Hi,

Ever notice how kids keep pushing the boundaries of what they think is fun until they get yelled at by the adults in the room?

This issue (again) has a bit of whimsy with the "promo" images - the image you see to the left of an article description in this newsletter and at the head of the article on Electronic Design's site.

Two newsletters ago, I linked to a timeless article by Bob Pease on P-I-D design and in the last newsletter I put out a plea for issues of the magazine from 1990-2013. So, I managed to score a copy of the 1995 magazine's PDF (thanks!!!) which enabled me to update the missing Figures 2 and 3 of Bob's article.

But wait...there's more.

Our art department, or someone at the magazine, got playful with Bob in that 1995 print issue and did a wonderful bespoke characture of him for his piece.

This art would have been lost forever, so I decided to turn it into the promo image. Took a little work in Gimp to make it clean because the magazine centered the drawing in the center of the page and worked the text, close-in, around both sides of the sketch.

Now this fun piece of art is no longer buried by the sands of time and a new generation of our readers get to have a chuckle. I've reposted Bob's PID piece in the archives section of this issue so you can all have a look and have an article to reread that actually has Figure 2 and 3 there now (please keep sharing the missing mags of articles that authors like Bob shared with us).

A companion to Bob's PID piece is one he wrote about fuzzy logic and refrigerators, also linked below. Its promo image was also missing from the era of IT Doom, our art department was busy doing real work and I have zero drawing talent, so I committed a sin, ironically before the whimsical PID piece came my way...call me "Miss Cleo" for psychically also imparting a bit of silly art, but using words to "draw" the promo image which we aren't supposed to do as a rule.

With all that's going on these days, try to set aside some time to be the kid that pushes their luck by irritating the adults with the audacity to openly display that you're having fun at your "job", bending some minor rules without anyone losing an eye.

enjoy,

-andyT