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This problem will make use of the previous graph by using at as justification to write Eo=Ef. The cited value of top speed being 55mph is from Wikipedia, and it is assumed that this is just after the bottom of the first hill, right before going into the loop.
The lens is the SMC Pentax-A 70-210/4
The little ring thing is loose. It moves more or less depending on where the zoom and focus are set, and I'm pretty sure it has fallen down/scooted back far enough once to either interfere with the mirror, or at least block light -- I was able to see the curved black shape of the ring through the viewfinder and the image made was completely dark.
Would it be a terrible idea to leave this ring out? I don't want to damage my $500 camera with a $50 lens. :-/ And it's so loose, I can't believe it's serving any functional purpose.
I'm running into some problems with the newly designed axle. The hubs cause that the steeringrod connects in a Ackermann geometry. As the crane will also be able to drive with crabsteering, this is highly unwanted. I'm trying to figure out a way to defeat the Ackermann, without having to modify the wheelhubs. I'm not yet satisfied with this solution...
I got my first Sluban Pacific Rim Uprising Yaeger this weekend (the Gipsy Avenger), and immediately started to assemble it.
But I already got frustated at building steps 5-7 out of over a hundred :-(
Apparently the manufacturing tolerance of Sluban bricks is so high that the height/width/length ratio does not correspond anymore after assembling a few bricks together.
But the inner torso construction depends on that ratio, so it was impossible to assemble the inner torso properly.
2 studs in lenght have to have a height of exactly 5 plates, and for the inner torso two 2x6 plates should hold the inner construction of 15 plates together, but the 15 plates were higher that the length of the 2x6 plates, so that didn't fit together at all.
You could squeeze it together with brute force, but then there was so much tension that the parts would pop off again after a few seconds and/or cause huge gaps.
After the initial frustration I used a nail file to reduce the height of the 2x2 brick in the middle by about half a millimeter, and after that "fix" the assembly worked just fine.
I did not encounter any further problems, so after a bad start, in the end I was quite pleased with the build.
The set came in 5 numbered part bags, but the instructions did not include any individual building steps, so ... one big pile of parts to start with.
No missing parts, and in the end I had several parts left, which were clearly spare parts, because it was only one of every (small) kind.
The color consistency was quite bad, so you get several tones of the main dark blue color (even among the same kind of part).
Some parts had a little damage and scratches at the side, and the larger pieces felt a little "soft".
As an overall conclusion, I would rate "Sluban" still as one of the weakest knockoff brands, but quality has certainly improved over the early tanks I got from that brand.
But for the 15 bucks I spent for the Yaeger, I definitely got my money's worth, so: Go for it! ... but don't forget to have a nail file at hand ;-)
Here's a T-shirt advocating men solve their problems by throwing their girlfriend out the window (or through the wall). It was for sale at Kohl's, and created a stir. Kohl's took it off their website, but - Google be praised - could still be retrieved.
There is a serious problem with cool's appropriation of domestic violence of late. If you (boys) want to be cool, you need to beat your girlfriends. Or use them for your own gratification.
Cool has always been about transgression, so domestic violence-as-cool shouldn't surprise us.
Today, I'm going to write a couple of long things that call a lot of people dumb. I do a better job with these kinds of things when I just write them right off when it hits me to do it, and I've been putting this one off a bit. But I really do want to put this out there, so I'm just going to go ahead and do it.
The thesis: Americans are really dumb about immigration. We're dumb and insular and paranoid. We've ignored our own origins -- the people I've known who hate immigration the most are all second- or third-generation Americans whose grandparents passed easily through Ellis Island without any kind of visa. We've forgotten the whole point of the American experiment. Those of us who claim moral superiority based on a spurious attachment to a contorted form of Christianity have devolved into race-based nationalists. We've needlessly handcuffed the economy because we don't understand how much capitalism depends on the constant flow of new labor that birth rates can't sustain. In a couple of words, we're stoopid. You can see it in these signs on a protest fence in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood. "We are uneasy and scared." And, well ... God forbid you be uneasy!
"Say, Clint," You might be saying. "You've ranted on about versions of this before. What's the deal, now?"
Well, friends, here's the problem, and it starts with the moron governor of Texas.
