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| Friday, November 20th, 2009 | | 12:51 pm |
| | Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | | 1:16 am |
the silver lining
It occurred to me tonight, that one silver lining of the current sluggish economic period is that it is now November 14th and i have not yet been mercilessly assaulted with christmas music and merchandising everywhere i go. Edit: As folk have pointed out, perhaps thats because i'm either totally in denial about my environment or that i'm just being a hermit. quite possible. I try to avoid malls in general, don't have a TV, and almost all of my radio listening comes from the InterT00bz. This would certainly filter out a great deal of effluent. On the other hand, i've lived like this for years, and the bastards *still* managed to swamp me starting around the end of October. This year i seem to still be under the blitz threshold. I have been outside the house, to restaurants, gas stations, etc, and they haven't hit me yet, when in past years i'd already be wishing for some extraterrestrial vehicle to beam me up already. We'll see how long it lasts. | | Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | | 12:35 pm |
rare bit of meme-age
 | If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Robin Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry. My creator studied algebraic geometry with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford at Harvard, and with J.-P. Serre and A. Grothendieck in Paris. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, he became a Junior Fellow at Harvard, then taught there for several years. In 1972 he moved to California where he is now Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. My siblings include "Residues and Duality" (1966), "Foundations of Projective Geometry (1968), "Ample Subvarieties of Algebraic Varieties" (1970), and numerous research titles. My creator's current research interest is the geometry of projective varieties and vector bundles. He has been a visiting professor at the College de France and at Kyoto University, where he gave lectures in French and in Japanese, respectively. My creator is married to Edie Churchill, educator and psychotherapist, and has two human sons and one daughter. He has travelled widely, speaks several foreign languages, and is an experienced mountain climber. He is also an accomplished musician, playing flute, piano, and traditional Japanese music on the shakuhachi. Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test |
| | Sunday, October 25th, 2009 | | 10:31 am |
Perfect Rig Dropping Weather!
It's a beautiful Fall day here out in Westford! See you all in the early afternoon! [runs around gathering toolZ and supplies...] | | Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | | 11:35 am |
Rig Lowering *this Sunday, Oct 25*
The masses have spoken, and the annual Rig Lowering and disassembling BBQ and Massacree will be this sunday, the 25th. As usual, we'll provide a backyard BBQ-drinkfest & hot tub in exchange for your able bodies ability to help move, disassemble, and shuffle Steel Partz into the basement. And of course, anyone who wants to play around on the rig before takedown is welcome to do so. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) entrochan has claimed the position of WinchWench. Shooting for the usual 1 pm preparation, 2pm takedown. Chime in if you can make it. Feel free to bring others along. Email if you need directions; at frobmob dot org
Thanks!
-phil | | Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | | 10:50 am |
Fall Rig-lowering BBQ & Massacree
I really dont know where summer went this year, and Fall isn't looking like it has much staying power either. The Backyard Rig has already been snowed on, for petes sake. Thus, it's time to take the Steel Behemoth down and give it it's yearly winter hibernation... As usual, we'll provide a backyard BBQ-drinkfest & hot tub in exchange for your able bodies ability to help move, disassemble, and shuffle Steel Partz into the basement. And of course, anyone who wants to play around on the rig before takedown is welcome to do so. Who wants to be the WinchWench? So, either this coming Sunday, the 25th, or next one, Nov 1st; shooting for the usual 1 pm preparation, 2pm takedown. Chime in if you can make either of those two dates. Thanks! -phil | | Friday, September 18th, 2009 | | 12:24 pm |
Fall 2009 Aerial Fabric classes at Flying Squirrel Consortium
Fall 2009 Aerial Fabric classes at Flying Squirrel Consortium are now forming Aerial Fabric, also known as Aerial Silk, or Tissu, is an acrobatic circus art form which takes place on two long ribbons of fabric rigged from a single point. Acts typically involve graceful climbs, dramatic poses made from the combination of body and fabric, and heart-stopping dives and drops. In recent years it has become quite popular amongst the new circus troupes touring the globe. You too can learn this art form! Classes are available for people with no fabric experience, and also for folk with some basic experience who want to improve their technique and add to their fabric vocabulary. http://flyingsquirrelconsortium.com/classes.html for more information See you in the air! [feel free to repost anywhere you feel appropriate] | | Monday, July 20th, 2009 | | 1:29 pm |
Blam!
The raspberry explosion has commenced. .55 kilograms collected just now. yum. | | Sunday, June 14th, 2009 | | 10:42 am |
rig raising weather update
Current radar maps (and lack of actual rain outside our house right now) indicate that the rain is passing to the east and it looks like the afternoon here will be cloudy, but no more rain showers. There is a small band which just passed us, and will come through Boston in about a hour. Dont be discouraged by it! current radar mapIt looks OK to do it! Current Mood:  hopeful | | Thursday, June 4th, 2009 | | 4:03 pm |
| | Monday, June 1st, 2009 | | 11:12 am |
Rig Raising! Call for troops!
It's almost summer, and it's time to put the Steel Behemoth back up in the yard! As usual, we'll provide a backyard BBQ in exchange for your able bodies ability to help move, assemble, and lift Steel Partz into the air. And of course, anyone who wants to play around on the rig once up is welcome to do so. So, either this coming Sunday, the 7th, or next one, the 14th; shooting for the usual 1pm lift-off. Chime in if you can make either of those two dates. Thanks! -phil | | Friday, May 8th, 2009 | | 12:50 pm |
Hollywood, you're such a tease.
It's back from the dead again. Some force somewhere out there has been trying for more than a decade. Maybe it will actually happen this time. maybe not: Logans Run Remake Take NDoesn't look like any actors have actually been cast yet, so it's still just another mirage. There is no sanctuary. | | Saturday, April 25th, 2009 | | 5:10 pm |
| | Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | | 10:18 am |
The Rat Model of Networking, implemented!
