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What Africa Can Teach Europe (Part I of 2)
Bishop Amédée Grab Evaluates Symposium
ROME, NOV. 21, 2004 (Zenit) - The first-ever Symposium of Bishops of Africa and Europe, organized by the Council of European Bishops' Conferences and the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar, was held here Nov. 10-13.
In this interview with us, Bishop Amédée Grab of Chur, Switzerland, president of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences, reveals some of the proposals made during the meeting, in light of the challenges posed to evangelization in Africa.
Q: In your address, you lamented a "certain tiredness and lack of interest at the popular level in the process of European unification," and proposed as a "dream," around which to galvanize the commitment and passion of European citizens, the overcoming of hunger in Africa. Do you believe your appeal has found concrete answers in this symposium?
Bishop Grab: Much information was given that manifested the attention paid to this problem by many entities.
I am thinking of the address of Bishop Fernando Charrier, president of the Justice and Solidarity Foundation, who explained very well how the Italian bishops have received the Pope's invitation, in the Jubilee of 2000, to condone the foreign debt of poor countries. And, instead of just preaching and saying this is an exigency of peace and of the future of humanity, they chose two countries, Guinea-Conakry and Zambia, and proposed the cancellation of the debt to the Italian government.
Not in its totality, because it wouldn't have been possible, but they succeeded in having 10% of the debt of these countries canceled and to do so, they asked for help from the Italian faithful, collecting in no time for this purpose 1.5 million euros.
In this way, the debtor countries that asked for the cancellation of the debt have been able to use this money to promote works of solidarity, development and progress.
All this so as not to limit themselves to saying "here is the eraser; let's cancel the past," and then begin again in the exact same conditions that have fostered and increased the debt. This example, which was not known by the bishops of other countries, is excellent. Excellent to have asked the government, in the name of Christ, and then to have offered a certain guarantee on behalf of those who cannot give anything. It is a splendid, perfect idea.
But there are other examples of twinning with African dioceses.
Also in my country, Switzerland, for 40 years there has been this type of collaboration, not only with the intention of remedying disastrous situations, such as cases of floods, drought and earthquakes, but also of enabling those who receive the help to be autonomous one day.
In the context of organizations of solidarity, the proverb is very much repeated of not limiting oneself to give a fish to the hungry but to teach them how to fish. And, for example, to dig wells, to offer the possibility of exploiting the natural resources of a region, and of liberating from ever renewed and conditioning aid, is a positive sign.
But the need to promote a wider solidarity was also presented in a bishop's address, who stressed that, even if all the international debt was canceled of all the countries of Africa, the continent would continue to be poor, because it is trapped in the mechanisms that periodically create indebtedness.
In regard to the unification of Europe, it is good for peoples to come together, and for political and economic leaders to focus on some criteria that inspire, that leave a mark, because, in the process of European integration, inspiration is lacking at times, as it cannot be reduced solely to improving income. That is not an ideal.
Q: The advice offered by Archbishop John Onaiyekan of Abuja and president of SECAM is "to change economic rules." It is not enough to condone the debt or give money. Markets must be opened to the importation of products from Africa, and the prices of certain medicines must be reduced.
Bishop Grab: Yes, because on one hand, very important subsidies are offered, worth billions, which later are recovered by purchasing African products at absurd prices that do not allow for survival.
I spoke about it with an expert and he said: "Here is everything we have given," giving numbers and facts.
"Yes, but how much have we received?" I replied for my part. In other words: Directly or indirectly, how much profit have we made?
Q: If, on one hand, the European Union invests money and establishes economic agreements with the African countries, and on the other, states that it wishes to donate $75 million to the United Nations Population Fund, which will be invested in contraceptive means and instruments to "regulate fertility," such as abortion, do you not see a certain ambiguity in this policy?
Bishop Grab: We still witness the contradiction or absurd character of this way of acting and reasoning.
There still is a humanitarian philanthropy that seeks to limit the increase of human population, so that all can live and eat. This idea, which stems from a distorted concept of charity or the common good, is still seen at all levels, including in individual and private life.
For example, in regard to abortion, if it is foreseen that the existence of the unborn will be terrible and linked to sufferings, why is it better that it not be born? If its birth was prevented out of charity, it could be said, according to this unbalanced logic, that it is not opportune to allow the number of malnourished men to increase, who will be sickly and have many difficulties.
In promoting a society of happiness, health and assured profits, in reality, the values of love and life are not promoted but rather those of egoism, and personal and group interests.
Q: Also among the symposium's objectives was to understand further "the common responsibility in evangelization, mission, the pastoral program for the new situation of a globalized world which is facing the challenges of secularization." How can the Gospel be inculturated and the evangelical message spread in the African context?
Bishop Grab: All cultures need to be evangelized. For some decades, at least since Pope Paul VI, there exists this concept to evangelize the culture, the economy, etc. I recall the surprise of elderly Christians who said: "It is impossible, I can only evangelize persons. How can I evangelize the culture or the economy?"
It is possible, by taking this ferment that, through persons of faith, will make possible the development of a reflection, an action which, accepting the weaknesses and lacuna of each system, leads one to act according to the plan of Jesus in a situation of preparation for the Kingdom.
The Kingdom will never come in this life. The Kingdom, in its totality, its splendor, will come with Jesus' advent at the end of time. But, meanwhile, one builds, and sows. And the evangelizer, in seeing what is positive in each culture, as well as in revealing its limits and contradictions, tries, illumined by the Gospel, to improve it.
We see it in the history of the Church. St. Paul advises slaves to obey their masters and, therefore, he does not preach the total abolition of slavery. However, by proclaiming the Gospel, he sows in hearts and intelligences the strength that, once matured, will be able to overcome slavery completely. And this discourse is valid for any other value of human society.
Without the Gospel, the family is not sacred anywhere. There are, in traditional African religions, absolutely strong values that have guaranteed the continuation of society and culture in these countries, even if they have marked limitations. And it is here where the Gospel is inculturated, making one live these relationship in a different way.
Therefore, evangelization counts on the fact that no human relationship is perfect in itself, in part for reasons of cultural inheritance; therefore, all human relationships must be purified and renewed.
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277 rbandrews rbandrews rbandrews 2014-12-01T20:59:01Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:360333 It's December first 2014-12-01T20:58:26Z 2014-12-01T20:59:01Z public 0 Time for my yearly post about Christmas.

