#garfield Logs

Nov 25 2015

00:07 ^kat^-afk Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 00:58
00:07 ^kat^-afk Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, releases video showing its new rocket taking off and then landing safely in West Texas. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
00:07 zhanx Updates are fun to wait on
00:07 ^kat^-afk The New Shepard rocket, which is designed to carry six passengers, blasted off from a launch site in West Texas at 12:21 p.m. CST (1821 GMT) on Monday. The rocket reached an altitude of 62 miles (100 km) - breaching the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space - and landed back at the launch site eight minutes later
00:08 zhanx Fast trip
00:10 ^kat^-afk i still say if the SR-71 engines were tweaked just a lil, and a LOX bottle was put in a camera bay, it could very easily reach 62miles/327kft up
00:11 ^kat^-afk it doesn't have the vectoring rocket engines of a space craft, so it can't live in space, but it go visit the edge and toss other things into space
00:12 zhanx That is true
00:18 ^kat^-afk sounds like a cheap way to launch a pegasus carrying emergency supplies to the space station or moon, and have fast turnaround to the next launch
00:19 ^kat^-afk http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/it-unmasked/ibm-machine-learning-algorithm-generator-becomes-open-source-apache-project.html?google_editors_picks=true
00:27 ^kat^-afk https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/?src=search
00:33 ^kat^-afk gnites
00:33 zhanx Night
00:33 zhanx And I just got back
00:36 rue_mohr interesting how getting the boiler working involves me standing out in the cold working on it the whole time
00:51 zhanx Lack of heat tends to do that
00:51 rue_mohr but I have to stay out in the cold to keep it going
00:56 rue_mohr the boiler puts out the equiv of 240V at 130A
00:59 rue_mohr I started work on the next section of the pwm power converter, but the first section failed
00:59 rue_mohr not sure whats going on
00:59 zhanx Not fun
00:59 rue_mohr but I think that the stray capacitance in the breadboard was helping my protocircuit a lot
01:00 zhanx Installing java (I know bad)
01:01 zhanx But I made the trivia game in it to learn it, so I m using my beaglebone black to run the game
01:15 rue_mohr how do you play a trivia game on a 8*8 led table?
01:23 rue_mohr if I want to make a coaxial pipe, what outter pipe size do I need to match an inner pipe size of 3/4"?
01:24 rue_mohr ... 1"
01:26 zhanx If 1/4 wall yes
01:29 rue_mohr hmm I wonder how the hell I would seperate coaxial pex at the ends
06:49 Tom_itx 1/8" wall
20:57 ^kat^ ...
22:23 rue_mohr ..--.-.--..
22:25 ^kat^ 12-5a12-5g12-5d12-5g12-5d12-5g12-5s12-5d12-5f2-
22:26 ^kat^ taht od t'nac ,llew ho
22:26 rue_mohr must be a scale I'm not used to, mine only go up to g
22:26 ^kat^ s is a very short sting and a pointy hammer
22:26 rue_mohr hehe
22:27 rue_mohr used by dolphins for ranging?
22:27 rue_mohr wow, I had _4_ people calling me for emergencies at once today
22:27 rue_mohr I'm pretty burned out
22:28 rue_mohr I was doing good this week
22:28 rue_mohr till tuesday morning anyhow
22:29 at^ sniffs rue for all the extra money he is complaining a
22:29 rue_mohr a buddy dropped me off a plate heat exchanger and an electronic controlled diverter valve
22:30 rue_mohr I know I make more than I spend, so I dont care about the money
22:30 rue_mohr if I was smart, I probably would so I could do away with my mortguage faster
22:30 ^kat^ <cough>
22:30 ^kat^ yeas
22:30 rue_mohr they want my saturday
22:30 rue_mohr to go to "bella bella"
22:31 rue_mohr oh dear god
22:32 rue_mohr its not *just* past powell river, its freaking *might as well be russia*
22:33 ^kat^ the other side of alaska??
22:33 rue_mohr search "sechelt" in BC, thats where I might as well be
22:33 rue_mohr search "bella bella" in bc, its freaking ....
22:34 rue_mohr they need 7 network connections done
22:34 rue_mohr _7_
22:34 ^kat^ MONEY!! and it's a mini vacation, come home sunday evening
22:35 rue_mohr if I dont die in the horrid plane crash, well yea
22:35 ^kat^ oh, plane
22:35 ^kat^ bush hopper? float plane?
22:36 ^kat^ tell the piot you won't go unless the carb heaters work properly
22:36 rue_mohr 400km?
22:36 ^kat^ i dunno
22:36 rue_mohr its 400km +-
22:39 rue_mohr if it could be driven, driving would take, at 80km/hr 50hrs
22:40 rue_mohr 2 days of speeding with no sleep
22:40 rue_mohr and the van only goes 260k on a tank
22:41 ^kat^ then flying is prolly safer
22:41 rue_mohr yea
23:18 ^kat^ ...--,,===;;;....---..
23:32 rue_mohr (*^^*^*^^^^*^***^*^**^^**)
23:33 rue_mohr so
23:33 rue_mohr right now
23:33 rue_mohr there is a relay box in the boiler shed
23:33 rue_mohr AT THIS VERRY MOMENT EVEN!
23:33 rue_mohr and there is a program that controls the relays
23:34 rue_mohr the program watches a port on a network server
23:34 rue_mohr the program has a translation table
23:34 rue_mohr the words that turn the relays on and off are mapped in the table
23:35 rue_mohr by default, the keywords are things like 14on and 15off
23:35 rue_mohr (there are 16 realys)
23:35 rue_mohr relays 14, 15, 16 are a 3 bit speed port for the fire draft fan
23:36 rue_mohr I need to work out, how to make a system that will translate a command like draft6 to the right set of relay on/off commands
23:36 rue_mohr without breaking my model
23:36 ^kat^ dos batch files come to mind
23:36 rue_mohr the network server is like an irc service, any message sent to the server is echod to all listening clients
23:37 rue_mohr so, an option is to have a service that listens for the speed commands, and spits out the right on/off commands
23:37 ^kat^ if you wrote the service and the clients, you should be able to write anything else you need
23:48 rue_mohr yes, but it must be a piece of art
23:49 rue_mohr elegant, if nothing else in its complexity
23:49 rue_mohr hmm a 3 transistor computer, hmmm
23:50 rue_mohr ugh, sounds like I might be going to bella bella tommorow
23:51 rue_mohr I go to work with a smile on my face, knowing that there is NO TELLING WHAT might happen that day
23:51 rue_mohr and there is no point in trying to predict it
23:52 ^kat^ it's <drum roll> THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
23:52 ^kat^ </drum roll>
23:52 ^kat^ that did work, look, someone, catch that rolling drum!