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On my last tapeout, I laid out a 500um x 400um array of MOS capacitors for decoupling purposes. I don’t remember the exact capacitance, but I think it was around 500pF which is insanely large for an on-chip capacitor. I got my chip back a few weeks ago and it’s quite sad that [...]

I met with my advisor for the first time in a month today and overall it went well. But there was one point in time when things looked pretty ugly in the comical sense.
Advisor: You should put a voltage control on this block so that you can run a transient and see what happens, [...]

NEW YORK, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Toll Brothers Inc Chief Executive Robert Toll said on Tuesday the Federal Reserve’s rate cut may signal that the economy is worse than previously thought and likely doesn’t indicate the U.S. housing market has hit bottom.
Earlier Tuesday, the Federal Reserve slashed the key federal funds rate by [...]

When I was 5 years old, I asked my mother some pretty serious questions including the following:
Mommy, how much money do I need to have in order to make $1 in interest every single day?
It just hit me that I have now fulfilled my childhood dream of making $1 in interest every single day.
Man, what [...]

USD/CAD > 1 didn’t hold.

You are now looking at the beginning of a financial crisis. We live in interesting times.
http://www.dailyfx.com/charts/Chart.html?symbol=USD/CAD
And when I say it isn’t funny anymore, I really mean this isn’t funny anymore. Our country is farked. This kind of crap in the currency market means that all types of US bonds [...]

Pathetic. At one point 1 USD < 1 CAD.

The monetary policy of the United States is an absolute disgrace. All you citizens of this country ought to be pissed now. If you’re not pissed, you should be pissed.

I am dumping my intermediate US treasury bonds today and going into cash. All of it. Treasuries had a nice run recently and I am more than happy to take all of it off the table.
Genius Ben Bernanke decided to cut rates by 0.5% on Tuesday, thus debasing the US dollar.
You would think [...]

The Federal Reserve cut the discount window and the federal funds rate by 0.5%.
What net positive effect will this do for our ailing economy?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
Any money that the typical American consumer will save by having lower interest rates will be offset by the extra money that needs to be spent on food and gas because [...]

8 flag captures to win on Katabatic.
I captured the flag 7 times.
7 captures * 50 points/capture = 350 points
1 kill * 10 points/kill = 10 points
1 flag return * 1 point/10% from base * 10% from base = 1 point
1 flag touch subsequently captured by someone else * 20 points/touch = 20 points
I can’t believe [...]

Four weeks ago the Fed burned all the put buyers on options expiration day by cutting the discount window by 50 basis points. It is interesting that the Fed picked the best possible time to make the announcement to screw over the bears as much as possible.
Ever since that day, volume has dropped [...]