Here’s an incredible cover of Steely Dan’s My Old School, the enigmatic jazz/rock song from 1973. Happy 50th.

For some reason this winter, I’ve wanted some experiences from my past just one more time.

I built an “improved” astable multivibrator circuit from:

IMPROVED ASTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR, by RAJU BADDI, National Center for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Ganeshkhind P.O Bag 3, Pune University Campus, PUNE 411007, Maharashtra, INDIA; baddi@ncra.tifr.res.in

Here’s the schematic of the improved circuit:

Original astable multivibrator post.

I built an astable multivibrator from discrete components:

I used 2N2222 transistors instead of BCS547.

I get to see hot air balloons almost every weekend with mild weather, spring/summer/fall. The thumbnail is a hot air balloon in front of Mount Meeker and Long’s Peak.

This is a 60-year-old reconstruction of an Oviraptor, from Discovering Dinosaurs, by Glenn O Blough, pictures by Gustav Schrotter, copyright 1960 by Glenn O. Blough. Library of Congress Card Catalog Number 60-8020, Weekly Reader Paperback Book Club edition published by arrangements with McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY.

I believe this is the picture that got me interested in dinosaurs, and from dinosaurs, I became interested in paleontology.

I built a 3-transistor ring oscillator from discrete components.

For several years, 2007-2018 perhaps, I would answer any call that reached my cellphone. I wanted to understand the scams, I wanted to know how such hollow, bullshit constructs worked.