Greg Abbott was elected Texas governor after a long stint as the state's attorney general that focused mainly on important issues like banning sex toys and encouraging large corporations to physically harm as many people as possible. He's been a big supporter of Trump and has sung all of MAGA's greatest hits, and he absolutely hates brown people. His state has a long border with Mexico, and he hates the idea that people cross it, even refugees who have a legal right to seek asylum under the laws of the United States. He'd shoot them all if he could. He's placed barriers in the Rio Grande to drown people trying to cross. He's put Texas National Guard soldiers along the river and ordered them to force men, women, and children gasping for air back into the water. He's a huge anti-abortion guy who loves life so much that he'll kill a woman to prove it, but he loves watching brown kids die.
He's also big on stunt, and for the last year or so, his big stunt has been to grab as many of the people who've made it across the federal border into Texas territory as he can, load them up onto rickety, unregulated buses and ship them all to liberal northern cities he doesn't like. Chicago has been a big target on the MAGA radar for years, so a lot of those buses are running up I-57, where they dump a few hundred refugee immigrants on some random street in the middle of the night and leave them all to figure it out. Abbott could have the buses drop them off at some central processing location and let the city know they're coming and when, but what's the fun in that? That wouldn't be cruel enough, so he just dumps them in random spots, and everybody has to scramble to figure it out on the fly. The city's tried mandating that the buses follow an actual procedure, and the city council recently passed an ordinance allowing them to impound buses that drop the migrants outside a specific location. They nabbed one bus and found the bus driver didn't have a drivers license. Texas responded by flying 90-someodd migrants up here on a private plane and dumping them in a random hangar. The "handlers" ducked out in an uber before the cops showed up.
According to the internet, between August of 2022 and the start of this month, December of 2023, the Greg Abbott buses have dumped 21,700 refugees on the streets of Chicago. (This seems hugely counterproductive if you're looking at this from a xenophobe's standpoint, because now you've got 21,700 people you don't want in the country 1,500 miles from the Mexican border. They could go anywhere.) As of the end of October, this program has cost the taxpayers of state of Texas -- which still hasn't figured out how electricity works -- about $75 million. Switching over to planes will pump that up fast.
But here's the thing about this whole Greg Abbott deal: he accidentally kind of has point.
He has his point for stupid, racist, xenophobic reasons, and he's making his point with as much inhumane cruelty as he can manage. He mostly just wants to troll Chicago mayors Lori Lightfoot and Brandon Johnson, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, and US President Joe Biden. But he's trolling them with a point.
Immigration is a federal issue, and it is up to the federal government to handle it with federal resources. It's unfair to place the financial burden of this issue on any one state, but the states along the southern border with Mexico -- Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California -- have borne the brunt of the cost. The federal government, meanwhile, has been running a wildly haphazard border immigration policy for decades, and has never managed to figure out a logical, reasonable system for processing people. It really needs to do this. In a best-case scenario, the feds would take this thing over and run it themselves at the border crossings. At the very least, they need to supply federal money to cover the states' cost.
But the feds won't do that, and politicians like Greg Abbott are the reason why. People like Greg Abbott don't want to solve the problem. Their only solution is simply to shut the door. Build a wall, put up a bunch of barbed wire, drown people in the river and shoot whoever makes it across, and that is no solution. People have a right codified in American law to seek asylum, and we need a rational process to allow these people in. More than that, the continued success of this nation absolutely depends on new people coming in. But Congress -- where Republicans reign in the House -- would never authorize any such system. And so we're frozen, impotent, unable as a nation to act. So Greg Abbott will just keep up his human trafficking, keep using Texas money to put people on crap buses and planes, and dumping them in the night.
Enfim, meu note chegou, uma semana antes do previsto... nota 10 para a Dell Brasil, que por sinal me atendeu muito bem inclusive quando tive problemas.
Antes que perguntem: Dell Latitude D510, Celeron M 1.4, HD 40 GB, 512 RAM, DVD-RW, wi-fi, 2,5 kg. Podia ter pego com Pentium M, mas por problemas de recursos tive que optar entre ele e o gravador de DVD.
No, flash worked perfectly on this Santa portrait.
