#garfield Logs

Apr 08 2019

12:19 AM rue_shop3: fixing paint sprayers, SN _1_ came in!!!
12:23 AM rue_shop3: nobody is really working on much
12:23 AM rue_shop3: I was expelling a LOT of energy posting stuff as hard as I could, and nobody was ever in, so I turned most of the focus to twitter
12:23 AM rue_shop3: I got 201 follwers :/ (means nothing tho)
08:26 PM zhanx: Tom_L, your issue is completely weird
08:30 PM rue_mohr: I'm having one of those days where if I want something to work, I dont go near it with a 10' pole today
08:38 PM Tom_L: i got another mb i'll put it on soon
08:39 PM Tom_L: i'm thinking i built the os on it and moved it to that current board and it may not like legacy software
10:18 PM rue_mohr: the always little channel
10:19 PM Tom_L: oldest finally got to see the job he's doing now
10:19 PM Tom_L: been training and mostly waiting
10:19 PM rue_mohr: ooo
10:19 PM Tom_L: they are taking an F18 apart and 3d scanning the entire thing
10:19 PM Tom_L: they had to get clearance etc which took some time
10:19 PM rue_mohr: hashahahaha
10:20 PM rue_mohr: cool
10:20 PM Tom_L: he was excited today to finally get to see it up close
10:20 PM Tom_L: but can't talk about it
10:21 PM rue_shop1: didn't they decommision all of them?
10:21 PM Tom_L: they estimate a 2yr project but believe it will take 10
10:21 PM Tom_L: i don't know but probably
10:21 PM rue_shop1: sounds like it'll die before it finishes
10:21 PM Tom_L: naw
10:21 PM Tom_L: maybe they're gonna re'purpose it
10:22 PM Tom_L: i don't know
10:22 PM rue_shop1: do they have a mechanic on the team too
10:22 PM Tom_L: the military is taking it apart
10:22 PM Tom_L: his team is scanning the parts
10:23 PM Tom_L: 2 including him and his boss
10:23 PM rue_shop1: ah ok
10:23 PM rue_shop1: I wonder what the corrosion will be like
10:24 PM Tom_L: right up z's alley for military mechanic...
10:24 PM rue_shop1: ! indeed
10:24 PM Tom_L: only i think he did wheeled vehicles not jets
10:24 PM zhanx: bet its torn down faster than they can scan it
10:25 PM Tom_L: they got some new scanners in but i dunno what
10:25 PM zhanx: wheeled and aviation support equipment
10:25 PM Tom_L: along with what they have
10:25 PM Tom_L: it's the uni's 'reverse engineering department'
10:25 PM rue_shop1: zhanx, thats to the top of the landing gear, right? ;)
10:26 PM Tom_L: not bad for 21yr old
10:26 PM zhanx: rue_shop1, no what the landing gear run over
10:27 PM zhanx: Tom_L, i think you should be proud
10:27 PM Tom_L: can't you tell? :)
10:27 PM zhanx: only a little
10:27 PM Tom_L: i just won't get to hear much about it
10:27 PM zhanx: nope
10:28 PM zhanx: you need a clearance dang near to look at them
10:28 PM Tom_L: the Uni took over our old colliseum and turned it into NIAR
10:28 PM Tom_L: zhanx they couldn't see it until they were cleared
10:28 PM zhanx: ok pi is running
10:29 PM zhanx: Tom_L, yea, I got my first clearance in basic
10:29 PM zhanx: so the levels some times get me
10:29 PM zhanx: if its on the computer, its nice enough to tell you to go pound sand etc
10:30 PM Tom_L: pi don't talk back much do they?
