#garfield Logs

Dec 31 2014

20:42 tsmeow-afk admires the Tesoro, but wishes it was cheaper, in rgb, and didn't back-lite the
20:42 rue_more hi
20:43 katsmeow-afk hi
20:44 rue_more keyboard?
20:44 katsmeow-afk tv news said state police will be out on high petrol tonite, so i am not going anywhere, not with cops sniffing gas to get high
20:44 katsmeow-afk yeas
20:44 rue_more hold up...
20:45 tsmeow-afk lifts the monitor
20:46 katsmeow-afk The University blog says that as the technology stands right now, if one replaced all the jet fuel in a modern passenger jet with its weight in batteries the (purely electric motor propelled) flight time would be limited to around 10 minutes.
21:02 rue_more reading....
21:03 rue_more hah
21:03 rue_more I wonder what the joiules/kg is of jet fuel
21:04 rue_more I wonder what the joules/kg is of good li-ion batteries
21:05 tsmeow-afk does not
21:07 katsmeow-afk modern jets carry a widely variable amount of fuel, from a 14hr flight to Oz or a hop from Boston to Chicargo
21:17 rue_more yes, empty on landing
21:17 rue_more dispite reaching destination
21:17 rue_more er independant of
21:51 katsmeow-afk local tv breaking news : "paster shoots chuch worker"
21:57 katsmeow-afk ah, it was a headline copied from https://www.google.com/search?q="shoots+chuch+worker" and the local tv station misspelled 2 of the 4 words
21:58 katsmeow-afk and, it's hardly breaking news if it happened 2 days ago
21:58 katsmeow-afk interesting they were both carrying guns in chuch
22:00 rue_more reading...
22:01 rue_more as long as guns dont make it into church its all ok
22:01 katsmeow-afk as opposed to being in chuch?
22:02 katsmeow-afk how about just outside the churdh? http://pulse.ng/religion/hasty-judgement-pastor-shoots-man-in-the-head-for-stealing-from-his-church-id3100164.html
22:02 rue_more yea, anyone going to chuch deserves what they get
22:02 katsmeow-afk lol
22:02 rue_more oooo
22:02 rue_more good to know the church still forgives
22:02 rue_more I suppose that means he's going to hell
22:03 rue_more not that I'm well versed on it all
22:03 rue_more aren't there 7 ammenements they are supposed to abide by?
22:03 katsmeow-afk there's apparently a quota too:
22:03 katsmeow-afk Before Littleton's arrest, his son, Taschi, said his father was staying prayerful.
22:03 katsmeow-afk "My father is a man of God, and he's prayed up," he said.
22:05 katsmeow-afk men of dog shootting each other: http://pulse.ng/religion/busted-pastor-son-arrested-for-shooting-another-pastor-and-his-wife-in-illorin-id3040687.html
22:06 rue_more oh well as long as god is ok with it I guess its ok
22:07 katsmeow-afk no gods were injured, just humans
22:13 Tom_itx ok
22:13 Tom_itx had to get a new frig so..
22:13 Tom_itx i did
22:13 Tom_itx they wanted $50 to haul off the old one
22:14 Tom_itx i declined and was determined to saw it up and put it in the can eventually
22:14 Tom_itx set it out back by the fence and it was gone overnight
22:14 katsmeow-afk don't give it to them! it's made of sheet metal, raw material for copper cable terminals, etc etc!
22:14 katsmeow-afk oh
22:16 Tom_itx i didn't want it and didn't want to mess with it
22:17 katsmeow-afk oh
22:17 katsmeow-afk might have gotten $20 for it if you brought it to a metals recycler
22:18 Tom_itx no way to transport it now
22:19 rue_more Tom_itx, hahaha, your frige was stolen for freE!?
22:19 Tom_itx i do it all the time with stuff i don't want anymore
22:19 rue_more if they just knew what they could charge for that
22:19 Tom_itx much easier than hauling it off
22:19 katsmeow-afk he got no chance to make a robotic snow blower out of it
22:20 Tom_itx the thieves are respectful though
22:20 Tom_itx they don't cross the line
22:20 rue_more aaah
22:20 rue_more its a neighbourhood exchange program
22:20 Tom_itx i set a flatscreen out once and it was gone the same day but about a week later a different one showed up in back where the old one was
22:21 rue_more you cant get things to dissapear at the end of the driveway here unless you specifically mark them as FREE
22:21 rue_more hahaha
22:21 rue_more did it have any good parts in it?
