AllBarNun again, and very tasty; plus: the Blue Beastie

Falafel Burger and chips, a full meal in itself. I've not enjoyed a crunchy falafel before, and the avocadoish sauce atop it was also quality stuff. And now they also know how to make LLB in pint glasses, as the crew who joined me there also wanted one.

My $15 bike works very well, if not quite up to Steven Hanley’s standards. Now that it has more than 20 and 18PSI in the tyres, the rims even stay clear of the ground. It'll need a new back tyre and eventually a new back wheel if I keep it longer than two days, but it goes, turns and stops, and even has a bell with a shamrock on it. It's been up Red Hill and back (via Dairy Flats on the way there ’coz my navigation sucks), and given me a fairly good reading on just how totally unfit I am. )-:

Burgmann House is kinda convenient for budget accomodation. The dining hall has fruit, coffee, milk, hot chocolate and other stuff on tap from 07:00 to 22:30, and irregularly scheduled piano music (there are at least three maestros in house at the moment). There are microwaves and ’fridges everywhere, plus usually sandwich toasters in the dining hall, too.

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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.

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...

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.

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