Little "monster" in real life

This is Little Miss Dinosaur in a feeding pose, as captured by her older sister.

MissD can look decorative, neat, dignified and many other good things — thoughtful older sister had carefully asked her about some unfavoured food a few seconds before focussing and clicking.

Older Sister is sometimes a bit more clever about such things than she needs to be; Older Sister has had some fairly steep learning curves already in her lifespan, and seldom forgets things. This can be both very good at some times and not so good at others. (-:

However — physically small though she may be — Miss Dinosaur has easily outclevered and outstubborned mapusaurus roseae personalities, so I remain confident that anyone silly enough to get within range of the fangs...

Comments

Leon RJ Brooks said…

I'll pass your judgement on to 'Yani. Thanks!

15 May, 2006 09:54

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.

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.

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

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