#garfield Logs

Jan 13 2015

00:05 katsmeow-afk http://designerthinking.com/images/my_brain.gif
00:06 rue_shop3 nice schematic
00:06 rue_shop3 I like the use of the 4th dimention without using that stilly 3rd dimetion
00:07 katsmeow-afk i ate 6 sleeping pills and 2 tall strong rum and cokes, i was awake 3 hrs later with too much on my mind
00:20 rue_house dosnt' the sugar counteract the sleeping pills?
00:45 katsmeow-afk what sugar?
00:47 rue_house in the vodka
00:49 katsmeow-afk conductive pads for your ekg : http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=tens+pads+-postit&_from=R40|R40|R40&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xtens+pads+-postit+-%22post-it%22&_nkw=tens+pads+-postit+-%22post-it%22&_sacat=0
00:50 katsmeow-afk damn, i paid $20/pair , with no leads included, in ~1988
00:50 katsmeow-afk you should find some conductive gell too
00:53 rue_house oooh I see what your up to
00:53 rue_house your justing using input pads for output
00:53 katsmeow-afk yeas
00:53 rue_house hahah $5 with $30 chipping!
00:54 rue_house I'll have to look thru those later
00:54 katsmeow-afk the ones i could get had no leads, i used brass brazing rods as connector pins, because i could solder to the brass and then cover with heatshrink
00:56 katsmeow-afk iused 3 nicad "9v" batteries, gave me 21v, and an h-bridge to drive the paddles, a cmos counter to make a very long quasi-random pulse pattern
00:57 katsmeow-afk not counting thepaddles, cost me $25 in parts i had or from radio shack, gave me two drive signals to 2 pairs of paddles, same as a $900 store-bought unit
00:58 katsmeow-afk then i was told i could not make or sell them for fun or profit, they were regulated medical devices
01:01 katsmeow-afk i made a radio tip-over device for a power chair, to blast a signal back to ahouse or car if the wchair fell over, nope could not make or sell that eitehr, ifit attached to a medical device, it was a medical device
01:02 katsmeow-afk so i made a computer stsyem that did environmant control and cold network over a phoneline, like to college puters, and download reports,,,, nope, was told i cannot do that eitehr, someone somewhere in a wheelchair might use that device to make money, and they simply could not allow that
01:04 katsmeow-afk so i made a device conttrolled by eyeblink that could form sentences and speak for someone, nope, if it was attached to their wheelchainr, it was a medical device, and i coldn't do it
01:04 katsmeow-afk i was soon homeless because of all the things the federal gov would not allow me to do to make a buck helping people
01:34 katsmeow-afk http://www.wsj.com/articles/cnn-seeks-to-fly-its-own-drones-1421108456
01:37 rue_bed table dials, fields setting min, setting max, control, setting where control is the name, setting is the current value
01:38 rue_bed update dials set setting=x where control=y
01:38 katsmeow-afk ...
01:38 rue_bed get dials,setting where control=y
01:38 rue_bed sorry, stupid late night idea, I was almost asleep
01:39 rue_bed gnight
01:39 katsmeow-afk k, finish the thought tomorrow then
01:40 rue_bed need dial for house heat setpoint and heat on/off
01:45 katsmeow-afk aren't those called "thermostats" ?
01:51 rue_bed arg, I want it off and its agrueing with me
01:56 katsmeow-afk unplug it?
02:27 rue_bed http://www.voipmechanic.com/correcting-echo-asterisk.htm
02:27 rue_bed I want to be asleep
02:27 katsmeow-afk ditto
02:41 tsmeow-afk heads to
07:45 katsmeow-afk so basically, if the temperature outside falls below freesing 2 nites in a row, i haveto run the 120vac 10amp portable heater 12 minutes every hour per 24x16ft room-space downstairs
07:46 katsmeow-afk yeas, i woke up an hr ago
07:48 katsmeow-afk i understand "postescanada" , but what's "avis d-Aeex"?
