#garfield Logs

Mar 04 2013

00:15 katsmeow-afk if i make something that's not available any more, and very few people want it, but they do want it, how much do i know to charge for it?
00:16 tsmeow-afk makes a 7seg display that's only .1 inch
00:17 rue_house oo think I ahve some of those
00:18 katsmeow-afk 7 seg displays smaller than the font on your screen?
00:18 katsmeow-afk 2mm tall ?
00:42 katsmeow-afk a km = 1000m, correct?
00:42 rue_house yes
00:43 rue_house sorry, yea I have some 7 segs that are so small you can only read them cause of the lenses on the front of them
00:44 katsmeow-afk oh, those calculator ones
00:44 katsmeow-afk i mean without a lens
00:45 rue_house ah
00:45 rue_house :)
00:48 katsmeow-afk http://sketchup.engineeringtoolbox.com/ ?
00:48 rue_house ?
00:49 katsmeow-afk i asked first!
00:50 rue_house its stuff
00:52 katsmeow-afk how big is 3 grams of plastic?
00:53 rue_house its slightly larger than a 2 gram peice of plastic
00:53 katsmeow-afk ah, right
00:54 rue_house oh a gram is metric
00:54 rue_house its 1/1000 L water kat
00:54 katsmeow-afk <sparky> Charles Moore has estimated the mass of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch at 100 million tons, which would be several tons per km2 .
00:55 katsmeow-afk <me> Ok, lets assume it is 3 tons, or 6600 pounds, per km^2. One km^2 = 1000m by 1000m, or 1,000,000 m^2. According to my calculator, 6600 lbs spread equally among 1,000,000 sq meters, is 0.0066 lbs per sq meter, or 3 grams. You will find it profitable to sit out there and filter 600 lbs of seawater to remove 3 grams, 1/1000L, of plastic?
00:56 rue_house "And then there is the condom island"
00:56 katsmeow-afk there is?
00:56 rue_house so they say
00:58 tsmeow-afk would like to avoid that island,,,,,, and any boats going to or fro
01:00 rue_house "it formed by the way that like things natually collect"
01:01 katsmeow-afk so then, non-opposites collect, ok
18:28 Tom_itx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pLiJMZjQDw
18:37 katsmeow-afk http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21623892
18:42 katsmeow-afk there's a faster debarker/cutter/splitter on a 18-wheeler trailer
18:44 Tom_itx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bVAAx3mMKY
18:58 katsmeow-afk the one i am remembering cut the entire tree at the same time with 20+ chainsaws, then shoved the whole thing thru a splitter/shrink-wrapper
18:59 katsmeow-afk before cutting, it rolled the log a few times to shave most of the bark off it
18:59 katsmeow-afk too the limbs down flush while shaving too
19:00 katsmeow-afk it was all automagic, but could be manually operated too
19:01 katsmeow-afk converting a 30 or 40ft tree trunk to de-barked and shrinkwrapped splits ready for the grocery store shelf took just a couple minutes
19:04 tsmeow-afk needs a way to split up http://designerthinking.com/images/DSCF2810m.jpg so i can use it this summer or next wi
19:05 katsmeow-afk i found a tree down across the fence i have up on the property line today too, and a few dead standing trees that need tocome down
19:32 rue_house ooo kat, thats what I need
19:32 katsmeow-afk what?
19:32 rue_house will that fit in an envelope?
19:33 katsmeow-afk what?
19:33 rue_house the little logs
19:33 katsmeow-afk umm, no
19:36 rue_house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QQNGL2JLIc I like that onebetter
19:37 katsmeow-afk not http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21623892 ?
19:39 rue_house na, too many parts
19:40 rue_house I was cleaning out the boiler to get it going good again
19:40 rue_house its burned a hole thru one layer of part of the firebox
19:40 rue_house :.
19:40 rue_house :/
19:41 katsmeow-afk thru the firebrick?
19:45 rue_house brick, hhehehehe
20:00 katsmeow-afk it doesn't seem to matter how tired i am, i still need an off switch for my brain
20:08 katsmeow-afk funny how i once had a puter with 3 harddrives in it, totalling 1.5 Gbytes, and now i see a hd on this system with "only" 1.5G free on it, and i get worried
20:09 katsmeow-afk i once had a puter with 1K of ram, no floppy or hd, but it had color video out and a Basic interpreter to write apps with, in 1980
20:11 tsmeow-afk remembers wanting a harddrive for the Vic20, but it was $1000 and only ONE MEGA
20:13 tsmeow-afk goes to get a handfull of sleeping pills so she CAN SLEEP to
20:13 katsmeow-afk and some wine
20:13 katsmeow-afk and then go upstairs and move thigs, and see about putting up lites in the den
20:33 katsmeow-afk too cold
20:57 rue_house yea it got cold again
21:10 rue_house http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1-x-Prototyping-PCB-10cm-x-22cm-Universal-Printed-Circuit-Panel-Bread-Board-FR2-/150993394159
21:10 rue_house its kinda funny, I dont even know what I could ever make to use up that much board space
21:10 rue_house in one circuit
21:13 katsmeow-afk i have a project partially laid out on a 120x180 right here in front of me
21:13 katsmeow-afk or 12x18, depends on how you lok at it
21:13 katsmeow-afk and i struggeled to get it down to that size
21:13 rue_house I tend to break things down if they get big
21:14 katsmeow-afk can't on this, because of spacing
21:14 e_house
21:14 katsmeow-afk i could actually add to it, but i split off some
21:15 rue_house can you link me to the front panel layout again?
21:16 katsmeow-afk which project?
21:16 rue_house with the big board
21:16 rue_house power supply, right?
21:17 katsmeow-afk the 12x18 cm?
21:17 katsmeow-afk no, the bigger pcb is going into the kvm
21:17 rue_house yes
21:17 katsmeow-afk i don't have a front panel of the kvm, i have a uncleaned scrap sizing
21:17 katsmeow-afk of the back
21:18 rue_house :)
21:18 rue_house I had thought it was the power supply
21:18 rue_house I'm falling asleep
21:18 katsmeow-afk http://designerthinking.com/images/KVM-16x6/DSCF3176mc.jpg
21:19 katsmeow-afk http://designerthinking.com/images/DC_Lighting/DSCF3168mc.jpg
21:21 katsmeow-afk http://designerthinking.com/benchpsu.html
21:21 katsmeow-afk front panels pics about 1/2 way down
21:23 katsmeow-afk a fit-up to see spacing (with my eyes, outside my head) : http://designerthinking.com/images/racks/DSCF3132m.jpg
21:25 katsmeow-afk i dunno what other front panels you wanna see
21:45 tsmeow-afk slowly realises that if she ganged all the 7603 scope together, and the 7D01, and added some stuff that didn't exist when the 7603 was made, she'd have a 100Mhz **analog per channel** 9 channel display, or a 200Mhz digital color logic anal
21:56 katsmeow-afk that sorta toy is still very pricey
22:11 katsmeow-afk are human unable to hear when they "mountin" for "mountain", or "raod" for "road", or "boneiss" for "bonus" , or do they just not care?
22:20 rue_house accents?
22:21 katsmeow-afk mispronunciation
22:31 tsmeow-afk had to stop programming due to trying to sleep, and shold prolly go lay down
22:31 katsmeow-afk got to get these shoes off anyhow
23:00 rue_house katsmeow-afk, the wood hangs up in the boiler, ideas on how to make someting move to keep it falling in?