There is simply no elegant way to cough with an ice cube in your mouth. And yet, sometimes you must.<\/p>\n
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I am about to go solder six 0402 size capacitors onto the circuit board I am testing. I have never worked with 0402 size capacitors. They are small enough that you could probably fit a good 5 or 6 on the back of a ladybug. I know people do it. I’m just not sure how.<\/p>\n
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I am a fan of the Gregory McDonald mystery novels, which most folks know from the Fletch<\/i> movie adaptation1<\/sup>. The humor style of the books is different from the movie, largely because Chevy Chase is just being himself, doing his own thing. I like both. <\/p>\n I used to own every Fletch<\/i>, Flynn<\/i> and Skylar<\/i> novel, and re-read each many, many times. They are not great literature (Mr. McDonald is a bit heavy-handed with getting a theme across at times) but I like the writing style and his plots are often rollicking. It got to the point, though, where I decided I had just read them enough<\/i>, and they had to go. I considered bundling them all up and selling that whole batch on eBay, but in the end we gave them to our friend Sarah for a garage sale.<\/p>\n The last thing I had read of his was Skylar in Yankeeland<\/i> in 1997.<\/p>\n Lo and behold, on a whim, I did a search on Amazon for him today, and he published Flynn’s World<\/i> in 2003. I’ve been waiting 10 years for a new book, and I only had to wait six! Sheesh.<\/p>\n And on further investigation, I see Fletch Won<\/i>, the first of the Fletch<\/i> prequels, is slated to be a movie in 2007. IMDb says rumors are Zach Braff is scheduled to play the lead. I’ll go with that.<\/p>\n 1<\/sup> Though not the Fletch Lives<\/i> sequel, which had nothing to do with the book series storyline, largely because the ending of the original movie was different from the book (and much inferior, IMHO).<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is simply no elegant way to cough with an ice cube in your mouth. And yet, sometimes you must. — I am about to go solder six 0402 size capacitors onto the circuit board I am testing. I have … Continue reading