26 April 2013
entropy
Dog is copilot.
Dog on lap.
Got dog, but he was distant and so I didn't care. Then other humans left, just me and him. We bonded. I prefer dogs to cats (and cats over humans).
He has NO nipples which freaks my son (13) out, but no prob. Ms. Lady Kootoo has nips, but she's also neutrered, and a teeny female cat.
I2C goes to 0.4 Mhz. SPI to 20 Mhz.
Will talk more later.
Tired.
18 April 2013
Ricin
Just to be clear,
my wife made me pay big $$ for a laborer to nuke / raze my back yard. which had canopies and privacy and trees even. And she agreed to let me keep, once.
Now we have bare dirt. A few leftover plants in pots. A little mint and even a strawberry plant in the dirt. One palm in the corner of the dirt. Of course our front yard is
green-grass perfect (in socal, idiots...)
At least we killed the Arondo, right? After massive multiple chem warfare.
http://www.trbimg.com/img-516ed344/turbine/la-na-ricin-explainer-20130417-g/950
We have a few disturbed-soil castor plants that don't need anything to grow --no water,
fertilizer, nothing. Just disturbed soil. Very common for that reason; a roadside invasive.
Anyway, nothing eats it. Funny that --I guess you really do need your ribosomes :-)
It can be pretty. I try to avoid touching it as it can heighten sensitivity; its been years since the harmless but very distracting poison ivy/oak reaction has messed with me. But that's just inflammation, not protein stoppage.
You can kill it with roundup (tm). But as long as it doesn't grow around infrastructure (HVAC, sprinklers) I don't care.
Somewhere someone is injecting ricin in very very low amounts into rabbits or goats, then bleeding them for antibodies. These antibodies are used to screen congressional mail.
Anyone see any biblical refs here?
Anyway, a few coarse hits will be resolve in a few days. Hilarious how one yahoo with a few beans can close down the Roman posts.
Ricin suspect hired by senator as Elvis impersonator
ENTROPY WINS
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-ricin-suspect-elvis-impersonator-20130418,0,880787.story
W=TF is the new unifying theory of the universe.
---
"He's an entertainer. He's an Elvis impersonator. He entertained at a party that my wife and I held for a young couple that was getting married," the senator said.
"My impression is that since that time he's had mental issues. He's not as stable as he was back then."
05 April 2013
10 March 2013
Research ties economic inequality to gap in life expectancy
Its called "g"
Read the bell curve
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/research-ties-economic-inequality-to-gap-in-life-expectancy/2013/03/10/c7a323c4-7094-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html
Evolution doesn't sleep, but it sure has been slackin off with amerikans...
cox.com so stupid
trying to pay a bill. Can't log in since I don't remember my email password.
they can't change it over the phone without pin because of fcc and phone link.
I don't have recent bill with pin.
gotta wait for wife who set it up, stupid, stupid, stupid, only want my email passwd
reset so I can log in to account to pay bills.
Cox, I'm "axing" you to fix this, this is how your techreps talk when I'm forced to reset my docsis modem on *your* end, maybe this is what you understand.
Stupid fucking cox have no choice but satellite because they have some sodomistic relationship with city and phys infrastructure.
dog narc
So dogg and I go to a public park nearby (he won't walk unless I drive him somewhere on
sundays). We watch a woman try to train a bunch of midsized dogs and their owners. Four dogs.
But they are letting them off their leashes and one or more of them is hostile. A little girl is barely able to control her hound.
They ask us to move. We leave.
I call the police when I get home ---commercial dog trainer breaking rules and threatening locals
in public park. Not cool.
Sorry charlie, take your biz and f'ed up mutts elsewhere. My dog was on a leash and friendly.
Turn them into fish food, they're troubled. You and your client$ are neurotic. Go away.
25 February 2013
he's trying to shit
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-n-told-atheists-face-discrimination-around-globe-184534163.html
20 February 2013
17 February 2013
Roomba lifetime costs
Roomba 550 cost about 2-300 US$ about 10 years ago at Cosco. Is in third battery now, after a battery lifetime down to about 5 seconds.
It is cranking now. Very good. We have doghair now and this accumulates! Blocked the
black/white front passive wheel IR sensors!
For about 10$ a year for battery ($30 every 3 years) and maybe $5/yr for filters, replacement brushes etc, its pretty good.
Amortized over 10 years: 300 + 10 * 15 = 300 + 150 = 450 / 10 yrs = 45 $/yr to clean the floor autonomously, when we're not home. Nice.
ROOMBA and MIT and HAL, SCORE!
Also, being in consumer electronics now, I see some of the problems they would have or did face,
eg chinese plastic that deforms under stress...
