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Feeling a little nuts. Just spent nine hours non-stop soldering. No plumbing disaster this time - I now have a complete circuit board for my theremin.This is the first circuit board I have ever made from scratch. (Well, I assembled all the circuitry from a kit. Obviously, I didn't make the actual board, because that would be insane.) I was a little daunted when I opened the box to find a jumbled bag containing hundreds of resisters, diodes, and capacitors, and a virgin board, but it wasn't all that bad. If only Mr. Hayward, my high school physics teacher, could see me now.
I really wish soldering were more highly regarded as a skill (i.e. that I could make my mother proud by earning a Ph.D. in Advanced Soldering, then go on to have a distinguished soldering career complete with fame and loads of money), because, damn, I am better at soldering than I am at just about anything - this includes singing, which I did at a church this morning, for money, goodness.
Also, one day I am going to write a cyberpunk novel in which there exists a drug called flux, which would of course come in a paste and be burnt and inhaled a la heroin.
As you can see, I now have bright orange hair. The congregation seemed to like it, surprisingly, even the elderly ladies. It was a very cool church (as far as churches go).
This weekend I learned that the Danish word for 'end' (in the context of, for example, 'The End' on the final interstitial of a silent film from 1916), is 'slut.'
- Excerpts from Werner Herzog's documentary 'My Best Fiend.' I must find this. Hearts for Herzog; that man is some kind of genius.
- "Philip Glass is the first cousin once removed of Ira Glass, host of the nationally syndicated radio show This American Life. Philip Glass's father is Ira Glass's great uncle." This factoid utterly blew my mind.
posted by Mormolyke at
22:26
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http://www.efdsolder.com/PDF/EFD_-_No-Clean_RA_and_RMA_Flux_MSDS.pdf
Hummmm you have all the symptoms :)
Fuck you're talented. Have I ever told you that?
For a ginga I mean, obviously.
Fantastic. I hope you're making eery noises like in those old sci-fi movies. And making theremin recordings for us to hear. So where did these elite soldering skills come from?
-rt
jesus christ, i had enough trouble soldering a friggin skill tester in year 8 shop class let alone a whole fucking motherboard, well done you freakishly talented being!
To be perfectly honest, I think the affinity for soldering might be genetic. Is that even possible? Dr. Yobbo would have a better idea. Anyway, my point is that my biological father is a self-taught electrician and plumber. He never taught me how to be an electrician and plumber, yet here I am 26 years later, able to solder wires and pipes without training or practice.
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