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About gmcdavid

Retired IT professional with a wide range of interests. Married. Three sons, two with autistic-spectrum disorders and the third being transgender with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. From Chicago but now living in the Twin Cities metro, Minnesota. Episcopalian. Carleton College (BA 1972, physics) and Stanford University (MS 1974, Applied Physics; MS 1976 Statistics).

Stocking the organ banks

We have a couple old computer monitors waiting to be properly recycled. Since I am finding myself more interested in electronics lately I decided to save any useful components. Following the advice here, I was well aware of the dangers. So I took a screwdriver and made a probe for discharging any lingering high voltage: Continue reading

“Think Green”

With “encouragement” from management, many of my fellow employees now have this as part of their e-mail signature:

Please consider the environment before printing this email.

At least one has made the message even stronger:

Think Green!  Please do not print this e-mail unless
absolutely necessary.

While another is less enthusiastic:

Please consider the unemployed loggers before printing this email.