10:30 PM zhanx: nope
10:30 PM Tom_L: a guy in linuxcnc is trying to get a pi'like pc running linuxcnc
10:30 PM zhanx: I got the ssh up on it, doing updates
10:30 PM Tom_L: it's a more improved pi whatever it's called
10:31 PM zhanx: nanopi
10:31 PM Tom_L: no
10:31 PM rue_shop1: I'd think liuxcnc would have too much assembler in it
10:31 PM Tom_L: oh.. tinkerboard
10:32 PM Tom_L: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNjUL9VJW4BIh58ZOHM6jOWS10l43lfzL_nr7FMD-YXm_o6hG63BfTN2Rv6ch6C_Q?key=OVV0UTBXUmF0NXNSR2NKVzdoaFhxQzVTbDI5V3JB
10:32 PM Tom_L: case he did for it
10:33 PM rue_shop1: I need to learn fiberglassing
10:33 PM Tom_L: i did a bunch of it in a previous life
10:33 PM Tom_L: when i was racing model boats
10:33 PM zhanx: fiberglassing is easy
10:33 PM zhanx: he went all out on it
10:33 PM Tom_L: yeah
10:34 PM Tom_L: he's having issues getting RTAI or Preempt-RT working on it though
10:34 PM Tom_L: Preempt-RT i think
10:35 PM Tom_L: he offered a case to anybody that helped him get it
10:36 PM zhanx: too bad i don't have a tinkerboard
10:36 PM Tom_L: :)
10:36 PM zhanx: either way both those suck to work with
10:37 PM Tom_L: he's not gettin much help but seems pretty determined
10:38 PM zhanx: with my wife being ill, i am press for time aways
10:39 PM Tom_L: i know all about the time crunch
10:39 PM Tom_L: i did get my first issue resolved sunday
10:39 PM zhanx: she is at the ER right now
10:40 PM Tom_L: hope she's ok
10:40 PM zhanx: parents took her, new meds are not helping her is all
10:40 PM zhanx: she might get home before 3-4 am
10:41 PM Tom_L: yeah last time i took mine to the ER it was a full 8 hrs before they saw us
10:41 PM Tom_L: literally the next day
10:42 PM Tom_L: the heads heard about it and i refused to pay
10:42 PM zhanx: and i have young kids so I have to sit here and wait, its not fun
10:42 PM Tom_L: we did too
10:42 PM Tom_L: they slept in the chairs
10:42 PM Tom_L: this was quite a few years back
10:42 PM Tom_L: not a fun time
10:42 PM zhanx: kids were already asleep tonight etc
10:43 PM zhanx: they spent all day at grandma's sunday
10:43 PM rue_mohr: zhanx, hows the garden?
10:44 PM zhanx: getting unfrozen
10:44 PM Tom_L: i was about to chastize you for leaving us!
10:44 PM zhanx: the new cat ate all the seedlings
10:44 PM zhanx: so i have 1 sprouted cucumber right now
10:48 PM rue_mohr: :/
10:48 PM rue_mohr: ate or pooped on?
10:48 PM Tom_L: end result seems the same
10:48 PM zhanx: ate, i forgot to zip the cover closed
10:49 PM rue_mohr: !?!?! ok
10:49 PM zhanx: use an old zip up greenhouse cover cut to fit on my counter top
10:53 PM Tom_L: how do tomatoes do that far north?
10:53 PM zhanx: epic
10:53 PM zhanx: 500 pounds last year
10:54 PM Tom_L: i had 2-300 cucumbers one year from 6 mounds but just that once
10:55 PM zhanx: cucumbers I plant 4 rows at 40 feet each
10:55 PM Tom_L: 1lb hamburger size tomatoes the same year
10:55 PM Tom_L: my garden was small
10:56 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/temp/house/house.jpg
10:56 PM Tom_L: that was years ago
10:56 PM zhanx: yea that is a corner of mine as you know
10:56 PM Tom_L: that's the 21yr old's scooter :)
10:57 PM zhanx: a while while ago
10:57 PM zhanx: my 5 year old has the same hoop right now
10:57 PM Tom_L: heh
10:58 PM zhanx: this year i am adding 4 corners to the garden and a pillar
10:58 PM zhanx: its a bee technique I was told about
10:58 PM Tom_L: ever try horse radish?
10:58 PM Tom_L: i did that once
10:58 PM zhanx: I have a patch for it
10:58 PM zhanx: making that this weekend
10:58 PM Tom_L: it gets pretty wild
10:59 PM zhanx: yep you need to box it in
10:59 PM zhanx: I also need to move my hops and raspberry, strawberry boxes
11:00 PM Tom_L: 4 corners?
11:01 PM zhanx: you plant wild flowers in each corner and in the center a 4x4 bed of them
11:01 PM zhanx: brings in the bees
11:01 PM Tom_L: ahh
11:02 PM zhanx: last year i did one small area of them, and a long row by the swamp
11:04 PM Tom_L: one year i had a local bee guy get some that were migrating from my tree
11:04 PM Tom_L: huge clump of em that settled there for the night
11:05 PM zhanx: its nice to being able to watch the updates on the pi over ssh and top
11:06 PM Tom_L: well, i'm out for the night..
11:06 PM Tom_L: later
11:06 PM zhanx: my bee guy love me, he lives about 400 yards away across the swamp
11:06 PM zhanx: night
11:13 PM rue_shop3: night
11:32 PM moonymoon: silence on the wire :/
11:33 PM moonymoon: rue_bed: When you wake, youll have cake. Gnight
11:47 PM rue_mohr: mhm