secondsuitor

We have two cats. They each like to terrorize each other.  the simple solution is to bell them. While they can still pounce, sneaking is difficult of much slower. Insert a reference to Dune and something about a slow blade…

This becomes more complicated though, as the Wif sleeps much too light for the average cat proposing at 3am while jangling like a drunken reindeer.  to sleep she’ll remove their collars, and then in the am we start our day to the traumatic wail of spooked kitteh’s.

So my initial thought would be a wireless collar with an accelerometer activated chime that we could turn on via a web interface. I don’t know if this would be a great idea though. In order to do this, I’d probably want to add a rechargeable battery, but a lot of those could be bad in a situation where a cat could try to chew off their collar. So I need to think about this. I could go with a watch battery. But then I need to look at cost efficiency when usage is taken into account, plus the added environmental cost.

Things to think about.

Could I use sufficiently stable and sensitive LEDs and (those things that measure light) respectively to act as a hobbyist rotary encoder using the gear itself? Just saying, especially with all the other feedback I could add there might be a lot of value.

Alderbacher hefeweizen – 5.5%

I’ve been struggling with a conundrum for a while now. I see people, who when given a better way of doing a task, don’t want to. As individual incident I thought nothing of it, but as these things keep piling up, I’ve realized I should develop one of my insights theories so I could start gaming people.

• Messenger – am I just an asshole
• Is it not an actual improvement
• Fear of change
• Fear of unknown
• Outside of their comfort zone

Each of these seems legit, but again, only at the individual level, but this is epidemic.

What if it’s simpler. Maybe they have no value in changing.Now I’m trying to bring people guard into a direct improvement for them, and only them. It’s a tuff row to hoe.

I didn’t get any work done last night, too tired and too cold. I made pizza, but no workshop work.

Inventory (things I have right this second):

• Two pieces plywood, roughly width of workable
• Beaten out outer shell of computer case, long as the table is wide
• Four posts, 2×2, different lengths, cut at weird angles
• Multitude of LEDs
• Multiple ATX computer supplies
• Two wicked looking internal cases for all the internals of a couple scanners
• Two (or three) sheets of glass, roughly 12×18
• Metal frame for one of these sheets of glass
• Multiple computer LCDs that are played out, but potentially hackable
• Multiple longer pieces of scrap wood from pallets
• Multiple rubberized fuser and pressure rollers (aluminum underneath)
• Glass insulators

This isn’t an inclusive list, but it’s a solid start. Sometimes laying what I have gives me an idea of what I’ll build. It’s like the hoarder’s equivalent to the adage about the wood carver saying he couldn’t carve a grizzly bear with a given piece of wood as there was an wake in the piece of wood instead. I possibly butchered even the idea of that story.

I should get some work done tonight. Finish clearing the table. Break down those two wicked awesome cases, and see what I can do with them.

Needs:

• Lockable ball and socket joints
• Rings at joining areas
• Fabric overlay that pulls taut with movement
• Permanently sore back
• Rugged facial hair
• Neck on motorized swivel to eyeball fools
• Church key

Totally not creepy

I need to:

• Clear the top of my work table
• Add shelves above
• Add router below
• Add dust collection below

Those are starters at least