Whee.
Just hung up 8 “pieces” on the 3rd floor here at Red Hat.
First time I’ve had any art up for public display (at
least, not on the net) since high school, and I don’t
think that counts.
Kind of cool.
Looks like there is going to be a Art Reception/Open House
March 26th 7-9pm.
I tend to fall into the same behaviour everytime I get a cold.
I’m okay during the day, but I can’t sleep at night. I typically
end up going to sleep between 5 and 7am (usually with more than
a little help from our friend benadryl). Luckily, I’m not
typically a early riser, so noone cares too much if I then
decide to sleep to noon and come into work late.
So monday night, I picked up a new small bookcase during
the day, and then ended up rearranging my books starting
about 4am. They are sort of organized now, by the
Aklikins Decimal System.
At which point, I noticed I have 14 shelves of non-fiction
(including 4 shelves of computer books) and 1 shelf of
fiction. Actually, more like half a shelf of fiction
and half a shelf of sort of fiction (for example, david
sedaris and sarah vowel books, etc…). I’m not
really the literary type it seems.
Tuesday I decided I was gonna play with a Myth Tv setup. So
I picked up a wintv pvr-250 capture card on the way
home. I’ve only got the one working machine, so I
just installed it on my 9ish desktop. I used the
packages from atrpms
to install it. After sorting out some package
conflicts (why oh why must every 3rd party package
repo vendor decide to package up mplayer and related
tools in completly different ways…), managed to
get it up and going.
Killed an hour trying to figure out why it wasn’t
getting any video (hint: mythsetup configures mythbackend,
and it helps to restart that after you change the config…).
Killed another 45 minutes or so getting the remote to
work (apparently the latest lirc release breaks the
hauppage remote I had, so had to downgrade that).
But then it seemed to work. Tv/web/news/image/video/audio
seem to work okay. The dvd stuff didnt work, but I
didnt even look at the config.
All in all, kind of spiffy. Except for one problem.
It’s slow. Considering its an 2ghz athlon with half
a gig of ram, it should be at least as fast as an
underpowered tivo, but that doesn’t seem to be the
case. In particular, changing “screens” is much
slower than I’d like, and flippy channels has about
a 3 second pause. Enough to be annoying.
And it seems to be storing the video in “nuppelVideo”
format, which seems odd to me, seeing as the card
has a native mpeg-2 encoder. But maybe thats just
what it does.
the xmltv listing don’t seem to be as accurate
as the tivo data either.
I seem to have a cold. Lovely.
Chuckle.
anyone ever done any high speed (aka, Edgerton style) photography?
From what I’ve been reading, it doesn’t look like it would be too difficult. Seems to
be even doable with a good digital camera and the right equipment
(aka, hold the shutter open in darkness, then a very quick flash set off
by some sort of trigger, etc).
From poking around, it looks like hiviz.com
has about the right level of stuff for what will probabaly be another two month
long fixation of mine. And HiViz seems to be vageuly associated with the North
Carolina School Of Science & Math in durham, which is kind of cool
I supposed.
They’ve got kits for building flash triggers and delays, and some useful
looking docs.
I know several folks who are mild to serious photography nuts, anyone
tried this kind of stuff before?
So, looks like I’m gonna have a chance to hang some of doodles
at work as part of the ongoing rotating exhibits (aka, that
art on the walls).
But I need to get stuff mounted in some fashion. I’ve
already got a few things matted and framed, but
am I trying to decide what of the smaller stuff I
should try to use.
Five words that destroy any idea of trying to eat a healthy
meal: “all you can eat hushpuppies”
now I need a nap.
Cool.
Guide to cross platform issues with various unices.
Handy if your having to worry about that kind of stuf.
Dragstrip Syndicate apparently broke up sometime yesterday, so were’nt able
to play last night. Did get to see The Dynamite Broters though, who are always
good, and ran into several folks I know.
Had a lot of work at work this, but seem to have been making
progress. A fairly focued and productive week.
If your in the Raleigh area, you should head out to
Kings tonight. Dragstrip Syndicate are playing
whats apparently one of their last shows.
The Dynamite Broters are also playing.
Should be an entertaining show.