But they replaced these easily and Ms. R. continues to work! (I also used some low-temp-softening nylon prototyping plastics to fix a pair of self-fastening screws on the bottom of the 'bot. This saved me about $30 for the stupid replacement part.
And saved "duh erth" from "du landfill" <---- fur dur erf moronz
And for the price of a pair of "C" batteries one of my walls is working so I can leave Ms. R. to tend to the intended area.
peas and doves
15 February 2013
Small increments
I once donated to EFF, cryptome, and Ron Paul. Boy, am I on some lists. Still some of those persisted and continue. I regard this as fairly redeeming.
I have a RP 2008 bumper sticker which seems to cause some occasional mirth.
Astronomical Coincidence
Asteroid comes closer than geosync satellites
On same day meteor hits Siberia.
Not related, sure.
Feb 15 2013.
14 February 2013
13 February 2013
north danger ha ha
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Homemade+bomb+Centrepointe+yard+dangerous+within+metres+expert/7943147/story.html
A kilo of tatp is really f'ed. A manic interested person would perhaps synth 10-100 mg
just to understand. More than that is dangerous to others, immoral. Cut it out guys.
The problem is, folks in glass empires ought not fly drones,
folks in us ought not make enemies
like the romans
rome did not fall in a day
but things happen faster now
peas and wuv
really, can't we all just get along?
social overlays?
jurgas? (sp?)
bellywubs
> my client of 20+ years can only read
> less than 20 at a time and it hangs completely.
>
> don't tell greg or david & carmel etc they'll hurt themselves laughing
>
>
>
> recent article about dog bark info-
> content in sci am (IIRC).
>
> dogs can tell 'stranger bark'
> from 'get away from my food bark'.
> wolves almost never bark. domesticated but not wild foxes bark (in Russia;
> I haven't read this study, I've read of it).
>
> Humans can't tell which dog is barking though, except for the stranger
> bark, which makes sense. that's the one that matters for human-guardian
> interactions.
>
> click n clack (cartalk, npr 10-11 am west coast) recently discussed how
> dogs barked at each other when the guys had a dog in the radio studio and a
> caller had a dog in their house, and it escalated.
>
> personally I look forward to the dog sitting on my lap each evening. He
> will rest his chin (as he's doing now) on my right typing forearm, him
> sitting on my lap, the dimensions being perfect. Plus, my inner elbow is
> warmer than ambient, and his chin, even more so.
>
> when there's more light in the eve
> when I get home
> I read printouts of tech docs supported on the back of the dog on my lap
> outside. much better than igizmo or kindle displays on a stand.
>
> I love the smell of dogs in the morning... it smells like.. victory
>
>
> I heard today that the $alesmen get bonuses based on sales to customers
> minus ESTIMATED engineering time. So guess who gets to estimate
> engineering time? Essentially the salesmen.
>
> Game anyone?
>
> A friend of mine is fomenting illumination. As I told him, I am
> repelled but not surprised. My strategy has been to document bs
> and point out that I had no input
> for schedules. And that salemen sell stuff that doesn't exist yet.
>
> BS. You want your pacemaker built like that? How about your car's brake
> by wire? The incredible fluidity between requirements, design, and
> implementation in software really damages us.
>
> At work I watch a whole apt complex get built. Bulldozers, ironworkers,
> concrete pouring. Very very cool.
>
> They never have more than 2 dozen people. They never have spec changes,
> have all their tools and supplies when they need them, know that their
> stuff will work, and is approved, and checked by third parties. They have
> designs that have been thought out and about, and then they execute. Its
> not, can you change this midway and keep the schedule.
>
> Back to fomenting (calming the ranting and raving aka flaming).
>
> I support this education/insurrection, discretely of course.
>
> Without feedback there is no learning.
>
>
>
> ....
>
> My current hobby is interspecies comms with domesticated pet species. Is
> there an emoticon for bellyrubs?
>
> I am particularly fascinated with how pack-oriented dogs are, and how
> humans have exploited that (in addition to various superfluous decorative
> mutations like floppy ears, curly tail, mostly white, and small).
>
> One more slight thing I'm interested in is in how dogs' black skin
> (required where no hair, ie on nose and lips) and dark eyes define a
> triangle that tells you where your pack-mates are oriented towards.
> Even without my glasses, this myopic can tell where his doggeh is looking.
>
> Isaac has ceased being a compliant cognitive science subject, so I have to
> work on dogs now.
12 February 2013
Dorner neuroscience
Chris Dorner wanted his brain (subject to 2 concussions that he documented) studied for depression (etc). It will be interesting if the LAPD pyre allows such a dissection.
Of course, all the LAPD wanted was to shut him up.
"Mission accomplished" (tm, George Bush Failure Corp)
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