog supposedly (that's what it says) written by a 16 year old:

http://www.infernalramblings.uni.cc/

The things he blogs about, his writing and his clarity of thinking astonishes me. If he keeps this up, he'll achieve great things in the future.

Bravo!

Log Deficiency

Today a colleague of ours forwarded an email to us. Another engineer asked him in the email for the algorithm to convert dBm to Watts and Watts to dBm. This is the third or fourth time my friend has been asked about dBm.

I admire his tolerance for idiots. I would've gone ballistic at the idiot the second time he/she asked me the same simple question. If you Google for the keywords "dBm", "Watt" and "conversion", you'd get PLENTY of resources about this well known conversion.

A bunch of us were laughing at how stupid this person is. The friend who is dead (see eulogy written last month in this blog), commented that "Damn, this is just log conversion! They teach that in high school. Don't everyone know how to do log?"

Ah hah, so I challenged him. I said, "If I gave you a calculator that only has log10 and ln, and I want you to calculate log2(5) (read: log base 2 of 5), how would you do it?"

He went..."Uh....I don't remember."

That's why he's dead. That's why the eulogy was written.