#robotics Logs

Jan 17 2012

13:31 rue_house <-- rue is ill today
13:32 rue_house hey!
13:32 rue_house what?
13:32 Steffanx Why you're not rue_bed then?
13:32 rue_house dont point that sign at me!
13:32 rue_house Steffanx, have to get the boiler going, get the house up from 14.5c
13:33 rue_house the boiler is gaining 3c/min on 80L of water
15:06 rue_house that in order to organize growth, complex organisms have to age, that is they have a 'specific' aging mechanism
15:06 rue_house who can use that to create a self-expanding fractal that ages as it itterates
19:02 pigpenguin any one alive?
19:10 rue_house yes
19:10 rue_house but it dosn't feel like it
19:13 KongfuPanda Hello !
19:20 ngfuPanda pppppprrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrppppppp
19:20 ngfuPanda pardo
19:28 rue_house :/ I had to exert efforrt to read that
19:29 e_house glares at KongfuPa
19:29 rue_house you owe me for that
19:29 KongfuPanda :D
19:30 rue_house ok what the heck happened here
19:30 rue_house I was working on a plc controller core
19:30 rue_house and I needed a screen interface
19:30 rue_house so I started fixing my editor
19:31 rue_house in the process I wrote a program that keeps software version numbers updated
19:31 rue_house I modified some of my main library set
19:32 KongfuPanda and?
19:32 rue_house then wrote a program to upload firmware to nxp 8051 chips
19:33 rue_house then I started writing 8051 test programs
19:33 rue_house and fixed a few of my libraries in the process
19:33 rue_house then I started a webpage for someone
19:33 rue_house and got sidetracked trying to work out how to make a PAL programmer
19:34 rue_house ok, hmm
19:34 KongfuPanda and?
19:34 rue_house think I'm gonna rewind and work on the plc core again
19:34 KongfuPanda what are you getting at?
19:34 KongfuPanda I thought you were telling a story
19:34 rue_house I'm trying to figure out what happened to the project I was working on
19:35 KongfuPanda with some unexpected twist
19:35 KongfuPanda what time is it there ?
19:36 rue_house !time
19:36 tobbor My watch says its 17:32 Tue Jan 17 2012
19:37 KongfuPanda nice
19:37 KongfuPanda it's 01.28 here
19:37 KongfuPanda hmm,that watch is incorrect
19:37 KongfuPanda I'm quite sure my internet clock synchronises with atomic close
19:37 KongfuPanda clock*
19:37 KongfuPanda so it should be 28 mins not 32
19:38 rue_house both wrong, its 29:37
19:41 KongfuPanda nah
19:41 KongfuPanda http://www.atomic-clock.org.uk/atomic-clock.php