“Good grief, Charlie Brown!” I just exclaimed upon realizing that I’ve hit another 100-column milestone (including this one) here on EE Journal. That makes 400 columns since I joined the community.
As my columns average around 1,500 words apiece, that’s a whopping 600,000 words—each one handpicked at the crack of dawn whilst still glistening with the morning dew, fresh, fragrant, and … Read More → "WTW (“What the What”)? Another 100 Mindboggling Columns!"
It’s funny how you think you know what a word means until someone asks you for a definition, at which point you run into problems trying to articulate that word’s meaning. Take the word “retro,” for example. What does this mean to you?
Take a few minutes to jot your thoughts down, and then we’ll continue. There’ … Read More → "Retro Gadgets, Gizmos, Tools, and Technologies"
The phrase “wake up and smell the coffee” is an idiom that means: “Pay attention to what’s really going on.” It’s not that this is in any way relevant to the following discussions: I was just wondering where and how this expression originated.
Now I come to think about it, this query was sparked by my hearing the news that the … Read More → "Celebrating the FPGA’s 40th Birthday"
I was just thinking about the 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, writer, and photographer, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll).
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass continue to influence us today, not just as beloved children’s stories … Read More → "Wow! AI-Powered “Sketch-on-Napkin” to Embedded Design"