My favorite super market bought cheese is mainland tasty cheddar, the best tasting blocks always have crystals.

ATmega micros are still incredibly useful and the Arduino ecosystem (especially the open source libraries, thanks Rob Tillaart!) makes it so easy to whip up a firmware. I really hope no matter what happens Arduino doesn't go off the rails.

Testing jig for a traction control system for a locomotive. Microcontroller connected to a DDS waveform generator simulates the sensor that picks wheel speed, various ADCs and DACs read in analog voltages that are compared to determine loss of traction. 1980s analog computing at its finest. If I had a choice I would be doing anything else ;)

Back in the day I would keep an old PC running Linux in the closet just for my IRC and shell needs. Having a vanity domain name was a must if you were lucky enough to have a static IP. I remember undernet adding support to hide your IP once you created an account.