#garfield Logs

Mar 31 2020

08:47 AM rue_mohr: looks more room for cruft
08:58 AM Tom_L: too many volunteer programmers thru the years
09:31 AM rue_mohr: ok I have to go fix up two phone systems
10:58 AM polprog: https://polprog.net/rozne1/ircjunk/various/encoder1.jpg
10:58 AM polprog: https://polprog.net/rozne1/ircjunk/various/encoder2.jpg
10:58 AM polprog: interesting rotary encoder from the dead washing machine panel
11:00 AM polprog: the outper ring turns, its detented
11:01 AM polprog: outer*
11:04 AM Tom_L: morning
11:05 AM polprog: how's it going?
11:05 AM Tom_L: this quarantine crap is makin me lazy
11:05 AM polprog: yesterday morning i felt quite hungover. I havent had any alcohol that night.
11:06 AM polprog: im more fatigued recently
11:06 AM Tom_L: i did some yardwork yesterday which felt good for a change
11:08 AM polprog: lucky.. most i can do is plant some onions
11:08 AM polprog: in a pot
11:08 AM Tom_L: no yard?
11:08 AM polprog: no, i live in a block of flats. We have a summer house though, but can't use it now
11:08 AM Tom_L: when i had a garden the birds would eat the onions
11:10 AM polprog: so far we only have a couple regular onions in indoor pots (along with the big plants) for the leaves.. they go great with cottage cheese
11:10 AM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/house/house.jpg
11:10 AM Tom_L: very old pic
11:11 AM polprog: lovely.. i knew a girl who had a huge garden next to her house. Lots of raspberries in there. and even poultry
09:48 PM rue_mohr: passadina, 35, no preexisting conditions, dead.
09:49 PM rue_mohr: just cause the heavy odds start at 55 doesn't mean its 0
10:01 PM rue_shop1: I suppose this is the first big push to become a machine
10:02 PM rue_shop1: technically this is russian roulette
10:02 PM rue_shop1: being a robot means your not playing the game
10:02 PM rue_shop1: I shouldn't be working, I should be 24/7 on conversion
10:15 PM rue_mohr: zh
10:15 PM rue_mohr: zhanx_,
10:21 PM rue_mohr: I have 6/1500 odds of dieing
11:45 PM Tom_L: that includes lightening strike, drowning etc?
11:45 PM rue_mohr: no, just the virus
11:46 PM rue_mohr: honestly, with everything I'm into
11:46 PM Tom_L: how do you figure?
11:46 PM rue_mohr: I have no idea how I made it this far
11:46 PM rue_mohr: my age group, the fatality rate for that age group, and my 1-ness against the number of people in that age group in my town
11:47 PM Tom_L: mmm
11:47 PM Tom_L: so are you back to work?
11:48 PM rue_mohr: a bit
11:48 PM Tom_L: not taking it that seriously then
11:48 PM rue_mohr: took some gloves, a mask, and a lot of hand wipes, did a phone system password reset at a library
11:48 PM rue_mohr: found a menu item for a hotel,
11:49 PM rue_mohr: and the people who needed a phone jack hooked up weren't organized for it
11:49 PM rue_mohr: 6 gloves, 8 wipes, and 3 masks later
11:49 PM rue_mohr: (nobody around here is wearing masks)
11:49 PM Tom_L: you can't get them here
11:50 PM rue_mohr: well, my shop had 2
11:50 PM Tom_L: not that i've tried
11:50 PM rue_mohr: "the good ones, use sparingly"
11:50 PM rue_mohr: my van had two "for that damned blown insulation"
11:50 PM Tom_L: the kids' work have them but reserved for the debur department
11:50 PM rue_mohr: and the shop *just* stocked up before the outbreak panic hit
11:50 PM rue_mohr: (shop at work)
11:51 PM rue_mohr: and I'd just bought a box of gloves for my shop cause I'm tired of having my hands smell like gas for 8 hours after working on a damn engine
11:52 PM rue_mohr: my shop also has 4 face shields, cause, group shop
11:52 PM rue_mohr: along with a bin of eye goggles
11:52 PM rue_mohr: (all scratched to hell)
11:53 PM Tom_L: i'm off for a good spell
11:54 PM Tom_L: since the trip i've done very little
11:54 PM Tom_L: and it was cut short nearly a week
11:56 PM rue_mohr: :) find works in my editor
11:56 PM rue_mohr: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/06.search.html I'm at step 135 now
11:56 PM rue_mohr: (no, I'm not really folowing the instructions, I'v modified this thing to hell)
11:59 PM rue_mohr: some of the things this guy does are just awefull
11:59 PM rue_mohr: but I have to hand it to him, he did it
11:59 PM Tom_L: is that C?
11:59 PM rue_mohr: yes