I think that 90% of my business comes from people doing Google searches, hitting one of my posts, and sending me an email. So I'm dispensing stuff totally for free.
The image I carry in my head is a little old lady in the Supermarket or Costco, standing in front of the freezer case and handing out teeny morsels of yummy things.
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Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
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I'm available for projects also, but I sense that we'll need to wait until Obama is gone for the economy to turn around. ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
The can rarther quickly skip the OT posts. Problem is that sometimes a very interesting discussion about technical stuff pops up long down in a OT thr ead.
I enjoy learning (trying to) new stuff, so feel forced to read all the crap also. Sometimes amazing how very bright technical people can be so immense ly dumb when moving into other areas outside their comfort zone
Well, can easily show the finished product, but normally that does not really tell a story, since the electronics are buried inside :-)
I am employed, have a consultancy business on the side, but that has not been active for several years, no time and no one asking (I have not advertised and few know it exists) Cheers
I have never heard of any problems with birds. The nacelle for the big turbines are 100+ meters from the ground, and I don't think the birds like sitting up there :-)
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It is sad, that these college kids go for Bernie and his, I'll pay for your student loans and a whole lot more policies, when the bulk of the bill for all the 'free' stuff, will be paid for by the college educated.
Depends what you mean by qualified. My academic qualification is a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. This does mean that I'm well enough educated to have b een allowed to Join the IEEE (after a couple of guys at EMI Central Researc h had said that I could design respectable electronics) but doesn't immedia tely suggest that I could stick transistors together in a useful way (which I had to learn to do to be able to complete the Ph.D.).
I say a nova/nature pbs thing about the birds and windmills. The early windmills were much smaller, spun faster, and sat in the windy paths over the mountains in California. A lot of bigger hawks and other birds of prey would get hit by them. The "much" bigger windmills they make these days are "mostly harmless" AFAICT. They had to hire someone to count the dead birds under windmills here... no more than anywhere else.
Big windmills make sense to me*. The republican opposition seems like a political reaction... all sorts of propaganda. I feel the same about fracking.. (that it should happen here in NY.) but is blocked for political reasons.
Thanks for posting pics of the products, it's nice to know what people do.
George H.
*Besides everything else, this is energy made right here in america, and part of it goes back to the farmers and towns where the windmills sit. I've never tried to "run the numbers", but hundreds of windmills at $5-10k/year.
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