God Doesn't Care Who Wins the Super Bowl

This is for you, all you Kurt Warner enthusiasts who think this game on Sunday is a platform for you to try to cram your fundamentalist Christian beliefs down the rest of our throats. Furthermore, it's back-handedly condescending that you would collectively crawl out of the woodworks now that St. Kurt is in the Super Bowl and imply that the Cardinals are some sort of team of destiny because of their QB.

Let's clarify before too many people get pissed off at what I'm saying. I'm not debating that Warner is a great football player, phenomenal leader and an outstanding human being. He is and should continue to be an inspiration to all. Nor am I debating Christianity. I'm not raining on anyone's beliefs. In fact, I applaud them. What I don't applaud is the perceived sense of superiority because of them. It's hypocritical.

[ASIDE: Larry Fitzgerald is a phenomenal player as well, and he's a guy who just goes out, does his job, kicks ass at it and keep his mouth shut. So, St. Kurt isn't even the only good guy on his own offense.]

Listening to you people, though, he is a beacon of light in a cesspool of immorality. The rest of the players on the field (and those that support them) have fastpass for the bullet train to hell. I've got news for you, folks.

You don't know these guys.

I don't either, with the exception of one. This guy. Yes, he has long hair. Yes, his long hair makes him look like a cartoon character. Or perhaps even a lead guitarist. He's a great guy and has been since college. Family guy, father, etc.

They very well may be a bunch of idiots and awful human beings. But in the absence of knowing that for a fact, I am not judging any of them.

I'm rooting for the Steelers. I'm rooting for a guy that I knew in college. I am not a bad person or any less of the Catholic I am because of it. God doesn't care. What God does care about, though, is the back-handed hypocrisy of judging others in His name.

"For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you." (Matthew 7:2, New American Bible)

Game Day

Waiting for shoe polish coat #1 to dry as I'm typing this...

Gametime - 1:30 p.m.
Capstone Turbine
Chatsworth, CA







Uni -
Black suit w/ white pins
Blue/black oxford shirt
Navy tie w/ blue and white stripes

Crank it up, baby...I am Captain Microturbine!

Some Wednesday Hilarity

More Bandwidth!

That is the answer. This is the question.

This traffic prioritization issue God complex among carriers is going to be an ongoing issue as long as files continue to increase in size and complexity (which will, invariably, continue to happen). Increasing demand for video and larger graphics files, along with the "blogosphere" and the fact that any slapdick can create his own content. Gotta love that this kind of stuff keeps me employed. Tech won't stop. Are you ever going to say, "Enough! My computer is too fast!"? Thought not.

Random Acronym - from Semtech

TVS - Transient Voltage Suppressor - "a general classification of an array of devices that are designed to react to sudden or momentary overvoltage conditions"

At the chip level, these guys make the best available. It has a faster response time and lower clamping voltage than competing solutions. Basically, if you have a transient threat (electrical spike of some sort caused by static electricity/lightning/plugging in), this thing can clamp down on it before that shock can pulse its way through your system and fry every chip on every board in it.

Think about it as if someone held one end of a rope and you shook the other end up and down to create a wave. To stop that wave, someone grabs the rope and pulls tight, thus clamping it. That's essentially what this thing does, except it is taking "transient" electrical charges and grounding them before they can reverberate through the system to scorch it.

I realize no one reading this really cares, and y'all are just waiting for me to have some smartass comment or punchline associated, but when you ask what I do at work or how work was or any derivation of a work-related question, the answer is that I write about this kind of technology. This is my new account. Go Semtech! (Nasdaq: SMTC)