Some people reading this will probably want to get me Christmas presents, although you don't have to. I'd really prefer that you donate to a charity instead: Child's Play, the Wikimedia Foundation, Stop TB, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are all ones I donate to.

As usual anything homemade, handmade, or especially baked is exempt from this request: I will happily nom any pastries you make, or wear anything knitted, or hang anything painted, etc. :) I'd just rather you spend money on someone who needs it, rather than me.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:358610 Tip4Commit 2014-11-02T05:23:21Z 2014-11-02T15:59:54Z public 0 Yesterday I learned about a site called Tip4Commit (I'm not linking to them). I learned about them from a thread on Hacker News complaining about them. Here's how it works:

- Tip4Commit has a search engine where you can look up open source projects. If you search for one that doesn't exist (on GitHub), they automatically add it.

- Once you find one, you can donate a sum of money to that project, in Bitcoin. Your donation goes into the Tip4Commit wallet.

- Tip4Commit then watches that project's GitHub repository, and each time someone commits to it, they give that committer 1% of the project's (remaining) Bitcoin balance.

- If the committer has an account with Tip4Commit, then it sends them the money, to their Bitcoin wallet

- If they don't, then it sends them an email saying they have money they can go claim.

For a lot of reasons, this is extremely bad. And the author's reaction to criticism is even worse. And I'd like to discuss why.

First, the complaints. I saw three main complaints about T4C from people on the Github issue tracker:

1. Spammy emails. This was brought up by the Django project maintainer here. Sending emails to developers that you don't have a prior relationship with isn't cool. It's spam, and actually illegal. T4C gets the emails by scraping the commit logs of these projects.

2. Discouraging developers and offering perverse incentives for committing. This was brought up a couple places. T4C encourages developers to make lots of small, low-value commits and maintainers to be suspicious of new developers offering small commits. It insultingly "rewards" developers with a fraction of a cent for hours of passionate work.

