Happy Birthday, Chip!
David Betz
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I think today is Chip's birthday. It seems like P2 is close to being on its way to becoming real silicon! What better a birthday present than that?
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Good reason to go crank up that air compressor Chip;
Parp Parp !
I'm 50 today and have been working on Prop2 since I was 38. I'm glad this project is looking like it's about done.
I really appreciate everyone's support and enthusiasm over all this time. Working with all you guys has been quite addictive and I've become rather reliant on you for lots of things.
Hopefully, this Prop2 thing turns out to be more than a "poof" and money spent. It's just crazy how long this has been going. It almost killed me, at one point.
It's 5:22am now and I'm in the office getting the CORDIC fixed up so I can send OnSemi a new set of Verilog files before I go to bed and they start working in Texas. I'm worn out, but healthy.
Hope you have a Happy 50th.
Oh to be 50, or even 60 again
They all lied about their age! :P
Thanks Chip. Happy Birthday!
Having (61+ 9/12), I believe I'm well within Ken's statistics.
Henrique
-Phil
Your age is just a number, best thought of in hexadecimal.
I may be the youngster of the P2 group at only 45 ;-)
Also I want to express my great respect for the work you've already done and are doing now and in future. And take care for yourself make timeouts sometimes!
I cooked 400 pounds of corn yesterday and we made several thousand tortillas. If you were here, you could have all the tacos, enchiladas, and quesadillas you could stand.
At this point, the Prop2 is a well-cooked sausage.
Here's 800 pounds of masa, in the making:
That is more then I would eat in my lifetime.
Mike
My tortilla dreams are being put on hold. I agreed to sell all the machinery to some people in Chicago who have several restaurants and want to get into food production. Before the equipment goes, though, I've been thinking about how to get it to run optimally, so I've been doing some experiments. Yesterday, the corn was slightly overcooked, which made it tacky and difficult to run on the sheeter head. We wound up with thousands of tortillas and a big mess. I'm calling around today, trying to find somebody with some pigs who can take about 300 lbs of waste.
There are videos of tortilla machines on YouTube that you might find interesting. I haven’t been to Chevy’s in years, but they used to have them.
The mini doughnut machines are fun too. My kids enjoyed the one in old town Sacramento.