#garfield Logs

Jan 27 2015

00:16 rue_bed well, living alone in a 1200 square foot house dsont' sound like a good start
00:18 katsmeow-afk the boat will be even smaller and more alone
00:19 katsmeow-afk the upstairs here is much bigger, but no trash pickup, and dogs wouldn't let me finish it (no insulation, no interior walls, no kitchen cabinets, no heat, no cool, etc)
00:20 katsmeow-afk no shower or tub down here, the toilet down here has been royally plugged since a month after i got back from Fla (years ago)
00:22 katsmeow-afk so MYplan for my life got screwed, i dunno how to live by any one else's rules, all i know is: don't make gods bark, don't garden, don't have shower inside, don't mow lawn, don't finish the house, don't make electricity when the power is out
00:24 katsmeow-afk and turn off car headlites when i come to my property if i come home after dark, do not drive the 100ft down to the parking with headlites on
00:29 katsmeow-afk if i goto the grocery store, or hardware, inside 10 minutes , sometimes even before i get out of my car, someone will come over to tell me that they don't believe i can do whatever it is i am doing, without their help
00:30 katsmeow-afk and if i say i am building something inhere, it's for sure the wrong color, and so not worth doing
00:30 katsmeow-afk so i play solitaire and stay out of #robotics
00:31 katsmeow-afk and don't do much of anything else at all
00:33 katsmeow-afk i can tell peole what a crowbar circuit is, having been doing electronics as hobby and/or work since the 1970's, but no one much believes me
00:46 rue_bed I know your right, I'm sure tom does
00:47 rue_bed he was just looking for something really simple
00:47 tsmeow-afk
00:48 katsmeow-afk but i have said before that a zener wouldn't do it ,,, it's only 4 or 5 parts, it can't be much simpler and still work well
00:48 rue_bed so, I'm playing with ideas for a reciprocating steam air compressor
00:48 rue_bed iirc, I need about 2HP at 110psi
00:49 rue_bed I'm not sure what that is because I dont know how you take the compression of the air into effect
00:49 rue_bed I suppose its 110psi at x gpm
00:49 rue_bed cubic feet?
00:49 rue_bed hmm
00:50 katsmeow-afk psi@cuft
00:50 katsmeow-afk or cuft@psi
00:50 rue_bed I wonder if there is a formula for how much heat is formed just by the compression
00:50 katsmeow-afk i'm sure there is
00:50 rue_bed must be part of the refrigeration math
00:51 katsmeow-afk it's not enough to make steam with tho
00:51 rue_bed half a carrot cycle
00:51 katsmeow-afk carnot
00:51 rue_bed definitly not a car
00:51 rue_bed :)
00:51 katsmeow-afk riht
00:52 rue_bed I hope you appreciate only about 1/100 of the population or less would get that joke
00:52 katsmeow-afk mybe that is why i am alone
00:53 rue_bed yea, were spread out a lot
00:53 rue_bed look what happens when were not, silicon valley
00:54 katsmeow-afk a federal court recently struck down Alabama's ban on "gay marriage", i need to go to the recycler center and ask them how they are going to have sex now,, how gays marrying has changed their marriage
00:54 katsmeow-afk according to the governor, they'll need to redefine their marriage
00:55 rue_bed is marrige anymore than a paperwork status in modern society?
00:55 katsmeow-afk if gives legal rights and tax breaks
00:55 rue_bed used as a tax break?
00:56 rue_bed you beat me to it
00:59 katsmeow-afk if yu are married, and both work, and one dies, the other gets their retirement money, so being married can double your income that way
01:00 katsmeow-afk typically, you get better insurance and credit/mortgage rates if married
01:38 katsmeow-afk .
