Saket Vora

The timezone messed me up today — I thought the Notre Dame vs. Stanford game was 3:30 PST when it was actuallyEST. So I missed out going to the game. Nader came over and while I pecked away at the project, we watched the game on ESPN. What a terrible game. So many turnovers. So many bad penalties. Horrible officiating that is becoming the trademark of the Pac-10 — Notre Dame had a great touchdown pass that was ruled incomplete, even though the replay clearly showed the receiver had a hand under the ball when he hit the ground. Our starting QB, Tavita Pritchard, was once going into a slide when a ND defender led with his helmet and smashed into Pritchard’s helmet. Our QB’s head got torn off and it looked like he lost consciousness for a bit. No flag. The announcers were stunned. So Ostrander comes in, but then later injures his hand. While our third string QB was warming up, Pritchard comes back out. His helmet had been taken away from him earlier..and the announcers were saying “Coach Harbaugh, get him out of the game.” He was hit again, threw some weak passes. Horrible. Our kicker missed 5 field goals. We were on the goal-line at the end of the game, and our QB Ostrander threw two TD passes — except one was bobbled by the receiver and the other went right through the receivers hands. Sad.

After the game ended we got to working on the project. I wish I could have watched the Kansas vs Missouri match, but Mike kept me posted. It’s amazing that Kansas lost…another #2 goes down.

But anyway. After much explaining and teaching, Nader finally got  a bias circuit built for my amplifier topology and he was even able to improve the specs. So we currently have something we can turn in. It’s kinda ugly and not very creative, and takes around 34 mW of power, but it meets the specs. The new amplifier I built is also meeting the specifications too. So I think we’re doing alright.

I also tried a hefeweiss beer by Hopf. That brings the total number of hefeweizens  that I’ve tried to around 13. Weihenstephaner is still the best.