07:50 katsmeow-afk usa network news ran 15 minutes of football news before they got to repeating the events in france and the recent attacks by boboharram
07:50 katsmeow-afk bocohuram
07:50 katsmeow-afk whoever
08:00 katsmeow-afk so i read in news Kaley coocoo had nose surgery because of sinus spray misuse,
08:01 katsmeow-afk so i read alil on sinis sprays, rn across:
08:01 katsmeow-afk In children, oxymetazoline may produce profound central nervous system depression due to stimulation of central alpha-2 receptors and imidazoline receptors, much like clonidine
08:01 katsmeow-afk and think that cold be used in a drink or apill to combat restless leg syndrome, and then look up clonidine (mostly because it sounds like klonopin,
08:02 katsmeow-afk and then i read elsewhere : Clonidine can be used in restless legs syndrome.
08:03 katsmeow-afk ergo, *possibly* putting a few shots of nasal spray in a drink before bed can ease restless legs, and at a price **FAR** below the $1 or $2 per pill of prescription drugs
08:03 katsmeow-afk but then, so can my Foot Roaster installed on my bed
08:04 katsmeow-afk batteries not included, your mileage may vary
08:42 katsmeow-afk the same like of thinking found capscasin as a pain spray ~1988, when i boiled red peppers and filtered the water, cooled, put in a spray bottle, and then told a pharmacist down the street, who retired a few weeks later to work for a biotech firm as a "consultant", and they developed and sold Capscacin creme
08:43 katsmeow-afk i followed threads thru a 20-volume encyclopedia Britannica, simply remembering what i had read before and digging it out
08:44 tsmeow-afk chkdsks anotehr 330gig hd,, she needs to do several today because the puters are getting badly clogged up with
08:54 katsmeow-afk ok, with 2 different cards, 3 different cables, this 33G drive still hangs in chkdsk, so i am prety sure it's bad
08:55 tsmeow-afk tries one last thing: reformattin
09:07 tsmeow-afk wonders what Tom can tellher about "flight line" threaded stubby drill bits, and shat the heck sorta drill uses
09:20 katsmeow-afk er, "shat" = "what"
09:20 katsmeow-afk s is adjacent to w
09:43 katsmeow-afk "When will the rhetorical questions end?!" - George Carlin
09:44 katsmeow-afk when will i stop at the puters and eat breakfast?! How many times can breakfast be reheated while i sit at the puter!?
09:50 katsmeow-afk http://www.hdtune.com/ ?
09:59 katsmeow-afk just the things to power a mowerbot, or mecha, or OtherThingThatRoamsAroundAndDoesStuff : http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_armrs=1&_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=laptop%20vista&_dcat=177&rt=nc&_pppn=r1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo=20&_udhi=80
10:01 katsmeow-afk oops
10:01 katsmeow-afk http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=laptop+vista&_udlo=20&_armrs=1&_udhi=80&_mPrRngCbx=1&_from=R40&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l2632.R3.TR10.TRC1.A0.H1.Xlaptop&_nkw=laptop&_sacat=175672
10:02 katsmeow-afk some of these have somre really tiny hhds
10:03 katsmeow-afk ddds
10:03 katsmeow-afk hhdds
10:03 katsmeow-afk i should eat breakfast,, gotta reheat it for the 5th time
10:10 katsmeow-afk "it hs one missing key on keybd, but i hve needed to use it only once in mny yers"
10:40 katsmeow-afk <mommy> "well, of course i want you to see how tornadoes form honey, but i really don't want you to stand in the back of the pickup , and pour "self rising" flour on the roof of the cab, while daddy drives on the highway"
11:12 katsmeow-afk that is a neat trick, build a house where you never know from one minute to the next where gravity is going to be
14:19 katsmeow-afk how would you displace 10 cu ft of water in 5 seconds, not using compressed air?
14:20 tsmeow-afk goes to the mai
15:19 katsmeow-afk same humans in #RoboTics on efnet as freenode?
15:26 katsmeow-afk wwaiiittt a sec, why did irc.efnet.org send me to a freenode server?
15:47 tsmeow-afk grooves to The Marma
15:47 katsmeow-afk grr, mailbox run, work boots, wood sawing, stuff relocating, grr
16:04 katsmeow-afk [Global Notice] We are about to start rehubbing the network ahead of planned maintenance work. This will cause some netsplits, but should be completed shortly. Thank you for your patience and for flying freenode! :)
16:10 tsmeow-afk feels woozy, the solder got here, TWO LBS of .032 rosin Kester 44 for $7.95 + $10 s&a
16:12 katsmeow-afk that's only $4 PER POUND !!!!
16:15 tsmeow-afk grabs zlog and dances to the
17:34 katsmeow-afk 1200 memory chips, one one pcb, 43 inches x 43 inches , only 307 Mbytes ,, <sigh> so old , 0.85w per chip when using, so to use all 1200 chips is 1,020 watts, 5v **200amps**
17:34 katsmeow-afk MSM514265CSL
18:16 katsmeow-afk i ate a can of soup for dinner, but i was so anxious i almost froze and left the table before i could open the corn
19:35 tsmeow-afk imagines a lil robot scurrying around organising rue's hydroponics so they stay in the best sunl
19:37 Tom_itx that memory board would keep you warm
19:37 katsmeow-afk quite
19:51 katsmeow-afk JDUBE wrote:
19:51 katsmeow-afk > Its not that I dont care what other researchers have done and what
19:51 katsmeow-afk > they are doing now,on the contrary,I try to take what worked, from
19:51 katsmeow-afk > a project and dispense with what didnt work.Eat the hay,spit out the
19:51 katsmeow-afk > sticks.
20:02 katsmeow-afk why can't i spell discect??
20:02 katsmeow-afk oh, too many c
20:39 rue_house <rue_bed> table dials, fields setting min, setting max, control, setting where control is the name, setting is the current value
20:39 rue_house <rue_bed> update dials set setting=x where control=y
20:39 rue_house <katsmeow-afk> ...
20:39 rue_house <rue_bed> get dials,setting where control=y
20:39 rue_house <rue_bed> sorry, stupid late night idea, I was almost asleep
20:39 rue_house <rue_bed> gnight
20:39 rue_house <katsmeow-afk> k, finish the thought tomorrow then
20:39 rue_house <rue_bed> need dial for house heat setpoint and heat on/off
20:39 rue_house <katsmeow-afk> aren't those called "thermostats" ?
20:39 rue_house <rue_bed> arg, I want it off and its agrueing with me
20:39 rue_house <katsmeow-afk> unplug it?
20:39 rue_house <rue_bed> http://www.voipmechanic.com/correcting-echo-asterisk.htm
20:39 katsmeow-afk oh
20:43 rue_house looks like those laptops are about $35 chipping to canada
20:44 rue_house I wonder if I should get a laptop for bcit
20:45 katsmeow-afk there's laptops in Canadia already
20:46 katsmeow-afk one guy has nice laptops, but *none* of them have an OS on them!
20:46 rue_house quite, and I know good people to help me get them
20:46 rue_house but I'm wondering if I should
20:46 rue_house katsmeow-afk, easy install linux
20:46 rue_house 20 mins, done
20:46 rue_house no keys or nuthin
20:46 rue_house http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Morpher-Gold-USB-Disk-robot-dog-Memory-card-flash-drive-4G-8G-16G-32G-pen-drive-/121508232318
20:47 rue_house this is cute, should I buy one?
20:47 rue_house little pricey, but cute
20:48 katsmeow-afk ummmm
20:48 rue_house kat, did you see on one of the moon mission videos, the computers used core memory for rom?
20:48 katsmeow-afk for ram
20:49 rue_house they hardwired the loops for the storage
20:49 rue_house they used cores for rom!
