Re: microprocessor research

Sounds lovely, as long as they have something other than fishy stuff. I’m a bit of a statistical outlier—I’m from Vancouver, don’t ski, and hate seafood.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs (who remains mystified that anyone would consider crawfish etoufee a foodstuff)

Must be your search history polluting the cache then. I get this as first search hit:

Except that done right, it's the best thing you've ever put in your mouth. My Cajun ex-wife did it right.

How about Portugese? We recently discovered a fabulous place near our house, Uma Casa. Everything has been great, including, improbably, the burger. It's in the bit of Church street where Sister Act was filmed.

And there's a wonderful Thai place on Church about a block away.

I checked with Mo, who remembers things for me, and she said that we took you to The Gold Mirror and you liked it.

So much food, so little time.

Try this:

Portuguese is great. Our favorite place round here is Portuguese: Bistro 12 in Tarrytown.

Simon is getting there tonight—he wants to go to the BIOS show as well as Photonics West and DesignCon down in San Jose. All helpfully scheduled on top of each other.

We’re bringing a bunch of stuff to show people as we go—sort of an upmarket version of the guy selling wristwatches out of his raincoat. ;)

Simon’s new tester company, TheJigsApp, (*) is launching next week too. It’s really cool—mass-customized test jigs, with 3D printed cradles and probe boards, made automatically from your Gerbers and delivered in a week.

Looking forward to seeing you and your lovely wife.

(We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming, bringing you the very best in political cheap shots and personal abuse.) ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs (*) So far everyone from NY gets the joke, but only a minority (mainly older) elsewhere.

Groan.

Will he do a hardware+software test rig for, say, a small blue box?

A reference to a common experience: “Okay, party’s over. The magic gizmo works, now I have to test and ship them, oh crap.“

I’m sure he’ll be amenable to persuasion. ;)

His bit is mainly the custom bed-of-nails jig, with an auto-generated PCB for the probes. It comes with the EDA files for the probe board, so folks with special requirements can customize it.

It’s ready to go, and will be actually offered for sale as soon as the patents get filed, which will be very shortly.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs