Bill in Winnipeg
My interests include electrical engineering, pop culture, history of techonolgy, amateur radio and a few others. I'm no scholar, but I hope I can improve the content of a few articles. And I find I really enjoy editing!
The Vision Thing
- I've been logging into Wikipedia since November 2004 but the last few weeks I've not done anything since I'm recovering from a detached retina - even now my sight in my right eye is poor and this is the first time I've had enough blurry vision in that eye to try to log on. My opthamalogist has seen me this week and hasn't given me any indications that I won't make a good recovery, but it's only been 15 days since the scleral buckle and cryoprobe operation. A scary thing, to lose one's sight...and a modern day miracle to get it back again. Wish me luck. If the sight keeps inmproving at this rate, in a couple of weeks I may be able to drive again. --Wtshymanski 21:50, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- My vision is much better now...at least I can use the computer without much eye strain. --Wtshymanski 02:37, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I'd say being able to spend 2 or 3 hours on Wikipedia a day indicates that my vision has a good degree of usability. And next week I find out if I can make the grade for driving. Cross fingers. --Wtshymanski 16:25, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Hooray! My optometrist tells me that with a new prescription for my glasses, I'll have better than the legal minimum for driving. I'm going back to work on the 25th of April, so I won't be Wiki-ing nearly as much; but it sure has helped keep me from boredom the last month. --Wtshymanski 06:12, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Those Toys
Oh, how I wish those little toy robots had been named "TranZformers" or something of that ilk. I'm tracking down all the references to the electrical item, but there must be 400,000 articles about the toy robots, or the cartoon series, or the movie, or the comic books...grrr. --Wtshymanski 06:12, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
To Do List
Things that occur to me as of April 15, 2005:
- Diagram of an arc furnace
- Diagram of a computer bus
- Short article on CAMAC standard bus for nuclear instrumentation
- Look at the article on programmable controllers and see if I can touch it up
- Collect all my book references on my talk page so I can cut'n'paste instead of retyping.
- Write up a description of the scleral buckle procedure for a detached retina (been there, done that, have the rubber band around one eye!).
- I've added a bunch of transformer-related articles to my watch list - as a handy way of keeping track of them, and to remind me to cross-reference the main transformer article to them. (April 21, 2005)
- Look at the rest of the submarine cable articles and the other HVDC articles and make sure the English is clear. (April 21, 2005)
- Table of integrated circuit logic speeds, probably gate delay, and typical flip-flop toggle speed, along with power per gate. (April 22, 2005)
Articles that I've been editing
First editor of
Lots of edits to
Touched on
Images
- Recreational walkie-talkies
- Televideo terminal
- Nelson River Bipole conveter station and valve hall
- Manitoba Hydro Pointe du Bois station interior
- Power triangle
- Sine waves and three-phase power
Bill's Book References
(not yet in canonical Wiki form )
Jacob Millman, "Microelectronics Digital and Analog Circuits and Systems", McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1979 ISBN 007042327X
Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill, "The Art of Electronics 2nd Ed. " Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989 ISBN 0521370957
Don Lancaster, "TTL Cookbook", Howard W. Sams and Co., Indianapolis, 1975, ISBN 0672210355
The Engineering Staff, "The TTL Data Book for Design Engineers", 1st Ed., Texas Instruments, Dallas Texas, 1973, no ISBN
A. H. Howatson, "An Introduction to Gas Discharges", Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1965 - especially Chapter 8.
