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gwillen ([personal profile] gwillen) wrote2011-06-04 06:28 pm

Funemployment

I guess I ought to make a PSA here: I am officially funemployed! By which I mean, I have departed from Google (of my own free will), and do not currently have anything else to replace it with. (Don't tell my grandmother. She'll kill me.) I'm planning to take a few months off, and then move out to the SF bay area around the time my lease expires in August.

While I'm funemployed, I'm going to post daily updates to LJ on what I'm getting up to with my life, so you can all help keep me on track and doing useful things. ;-) If you are interested in reading said updates, please comment so I can put you on the filter. But be warned; they may at times be deadly boring, or incomprehensible, or both. (The first two, for yesterday and today, will be about Bitcoins, hardware, and Cirque du Soleil.)
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[personal profile] joshua0 2011-06-04 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
1) Interested

2) You should buy an FPGA board and play with it during your time between jobs

[identity profile] gwillen.livejournal.com 2011-06-08 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Hmmm that is a cool idea. All I know about them is what I learned in 240. How cheaply can I get one?
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[personal profile] joshua0 2011-06-08 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
$150 for a reasonable one (Nexys2), $200 for the new rev (probably recommended; Nexys3); $350 for a very solid piece of gear (the Atlys).. There is a lot that can be done with the Nexys2, and I have a lot of experience with it; that said, for new usage, probably the Nexys3 is the best choice?