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Oh yeah. I realize I haven't blogged anything in here recently.
Well actually that's not true, I wrote some stuff earlier last week for this blog yet lost the edit before I got a chance to upload it when the Tech Stop at work managed to screw up the hard drive by installing some stuff that made Windows crash on the logon screen :-)
I've just finished reinstalling XEmacs and did a checkout of Izumi-Content so now I'm ready to roll again or at least I don't have any more excuses not to write anything here.
That means I'll have to power up the time machine and add post-dated entries later if I ever feel like it. Which means I probably won't :-)
Sort of. I've just added Steps, Party Time and XEmacs, which over all is kind funny since it goes from cryptic to boring via who-cares :-p
Step 3 completed. Nice blue color :-)
Step 0 happened the very first of October :-)
Step 1 was started somewhere back in September and actually only completed April the 17th.
Step 2 was started in December and only completed June 6th.
Next step has an ETA set for mid-December/mid-January.
It's kind of interesting to see how it all happened somehow at the same time or at least close enough and in somehow the right order, although nothing was really planned that precisely before hand. It was just all "would be nice if..." and then make it all happening wasn't too bad.
First little kicks!
(Well... I'm jealous 'coz I can't really tell so far!)
Rhaaa... I hate it when I wake up at 4 AM and no matter what I try I don't seem to be able to fall back asleep.
I could blame it for going to bed too early (before 11 PM after a several days of midnight/1 AM.)
Or I could blame it on the account of finishing that nice Pino Griggio. Well the bottle was already half empty so it's not like I had a choice :-)
Two... of each!
Simply amazing :-)
Available Q1 2006.
Having fun sometimes does not involve curly braces.
Last week was pretty busy but I'm really happy with the result.
After arriving at my in-laws' house here in Pennsylvania, I quickly went to the wood to see what the beaver had been busy doing since last year. Well I wasn't disappointed:
After two days of work on the beaver dam, I got quite a good result:
And after three days:
And finally after four days I was done:
That's quite a big improvement over last year where it took me about a week or more to achieve the same result. I believe I improved my technique for breaking the dam. Another important factor is that I'm digging roughly at the same spot than last year and that the beaver is not reconstructing the dam overnight every night this time. Also last year I was working on four dams in parallel but this year I concentrated only on the major one (I had already taken care of the two smaller ones when I took upon this one.)
So anyway, what does it look like this dam I'm talking about?
Something like that:
Last year my technique was to start opening the dam from the top and use the
flow of water to break the dam top-down. I had success with this technique on another
small dam but it failed to work on the big one since there's so many branches and
rocks mixed with the dirt that even though water is flowing thru it it is really hard
to break. Also as soon as you get the back of the dam wet and muddy it becomes
at lot more messy to clean.
Note that the dam itself is about 3 or 4 feet high.
There are also some big branches and fallen trees hidden in there so it's hard
to break it all. The pitch fork always get stuck in some branches so at the end
it is mostly a manual work: manually remove all small branches, use the pitch fork
to remove some dirt, and repeat. By making vertical cuts from the back towards the
front of the dam is a lot easier. It also helps that the dirt is dry, it hadn't
rained in a while so it was not muddy.
And finally by the end of the second day, I had broken enough dirt to start a
flow. Note that it looks like a step as there's a big branch stuck in there and
couldn't dig deeper yet so I reverted to the old way -- let the flow of water
break loose some of the dirt:
Finally by the next day I had managed to break that "step" and was able to dig
deeper:
And here is the final result:
Here I am at work:
Got in the zone today.
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Repeat after me: "RIG is not dead."
Also a while ago I wrote something about "/proc for Hint"
that I never linked here so here you go.
Circular reference (just because I can :-p)
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So this year I figured a better way to do it, and it starts by removing
all the "loose" branches that are behind the dam.
It so happens this takes some time yet it's easier to do it first when the branches
are still dry.
Once this was done, I can get access to the core of the dam, which is this compact
pile of dirt mixed with small branches and rocks. It looks like this:
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