Three consecutive space songs in today’s helping of the automatic podcast:
That’s the thing about randomness – we see patterns that are of no import.
Lack of recent posts have been almost entirely due to this:
It’s a Big Muddy flat top mandolin, hand made in Missouri with a lovely Adirondack spruce top.
I really like the portability of the mandolin. I didn’t think I’d like the tiny scale (hey, its entire fretboard is only as long as 6 of my banjo frets), but it’s pretty comfortable. Way more so than a ukulele.
I’m at our windfarm – and the crickets are singing!
a blob of uhu-tack ended up this way.
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 are now at Toronto Meeting House, and will also be at Yonge St Meeting (Newmarket) from next week.
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.
So CanWEA 2008 is done. The high point was the launch of WindVision 2025. See you next year in Toronto.
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!
CanWEA 2008 starts here. Undecided whether I’ll twitter anything …
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.
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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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.
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.
