I’m back and the circuit is drawn (see photo). It uses just 42 diodes and 7 resistors, making ROM of the cheapest circuits it is possible to build. For the new-born, a diode is a device that lets electricity flow one direction but not the other. I used them to upgrade by scooter turn signals. I first knew about them when I was under ten years old so don’t be saying this is anything new. But it is by far the most useful thing I’ve ever seen done with diodes. Now that I’m onto them, I can see how it will solve countless wiring problems.The magic is to use a grid. Positive leads one way, and negative leads perpendicular. Place a diode only at each intersection where you want action. It looks pretty if you put than all the same direction at 45 degrees. Things like your computer keyboard are operated by ROM, the shift key simply reroutes your circuit to another set of intersections. There must be a minimum of 84 of these, can you figure out why? So, once again, a breakthrough without any assistance from the pros.
This [design and project] is not to imply I am a genius. The inner lining of my sneakers came loose. Using my cobbling experience, I glued the cloth back down. Not using my brain, I put the shoes on, it seems, before the glue was completely dry and walked up the street. Hey, you need not laugh so hard.
One thing I understand now thanks to diodes is why TI [Texas Instrument] calculators are so expensive. They don’t take shortcuts at the base level. What apparently works is not necessarily the best approach. Those who say electronics is easy are probably using some brute force method. I’d rather not go there. I say use your brains so you don’t open every can in the worm store. Plan ahead.
Today I made the leap to Android, here’s my tablet. Small and handheld, that’s the replacement for my DVD player. The problems were immediate, in that the device is obviously designed for ignoramuses. It is practically impossible to get it to play music properly without utilizing playlists. I’ll work it out but I’ve had fancier toys. It also does not like music subdirectories on the internal memory and commingles everything. Floyd Kramer and Jimi Hendrix, that’s a real nice mix there, Android.One thing I most did not like was the way it was able to pick out song information where it should not have been able to. It must be getting it from the Properties>Summary. I have software to erase, or if that doesn’t work, to modify the data. Now I have to go back in there and remove the Summaries. But then, I've now learned one has to, for reasons. Meaning the first thing I learned on an Android is that they are snooping. The intention is as always, to ultimately send you the bill.
Speaking of the bill, California wants to be paid by the couple who got lost in the woods while blurry on crystal meth. Good, I’m totally for a user pay system. The price tag is $160,000 which is enough to send a clear message to the irresponsible. Think of the money saved if the coast guard and forestry would only do the same. By all means, rescue these idiots. Then send ‘em the bill.
Trivia. Otto von Bismarck began the tradition of calculating how long a given country could afford to conduct a war based on national income. He used economic formulas, I find it odd that since he spoke, wars have lasted roughly half as long as he predicted. Extrapolating that the Arab strategy is not to win the war, but bankrupt the USA, we have another four years left.
The search engines have really been messed up lately. On occasion, I poke in to see which criteria are successfully reaching this blog. Real terms come up empty yet today I noticed successful searches on strange names, like “Teresa Perkovic”. Happily, a search on my own name returns only an address where I lived 33 years ago, long before the Internet.
Yet, a search on my stage name, which has no basis in reality, shows me in Hallandale Beach, Florida. How on earth that information got there, I have no clue. It even suggests that I may be related to myself. Beware, these sites charge for “more information” and they all show that little flag indicating I have a criminal record. I don’t. They just want your money.
Later. The Android did the job this evening but barely. The controls are not intuitive and now I know why people who own these things take so long to do simple things. I’m still learning the controls and they only work right half the time. It turns out the problem with my system was not the old DVD player or the headphone jacks, but a $7 RadioShack stereo adaptor that got stuck in a mono line. I decided to bite the $55 loss and keep the Android in order to learn the technology.
But I can tell you already the technology is geared at the gronk level, the type of person you give a computer and he uses it to watch porno movies. Or she uses it to keep updated on celebrity pregnancies. It you wonder why the world has a legendary view of Americans as useless idiots, get an Android tablet and figure it out for yourself.
For example, I mentioned how the contraption re-titled my songs to the format of some stupid jerk. The song title is “Hound Dog”, not “Elvis Presley – Hound Dog – Original rare version – Youtube”. Now all the Elvis songs get alphabetized together and the thing plays an hour of Elvis music. Most definitely what the audience did not want. I hear some goof saying just hit the shuffle key. Well buddy, it's stupid people who think like that who made it necessary to invent the shuffle key.
Savvy?
