#garfield Logs
Feb 16 2019
#garfield Calendar
03:00 AM rue_bed: change the size?
04:10 PM Tom_L: mirror supposed to be flatter?
06:29 PM rue_mohr: yea, or ya look like a carnival
06:30 PM rue_mohr: I seen some peices of window glass that are REALLY NOT FLAT
06:31 PM Tom_L: wonder what another useful macro i could work on
06:32 PM Tom_L: you get your rom harvested?
06:37 PM rue_mohr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3XKAk9KEJ0&feature=youtu.be
06:37 PM rue_mohr: yea
06:38 PM rue_mohr: well mostly, there are reconstruction quality issues, but its not known if they are from the origional source or not
06:38 PM Tom_L: huh
07:00 PM rue_mohr: I been on this a while, if my energy keeps up, I might chase down an origional and compare
07:02 PM Tom_L: i had a voice chip but i don't remember what it was
07:02 PM Tom_L: in a box somewhere
07:04 PM rue_mohr: it would have been TI, GI, or Al?#%??
07:04 PM rue_mohr: the TI chip was by far the most popular
07:05 PM rue_mohr: the GI was supposedly better
07:05 PM Tom_L: i never used it much and can't recall what it was
07:06 PM rue_mohr: at this point, if it was the TI one I know all about it
07:06 PM Tom_L: :)
07:07 PM rue_mohr: they used it in some cars
07:07 PM Tom_L: what has happened to irc?
07:07 PM rue_mohr: I got quiet
07:07 PM Tom_L: well yes but it's not just there
07:08 PM rue_mohr: the securrity uppage fromt eh bot attacked killed things
07:08 PM rue_mohr: needing to log in put up an entry wall that most people wont bother with
07:08 PM rue_mohr: basically eliminating new users
07:09 PM rue_mohr: I said before, the bot attack worked, killed freenode
07:09 PM Tom_L: sad
07:09 PM rue_mohr: yea, tho, its been tapering down for a while
07:10 PM rue_mohr: a channel needs atleast two people really activly doing stuff
07:10 PM Tom_L: economics have changed things i believe
07:11 PM rue_mohr: I found 42 interesting folks on twitter
07:11 PM rue_mohr: and 49 folks seem to find me interesting (!???!?!?)
07:12 PM Tom_L: i'm not on any social media
07:12 PM rue_mohr: no,
07:12 PM rue_mohr: I wouldn't have, but I had an idea
07:12 PM rue_mohr: use twitter to find people
07:12 PM rue_mohr: so I only post tech stuff
07:13 PM rue_mohr: no food, cats, political...
07:13 PM Tom_L: is it working?
07:14 PM rue_mohr: 42 interesting folks, not at my level of making stuff, but people who really do make stuff
07:14 PM rue_mohr: https://twitter.com/MLE_Online
07:14 PM rue_mohr: browse her, quite active.
07:15 PM Tom_L: has a cat
07:15 PM rue_mohr: 2, iirc, I'v not posted re my cats
07:16 PM rue_mohr: cats are like free worthless point collectors
07:16 PM Tom_L: i have no points then
07:17 PM rue_mohr: their worthless twitter points
07:17 PM rue_mohr: the points that underline why twitter is stupid
07:17 PM rue_mohr: and social sillyness
07:19 PM Tom_L: has a waterjet
07:19 PM rue_mohr: ~
07:19 PM rue_mohr: I think has access to one
07:19 PM Tom_L: still counts
07:19 PM rue_mohr: it looks like she is in an area with good maker support
07:20 PM rue_mohr: I think 60% of the people of interest are overseas
07:20 PM rue_mohr: iirc I'm following two spanish people doing interesting things
07:20 PM Tom_L: you like to travel
07:20 PM rue_mohr: heh
07:21 PM rue_mohr: I'd always wanted to go to au anyhow
07:21 PM Tom_L: forever memory for sure
07:21 PM rue_mohr: I wonder if there is a maker central town somewhere
07:22 PM rue_mohr: where like everyone is a maker
07:22 PM Tom_L: SF
07:22 PM rue_mohr: ?
07:22 PM Tom_L: https://help.makermedia.com/hc/en-us/articles/204141849-Why-did-Maker-Faire-start-And-what-is-the-Maker-Movement-
07:22 PM rue_mohr: but its all spread out like crazy
07:23 PM Tom_L: a forest fire starts with a spark
07:23 PM Tom_L: not much spark left here
07:24 PM rue_mohr: how long I been on irc 2002?
07:24 PM rue_mohr: ~17years, looking for people like zhanx, yourself, kat, rifraf
07:24 PM Tom_L: 90ish
07:24 PM rue_mohr: and who else can I name?...
07:25 PM Tom_L: bear
07:25 PM rue_mohr: yea, he dosn't make toooooo often
07:25 PM Tom_L: umm the other female aussie
07:25 PM rue_mohr: wonder where she is
07:25 PM rue_mohr: not robotgrrl
07:25 PM rue_mohr: arg, cant remember
07:26 PM rue_mohr: I'm at almost 70% name failure
07:26 PM rue_mohr: even people I know I'm stalling for the names of
07:27 PM Tom_L: rebecca?
07:27 PM Tom_L: had electric scooters
07:37 PM rue_mohr: hmm I should charge my truck up and load the recycling into it
09:47 PM Tom_L: bad battery?
10:48 PM rue_mohr: no, bad radio