01:44 katsmeow-afk robot teacther just killed a student
01:47 katsmeow-afk another robot teacher just killed another student
01:48 katsmeow-afk i think they are serious about the rules
02:07 katsmeow-afk the 3 robot teachers just killed another student
02:19 katsmeow-afk robot teacher just killed the school principal
02:21 katsmeow-afk 100pcs IRFZ44N $24.30 free s&h from China ; http://www.ebay.com/itm/141053615844
02:22 katsmeow-afk the robot teachers killed all the humans monitoring them at the company who made them
02:32 katsmeow-afk well,heck, they are going t burn the whole school down
02:36 katsmeow-afk i think the students have disassembled the robots
06:42 katsmeow-afk .
15:59 katsmeow-afk As the water table drops from overpumping, the remaining water picks up higher concentrations of minerals from deep in the earth. When orchards are irrigated with such hard water, the salts build up in the soil, eventually killing the trees.
15:59 katsmeow-afk n Fresno County, I saw entire groves of almond trees looking yellow and wan, signs of salt stress. The land around Alpaugh is already too salty to support almonds; that's why the pistachio is the nut of choice there.
16:00 katsmeow-afk ergo, you will need distilled water to irrigate with eventually
17:34 katsmeow-afk WOOOOOOOO
17:35 katsmeow-afk i got the original widescreen version of "Colossus: The Forbin Project"
17:38 katsmeow-afk as you know, the dvd that's out was made for ntsc square tvs, and after it came out the world went to wide-screen tv at home
17:41 katsmeow-afk cusswords : #6 ring terminals for #12-#10 wire won't fit the same barrier strips as #6 ring terminals for #18-#16 wire
19:15 katsmeow-afk i wonder, if one operates a store in federal waters, in the EEZ, but not in state territorial waters, where does one get their business license?
20:33 rue_house prolly a ministry that just passes paper around in a circle forever
20:35 rue_house I live in a place that dosn't need business liscences
20:48 rue_shop3 "oh its an overload controller" "so it prevents overloads!" "no, it causes specific ones"
20:51 rue_shop3 maybe if I can convince the cat its really outside now it'll want to stay in
20:51 rue_shop3 reverse doorology
20:55 rue_shop3 cant get any of the triac opto isolators I have to trigger any of the triacs I have
20:56 rue_shop3 I'm thinking that triggering them with a dc supply is easier
21:25 katsmeow-afk you know there stil must be a gate pullup resistr o te triac, yea?
21:26 katsmeow-afk cannot type while taking off sweater
21:36 katsmeow-afk sometimes iwish i could walk better just because the right idiot runs across the parking lot to insist on "helping" me
21:37 katsmeow-afk i could fall on the ground and say "yes"
21:38 katsmeow-afk as heavy as i am, especially if i resist, it could take all nite to get me behind the wheel of the car, whereupon i'd ask if we were all done "helping me", i'd stand up out of the car and shake their hands
21:38 katsmeow-afk and ask them how i wold drive the car home if i couldn't get into the car
21:39 katsmeow-afk or how i was going to prepare the food i just bought, with no assistance, if i couldn't get to the car on flat level pavement
21:39 katsmeow-afk otherwise, i'd still just like to punch them out
21:40 katsmeow-afk run across theparking lot and insist i require help
21:40 katsmeow-afk goddamned #$&^#*M*648obn3p86vq$%U&76 ^&#%^U#5 2$% Q$% q38t oi34
21:57 rue_shop3 ask them to help you keep all the other peopel trying to help away
21:57 rue_shop3 :)
21:57 rue_shop3 oh dear...
21:58 e_shop3 goes back to nodding off in his chair instead of writing software for a 4 button doorbell or a fire alarm loop mon
22:01 katsmeow-afk so if i mount the pot on a separate panel behind the one you see on the equipment, i can run a loop of fiberoptic around the shaft tween the two panels, up thru the slot in the pot's shaft, so the fiber lites the knob at the top
22:35 rue_shop3 mmm fiber
22:36 rue_shop3 kat, did you ever make point to point lists for wire-wrapping boards?
