
Sci-Fi Writer Peter Watts Convicted of Assault 381
SJrX writes "CBC news is reporting that Peter Watts has indeed been convicted of Assaulting border guards, (discussed here). He will be sentenced April 26th."
A) Real men don't build a circuit with an 14Mhz ATmega, when a couple of 555's and a few TTL counters would have sufficed.
B) Real men don't program micro-controllers in C (or, god forbid, BASIC), when a hundred or so assembly instructions would have sufficed.
C) Real men don't give their wives goofy hand-made electronic crap on Valentine's Day, because they know their wives will figuratively and possibly literally beat the shit out of them thus belying that whole 'real man' thing.
The same company that came up with this embarrassing moment a few years back.
Ma Bell is a mean mother!