Missy has said that everything I do is a project. She’s pretty well right. Well, here are projects I’m currently in the middle of right now.

• Trim the second cypress and next door’s willow myrtle. Using 6m ladder and hedge trimmer, and second person to hold the ladder.

• Replace the side gate and front fence. The sloping front fence you’ve seen a picture of. Both gate and front fence have been sent back to manufacturer for defects.

• Make a perfect mask. The next step in this will be heating a Zogg nose clip over a flame to make it slightly wider.

• Review the technology in Heinlein’s “For us the living”, written in 1939, set in 2086. The first shocker is hyperboloid houses. This actually makes sense. You could flat pack an entire house, bring it in by helicopter, and quickly and easily assemble it Ikea style into a rigid structure on site. And it would look good.

• Exactly how clean can you make a “clean” nuclear explosion? Don’t use enriched uranium for starters. Are H-bombs and neutron bombs as clean as they used to claim?

• Try out new map projections in Excel and Fortran, now that I’ve finally managed to download coastal data for whole world in .csv format, concentrating separately on the land area (accurate continent shapes and sizes) and the ocean area. I have not in my whole life seen a good map of the seven seas. For an accurate map of the world’s oceans, the land boundaries have to be shrunk inwards.

I was going to put this in chat, but since you used the E word, I’ll put it here:

Import data to excel from an image on your phone:
https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/import-data-from-a-picture-to-excel

Looks QI to me.

p.s. thanks for the map link.

Finish my man cave, still waiting on a number of things to finish it off

Chair

Various wall arts

mollwollfumble said:

• Make a perfect mask. The next step in this will be heating a Zogg nose clip over a flame to make it slightly wider.

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there is this mouldable plastic you can get called plastimake… it comes as little beads, then you heat it with hot water, mould it to the shape you want and it cools to harden. you can heat and remould it as many times as you like… it’s great stuff I use it for many repairs…

also paintable

I’m still trying to reinvent the chair. Harder than it seems.

mollwollfumble said:

Missy has said that everything I do is a project. She’s pretty well right. Well, here are projects I’m currently in the middle of right now.

• Trim the second cypress and next door’s willow myrtle. Using 6m ladder and hedge trimmer, and second person to hold the ladder.

• Replace the side gate and front fence. The sloping front fence you’ve seen a picture of. Both gate and front fence have been sent back to manufacturer for defects.

• Make a perfect mask. The next step in this will be heating a Zogg nose clip over a flame to make it slightly wider.

• Review the technology in Heinlein’s “For us the living”, written in 1939, set in 2086. The first shocker is hyperboloid houses. This actually makes sense. You could flat pack an entire house, bring it in by helicopter, and quickly and easily assemble it Ikea style into a rigid structure on site. And it would look good.

• Exactly how clean can you make a “clean” nuclear explosion? Don’t use enriched uranium for starters. Are H-bombs and neutron bombs as clean as they used to claim?

• Try out new map projections in Excel and Fortran, now that I’ve finally managed to download coastal data for whole world in .csv format, concentrating separately on the land area (accurate continent shapes and sizes) and the ocean area. I have not in my whole life seen a good map of the seven seas. For an accurate map of the world’s oceans, the land boundaries have to be shrunk inwards.
  

I missed the most important one.

• Turn a piano recording in mp3 of a new composition by mrs m into a usable score. There’s an online program that turns it into a midi, but that creates more than 10,000 fake notes (85% of total), and misses about 20% of the real ones. So it’s now a massive midi editing task.

Arts said:

> Make a perfect mask. The next step in this will be heating a Zogg nose clip over a flame to make it slightly wider.

there is this mouldable plastic you can get called plastimake… it comes as little beads, then you heat it with hot water, mould it to the shape you want and it cools to harden. you can heat and remould it as many times as you like… it’s great stuff I use it for many repairs…

also paintable

I tried super-sculpey, a plastic+clay that gets fired into a ceramic in the kitchen oven. It wasn’t strong enough. I think the Zogg nose clip is made using a thermoplastic, so it’s just (I hope) a process of heat and stretch.

