Actually the salts in the fish flesh cause ionic reactions which in turn generate electrostatic fields that, while the fish is moving, interact with the earth's magnetic field which, of course, is affected by the full moon thus causing ionic bombardment of the silicon substrate. Thus waving a dead fish over your PIC during a full moon CAN have an electrical effect on it. If you've read thus far... only joking! ;-) Ted Mawson PS We engineering types do have a tendancy to reject anything that we don't have a scientific explanation for, don't you think? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Botkin" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [PIC]: PIC crystal... > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Olin Lathrop wrote: > > > You might just as well wave a dead fish over it during a full moon. > > What - am I the only one that does that?? > > Dale > 8-) > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu