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Gym Color Temperature

dave — Sun, 06 May 2012 23:35:12 +0000

Processing pix from the Sarah McCullagh Memorial Scholarship. Took Nikon NEF (Raw) format to avoid problems with color balance, which is horrible in the gym.

From here, “Mercury vapor color temp is around 4200K and CRI in range of 50.”

Looks much better now.

She Sells Beer

dave — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:32:13 +0000

The only Super Bowl ad this year I remember was the Budweiser “Eternal Optimism” spot, a highly patriotic decade in review since WWII. And I like the music, hate the beer.

Imagine my surprise when the song turns out to be a mashup of “She Sells Sanctuary” from the 1985 album “Love” from an English band, The Cult. Nothing against English rockers, mind you, but if you are hawking crappy American beer using overt American symbolism, might you not want to use an American band? Just askin.

Nice mashup, reminds me of the Kleptones.

Git Alias – ignore all whitespace

dave — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:31:02 +0000

A talk at last year’s Chicago Code Camp spoke about Git aliases. Up until now I used shell aliases in the (wonderful) MINGW32 Git Bash shell, so “$ gs” is $ git status.

$ git diff is something I use a lot, but sometimes you want to ignore whitespace, say when you reformat an XML config file.

$ git config alias.di 'diff --ignore-all-space'

now, $ git di does what I want.

Canon MF5470dw

dave — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:34:36 +0000

Just got a new Canon MF5470dw print/fax/scan laser. Printed, but no scan. Helps if you don’t set it at the same IP address as the HP DeskJet. Stupid noob mistake. Works great with Vuescan!

Lab burgers: it’s what’s for dinner (The Economist)

dave — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:34:54 +0000

Memories of Chicken Little in Pohl and Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants I first read in high school. The older I get, the more that novel gets everything right.

Hamburger junction
www.economist.com
Lab burgers: it’s what’s for dinner A QUARTER of a million euros is rather a lot to pay for a hamburger, but that will be the cost of the patty which Mark Post proposes to stick in a bun this October.
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Another half century to go…

dave — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:18:08 +0000

My 50th birthday is officially over. Thank you to all who sent cards. 85 cards creates an impressive pile.
Heck, I didn’t know I knew 85 people. Thanks!

Shiny Dimes

dave — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:08:01 +0000

Just found two Roosevelt dimes, one from 1964 in silver and one alloy from 1965. Never noticed how dull real silver one is compared to the alloy

Blue Star

dave — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:34:54 +0000

While watching “2 Broke Girls“, Caroline sells some rings so they can get a new Blue Star range to cook cupcakes. Blue Star?

Never heard of them. Looked them up. Nice. Expensive, ala Viking. Might not get it very soon

So here is mine. Love the 20,000 BTU burner – I am so there. Blue Star Website

Our friend owns Young’s Appliances in Glen Ellyn. He sells Viking. Wonder if we can get a deal…

Touch of Thai in Dixon

dave — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:23:58 +0000

See my Yelp Review of Touch of Thai

Good food and inexpensive. Recommended.

221 W. First St.
Dixon, IL 61021

SSH public key and Bitbucket

dave — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:16:56 +0000

So I use Bitbucket to host several private Hg repos, all working great from Windows via Putty and Pageant.

Today I tried to update the local repo.

C:\bin\app>hg pull
sending hello command
sending between command
abort: no suitable response from remote hg!

WTF? Tried different machines, other accounts, same problem.

Bit of Googling… some users report Bitbucket messes up the public keys, at arbitrary times, as they all share the hg user.
Updated the public key on Bitbucket with the SAME value. It even looked different, like it was missing a character. Now it works…

C:\bin\app>hg pull
pulling from ssh://moc.tfoscad.ghnull@gh/dacsoft/bin
searching for changes
no changes found

Go figure.