Unlike you, I didn’t pack for the longest route
And now I need to make do with what I got
Don’t ask me to abandon ship and swim to shore
Teach me how to fix my boat so I can save myself
Right speaker of my QC15 gave out one morning. Frustrated by it, I
almost forked out $400 for a new pair. Following symptoms started
showing all of a sudden:
After turning the headphones on, I’d hear a loud white noise from
the right speaker.
Following a few seconds of playing a song, the song would start to
cut out intermittently and eventually stop.
Tilting my head to sides would improve the situation a bit.
After completely cutting out, blowing into the right speaker (having
removed the cushions and the fabric cover), would bring it back to life
for a short period of time.
All the IC goodies are were supposed to be on the reverse side.
Not much though, see the picture at the end of the post.
I want to learn Go. I’ve read a lot
about it, its docs and code. I’ve seen it in action. But I still haven’t
written a single line of Go. Recently, in presence of some good white
noise, I did a bit of introspection and realized why I haven’t done so
yet. I discovered that I do the following before deciding to embark on
learning a new skill:
Have a project in mind that requires the new skill
Start ASAP after the initial thought
Use the most basic or immediately available tools if it helps with 2
Quick notes on the above before I give you some examples. You need to
have a project you care about otherwise you will lose interest due to
the lack of purpose. You won’t go far and instead will stick to basics.
You need to start ASAP because your interest may wear off if delayed.
You can argue that if one is truly interested, this is not an issue. I
agree but just as when sometimes an idea is better than its reality
counterpart, reality can sometimes be better than the idea. And for
those of us who are only lightly taken by an idea, getting down and
dirty with it has the potential to get us full on excited. But if we let
it slip, we forever remember how it wasn’t such a big deal
anyway.
I’m afraid I’m interrupting you
something on your lips I spotted
Let me hold that for you —
you drink vodka from a wine bottle?!
It’s beautiful outside, and so are you
What … What I meant to say was
that beauty is everywhere tonight
Surely you fancy a drink from the bar
It’s a good break from the Russian mafia
that you’ve been drinking all night
Jesse by the way, that’s my name
You can tell by the hair, all Jesses have the same
I would bet a dance on that squeaky floor
that your name is Summer, Summer the stunner
I remember using WRT54G router when it first came more than a decade ago
and back then, my first attempt to upgrade the firmware resulted in
bricking it. It wasn’t until I went searching for how to make it OK
again that I discovered an entire community of hackers making this $100
device do incredible and magical shit.
Fast forward to few days ago and while going through my stuff, I came
across this Samsung HDD which had a very familiar looking chip on it—an
SDRAM! Aha! I remembered I had seen that chip elsewhere, on my very own
WRT54GL. I quickly googled the part numbers and found them to be pin
compatible. So I rolled up my sleeves and got busy desoldering the chip
off the HDD and soldering it onto the router. I fucked up more or less
and ended up bending the chip and knocking one of the pads off (albeit
an NC one) on my router. I finished the job nonetheless. Already
hopeless, I powered it up and saw nothing but flashing power LED and all
on ethernet LEDs. Couldn’t be worse.
Samsung K4H561638J-LCCC. Although not obvious, I managed to bend the
chip and the outer pins must be under great mechanical stress right now.
Also note the missing pad next to the third cap from the left.
You may be gone, but the ideas that you shone light on
will forever shine, turning the quiet of every night
into a loud sound, a ringing in my ears
that blocks the silence I had taken comfort in for so long
