#garfield Logs

Jan 28 2014

00:01 katsmeow-afk Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is declaring a state of emergency in advance of a winter storm , http://www.wkrg.com/story/24560192/alabama-governor-declares-state-of-emergency
00:02 katsmeow-afk that's 4 days tween emergencies, i wonder what we'll have on the 30th
00:18 katsmeow-afk if i set a jar of peanut butter int he time machine,and send it forwards in time one minute, and then i put another jar into the time machine before the first one materialises, what happens? because the instructions say not to do things like that
00:45 katsmeow-afk so i grabbed 2 3ft tall 19" rack frames for $10 each, and they loaded them onto the truck for me too
00:54 any37153277 wierd
00:55 katsmeow-afk nickserv is an idiot
01:44 katsmeow-afk "If you can't look on the bright side of things, you can always slam it into reverse and peel out. "
01:44 katsmeow-afk "...And sometimes you're too busy peeling out in reverse to even NOTICE the bright side. "
01:45 katsmeow-afk and sometimes you peel out and run over the bright side.
01:59 katsmeow-afk http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2069
02:05 katsmeow-afk sometimes the bright side is you can peel out
02:05 katsmeow-afk sometimes peeling the bright side is the way out
09:08 rue_house katsmeow-afk, frames!
09:09 rue_house 'and allow propane tank owners to purchase propane from any company that sells it'
09:09 rue_house land of the free?
09:09 rue_house so, normally not just anyone can buy propane from anywhere that sells it?
09:11 rue_house 'One DeKalb County farmer told WHNT if he doesn?t get the propane needed to keep his chickens alive, he will lose $45,000.'
09:11 rue_house chickens that run on propane?
09:15 rue_house kat, know what the shortage is triggered by?
09:15 rue_house can you find a story about japan shutting down ALL its reactors and running everything on natural gas?
09:17 rue_house my guess is its not a shortage, its another customer is paying more and there's none left
09:18 rue_house '1 to 3 inches of snow' thats nothing...
09:18 rue_house 'The state is also postponing special elections that had been scheduled for Tuesday to fill vacant legislative seats.'
09:19 rue_house = they dont like the candidates and need to hold things up a while
09:20 rue_house I'm gonna buy $22 in telephone service, $137 in medical, and $223 in natural gas
13:23 katsmeow-afk the highways here are parking lots, humans are abandining their vehicles and walking
13:25 katsmeow-afk i guess when the glut of natural gas, the propane producers didn't notice the difference between propane and natural gas, so the producers all switched to NG, there's no back-stock-pileup of LP, and you cannot deliver bottled LNG to all those places designed for LPG
13:26 katsmeow-afk even in winter, the chicken houses run blowers to bring in outside air, because of the severe amount of ammonia chickens make, shut off the fans and tarp the windows and the chickens will die
13:27 katsmeow-afk so they run massive amounts of gas (and the prices have doubled), and yet have the blowers running too,,, the heaters are direct flames, turn off the blowers and the carbon monoxide will kill the chickens too
13:28 katsmeow-afk it's a real catch-22 of bad design
13:29 katsmeow-afk the sand/salt trucks said this morning they were ready for anything, and didn't make a move till they heard of the wrecks and places becoming parking lots,,,, so now the trucks cannot get out to where they are needed, and they might be able to sand and salt those places where no one has any trouble driving
13:30 katsmeow-afk news reporter went out for a drive, said to be making 100ft per hour on the interstate, and slowing down from there
13:31 katsmeow-afk as soon as one 18-wheeler jack-knifes, not only is that road blocked, but then all the other $100,000 rigs park whereever they are on the road so they don't get damaged
13:32 katsmeow-afk waaaaaaaaay too many people parking on uphills (wtf happened to the idea of tunnels thru the mountains??) and then instantly losing traction and sliding backwards down the hill when they try to go again
13:33 katsmeow-afk news is saying "doesn't matter where you are, if it's warm, stay there, do notleave any building you are in atm"
13:33 katsmeow-afk schools were ging to let out at noon, cannot get the school busses to the schools to take the kids away
13:42 katsmeow-afk so i called the insurance co to move the payment from the 3rd to the 5th, like i KEEP TELLING THEM, they said ok, then i get an email this morning that it's deducting from my checking on the 3rd anyhow, i call them they say ignore the email, and would i like to buy homeowners from them too
13:43 katsmeow-afk i almost made a comment about pissing off the customer and them trying to pressure them into buying more, but i did the phone-sign-off-gratuities and hung up
13:44 katsmeow-afk AAAAARRRRRGGGGGG
13:44 katsmeow-afk ==========
13:45 katsmeow-afk how many descriptors of things are there, if you eliminate duplicates and descrete names of the scales of things (hot-cold = temperature, rough smooth = texture, etc)?
