Skip to main content

Routing around

If you do this across the road to a favourite 4WD playground...

barred gate

...then people will do this...

Pajero at play

...leading to this...

tracks through bush

On the same trip, I exposed another limitation of photography, not limited to the digital variety. These flowers...

purple blossoms

...are in Real Life™ a much deeper, richer and purpler purple than the flattish pale blue hue on your monitor would have you believe. The camera ain’t got the sensors to campture it, and if it did, your monitor wouldn’t have the phosphors (or whatever) to display it.

Coming back from this ride, on a slight downhill with a tailwind, I got the FOSTFOLG Beastie up to the point where I couldn’t pedal any faster. The bike was certainly stable, but the vigorous bouncing up and down on the dirt road was threatening to do the rider’s head in.

I also got some nice shots of big, healthy banksia flowers (~20cm tall by ~8cm thick) and some yen-whan native wattle (darker and deeper colours than the imported stuff they plant alongside the main roads for the tourists).

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

every-application-is-part-of-a-toolkit at work

I have a LibreOffice Impress slideshow that I wish to turn into a narrated video. 1. export the slideshow as PNG images (if that is partially broken — as at now — at higher resolutions, Export Directly as PDF then use ‘pdftoppm’ (from the poppler-utils package) to do the same). 2. write a small C program (63 lines including comments) to display those images one at a time, writing a config file entry for Imagination (default transition: ‘cross fade’) based on when the image-viewer application (‘display,’ from the GraphicsMagick suite) is closed on each one; run that, read each image aloud, then close each image in turn. 3. run ‘Imagination’ over the config file to produce a silent MP4 video with the correct timings. 4. run ‘Audacity’ to record speech while using ‘SMPlayer’ to display the silent video, then export that recording as a WAV file. 4a. optionally, use ‘TiMIDIty’ to convert a non-copyright-encumbered MIDI tune to WAV, then import that and blend it with the speech (as a quiet b
1 comment
Read more

new life for an old (FTX) PSU, improved life for one human

the LEDs on this 5m strip happen to emit light centred on a red that does unexpectedly helpful things to (and surprisingly deeply within) a human routinely exposed to it. it has been soldered to a Molex connector, plugged into a TFX power supply from a (retired: the MoBo is cactus) Small Form Factor PC, the assorted PSU connectors (and loose end from the strip) have been taped over. the LED strip cost $10.24 including postage, the rest cost $0, the PSU is running at 12½% of capacity, consumes less power than a laptop plug-pack despite running a fan. trial runs begin today.
Post a Comment
Read more

boundaries

pushing the actual boundaries of the physical (not extremes, the boundaries themselves) can often remove barriers not otherwise perceived. one can then often resolve an issue itself, rather than merely stonewalling at the physical consequences of the issue.
Post a Comment
Read more