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Missy has said that everything I do is a project. She’s pretty well right. Well, here are projects I’m currently in the middle of right now.

• Trim the second cypress and next door’s willow myrtle. Using 6m ladder and hedge trimmer, and second person to hold the ladder.

• Replace the side gate and front fence. The sloping front fence you’ve seen a picture of. Both gate and front fence have been sent back to manufacturer for defects.

• Make a perfect mask. The next step in this will be heating a Zogg nose clip over a flame to make it slightly wider.

• Review the technology in Heinlein’s “For us the living”, written in 1939, set in 2086. The first shocker is hyperboloid houses. This actually makes sense. You could flat pack an entire house, bring it in by helicopter, and quickly and easily assemble it Ikea style into a rigid structure on site. And it would look good.

• Exactly how clean can you make a “clean” nuclear explosion? Don’t use enriched uranium for starters. Are H-bombs and neutron bombs as clean as they used to claim?

• Try out new map projections in Excel and Fortran, now that I’ve finally managed to download coastal data for whole world in .csv format, concentrating separately on the land area (accurate continent shapes and sizes) and the ocean area. I have not in my whole life seen a good map of the seven seas. For an accurate map of the world’s oceans, the land boundaries have to be shrunk inwards.
  

I missed the most important one.

• Turn a piano recording in mp3 of a new composition by mrs m into a usable score. There’s an online program that turns it into a midi, but that creates more than 10,000 fake notes (85% of total), and misses about 20% of the real ones. So it’s now a massive midi editing task.

Arts said:

> Make a perfect mask. The next step in this will be heating a Zogg nose clip over a flame to make it slightly wider.

there is this mouldable plastic you can get called plastimake… it comes as little beads, then you heat it with hot water, mould it to the shape you want and it cools to harden. you can heat and remould it as many times as you like… it’s great stuff I use it for many repairs…

also paintable

I tried super-sculpey, a plastic+clay that gets fired into a ceramic in the kitchen oven. It wasn’t strong enough. I think the Zogg nose clip is made using a thermoplastic, so it’s just (I hope) a process of heat and stretch.

~a process of heat and stretch. While not leaving stress in the plastic so it slowly returns to its original shape.

mollwollfumble said:

• Try out new map projections in Excel and Fortran, now that I’ve finally managed to download coastal data for whole world in .csv format, concentrating separately on the land area (accurate continent shapes and sizes) and the ocean area. I have not in my whole life seen a good map of the seven seas. For an accurate map of the world’s oceans, the land boundaries have to be shrunk inwards.
  

Do you have a good procedure for converting Lat and Long data to area on a sphere?

>Missy has said that everything I do is a project.

i’m sort of otherwise, not unusual to hear me say I don’t wanna make a fucken project out of it or I don’t want to makea day’s work out of it

speaking in my native language there, excuse me

generally I have miniature projects, like I put pants on this morning, it’s an incremental approach, then socks, then singlet, couple bursts of deodorant on the armpits, slipped my boots on, then stood up with a groan as my back communicated its status, then walked around to other building, fed barbara who’d followed me, put the kettle on and went outside for a pee

and here I am 50% down into my coffee doing this diary entry, that’s multitasking by my standards

mollwollfumble said:

Missy has said that everything I do is a project. She’s pretty well right. Well, here are projects I’m currently in the middle of right now.

• Trim the second cypress and next door’s willow myrtle. Using 6m ladder and hedge trimmer, and second person to hold the ladder.

• Replace the side gate and front fence. The sloping front fence you’ve seen a picture of. Both gate and front fence have been sent back to manufacturer for defects.

• Make a perfect mask. The next step in this will be heating a Zogg nose clip over a flame to make it slightly wider.

• Review the technology in Heinlein’s “For us the living”, written in 1939, set in 2086. The first shocker is hyperboloid houses. This actually makes sense. You could flat pack an entire house, bring it in by helicopter, and quickly and easily assemble it Ikea style into a rigid structure on site. And it would look good.

• Exactly how clean can you make a “clean” nuclear explosion? Don’t use enriched uranium for starters. Are H-bombs and neutron bombs as clean as they used to claim?