Ex FTP Software people reading this may remember occasional conversations about "the rat and raised floor" model of networking. Well, check this out. Someone just implemented it, in a really nifty way! Current Mood: amused | | Monday, April 6th, 2009 | | 10:55 am |
Aerial Fabric Classes at the Flying Squirrel Consortium (starting tomorrow!)
lyonesse points out that I never did post this here, so better late than not at all. Spring 2009 Aerial Fabric classes now forming Aerial Fabric, also known as Aerial Silk, or Tissu, is an acrobatic circus art form which takes place on two long ribbons of fabric rigged from a single point. Acts typically involve graceful climbs, dramatic poses made from the combination of body and fabric, and heart-stopping dives and drops. Classes are available for people with no fabric experience, and also for folk with some basic experience who want to improve their technique and add to their fabric vocabulary. Classes are 1 night per week, and run from April 7/9 through May 26/28 (tuesdays/thursdays) Learn to Fly! details at: http://www.flyingsquirrelconsortium.com | | Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 | | 4:38 pm |
naming request
OK, assembled readers, we've got a question for you all. klingonlandlady and I are in need of a name to use for our duo silks performances. Some recent photos of same appear in the following lj entries: here and hereWe used "The Fabulous Flying Frobozzniks" once, but while that was OK for the first duo routine we did a ways back, it is totally not suitable for what we are doing now. Since I'm not very good at coming up with such things, i'm going to ask the time honored LJ Friends Oracle for suggestions. What should we call ourselves? | | Thursday, February 12th, 2009 | | 12:42 pm |
| | Friday, December 12th, 2008 | | 2:23 pm |
ice storm in westford
Well, last night didn't get us very good sleep as our area got HAMMERED by the ice storm. LOTS of branches down on our property and everywhere else. many BIG ones that shook the whole house when they hit the ground, waking us up several times. None actually hit the house, which was good. Power has been out since last night at 10:30 or so. Stupid me, totally forgot that means the SUMP PUMP doesnt have power, so i woke up to L saying "Dear, the basement is under two inches or so of water. Ugh. I've talked about this scenario many times previously, in terms of having a battery backed system so if we werent around to hook up a generator to handle this we wouldnt flood the basement. but here i was HOME all the time and it slipped my mind and we went to sleep without doing anything to prevent this. Ack. Overnight, our phone lines got taken out as well, so no phone and no net for a while. Verizon said they have us in the queue and think they can fix the phone line by Monday afternoon. OK; so this day has been so far: 1) Get Honda eu200i generator (the small one) running the sump pump and clear out the basement. Inventory what got hosed and what didn't. Thank Ghu that the welding area of the basement is higher, or i'd be out one of my welders and the plasma cutter. They survived. Overall, probably not more than $500 in damaged goods. 2) L went to check out the local starbucks to see if she could get net for work stuff. No go, everyone else was doing that, so they were full. She started to go down to Woburn. 3) before she could get too far, though, i had managed to follow our downed phone and cable lines, figure out which ones were the real ones, and determine that while the tree droppings had sheared the cable, the feed from the pole still showed line voltage. I stripped off some of the insulation from both sides, attached a network jack to both cable ends, and connected them back together with a 25 foot cat5 cable. Stuck terminations in ziplock bags, and verified that we had a working phone line in the house again. 4) ran extension cords to the computer room. brought up the main server and the DSL hardware. Yay! the kluge is good enough that the DSL still works. Called L and told her we had net. 5) Built a backfeed cable for our *bigger* generator. Pulled the main breaker from our electrical panel and am now backfeeding the house through the beefy 240 feed outlet in the machine shop. House now has complete power connection, albeit only 4KW worth available. It'll do. Still to do: wire up temporary outlet to the now disconnected main breaker and put a buzzer or something on it so we know when we eventually get grid power restored, and i can go rewire everything. Inventory boxes of electrical stuff that got soaked and see what's salvageable. [done] Get more gasoline for the generators. [done] Set up inverter system to run sump pump off of tonight. [done] Dissasemble Maytag Neptune washer, to see if the water level got to the point where the high-voltage servo motor control board is. [Thank you, Maytag Engineers, for kindly locating a high-voltage board, and a pricey one at that to replace, on the *bottom* of the unit, *right next to the drain pump*, the *most likely part* to spring a leak and spray water chock full of yummy charge carriers around. Not.] [in progress. cleaning water out. servo board OK. various other wire clusters got spooged. drying them out.] Hmm. What about the gas dryer nozzle and control parts? they're pretty low too... [done. dissasembled, swabbed out, a few electrical tests indicated nothing odd. re-assembled. good.] And some food might be nice; time for a sandwich... | | Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 | | 10:39 am |
Rig takedown BBQ and Massacree, T minus 2 hours, 20 minutes
Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! (still no monster trucks) grill, hottub, and tools all ready. Meat currently marinating. Early afternoon, scheduled takedown at 1pm. Bring your gloves and cold-weather gear, it's cold out there. See you all later! | | Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | | 8:26 pm |
geek wankery
So, i'm searching around for online resources on polymer fiber creep and statistical reliability methods, and i come across the following, which i thought amusing:
Footnote:
(1) Goodman diagrams have been called Goodman diagrams for over a hundred years since Goodman popularized the idea of plotting constant life lines as a function of alternating and mean stresses. Recently revisionists have taken to referring to these curves as Haigh diagrams because Goodman was not the first to use such curves; this now being attributed to Haigh. This presents an interesting example of Stigler's Law of Eponymy, which states that: "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." Stigler notes that he, himself, didn't discover this phenomenon, and thus feels quite justified in applying his name to it.
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