The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...

[spacelordmother]

It's a sign from God.



(...descending from the sky... it was all right to dream...of Buckingham Green...)

[D.o.S.]

So I've been angry as a motherfucker the last few weeks, but recently the last few days have been absolutely horrible. I had no idea why. The night before last, I came home from my workout and started to slip in and out of consciousness, no joke. I ate because I figure that was the issue. It was kind of. I sat for 40 minutes and was still dazed and barely responding. I have a glucometer and decided to test it. I couldn't even do it myself. Had my wife do it. My fucking blood sugar was 50! Way too fucking low and that's after I ate!!! No wonder I've been out of my gourd! I took a spoonful of honey and downed it, problem solved. The next morning, I woke up pissed. I am positive I'm hypoglycemic now and am worried it could turn into diabetes. Fucking bullshit. I need to watch it very closely. I'm getting enough food and shit right now, but it's less than I was before. I think it has a lot to do with the constant stress I'm putting my body under in the gym. You try and be healthy and you are anything but. Sigh.

Go to a doctor?

[Chankgeez]

So I've been angry as a motherfucker the last few weeks, but recently the last few days have been absolutely horrible. I had no idea why. The night before last, I came home from my workout and started to slip in and out of consciousness, no joke. I ate because I figure that was the issue. It was kind of. I sat for 40 minutes and was still dazed and barely responding. I have a glucometer and decided to test it. I couldn't even do it myself. Had my wife do it. My fucking blood sugar was 50! Way too fucking low and that's after I ate!!! No wonder I've been out of my gourd! I took a spoonful of honey and downed it, problem solved. The next morning, I woke up pissed. I am positive I'm hypoglycemic now and am worried it could turn into diabetes. Fucking bullshit. I need to watch it very closely. I'm getting enough food and shit right now, but it's less than I was before. I think it has a lot to do with the constant stress I'm putting my body under in the gym. You try and be healthy and you are anything but. Sigh.

Go to a doctor?

Dude?

You have to be really careful, jwar, that's way way too fucking low.

[ChetMagongalo]

You try and be healthy and you are anything but. Sigh.

maybe you're trying too hard man, see if you can simplify things or make some changes, hang in there dude

[Jwar]

Yea I'm going to schedule an appointment with the doc. I'm due anyway. It's weird because the last time I was doing all this weight drop, I was dropping more weight faster and didn't have any issue. I think it's because my body is just not digging it you know. But I'll let the doctor determine what's the issue. Until I can get in, I'm going to keep close tabs on it though.

[Strange Tales]

Anyone that can solder SMD is a fucking wizard,

I snapped a resistor in two last night in pure fucking anger. 0603 shit is stupid small and fuck everyone.

[spacelordmother]

Anyone that can solder SMD is a fucking wizard,

I snapped a resistor in two last night in pure fucking anger. 0603 shit is stupid small and fuck everyone.

Seriously. I was feeling pretty good about my mod/soldering skills and now I have a dead Freeze.

[psychic vampire.]

SMD were made to be done by machines. It sorta cracks me up that people do them by hand. Almost as much as it cracks me up hearing guitarists tonetalk about the "incredible differences" between SMD and Through Hole.

Sorry about the freeze tho. And the snapped resistor.

[pd~]

Try 0402, ugh...

[Strange Tales]

I don't want to deal with 0402 man, fuck.

Like, it's so much cheaper to do Mutable Instruments DIY, and I kill it with through-hole soldering, but holy hell this stuff makes my brain hurt. I should have an extra resistor lying around somewhere.

[aens_wife]

I don't want to deal with 0402 man, fuck.

Like, it's so much cheaper to do Mutable Instruments DIY, and I kill it with through-hole soldering, but holy hell this stuff makes my brain hurt. I should have an extra resistor lying around somewhere.

That sounds awful, man. You may have already watched something like this, but we use a bunch of these techniques for hand soldering our SMT prototypes and found them really helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9FC9fAlfQE You may also want to look at what different iron tips, if you haven't already. Good luck!

[hbombgraphics]

I don't want to deal with 0402 man, fuck.

Like, it's so much cheaper to do Mutable Instruments DIY, and I kill it with through-hole soldering, but holy hell this stuff makes my brain hurt. I should have an extra resistor lying around somewhere.

That sounds awful, man. You may have already watched something like this, but we use a bunch of these techniques for hand soldering our SMT prototypes and found them really helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9FC9fAlfQE You may also want to look at what different iron tips, if you haven't already. Good luck!

SMD is the worst I can't imagine doing it by hand

I could fire up the oven for ya!!

[psychic vampire.]

I don't want to deal with 0402 man, fuck.

Like, it's so much cheaper to do Mutable Instruments DIY, and I kill it with through-hole soldering, but holy hell this stuff makes my brain hurt. I should have an extra resistor lying around somewhere.

What smd Mutable kits are you doing? I wanna do Through Hole Clouds, but some of those SMD kits at the site you linked were amazing looking. Rings in particular.

[Strange Tales]

@aens_wife
Yea I watched all of that guys videos. I got a conical tip in yesterday so I might try using that instead of a chisel tip to see how that works it.

@hbomb
Thanks but don't worry about it! I already have half of the resistors placed and I'm incredibly stubborn so fuck me

@psychic
I'm building a Shades right now because it requires no programming at all. After this I'm going to try programming the SMT32 chip because I bought the Warps PCB as well. At this point I might just take a break and build an Ambika or something though to clear my head. That Through Hole Clouds kit looks really cool though, if I wanted a second Clouds I would do one of those.

[hbombgraphics]

ok, cool cool cool
good for you
last surface I did personally was such a nightmare

only thing I have to do with the oven over the next few weeks is run through a bunch of current sense transformers to make sure the coplanarity is up to par