• Try out new map projections in Excel and Fortran, now that I’ve finally managed to download coastal data for whole world in .csv format, concentrating separately on the land area (accurate continent shapes and sizes) and the ocean area. I have not in my whole life seen a good map of the seven seas. For an accurate map of the world’s oceans, the land boundaries have to be shrunk inwards.

• Turn a piano recording in mp3 of a new composition by mrs m into a usable score. There’s an online program that turns it into a midi, but that creates more than 10,000 fake notes (85% of total), and misses about 20% of the real ones. So it’s now a massive midi editing task.

And – missed another one.

• Read a 157 page diary of the journey of the S.S. Great Britain from Melbourne to Sydney in 1862. Really poor read quality. Reading it aloud into mp3. It takes one hour solid to read ten pages.

party_pants said:

I’m still trying to reinvent the chair. Harder than it seems.

Good project. Doesn’t seem all that hard, but I can see why it would be.
What have you tried so far? Have you tried a bicycle seat?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Do you have a good procedure for converting Lat and Long data to area on a sphere?

Um, spherical geometry. It’s many decades since I last looked into it.

Well, two ways actually, Spherical geometry or divide up into little bits and count. If dividing up into littler bits then area = delta latitude * delta longitude * cos(latitude).

transition said:

>Missy has said that everything I do is a project.

i’m sort of otherwise, not unusual to hear me say I don’t wanna make a fucken project out of it or I don’t want to makea day’s work out of it

…

and here I am 50% down into my coffee doing this diary entry, that’s multitasking by my standards

:-)

I wish I could read the Heinlein without turning it into a project. Missy says I should.

I’m currently making a coffee, backing up all my data because the computer is failing, typing this, and trimming the cypress. That’s more multitasking than I generally do in a whole day.

to be fair, some of these are projects, others are just jobs and couple are hobbies…

Turn a piano recording in mp3 of a new composition by mrs m into a usable score. There’s an online program that turns it into a midi, but that creates more than 10,000 fake notes (85% of total), and misses about 20% of the real ones. So it’s now a massive midi editing task.

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Why not get her to make a recording on good quality 88 key midi digital piano, or better, find a Disklavier she can use.. programs will punch out finished score ?

Save you a shitload of time when you could be creating life from inorganic starter material.

Ian said:

Turn a piano recording in mp3 of a new composition by mrs m into a usable score. There’s an online program that turns it into a midi, but that creates more than 10,000 fake notes (85% of total), and misses about 20% of the real ones. So it’s now a massive midi editing task.

—
Why not get her to make a recording on good quality 88 key midi digital piano, or better, find a Disklavier she can use.. programs will punch out finished score ?

Save you a shitload of time when you could be creating life from inorganic starter material.

Some 15 years ago we had a midi digital piano. A good one, Technics, sound sampled from a Steinway. It was great for generating scores from playing. And playing the midi back (after editing) through the digital piano allowed me to record acoustic as well. I even managed to turn one of her compositions into a score for full orchestra, that took a full month to do.

But we gave the digital piano away because the sound quality degraded with time. Now she only plays on acoustic pianos at home (digital keyboard only when playing away from home for funerals or stage plays). The artistic temperament :-(

This is my first serious attempt to get a score from mp3.

Well, my crystallised sweet, very hot chilli sauce has now been de-crystallised. Tick

And I have cleaned and bleached the vegetable crisper drawers (they’d started going mouldy). Tick

And I have boxed up the now-frozen vegetable and chicken dumplings. Tick

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Now to get a bit more fridge tidying done and extract the chook frames from the freezer…

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Do you have a good procedure for converting Lat and Long data to area on a sphere?

Um, spherical geometry. It’s many decades since I last looked into it.

Well, two ways actually, Spherical geometry or divide up into little bits and count. If dividing up into littler bits then area = delta latitude * delta longitude * cos(latitude).

This looks like what I need:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_trigonometry#Area_and_spherical_excess

The Rev Dodgson said:

I was going to put this in chat, but since you used the E word, I’ll put it here:

Import data to excel from an image on your phone:
https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/import-data-from-a-picture-to-excel

Looks QI to me.