3. Implying a relationship with the project maintainers where none exists. This is a big deal, in my opinion. He's using the names and GitHub identities of other developers in order to raise money, some of which he then keeps, without their permission. This is fraud. And it's probably worse than any other bad-behavior thing this project does.

All those are problems, but what I really want to talk about is the utterly horrible way the owner of Tip4Commit is handling the criticism.

First, there's been no acknowledgement that he's done anything wrong, or (god forbid) an apology for it. All criticism has been treated as a discussion of a technical problem. Sending out unsolicited emails? Add in a threshold, it only sends emails when you've accumulated $2. No acknowledgement that maybe the fact you're sending unsolicited mail means you need to communicate with someone that you shouldn't, just a quick fix for the mail.

Weaselly refusal to do simple requests, also. Someone asks their projects be removed? Well we can't do that because someone else could just add you back. Well add me to a blacklist then! Oh but a blacklist would be adding a new feature, why don't you write that for us? I am not even kidding.

Not understanding (being charitable here) why anyone wouldn't want what he's forcing on them. This is a big one. In response to "please remove my project," he just keeps saying "why? what about his instead? why isn't this good enough?" in different ways. This is boundary-pushing, turning into boundary-ignoring. It's actually really creepy to watch. The project maintainers (who are also sometimes the sole developer) are very clearly telling him to stop doing what he's doing, and he's choosing not to hear or understand them.

Shutting down discussions when it starts going against him. As soon as he has no way to misunderstand what someone is asking for, he says "this discussion has wandered too far" or "this isn't appropriate for a bug tracker" or something, and forces the people complaining to start all over again somewhere else (with him again obstinately refusing to understand).

All of these are really manipulative, scummy tactics. What I think is really going on:

- If a "donor" gives, say, $10 to a project on Tip4Commit, then the next commit to that project earns 10 cents, then slightly under 10 cents, then a little less, etc.

- But, because it's only taking away a percentage of the remaining balance each time, then the balance never actually reaches zero. And since that percentage is 1%, it takes hundreds of commits to even get close to zero.

- Eventually people will forget Tip4Commit exists, and the author can shut it down and pocket the remaining money.

- There will be more money the more projects he can pretend he's working with, so he adds everyone he can and refuses to remove them.

His defense for this, when he finally gets argued with enough to give it, is "why don't you want your developers to get free money?" I submit that this isn't the point at all. The maintainers don't want their names associated with this scam, and a few cents of free money isn't enough to change that. That's the tone-deafness the maintainers are fighting against with this guy.

Or sometimes his other defense: "how can you release your code as open-source and then object to this?" Well, because it's not the code you're using, it's the names and reputations of the project maintainers. And no matter how many times this is pointed out he doesn't hear it.

This whole thing is incredibly scummy and needs to be shut down.

Update:

Here's a message I just sent to GitHub support:

I'm writing this to talk about a project you're hosting the source for, tip4commit/tip4commit.

The way it works is, people can donate money to a particular open source project, and then the people who write commits that are accepted to that project get a small percentage of the donated balance. So if the current donation balance for a project is $10, the next commit would earn one percent of that, for 10 cents, then the one after it would earn 1% of the remaining $9.90 for 9.9 cents, and so on.

The problem is that the whole thing reeks of being a scam:

- Projects are added without the consent of the owners, and in many cases against their consent. Searching for a GitHub project adds it automatically to their database with no way to remove it, and people opening issues to have their names / projects removed get brushed off.

- It's almost impossible, at 1% per commit, to get an appreciable amount of the donated money back out. 68 commits to get half of it, 228 commits to get 90%. What happens to the money that no one has committed enough to claim? Who knows? Probably it just stays with tip4commit.

Which is why I think the whole thing is a scam, using GitHub to carry it out (by scraping contributor emails from GitHub commit records). They'll accept donations fraudulently under project maintainers' names, then dole out a few percent of them to committers, and eventually shut down and keep the balance.

I realize there's not a lot you can do about this, since you're not hosting the actual site and they don't need an API key to pull the commit data. But it would send a great message if you shut the repository down, IMHO.