22:21 Tom_itx we used to have a bulky waste haul off for free
22:21 katsmeow-afk heh
22:21 Tom_itx nothing i wanted
22:21 Tom_itx i'm sure somebody may have wanted them
22:22 katsmeow-afk put a sign out "Trash Swap - $5/mo site rental"
22:22 Tom_itx heh
22:22 Tom_itx i've installed surveylance cameras recently
22:23 Tom_itx i could review and see but i don't care
22:23 Tom_itx it's a handy service... why disrupt it
22:23 katsmeow-afk there's free online advertising for it too, but i forget the name of it
22:23 rue_more the libraries the ebay seller sent to me for the display are a mess
22:24 rue_more and I dont think they are for this screen
22:24 Tom_itx heh
22:24 rue_more http://www.smokeandwires.co.nz/blog/a-2-4-tft-touchscreen-shield-for-arduino/
22:24 Tom_itx he did offer help...
22:24 rue_more yea, I'll prove this dosn't work
22:27 Tom_itx i got about half off the new frig too
22:27 Tom_itx found one i liked but it was gonna take a week to get
22:27 Tom_itx went to the next place and someone had returned the exact same model so i took it with a huge discount
22:28 Tom_itx new warranty n all
22:28 katsmeow-afk Craigslist, that's the name of it
22:28 Tom_itx only thing wrong was the rub spots on the side where they had pushed it in place
22:45 katsmeow-afk it's hard to take a pic in Alabama without seeing smoke or a burnbarrel in the pic : http://images.craigslist.org/00q0q_1vZI9UgSBgx_600x450.jpg
22:55 rue_more this just dosn't work
22:56 katsmeow-afk needs more power
22:56 rue_more arduino libraries are worse
22:56 rue_more they have no version numbers
22:56 rue_more at some point it looks like adafruit made a non-backwards compatible change to one of their libraries
22:57 rue_more the code I'm trying to use me cant tell me what library version they expect becasue there are no versions
22:59 rue_more SWTFT.cpp:24: error: no matching function for call to 'Adafruit_GFX::Adafruit_GFX(int, int)'
23:00 rue_more Adafruit_GFX.h: public:
23:00 rue_more Adafruit_GFX(int16_t w, int16_t h); // Constructor
23:00 rue_more seems to be there to me!
23:01 rue_more ooooh
23:01 rue_more rouge library under another folder
23:07 katsmeow-afk rue, what is the smallest ring terminal i can safely put 8 amps thru?
23:08 katsmeow-afk http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-pcs-16-14-Ga-NON-INSULATED-8-RING-TERMINAL-CONNECTOR-UNINSULATED-/400496665236
23:08 katsmeow-afk ?
23:09 Tom_itx dunno
23:13 katsmeow-afk so did anyone look at the robot movies i mentioned lately?
23:14 rue_more have not had a chance to look up any movies
23:14 rue_more ring terminal?
23:15 rue_more any of them should handle 8A
23:15 katsmeow-afk like shown in the ic
23:15 katsmeow-afk k
23:15 tsmeow-afk hates smoking things like
23:18 rue_more the I got a persective check when i was using 30 guage copper as a heating element
23:18 rue_more and needed to put 8A thru it...
23:19 rue_more lots of loss, not enough temp to fuse it
23:20 katsmeow-afk i needed a lite 120vac load one day, i used a spool of "bell wire" from radio shack, took a minute to warm it up, plugged right into the wall outlet
23:21 katsmeow-afk so i added resistance wire to my shopping list at the recycler center, under $1 for each 240v resistance element from furnaces
23:23 rue_more mmm
23:23 rue_more ugh, I should get one of the guys to bring me the old core next time we change a furnace element to mak the vacum-former heater
23:24 rue_more ok kat, might not reply for a bit, running around house
23:25 katsmeow-afk i got some liteweight 277 units too
23:38 rue_more yaya! the lcd works
23:39 rue_more I'll have to document that one