Friday, April 06, 2007
Twitter sucks?
I can see how Twitter can be used to harvest data about me - I am getting friended by bots lately and I can't find a way to block them. Damn damn damn!
Escape Pod hits 100!
Escape Pod rocks! I've been spending all my time since this morning listening to old (and new) Escape Pod episodes. Love this guy and the show!
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Mason Rocket is dead
Joe Murphy is gone...
It's better this way, he was very heavily drugged and I'm glad he's no longer suffering.
It's better this way, he was very heavily drugged and I'm glad he's no longer suffering.
HDRI and long walks
Went to Wimpole farm with Michele and Serkan. Walked slowly but a reasonable distance, shooting lots of pics. After that we went to Cambridge, had something to eat at Dojo (great place). And then my stomach got very upset. After walking a bit more, we headed back home (now it's 7 hours after we met first time today) and then looked at some of the pics. I'm dead tired and tomorrow will be long and stressful.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Snowblind!
Wow... An other storm and we couldn't see anything through the windows. Only half an hour ago it was cloudy but not bad. It's gone now, only lasted 5 minutes. It's snowing again but large, puffy crystals. It won't last long, there's a strong wind and it doesn't look like it's going to settle down to the ground. Shame, I'd love it.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
It's snowing!
Wow! We have a storm right here! Wow! Only this morning the skies were crystal clear and blue!
incoming bad weather but great skies
Right now it's gorgeous outside. Blue skies and puffy clouds.
The weather this morning was clear sunshine and a very cold winter but right now the wind has picked up speed and the forecast is snow. Probably this is the front I'm watching out of my window. The wind is bitterly cold and I had to turn the heating on since it is loosing a lot of heat because of the cold wind.
I am having a slight cold, I have a bit of temperature and a gorgeous headache. Now I had had some painkillers and drank vast quantities of liquid, I feel better now. I am upgrading the BlackBird to FC6. Hope it goes well.
The weather this morning was clear sunshine and a very cold winter but right now the wind has picked up speed and the forecast is snow. Probably this is the front I'm watching out of my window. The wind is bitterly cold and I had to turn the heating on since it is loosing a lot of heat because of the cold wind.
I am having a slight cold, I have a bit of temperature and a gorgeous headache. Now I had had some painkillers and drank vast quantities of liquid, I feel better now. I am upgrading the BlackBird to FC6. Hope it goes well.
Dunkelbier and Charlie Jade
Dunkelbier was good...
We had a lot of fun at the hotel bar, drank lots of weissenbier and later, when we figured out that they had some, lots of dunkelbier. But I managed to put some weight on as a result of the hotel breakfasts and hotel dinners plus the beer. Now I have to exercise more than normal.
I am watching Charlie Jade - it is good. I'm quite intrigued by it and I want to know how it will develop. I'm not a great fan of its camera movements and editing but the story looks good so far. I've only managed to watch 4 episode so far so there's still a lot to see.
We had a lot of fun at the hotel bar, drank lots of weissenbier and later, when we figured out that they had some, lots of dunkelbier. But I managed to put some weight on as a result of the hotel breakfasts and hotel dinners plus the beer. Now I have to exercise more than normal.
I am watching Charlie Jade - it is good. I'm quite intrigued by it and I want to know how it will develop. I'm not a great fan of its camera movements and editing but the story looks good so far. I've only managed to watch 4 episode so far so there's still a lot to see.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Frankfurt
Yay! Pilseners for a week!
Belgium was great. I spent two nights at Eralp and Deniz's place and loved it. They took me to the down where the beer Leffe is brewed (Dinant) and I had white beer soup and two pints of very good beer. Then we wandered around the Dinant castle and that was fun. They also let me play with their baby, Toprak, and he was so sweet.
I spent the last day in Antwerp, with Bahadir and Lizbeth, along with their kids, Alice and Beatrice and that was good.
Then two more days in Lille and a depressing three days at home. I arranged to be sent for training for four days next week so I'll be flying to Frankfurt early on Monday morning. Fun fun fun.
Belgium was great. I spent two nights at Eralp and Deniz's place and loved it. They took me to the down where the beer Leffe is brewed (Dinant) and I had white beer soup and two pints of very good beer. Then we wandered around the Dinant castle and that was fun. They also let me play with their baby, Toprak, and he was so sweet.
I spent the last day in Antwerp, with Bahadir and Lizbeth, along with their kids, Alice and Beatrice and that was good.
Then two more days in Lille and a depressing three days at home. I arranged to be sent for training for four days next week so I'll be flying to Frankfurt early on Monday morning. Fun fun fun.
Okaaaay....
| Disorder | Your Score |
|---|---|
| Major Depression: | Extremely High |
| Dysthymia: | Extremely High |
| Bipolar Disorder: | Very Slight |
| Cyclothymia: | Slight-Moderate |
| Seasonal Affective Disorder: | Extremely High |
| Postpartum Depression: | N/A |
| Take the Depression Test | |
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Lille...
