My kingdom for a paintball gun!

My kingdom for a paintball gun! - and, well, hay!

If anyone in WestOz has a paintball gun I can borrow for a week or two, that would be much appreciated. Also, if you know where to get pressure and ammo for same in the far northern suburbs, that would be likewise appreciated. Email to me within the cyberknights com au domain or ’mobile 0409-655-359.

Ali Russell is shopping for hay in the wrong places. Over here it’s about $12 for a small square bale of oaten hay (about $6 for pasture or lucenre hay) and $60 for a round bale (which has considerably more than 10 small bales in it (typically 30-35, the density of all bales varioes enormously depending on the hay itself, the baling gear, settings on the bailng gear, moisture content, yadda yadda) but 3/4 of a tonne is a good rule of thumb for round bales — if you have the space for them) or super-bales (car-sized square bales) are around $150/t delivered. You can fit a round bale in a 1t 6x4 trailer, with suitable straps. At those rates, Ali should esily best Rusty’s car’s mileage. (-:

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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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