I've had a little back-and-forth with the author of this scam, Arsen Gasparyan, here. He claims to not comprehend that the project maintainers might have a stake in this. This morning he disabled unsolicited emails and made it opt-in only for committers, thus making it even harder to get the fraudulently-collected money out of the thing. Projects are still added on search and can't be removed.

Which is the infuriating part, really. He totally denies that he's done anything wrong, because he totally denies that project maintainers have any rights to be trampled on. It's all about the committers.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:350280 Age of Wonders 3 2014-04-01T21:11:01Z 2014-04-01T21:11:01Z public 0 There's a relevant Penny Arcade about the "Mega Man 9 Effect," which is pretty much how I felt after my first game of Age of Wonders 3 last night.

Age of Wonders is like Civilization, but focused more on combat, and set in a fantasy realm. You're a king / hero / whatever, leading armies to conquer the other kingdoms. What made it work was that it was really detailed: each city had a race, so if your relations with a certain race (like Orcs) went down, Orc cities you controlled would revolt. Your hero had RPG-like levels and abilities and could level up by exploring dungeons. There were very detailed city production models.

I started playing AoW 1 in high school, and quickly got addicted. It was a big part of my life for a couple years. I got people in college addicted too: I showed it to my roommate, Bob, right before Technicon my freshman year. I came back to the dorm a weekend later and he was still in the same position, still playing it, the only difference was that now he was surrounded by piles of empty Sprite bottles.

There are other games like it, like Heroes of Might and Magic, but none that are as good. There was a sequel, and then a spinoff-sort-of-thing called Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, but I didn't like those as much as the first game.

This though, the latest one, is almost perfect. They tweaked the rules some, which makes the game immensely better: city walls are still really valuable but no longer nigh-impregnable; losing your hero is still bad / dangerous but no longer an instant loss. The graphics are really pretty.

Basically, I sat down last night to play the tutorial, and felt exactly like I did playing it in college. I didn't even notice two hours had passed.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:350089 This weekend I: 2014-03-31T03:31:23Z 2014-03-31T03:31:23Z public 0 - Had my check card canceled, because of bullshit. I'll be able to fix it tomorrow, likely by switching banks, because this isn't the first time.

- Bought a grill and a cylinder of propane. Then spent way too long assembling the grill, when I could have bought a pre-assembled one for $30 more. But, I have a grill now.

- Set up (mostly) the Old Video Game Nook: my 21" CRT that I got from Dave, hooked to an RCA -> VGA converter, hooked to a Dreamcast / PS2 / Gamecube (actually a Wii pretending to be a Gamecube). Nostalgic fun!

- Replaced all the dimmers with real switches but one. The hall light is still stupid; you can only control it with the dimmer from one end of the hall, and only if another light switch is off. But the dimmers in my room, my workshop, and the kitchen are all gone now.

- Finally got in the mail a thing I've been waiting for for weeks; a little toy that I had shipped from Ukraine right before the war broke out.

- Ate a steak that would have cost like $30 in a restaurant, for $4 because Cassie made it on our grill (and tomorrow I'll try doing burgers).

- Shelved all the DVDs. They all fit with about half a shelf to spare, because I put the games in the den, and the same with Bullshit (which is a shelf all on its own; they never released a proper boxed set).

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:349841 Gah 2014-03-25T01:10:25Z 2014-03-25T01:10:25Z public 0 Books are heavy.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:349557 All the games 2014-03-18T02:47:28Z 2014-03-18T02:47:28Z public 0 Unpacked in the house.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:349407 Moving 2014-03-17T04:36:18Z 2014-03-17T04:36:18Z public 0 Well, we live in the new house now. Cassie's father came yesterday with his truck, and we moved almost all the big stuff (two things we forgot about, but we can get those later). We moved the bed, the couch, the dining room table, and some more games. After he left we went back for more car-sized things. We stayed here last night, then today got a couple more loads of stuff, including the computers. Cassie did her podcast this evening, and while she did I went back for the TV.

So most of the stuff we use on a day-to-day basis is now here, although it may be here and buried in a box. I still don't have my chair, or my nightstand, which sort of sucks, and a lot of the boxes need to be unpacked on to tables / shelves that I haven't actually built yet, like in the workshop. That'll come next week. And of course the books: I worked it out that I can carry about four full boxes of books in my car, along with a bookcase, which means six or so trips (one per bookcase). The books are more or less fluid, once we start moving them they should be pretty easy. And there's no rush at all; we have the apartment still until May.