13:47 katsmeow-afk and then in a descriptor, is a range of 0-255 enough (at least where it's not absolutely quantifiable, like miles, obviously, or temperature)?
13:47 katsmeow-afk ==========
13:55 katsmeow-afk yay!! a program that's been running since early last year has only 3.8 more days to go!!!
14:51 katsmeow-afk plan ahea
14:51 katsmeow-afk d
15:13 katsmeow-afk the only tv station i canever recieve has canceled all normal tv so they can show traffic not trafficing
15:14 katsmeow-afk they are saying now that kids will be retained in the schools overnite, and consider that there are no working roads anywhere
15:15 katsmeow-afk vehicles are just piling up at the bottoms of hills, upside down, etc
15:17 Tom_itx good you're not a kid, and good you're not stuck out on the road
15:18 katsmeow-afk good i stocked up on food for weeks, and a month of propane (light and heat), and charged batteries
15:18 tsmeow-afk is lucky all that stuff happened to her, the stocking, charging,
15:20 katsmeow-afk guy had 1000pcs of 10EL32 chips for 13 cents per chip, i offered him 30 cents per for 50 of them, so he relisted at 132 cents per chip
15:20 katsmeow-afk :-|
15:21 katsmeow-afk governor is on tv now, basically saying i know about it, quit calling, stop driving because you cannot, there's no gov office open but we are doing all we can (which is nothing), blah blah blah
15:23 katsmeow-afk i cannot help but wonder how many babies will be born to grade school kids and teens this October
15:23 Tom_L as if we didn't already have enough security issues
15:23 Tom_L http://www.electronicproducts.com/Computer_Peripherals/Systems/Upgrade_or_die_ATMs_must_update_their_systems_by_April_otherwise_no_more_security_support.aspx
15:24 katsmeow-afk yeas, but technically the ATM are on scrambled VPN anyhow, or should be
15:25 katsmeow-afk governor is lying his ass off : "alabamians care about their neighbors"
15:26 katsmeow-afk "we knew about this event several days in advance, and were prepared for it" , which is why ZERO trucks got out to sand and salt the roads
15:27 katsmeow-afk http://images.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Current.aspx
15:29 katsmeow-afk every time they say "tempachur" my skin crawls and my ears go back
15:31 katsmeow-afk it's not all that cold, but the ground and bridges were pre-chilled by the nite before being below 20f, so the ice is sticking
15:37 katsmeow-afk 350 national guard to cover the entire state in this "state of emergency" in "the state of Alabama"
15:39 katsmeow-afk the graurds called out to duty cannot get anywhere, the roads were not salted or sanded, so they are all blocked by abandonded vehickles and wrecks
15:40 katsmeow-afk i wish i had a gas-powered quadcopter with a long-range video on it
15:42 tsmeow-afk remembers using the 280zx to tow a volvo station wagon 70mph uphill and on winding back roads at 45mph on 4-6 inches of snow and ice one winter in Ver
15:45 katsmeow-afk "the Gallery is closing at 4pm today" ( a large mall that can be kept warm, with many resturants, will kick everyone out to sleep in their cars in the parking lot, because they simply cannot leave! )
15:45 katsmeow-afk [15:08] <katsmeow-afk> governor is lying his ass off : "alabamians care about their neighbors"
16:07 katsmeow-afk they are saying I-20 is a standstill from near Bham all the way to Atlanta
16:25 katsmeow-afk http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2250
17:09 katsmeow-afk wierd, my mogrifier it throwing errors
17:15 katsmeow-afk help?
17:15 katsmeow-afk mogrify: `%s': %s html2ps -U -o "C:/DOCUME~1/Owner/LOCALS~1/Temp/magick-nLi61xzt" "C:/DOCUME~1/Owner/LOCALS~1/Temp/magick-BLfrCgr.".
17:16 katsmeow-afk mogrify: Delegate failed `html2ps -U -o "%o" "%i"'.
17:16 katsmeow-afk mogrify: unable to open image `C:/DOCUME~1/Owner/LOCALS~1/Temp/magick-nLi61xzt': No such file or directory.
17:16 katsmeow-afk mogrify: UnableToOpenBlob `C:/DOCUME~1/Owner/LOCALS~1/Temp/magick-nLi61xzt': No such file or directory.
17:16 katsmeow-afk it's acting like it'a a batch file instead of an exe, and has never made those printouts before
17:18 Tom_itx disk full?