22:36 katsmeow-afk mmmm placing a Theremin next to the cat's scratching post
22:36 katsmeow-afk no, i used a schematic
22:36 rue_shop3 heh one confused car
22:36 rue_shop3 t
22:36 katsmeow-afk "when i claw it this way, it makes this sound, if i claw it like this, it makes this other sound!"
22:37 rue_shop3 I cant build circuits like this
22:37 rue_shop3 I need to eat and go to bed
22:37 katsmeow-afk everyone is a lil different
22:37 rue_shop3 oh I'm asleep
22:37 rue_shop3 its hopeless for getting anything done
22:38 katsmeow-afk no wonder you can't do it, you need your eyes open, at least
22:38 rue_shop3 maybe its just the part where my eyes close, I'm not sure
22:38 rue_shop3 :)
22:40 tsmeow-afk hands rue a spearmint c
22:40 katsmeow-afk once it gets to dissolvng in your mouth, go breathe on the cat
22:43 rue_house "what do you want to eat?" "nothing." "good, nothings easy to make"
22:44 tsmeow-afk stirs the nothing in a pan on low heat, with a smoking wood s
22:48 rue_house smoking or smouldering?
22:49 rue_house hard to get a good smoking
22:49 katsmeow-afk i already dropped it into a bowl of water
22:49 rue_house oh well its goo late then
22:50 katsmeow-afk i forget which mint is was, cat tried to get into my mouth for it
22:50 rue_house I got a 20A 60V pwm speed controller from china
22:50 katsmeow-afk ok
22:50 katsmeow-afk why?
22:50 rue_house I'm wondering what they did, it uses a 555
22:51 rue_house with not enough diodes for the 0-100% trick
22:51 rue_house cause it was stupid cheap
22:51 katsmeow-afk oh
22:51 katsmeow-afk then it's prolly not 20amp or 60v
22:51 rue_house well, 20 china amps and 60 china volts
22:52 rue_house prolly about 10 NAA and 45NAV
22:52 katsmeow-afk i found any stable osc, driving a ramp generator, and an opamp or a comparator, is all you need
22:52 rue_house yes, I quite like using a dual op-amp to make a osc/pwm thing
22:53 rue_house little bit of scaling so you get the 0 and 100%
22:53 rue_house did I tell you I got a 1 gate 7414?
22:53 rue_house its a 6 pin SMT
22:53 katsmeow-afk do it in digital by using preloadable counters, and keep preloading them with your pwm value
22:53 katsmeow-afk yeas
22:53 rue_house I got them for oscillators
22:53 katsmeow-afk several 74 chips comes as oncies now
22:54 katsmeow-afk onsies
22:54 katsmeow-afk oneseeezees
22:54 e_house tries to send an ack so the retransmissions will cease, crc already took care of the er
22:54 katsmeow-afk ah
22:54 e_house shakes hands with
22:55 tsmeow-afk
22:55 e_house points out there is no correct way of spelling something thats not a
22:56 katsmeow-afk i dl'd "HD Tune", the free copy, it doesn't tune anything, it displays data, but then it doesn't say how to interpret what it's saying
22:56 rue_house tho, if we agree it exists, and on its meaning, I dont know why its not a word
22:56 katsmeow-afk and most frustrating, it cannot see a hd thru a pci raid card
22:57 rue_house the old hd tuners just made sure the DMA was turned on
22:57 rue_house wonderfull increase in transfer rate
22:57 katsmeow-afk cannot turn dma on with winders, it will crash winders
22:57 rue_house ugh
22:57 katsmeow-afk i turn off dma in every puter i have in the boot bios or else winders won';t even load
22:58 rue_house oh my, there are 7 series of dr who, and I dont know how many I'v seen
22:59 katsmeow-afk at least 7 *years* of dr who, i imagine
22:59 katsmeow-afk prolly even 7 different dr whos
23:31 katsmeow-afk i calc'd it's possible to use 1500kwh ($100's worth) with a single 120v 20 amp circuit