Author: paul

hoosgot a way to reboot their TiVo on a schedule?

The family wanted to watch one of their TiVo’ed programs but it turns out the box has lost its mind.

…I know there’s a linux heart beating in there but I don’t have the time or patience to hack it and start messing with its innards.

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The family wanted to watch one of their TiVo’ed programs but it turns out the box has lost its mind. It wasn’t seeing any signal and consequently recorded nothing (nothing meaning several programs of zero length). Rebooting it resolved the issue: it sees its channels again.

So who’s got, I say, hoosgot a way to reboot the beast programmatically? I know there’s a linux heart beating in there but I don’t have the time or patience to hack it and start messing with its innards. Is there anyway to send a signal to it? Or better, a way to have to tell me when the signal goes away?

quote of the day

My grandmother used to carry her lunch to school in newspaper during the depression, and she was considered well off compared to some of her friends. Now days if you sent your kid to school with a healthy lunch wrapped in a newspaper you’d have child services knocking on your door.

The post and thread is interesting, but this jumped out at me.

My grandmother used to carry her lunch to school in newspaper during the depression, and she was considered well off compared to some of her friends. Now days if you sent your kid to school with a healthy lunch wrapped in a newspaper you’d have child services knocking on your door.

People forget where they came from and have to be reminded every once in a while.

[From Irvine Housing Blog » Blog Archive » Pretending]

unsuitable work

I am trying to work out the correct way to make a truncated cone, and it occurred to me that someone, somewhere, must have equations that can help with this…. If these equations worked for me, I could make a function out of it, but I have not been able to get that far.

I am trying to work out the correct way to make a truncated cone, and it occurred to me that someone, somewhere, must have equations that can help with this. I found this page, but I’m not sure it’s right. I never seem to get answers that will work.

Picture a cone with a base diameter of 6 (D1) and at 2.75 (L), the diameter is 3(D2). How to make a flat pattern, given those three dimensions? If these equations worked for me, I could make a function out of it, but I have not been able to get that far. I end up with a very flat cone.

This just isn’t my long suit. I can’t tell if I am misreading it or what.

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more lessons learned

Turns out the paper I picked the other week is fogged, most likely due to heat…. So now just to find some paper that hasn’t been abused.

Just made a couple of test prints in the darkroom. Turns out the paper I picked the other week is fogged, most likely due to heat. The package was sealed so that’s all I can figure.

But on the plus side of the ledger, everything else worked. The enlarger worked, the chemicals all did their jobs. So now just to find some paper that hasn’t been abused. Kinda cool to watch the image come up out of the soup . . .

quote of the day

The title is one for the ages as well.

It wasn’t that long ago that America’s 9/11 Mayor was the presumed frontrunner, this can-do, crime-stopping, moonlighting transvestite master-of-mean-streets sheriff threatening even to put Blue States such as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York into play for Republicans in his role as the one drag queen tough enough to take on Hillary.

The title is one for the ages as well.


It wasn’t that long ago that America’s 9/11 Mayor was the presumed frontrunner, this can-do, crime-stopping, moonlighting transvestite master-of-mean-streets sheriff threatening even to put Blue States such as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York into play for Republicans in his role as the one drag queen tough enough to take on Hillary. [From Requiem for a Featherweight]

there’s some truth to that

“The lesson is that it’s not a good idea to drink, it’s not a good idea to be high on dope, and it’s not a good idea to taunt a man-eating tiger.”

…drink a coupla shots of vodka (as they did), then taunt a tiger (as it seems they also did), you might just get what you ask for.

“Clearly there’s the lesson to be learned here,” said zoo spokesman Sam Singer. “The lesson is that it’s not a good idea to drink, it’s not a good idea to be high on dope, and it’s not a good idea to taunt a man-eating tiger.”

Authorities were weighing whether to seek criminal charges against the Dhaliwals, but their lawyer, Mark Geragos, said they have presented no evidence of a crime. Geragos, who has repeatedly said the brothers didn’t taunt the tiger, also noted that the affidavit does not specify any possible counts.

“Basically, they’re arguing that if you go to the zoo and wave at the animals, you get the death penalty,” he said. “And that’s just nonsense.”

[From Taunting a factor in tiger attack – Yahoo! News]

Actually, if you a. get stoned and b. drink a coupla shots of vodka (as they did), then taunt a tiger (as it seems they also did), you might just get what you ask for.
Trouble is, the tiger died too, and she didn’t deserve that.

[addendum] Apparently, animal-taunting is quite common, to the point where not seeing any means you’re complacent.

day after Friday cat blogging

This one takes the word aloof to new heights, at least as far as her relationship with me goes.

And this one just dumped the contents of extremely full bladder on one of the beds, thankfully not mine.

The girls.

Cricket, née Bagheera
This one takes the word aloof to new heights, at least as far as her relationship with me goes.

Smudge, née Foxy

And this one just dumped the contents of extremely full bladder on one of the beds, thankfully not mine.

<sigh> and this after a week spent nursing back to health from an upper respiratory infection.

Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees to view Allied tanks and half tracks pass through the Arc du Triomphe, after Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944 (LOC)

Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees to view Allied tanks and half tracks pass through the Arc du Triomphe, after Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944 (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress …. Of course, I would be 80 years old now, but you know what I mean.

Oh, to have been there. Of course, I would be 80 years old now, but you know what I mean.
If you take a closer look, the little old man down in the right front makes it for me. Stooped, dressed in a suit in the August heat, had probably wondered if this day would ever come, but there he is clapping. He’s of the right age to remember the last war as well, maybe to have fought in it.


You can see a 141 Mb TIFF (!!) here.