Skip to main content

Whinge day

My dear littlies arose at 05:40 this morning, to check on an “alligator egg” which they had sitting in the kitchen. I got to sleep just after 11:00, so was not as joyfully radiant to wake five & a bit hours later as I could have been.

The good Professor’s receptionist (and she does much other work) rang me back today to tell me that within Royal Perth Hospital...

  • My CT scan hadn’t been announced to the technicians building my new skull;

  • The scan itself had been uploaded “to the wrong website” so they hadn’t seen it by accident;

  • someone wrote the wrong case-number down, so when they went looking for it anyway, it took them a day to find it.

So... in summary, it’ll be the 22nd of November before my skull parts are welded together, so I can get my head stitched back in again.

On the positive side... Arjen, Stewart & Reggie have been giving me useful pointers for a discussion between certain databases.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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

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

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