Just tried it out.

Now if I had a Mac, it looks like it would be really useful, because it will work on existing image file, or an image on the clipboard.

But on an Android pad or phone you have to make an image with the camera, which is a pain and doesn’t work very well.

And on Windows it doesn’t work at all.

So that looks like exactly the reverse way round that they should have done it.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Do you have a good procedure for converting Lat and Long data to area on a sphere?

Um, spherical geometry. It’s many decades since I last looked into it.

Well, two ways actually, Spherical geometry or divide up into little bits and count. If dividing up into littler bits then area = delta latitude * delta longitude * cos(latitude).

This looks like what I need:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_trigonometry#Area_and_spherical_excess

Oh thanks. That’s perfect for what I need, the general polygon case.

“Consider an N-sided spherical polygon and let An denote the n-th interior angle. The area of such a polygon is given by: :$\backslash text\{Area\; of\; polygon\; (on\; the\; unit\; sphere)\}\; \backslash equiv\; E\_N\; =\; \backslash left(\backslash sum\_\{n=1\}^\{N\}\; A\_\{n\}\backslash right)\; –\; (N-2)\backslash pi.$

To get the nth interior angle. The cross product between two adjacent points of the polygon points gives the normal to the great circle connecting the two points. Do this on either side of the point in question and normalise to get normals to two great circles. Then use the cosine rule (plane geometry) A^2 = B^2 + C^2 – 2BC cos(An) to get the nth interior angle An. Or get An from a cross product of the two normals to the great circles.

Easy Peasy :-) Thanks for the help.

> Import data to excel from an image on your phone https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/import-data-from-a-picture-to-excel
> … And on Windows it doesn’t work at all.

Oh, skip that then.

• Trim the second cypress and next door’s willow myrtle. Using 6m ladder and hedge trimmer, and second person to hold the ladder.

Done, except that I used a 4m ladder because second person can’t help – she just caught another cold.

mollwollfumble said:

And – missed another one.

• Read a 157 page diary of the journey of the S.S. Great Britain from Melbourne to Sydney in 1862. Really poor read quality. Reading it aloud into mp3. It takes one hour solid to read ten pages.

party_pants said:

I’m still trying to reinvent the chair. Harder than it seems.

Good project. Doesn’t seem all that hard, but I can see why it would be.
What have you tried so far? Have you tried a bicycle seat?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Do you have a good procedure for converting Lat and Long data to area on a sphere?

Um, spherical geometry. It’s many decades since I last looked into it.

Well, two ways actually, Spherical geometry or divide up into little bits and count. If dividing up into littler bits then area = delta latitude * delta longitude * cos(latitude).

transition said:

>Missy has said that everything I do is a project.

i’m sort of otherwise, not unusual to hear me say I don’t wanna make a fucken project out of it or I don’t want to makea day’s work out of it

…

and here I am 50% down into my coffee doing this diary entry, that’s multitasking by my standards

:-)

I wish I could read the Heinlein without turning it into a project. Missy says I should.

I’m currently making a coffee, backing up all my data because the computer is failing, typing this, and trimming the cypress. That’s more multitasking than I generally do in a whole day.

Read a 157 page diary of the journey of the S.S. Great Britain from Melbourne to Sydney in 1862. Really poor read quality. Reading it aloud into mp3. It takes one hour solid to read ten pages

Done. My ancestor who absconded with the Melbourne Road Toll money was on that vessel travelling under the pseudonym of Clark/e. There were references on board to a Mr Clark seedsman of Swanston St, Melbourne. To a Mr Warrick John Clark/e. And to a Mr A.B. Clark. I’d guess A.B. Clark as the most obvious pseudonym because of the initials.

They nearly had a crash in the very middle of the Atlantic with another boat on a foggy night – they were under sail and steam and the other boat was just under sail, so going a quite different speed. Surprising to come so close to a mid sea collision so far from land way back in 1862. They were boarded by Irish pirates off Cork (pretending to be harbour pilots) but easily escaped by nearly running down the smaller pirate boat forcing them to cut their lines.

sarahs mum said: