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we’re generating

You’ve no idea how happy I am to see several of these little fellers on my SCADA system:

wind turbine data - we are generating!

That means we’re up and running. Go Lake Erie!

02008-06-13

scenes from midwest banjo camp

02008-06-13

I got an autoharp on eBay a couple of weeks back. It was cheap, but fairly beat up. 32 of the 36 1970s-vintage strings were intact, if very tarnished. I spent more on new strings and a tuning wrench at Elderly last weekend. After spending a few evenings cleaning (you don’t want to know what I found in it), replacing strings (fiddly) and tuning (slow), I can now make 1970s sounds. Fun!

(and yes, before you ask, it does appear to have two Bâ™7 keys.)

02008-06-12

Olivet frogs

I think I’m supposed to be blogging about more Midwest Banjo Camp related things – but J.R. Jenks is doing this fine. Here’s a recording of some of the tree frogs in Olivet: olivet_mi-frogs-20080606.

02008-06-07

yeah, us long neck banjo players are a bad lot …

$Still from NFB\'s Nobody Waved Goodbye$
Still from 1964 NFB docudrama Nobody Waved Goodbye, as mentioned in a nostalgia piece in Spacing.

02008-06-04

operating (nearly)

We were testing wind turbines yesterday.

Not the best picture, but it is a running Vestas V82.

02008-06-04

perhaps the most sugar-coated admission of peak North Sea oil

The North Sea has almost as much oil left as has already been extracted, a BBC Scotland investigation has been told.

â€” BBC News, Oil reserves ‘will last decades’.

02008-06-04

I don’t know what it did, but I wish it hadn’t done it

Outlook has now decided that I need all my e-mail text in huge. I have no idea why.

02008-06-02

rsync to an NSLU2

My only real complaint with my Linksys NSLU2 is that it doesn’t have a very accurate clock. Tools like rsync expect identical timestamps, or flag source and destination files as different. This causes most of your files to be rewritten, even though the source and destination are in fact the same.
This fixes it:

rsync --size-only -av src dest

02008-06-01