Lille... I'm here for three days, this is the end of the second day. I managed to get a WiFi connection from the hotel room but couldn't get it working on Linux so I switched the work laptop to Windows temporarily.
I got lost three times on the way. I mean, in England every road is marked with the road number (M25, A14, B1040) and where it is heading - this way you can easily follow a route without really knowing where you are. Here, the only thing you have is cities and places. After I got out of Eurotrain, I got lost and started heading south, almost immediately because the road sign was not clear. Then I realised my mistake (lost 40 minutes overall) and went back. Then at Dunkirk, I managed to miss A26 junction and lost an other 10 minutes. When I arrived at Lille, very quickly I got lost and had to ask for directions. Incredibly, the guy was working where I was heading to so we had an amicable agreement, he pointed the way, I gave him a lift.
Tomorrow - Belgium. 'ere I come!
I got lost three times on the way. I mean, in England every road is marked with the road number (M25, A14, B1040) and where it is heading - this way you can easily follow a route without really knowing where you are. Here, the only thing you have is cities and places. After I got out of Eurotrain, I got lost and started heading south, almost immediately because the road sign was not clear. Then I realised my mistake (lost 40 minutes overall) and went back. Then at Dunkirk, I managed to miss A26 junction and lost an other 10 minutes. When I arrived at Lille, very quickly I got lost and had to ask for directions. Incredibly, the guy was working where I was heading to so we had an amicable agreement, he pointed the way, I gave him a lift.
Tomorrow - Belgium. 'ere I come!
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Babylon 5
I got the seasons 1 and 5! Now I can actually listen to the Bab5 podcast!
I'm watching the first episode, it looks fun!
I'm watching the first episode, it looks fun!
Monday, January 29, 2007
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Borders, Cambridge - 200701262040
Here I am again...
Somewhat bored.
Drank some coffee, ate a sandwich, played with Ardour, Jack Rack and Hydrogen. Somehow I've broken my amSynth - it no longer works with Jack - bummer. I have to check the version and where it came from and how on earth I can reset it. It complains about the jack libraries missing or something like that. I need to check it out.
I also have to put a decent media player on this thing, my last attempts to get Amarok work properly failed miserably - this truly sucks.
It's friday, everyone is out clubbing or getting drunk, not a lot of people are in Borders at this time of the day. A couple of University teachers and lots of young but single people - otherwise they wouldn't be here, would they?
Anyway... I have to get going, even with the coffee I'm falling asleep here - I still need to go home.
I have no plans for tomorrow, I suppose I can spare some time to do some Java work, I haven't touched the book since new year. My plans are not going very well. I;ll leave when the songs I have on this machine run out.
Time to go...
Somewhat bored.
Drank some coffee, ate a sandwich, played with Ardour, Jack Rack and Hydrogen. Somehow I've broken my amSynth - it no longer works with Jack - bummer. I have to check the version and where it came from and how on earth I can reset it. It complains about the jack libraries missing or something like that. I need to check it out.
I also have to put a decent media player on this thing, my last attempts to get Amarok work properly failed miserably - this truly sucks.
It's friday, everyone is out clubbing or getting drunk, not a lot of people are in Borders at this time of the day. A couple of University teachers and lots of young but single people - otherwise they wouldn't be here, would they?
Anyway... I have to get going, even with the coffee I'm falling asleep here - I still need to go home.
I have no plans for tomorrow, I suppose I can spare some time to do some Java work, I haven't touched the book since new year. My plans are not going very well. I;ll leave when the songs I have on this machine run out.
Time to go...
Friday, January 19, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
FT-101B
It no longer smokes... Either I was roasting a spider or whatever that was smoking two years ago, all of the magic smoke is out now. It booms at 14MHz using a piece of wire I hang around the flat.
Not suprisingly enough, this stupid wire outperforms ATAS-100 by a factor of 10dB! Pah!
Not suprisingly enough, this stupid wire outperforms ATAS-100 by a factor of 10dB! Pah!
State of the disharmony 20070117
Mood: Miserable
Listening to: Quirks and Quarks from Canada
Location: Starbucks at Borders, Cambridge
Real time: 19:45
The weather sucks. It was raining miserably, it might flood in St. Ives again.
It's a shame, during the break I was so depressed, I wouldn't be bothered even if the weather was nice. Last three weeks it usually rained but there were a couple of days when the weather was fine and clear but I was sort of depressed. It goes in opposites, if the weather sucks, I'm better, if the weather is nice... Well...
At least I have my nice laptop now but I'm really afraid to use it out in the open, what if it gets wet or I drop it - especially after MJ's laptop disaster today.
On the other hand, I love Stellarium, it is brilliant and it would really look nice if I use it, especially with a web cam or the camera connected to it directly.
I also had too much junk today, I should go out for a walk for an hour, well, what else do I have to do?