But I'm having the devil's own hard time trying to get my studio flash system up and running.
Boring tech stuff to follow: System is three Strobelite Plus flash heads, two Softboxes, one background flash unit. All head units are working normally. I can't seem to get the communication to work between the flash heads and two remote triggers (PocketWizard Plus II). Can't get the camera to wirelessly trigger the flash heads. Wired, they work fine. The remote triggers are working normally...but somewhere in between, the communication breaks down.
I believe it is one of two problems. It is possible that the cable between PocketWizard receiver unit and first flash head is incompatible in some way...though I don't know how that could be. Or, it is possible that the 3.3v that the remote trigger sends out is not appropriate for the flash head input...though I was told that these two systems work together.
Until I hear from one of the manufacturers, I'll remain both puzzled and stymied.
...how do you solve a problem like Maria?
Ahhhh...the Sing Along Sound of Music! My sister had gone a few years ago at the Hollywood Bowl and raved about it--I have been wanting to go ever since. I finally got the chance (family in tow this past weekend) as the show finally rolled into our town! While we all enjoyed it, it was my daughter and me who *thoroughly* enjoyed it--though my husband thinks I enjoyed it most of all...which is, I think, true.
It was the matinee family showing, so we had to keep it "kid friendly," but I still made my censored campy comments and had a blast. I was giddy from the moment the "hills" appeared on screen. When we saw the little spec that was Maria on the screen, we all started chanting in soft voices, "Julie, Julie, Julie." As she got bigger on screen, we chanted "Julie" louder and louder...until the crescendo where she did her twirl and we all stood up with arms in air and yelled, "Sing, Julie, sing!!!" We sang our hearts out, hissed at the Baroness (though to this day, I *loooove* *every* one of her outfits in that movie), booed at the Nazis, Rofled/Ruffed at Rolfe, saluted the captain, and waived our Eldelweiss like lighters in a concert.
If you love the Sound of Music and have never been to the Sing Along version, if it rolls into your town, do check it out. Note: the campier the crowd, the better.
There are soo many orange trees in Alanya, amazing! And those oranges taste more than great!!
Went out of the taxi, metering the white balancing, setting shutter and aperture, saving the spot metering
I love doing that :D
Blame Logitech! Blame Logitech!
(Logitech's bad mouse driver caused the blue screening.)
EDIT: Note that this is now and old photo, and relates to OS X Leopard, not Snow Leopard, which is the current version in 2010/2011.
We bought two large garden rockers last Summer, and they were great. The problem was, they couldn't stay out all seasons and they took up room in the shed. A lot of room.
After many false starts - including the idea of suspending them from the shed roof - I worked out that I could hang them on the wall! And in the end it only took an hour.
Here's the first one in position, shot from both sides so you can see the mounting bracket (there's now also a small secondary bracket at the bottom, supporting the footrest).
Pleased with self.
Uma noite para deixar os problemas de lado, e celebrar a vida. Na terça-feira, 15/09, a Unimed Vales do Taquari e Rio Pardo (Unimed VTRP) comemorou o Dia do Cliente de um jeito diferente. Foi o “Rolê em casa: Pra sair do sofá”. A live show foi transmitida ao vivo pelo YouTube e Facebook da Cooperativa Médica.
As bandas Lusco Fusco e Jê Trio foram as grandes atrações da noite. O evento contou ainda com o “Quiz Mude1Hábito”, onde os participantes responderam a perguntas sobre saúde, qualidade de vida, mudança de hábitos e sustentabilidade, e os mais rápidos puderam ganhar brindes exclusivos, interagindo exclusivamente pelas redes sociais.
A condução da live foi do jornalista e comunicador Nairo Orlandi. O mascote em formato de coração Tum-tum também participou do evento on-line, levando toda a simpatia e energia para a transmissão.
Para que alegria e o alto astral pudessem chegar a mais pessoas, o “Rolê em Casa” contou com intérpretes da Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras) durante todo o evento.
Veja algumas imagens desta noite especial!
I'm having red, itchy, rashy eye problems. But, on the bright side, I am starting to blog again. So there's that.
Here's a pic of the herbs I'm cookin'.
My eyes were much prettier in January.