20:49 katsmeow-afk yeas, core is hardwired
20:49 katsmeow-afk you cannot use core for rom, reading it flips the magnetics, it must be re-written
20:49 rue_house no I mean they actaully threaded the 1zand 0oes for the rom
20:49 rue_house they changed the poloization
20:50 rue_house rom was 'the new thing'
20:52 katsmeow-afk pretty sure they used it for ram, the read demagnetises the donut, you haveto re-write it after a read
20:52 rue_house I should find the video
20:52 katsmeow-afk for rom, they'd use a diode array, i have one of those upstairs
20:52 rue_house these guys used core
20:53 rue_house I dont know if its anything that went anywhere, but it was core rom
20:53 rue_house which seems like a lot of work
20:53 katsmeow-afk well, maybe they mean they launched with code in it and never changed the code while in flight
20:54 rue_house they did generic address switching, and then had a setup to stich the data in without errors
20:55 katsmeow-afk the diode rom card i have is a 17" x 10" (to fit 19" racks), fully populated, with wirewrap backsides, all the diodes soldered on standoffs
20:55 rue_house I made a decade to 7 segment with diodes once
20:55 katsmeow-afk will that usb dog weight leverage the port in the computer down?
20:56 rue_house dunno
20:56 rue_house you think its a dog?
20:56 rue_house looks like a cheata to me
20:56 katsmeow-afk i cannot tell
20:57 katsmeow-afk he said it's a dog
20:57 rue_house yea, they use a lot of wrong words
20:57 katsmeow-afk heh
20:59 rue_house http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-Cartoon-The-glass-of-beer-USB-2-0-Full-Memory-Stick-Flash-pen-Drive-8GB-/121466480179
20:59 rue_house glass of beer!?
21:00 rue_house http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Cute-Cartoon-Bird-USB-2-0-Memory-Stick-Flash-pen-Drive-8GB-P29-/171635323027
21:00 rue_house and not just any bird!
21:01 katsmeow-afk no, this is a cute bird : http://webs.lanset.com/dcuny/images/pingvin.gif
21:02 rue_house I'm fighting to stay awake
21:02 rue_house hows your SQL?
21:02 katsmeow-afk not good, never actually used it, played with it years and years ago
21:02 katsmeow-afk it's better than my Ruby
21:05 rue_house aha, I'v worked out what I want for supper
21:05 rue_house SLEEP
21:06 katsmeow-afk that dancing linux penguin has sync'd to a 1971 album from the band America playing on the laptop
21:17 rue_house thermal=# select * from dials;
21:17 rue_house setting_min | setting_max | setting | control
21:17 rue_house -------------+-------------+---------+-----------
21:17 rue_house 8 | 28 | 20 | houseTemp
21:17 rue_house :)
21:18 rue_house setting_min | setting_max | setting | control
21:18 tsmeow-afk looks clueless, but is happy for you if you are h
21:18 rue_house -------------+-------------+---------+-----------
21:18 rue_house 8 | 28 | 20 | houseTemp
21:18 rue_house 0 | 1 | 0 | heatOnOff
21:18 rue_house I need soemthing to act as a setting reposity
21:19 katsmeow-afk don't use core
21:19 rue_house so programs can check things like if the hat should be on or off
21:20 katsmeow-afk or booties
21:21 rue_house heat
21:28 katsmeow-afk Subject: SHIPPED: New 1/4" Metal Train Truck Air
21:29 tsmeow-afk is looking forwards to the shipment of
22:39 katsmeow-afk ruecanyoutellwhatthewaterinacoolingtowertemperaturesisasthewaterfallsthruthedifferentlevels?
22:43 katsmeow-afk seeiftheevaporatingwatertempfallsbelowthecondenserwatertempthenitobviouslywon'tcondenceandtheprocessstopsmakeingcondensate
22:49 katsmeow-afk inpracticeinsummerwithairconditioninggoingicanusethecoldwaterofftheinsidecoilstomakethecondenserplatesverycoolbutinspringandautumnthismaynotbepossible
22:51 katsmeow-afk itislikelythatthemoistairofftheevaporatorplatesiscoolerthantheairtemperatureiftheairisdrygoingin
23:03 rue_house ok, I oiled the furnce blower
23:04 rue_house says to do that once or twice a year
23:04 rue_house I think its been 5
23:04 rue_house kat, can I send you a space bar?
23:05 rue_house its stocked with lots of vodka, there is other stuff but I think its toxic to humans
23:06 rue_house oooh, wait, if I sent it to you it woulnd't technically still be a space bar
23:06 rue_house ok after I wanted to sleep I was going to do something
23:39 katsmeow-afk a space bar? i might like going to space