Hydrogen works fine now. The sound card is really crap and Jack won't work recording and playing at the same time - which is sort of nice, I'll be only mixing on this thing but this also means that I have to upgrade and maintain the desktop. Since I got this laptop mainly to get rid of two of the desktops, this really sucks.
I have to find a couple of Ardour tutorials, try out some of the other software and find out how this mixing stuff actually works.
Time to go, I'm running out of time. I had my coffee, I have to go back to the car and pick up the power supplies.
Listening to: Quirks and Quarks from Canada
Location: Starbucks at Borders, Cambridge
Real time: 19:45
The weather sucks. It was raining miserably, it might flood in St. Ives again.
It's a shame, during the break I was so depressed, I wouldn't be bothered even if the weather was nice. Last three weeks it usually rained but there were a couple of days when the weather was fine and clear but I was sort of depressed. It goes in opposites, if the weather sucks, I'm better, if the weather is nice... Well...
At least I have my nice laptop now but I'm really afraid to use it out in the open, what if it gets wet or I drop it - especially after MJ's laptop disaster today.
On the other hand, I love Stellarium, it is brilliant and it would really look nice if I use it, especially with a web cam or the camera connected to it directly.
I also had too much junk today, I should go out for a walk for an hour, well, what else do I have to do?
Hydrogen works fine now. The sound card is really crap and Jack won't work recording and playing at the same time - which is sort of nice, I'll be only mixing on this thing but this also means that I have to upgrade and maintain the desktop. Since I got this laptop mainly to get rid of two of the desktops, this really sucks.
I have to find a couple of Ardour tutorials, try out some of the other software and find out how this mixing stuff actually works.
Time to go, I'm running out of time. I had my coffee, I have to go back to the car and pick up the power supplies.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Comet McNaught
Apparently McNaught is visible to naked eye during daytime. No much luck yet. Today wasn't very clear in St. Ives. Now it is reasonably clear and sun is about to set but I can't see anything even though I looked everywhere. I shall try tomorrow again.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Comet McNaught!
I SAW IT!!! It's BRIGHT!
It was yesterday (20070110)
After days and days of rain and cloud cover, I left my camera, tripod and the good binoculars at home. Then the weather suddenly cleared up. I picked up the bino I have in the back of the car and got out of the office and walked to the edge of the fields.
I knew that it was supposed to be close to Venus. First I couldn't find Venus. After a couple of minutes suddenly it popped into field. It is quite interesting that how bright stars suddenly appear in the sky, one second you can't see it, and then suddenly, they appear and you wonder how on earth you missed it. Venus was bright. I had a quick look at the Venus and then scanned the horison to the north of the Venus...
AND I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT! It was so bright, it was a NAKED EYE comet, just after the sun went down and there it was, just brilliant and its tail clearly visible, at least a couple of degrees in length, in broad daylight! Unbelieveable!
If this comet was visible well after sunset, it'd be so bright, UFO nutters would go mad!
I went back to the office and collected John and Steve (his last day in the office). Steve was quite excited, John was his usual self and commented on the possibility of some nutters comitting suicide to jump to the Mother ship.
After a couple of minutes later, I was cold (the wind was quite powerful and the weather was cold). McNaught was only a couple of degrees above the horison and the amount of extra air made it dimmer, even if the sky was darkening.
I';m quite excited about it - hopefully the weather will get better and I'll start observing in earnest. This year, I promise, I shall observe the sky more often.
McNaught might be the brightest comet in 30 years. At least I managed to see it! I'm so happy!
It was yesterday (20070110)
After days and days of rain and cloud cover, I left my camera, tripod and the good binoculars at home. Then the weather suddenly cleared up. I picked up the bino I have in the back of the car and got out of the office and walked to the edge of the fields.
I knew that it was supposed to be close to Venus. First I couldn't find Venus. After a couple of minutes suddenly it popped into field. It is quite interesting that how bright stars suddenly appear in the sky, one second you can't see it, and then suddenly, they appear and you wonder how on earth you missed it. Venus was bright. I had a quick look at the Venus and then scanned the horison to the north of the Venus...
AND I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT! It was so bright, it was a NAKED EYE comet, just after the sun went down and there it was, just brilliant and its tail clearly visible, at least a couple of degrees in length, in broad daylight! Unbelieveable!
If this comet was visible well after sunset, it'd be so bright, UFO nutters would go mad!
I went back to the office and collected John and Steve (his last day in the office). Steve was quite excited, John was his usual self and commented on the possibility of some nutters comitting suicide to jump to the Mother ship.
After a couple of minutes later, I was cold (the wind was quite powerful and the weather was cold). McNaught was only a couple of degrees above the horison and the amount of extra air made it dimmer, even if the sky was darkening.
I';m quite excited about it - hopefully the weather will get better and I'll start observing in earnest. This year, I promise, I shall observe the sky more often.
McNaught might be the brightest comet in 30 years. At least I managed to see it! I'm so happy!
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