17:24 katsmeow-afk no, 10G free
17:26 katsmeow-afk i got 2" of snow, no ice, no extra problems walking up/down hills on dirt/concrete/gravel
17:27 katsmeow-afk my Imagemagik is 2007, dl'ing the latest now
17:27 katsmeow-afk but that should not be the problem
17:28 katsmeow-afk winblows is saying it cannot acces the file i just dl'd :-/
17:28 tsmeow-afk kills the ram hog fir
17:29 katsmeow-afk that was the problem
17:32 katsmeow-afk http://designerthinking.com/images/Jan28-2014/dir.html
17:34 katsmeow-afk the first pic is the two $10 19" rack boxes i picked up
17:35 katsmeow-afk the *four* front and back mounting rails are drilled for both equipment and shelves on each box
17:35 katsmeow-afk $10 saves me the cost of drill bits to bore that many holes
17:36 katsmeow-afk a lil wirebrushing, washing down, painting, lil hammering and other tlc, and good as new
17:38 katsmeow-afk daffynition "yite?" = "are you alright?"
17:50 katsmeow-afk local idiot news is preempting network world news to show us more pics of cars sitting in gridlock in ice
18:16 katsmeow-afk re: lemon wedges put into drinking glasses in resturants : Philip Tierno, Ph.D., clinical professor of microbiology and pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, has conducted dozens of similar experiments, including one commissioned by ABC news, which found that half of lemon wedges collected from various restaurants were contaminated with human fecal matter.
18:17 katsmeow-afk representations from the three body sites that men usually impart their flora," Tierno tells HuffPost Healthy Living of his research. Those include bacteria from the intestines (in the form of fecal matter), the respiratory tract (think coughing, talking, sneezing) and the skin.
18:17 katsmeow-afk But before you freak out, here's some perspective: His research has turned up similar organisms all over restaurants, from ketchup bottles and salt and pepper shakers to menus and table surfaces. And the same likely goes for a variety of other drink garnishes, including onions, limes and your cherry on top.
19:43 rue_house katsmeow-afk, if you get the right version it does it itself by automatically closing
19:47 Tom_itx rue_bed how do you uninstall a package?
20:32 rue_house apt-get remove packagename
20:39 Tom_itx how do you find the package name?
20:43 katsmeow-afk rue,, what?
20:45 katsmeow-afk hmm, FedEx had a package out for delivery to me at 6:18am this morning, it's not yet marked as delivered
20:45 katsmeow-afk it's 8:28pm here now
20:45 Tom_itx running late
20:45 Tom_itx the roads _were_ slick
20:46 katsmeow-afk stuck in traffic on I-20, most likely, and prolly outa fuel
20:47 katsmeow-afk naturally, i can cut them some slack, but they could draw a line on the delivery list and update the puters with "this ain't happenin" or some such
20:47 katsmeow-afk it was verrrrry quiet outside today, one bird chirping, one woodpecker hammering, that was it
20:49 katsmeow-afk i don't wanna walk up there and find out they did mark it as "undelivered today, try again tomorrow" when i get back down here
20:51 katsmeow-afk Super-Fast SSD Storage
20:51 katsmeow-afk We use high-performance Solid State Drives in a RAID-10 configuration, so your disk access is extremely fast and redundant and redundant!
20:51 katsmeow-afk https://chunkhost.com/
22:09 rue_shop2 the ssd lasts ~1yr and goes belly up
22:09 katsmeow-afk raid 10 ?
22:10 rue_shop2 still have to start changing drives
22:10 rue_shop2 raid 10 is raid 1 over a raid 0
22:10 rue_shop2 anyhow, its appended and mirrored
22:10 katsmeow-afk yeas, but it may be cheaper than changing spinning drives if you haveto raid the spinning ones anyhow too
22:11 rue_shop2 right now, the spinning drives are lasting between 6x and 72x longer than the ssd's
22:12 katsmeow-afk besides they are chargine $9 per month, they could prolly change out a ssd every month and still save money vs powering a spinning drive and cooling it
22:12 rue_shop2 possibly
22:12 katsmeow-afk plus the same money on the rackspace rental
22:13 katsmeow-afk ya know, they may have it all built on beagleboards or Pi's
22:13 katsmeow-afk $27 for a server, $20 for 2gig of ram on raid10
22:14 katsmeow-afk a huge server farm in one small cabinet
22:14 rue_shop2 for a piece of a server
22:14 katsmeow-afk nah, one pi per customer
22:14 rue_shop2 that you prolly cant install whatever os yo uwant on or press the reset button
22:15 katsmeow-afk i dunno, read it, i wasn't terribly intereeted, i have a web host that works ok
22:15 katsmeow-afk but the possibilities for a pradigm shift are interesting
22:15 rue_shop2 I'v looked at a lot of farms, the limitations are usually the same
22:15 rue_shop2 some of them, you have to deal with the upgrades they do on your server
22:16 rue_shop2 aka if what you have on it isn't compatible with the upgrade they just did, too bad.
