a blob of uhu-tack ended up this way.
evil mutant alien piglet baby
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
David Bellamy – Power From The Wind
Excerpt from the educational video made for the CEGB in 1989:
Local copy: David Bellamy: Power From The Wind (excerpt).
His views have changed a bit since then.
white poppies ’08
White poppies are now at Toronto Meeting House, and will also be at Yonge St Meeting (Newmarket) from next week.
goodbye, guardian
Summary: tl;dr
The Guardian has changed its news feeds to contain the whole article instead of just the lead paragraph. That’s just too much reading for me.
the invisible hand of the market was flipping you off all along
until next year
So CanWEA 2008 is done. The high point was the launch of WindVision 2025. See you next year in Toronto.
Hugin comes fully of age
I made the Generic Vancouver Seawall Panorama today using all of Hugin‘s defaults, and in the words of Eric Morecambe, “You can’t see the join!”. You used to have to play with lots of settings – now it just gets it right. Bravo!
windy west
CanWEA 2008 starts here. Undecided whether I’ll twitter anything …
in which you expect a worthy Canadian election post, but get something about a lady who impersonates operatic chickens instead
Seriously, Orriel Smith — yes, that one who was so earnest on Hootenanny in 1964 (it must’ve sucked to be alive in the early sixties, living in low-resolution black and white) and the two spaced-out tracks on Fuzzy Felt Folk — is definitely the best chicken-impersonating coloratura I’ve heard. She even gives the Cackle Sisters a run for their money.
autumnal
maybe I shouldn’t play with HDR …
Cultus Wind Farm, Fall HDR
discordion
I’m really regretting downloading The Blue Bell Polka (hey, it’s Flop Eared Mule, revisited!), ‘cos now emusic is recommending:
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mini revived
more Atkinson/potrace tile oddness
pgmrnoise – a more random (or less repeatable) pgmnoise
Update: If you have a recent NetPBM, this is fixed.
I’d previously alluded that netpbm’s pgmnoise wasn’t as random as it could be if you called it several times in quick succession. Nerdy discussion after the break, but here’s a (perhaps slightly linux-centric) alternative:
#!/bin/sh # pgmrnoise - a more random pgmnoise; limited to 8-bit images # created by scruss on Sun Oct 12 19:36:37 EDT 2008 echo P5 echo $1 $2 echo 255 dd if=/dev/urandom bs=$1 count=$2 2> /dev/null
I just pasted the shell text in there; you’ll need to save it as a file. It works the same way as pgmnoise:
pgmrnoise width height > noise.pgm
It is limited as written to 8 bit-per-pixel output, but is a fairly trivial edit to make it 16 or more bits.
advice: just buy a can of kidney beans
Okay, so now the house smells of damp, the stove top is covered with evil red liquid, and the pan is coated with something that looks like it came from the insides of a duck. This is why canned red kidney beans are a good idea, and why almost no-one cooks their own.
Stewart’s helpful advice to the financial industry
car scraping time
First frost last night in Tillsonburg.
giving up roasting for now
I’m giving up roasting coffee – too much smoke, too many smoke detectors. That, and the fuss, the mess, the occasionally imperfect roasts. It’s been fun, but it’s time to move on.
so, why would anyone buy a Mac now?