22:16 katsmeow-afk what if you took a normal server, cut the cpu speed in half, gave it 2G if mobo ram and 2gig of SSD space, who would notice the change?
22:16 rue_shop2 users like me and you
22:17 rue_shop2 not the 'i want a webpage' users
22:17 katsmeow-afk it would be just as fast, and i have low traffic, and i don't use 2Gb
22:17 rue_shop2 ok
22:17 katsmeow-afk instead of 2 servers in a 2U space, you could have 20 or 30
22:18 rue_shop2 they usually pack 12 or more people onto one server
22:18 katsmeow-afk no lag for hdd latency, and huge reduction in power use
22:18 rue_shop2 isolated memory and drive space, seperate ip adresses
22:19 katsmeow-afk ok, lets say you have 30 people on a normal server, what's the cost per customer?
22:19 rue_shop2 for anyone who dosn't want to be able to do whatever they want, its great
22:20 rue_shop2 there are fences, in all cases for what I was looking for at the time, I had to pay a few 100 to get what I wanted
22:20 katsmeow-afk i do whatever i want at home, i can always open a php channel thru the http host to me here, done that before
22:21 rue_shop2 :) the control program was able to connect to my 3d printer control board
22:22 katsmeow-afk Tiggr had an designerthinking addy for large data , she made the page here, and php on godaddy picked it up here and sent it to whoever was asking, as if it was only up on godaddy
22:22 rue_shop2 yup
22:22 katsmeow-afk you couldn't tell it was being built by a mirc bot on a single core puter running win95b
22:23 Tom_itx ceramic cutters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1K5QjR3hyU
22:23 katsmeow-afk why does dremel abrasive cutting disks smell so bad, when 3" and 4" cutting disks smell nice?
22:23 rue_shop2 freaky
22:23 rue_shop2 whats that they are cutting?
22:24 Tom_itx inconel
22:25 tsmeow-afk is tempted to open a window, but there aren't any to open down
22:25 rue_shop2 yea whats that
22:26 rue_shop2 are all those sparks the work chps?
22:26 Tom_itx yup
22:26 rue_shop2 Inconel is a family of austenitic nickel-chromium-based superalloys
22:28 rue_shop2 Inconel is a difficult metal to shape and machine using traditional techniques due to rapid work hardening. After the first machining pass, work hardening tends to plastically deform either the workpiece or the tool on subsequent passes. For this reason, age-hardened Inconels such as 718 are machined using an aggressive but slow cut with a hard tool, minimizing the number of passes required
22:29 Tom_itx hardest thing we ever machined was tungsten
22:29 katsmeow-afk electric spark cutters will deal with them
22:30 katsmeow-afk basically you remove the metal same way rue cuts steel with his arc welder
22:30 Tom_itx i bet the guy that did the first ceramic cutters was pretty nervous
22:30 e_shop2 works to beat tom in construction-of-3d-pri
22:30 Tom_itx you win
22:30 Tom_itx i'm not gonna make one
22:30 rue_shop2 I hope so, we will see
22:30 rue_shop2 I AM still working on the hexapod
22:31 Tom_itx one of these days i'm gonna need your help programming a router
22:31 katsmeow-afk Tom can unplug his mill from the controller box and use that to motorvate a 3D printer
22:32 Tom_itx too slow
22:32 katsmeow-afk a router? isn't the mill a "router" ?
22:32 Tom_itx yeah but it doesn't move fast enough for squirting plastic out
22:32 rue_shop2 oh oh oh I'm close to the first axis working on the new router
22:33 tsmeow-afk hooks a router to the bridge crane and mills designs all over the driv
22:33 rue_shop2 ooo fush
22:33 rue_shop2 er fish
22:34 tsmeow-afk adds a Z axis to rue's mowerbot and mills designs into his
22:34 rue_shop2 mmm cropcircles
22:35 katsmeow-afk yanno if you put a fence across the front of the property, and one across the back, you could have half a bridge crane done
22:50 katsmeow-afk 18f now, 10f forecast before sunup
22:51 katsmeow-afk when Friday warms up, should be 4 or 5 days above zero for pouring cement and stuff
22:53 tsmeow-afk wants someone to deliver p
22:53 tsmeow-afk wants someone to deliver cake, so she can eat that
23:25 katsmeow-afk "You must fear your target, yet respect it, like the crocodile respects the helicopter. "