The new AC works great too. Took most of two days to install and it cost a fortune, but it works great and it's an important thing to have here.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:349092 At this rate I'll need a sliderule icon 2014-03-15T05:12:02Z 2014-03-15T05:12:02Z public 0 I sort of went nuts on eBay the other day and ordered a few slide rules. Today the first ones came in: a K&E "beginner's slide rule" with only four scales (A, B, C, and D), and another little pocket one with some trig scales, but no folded scales and broken indicator. I realized these were in pretty bad shape when I bought them, but it was $5 for the pair, so I bid to see what would happen.

So, slide rules are essentially a collection of weird-scale rulers that you can line up against each other in different ways. The scales are all labeled with standard names that say what they are. The basic scales that all rulers have are C and D, which are log scales, used for multiplication: since log(x) + log(y) = log(xy), if you line up the start of the C scale with some number on D, then see what's across from another number on C, you multiply those two numbers.

A and B are also log scales, but compressed so that they show ten times the range. CI is a log scale just like C but backwards, used for making division easier.

Anyway, I now have four slide rules. Only one of them, the first one I got, has a bunch of fancy scales, though, and I want to get another one like it. I've got a couple more auctions I've won for odd slide rules, that I'll probably post about when I get them.

I did finish the Asimov slide rule book last night. It was great, especially for someone into recreational math. I was a little disappointed that he didn't go into the more fancy log-log scales on my K&E rule (used for raising things to arbitrary powers), but it's kind of expected since almost no slide rules seem to have had them and almost no one would ever need to use one anyway.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:348849 HVAC 2014-03-14T00:43:41Z 2014-03-14T00:43:41Z public 0 This is the first, and hopefully last (at least for a long while) unexpected expensive house thing.

We had the thermostat set to 62, I think, so the heater would keep it warm-ish at night. I came in on Sunday and noticed that there were some little black flecks of crap on the floor in the living room and one of the bedrooms (but only there). They didn't smell musty, more burnt, so I think they were soot from the heater. This isn't great because it means the heat exchanger may be cracked, which is bad (dangerous) for a gas heater. So I shut the gas off to it, and called an HVAC guy to look at it and do an annual maintenance thing, just tell me what was up.

The heat exchanger isn't cracked, but it's also in bad shape. Apparently there are two HVAC systems in the house, one main one and one little one for the den. The air conditioners are old (20 and 10 years, respectively) but the furnaces are ancient, 35 years. So the whole thing needs replacing. I expected this, it was in the inspection report, but I was going to put it off for a year.

The first guy I called, from a company called Dave Lane, was pretty bad. He said he looked at some stuff that he clearly didn't touch, because when I went up there yesterday to clean it it was held shut with tape that hadn't been touched in years. They also quoted me ten to twelve thousand to replace it, with another couple thousand for replacing the ducts.

My realtor is great though, and I got her to recommend me someone. They're coming in Saturday to replace the whole thing for eight thousand, and he says most of the ducts don't actually need replacement.

Anyway, annoying. I was kind of freaking out last night because the house was broken and it reminded me of living in a shitty falling-apart-house as a kid. I was getting really upset by the whole thing, so I think replacing it now is worth it. Sucks a little bit because I didn't expect to have to do it immediately, but I am financing it and the part I'm putting down on it only puts me about $1000 over what I expected to spend on house repairs / changes. Meaning, about $1000 over what the sellers paid of my closing costs to cover repairs / changes.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:348543 I don't have a cold any more 2014-03-09T06:03:26Z 2014-03-09T06:07:51Z public 0 So now I have no excuse for not housing.

Yesterday was the roofer. The old owners had made an extension on the roof for a covered patio (pretty much exactly what you just described, Tucker, except no pomegranate tree), but that added a new valley to the roof which made water pool up by the chimney. They raised the roof in that corner so it drains better; it was easily the most expensive thing I have ever paid for on Square. :) I have some pictures. Sorry for potato quality; I didn't take them.

Today I didn't wake up before my alarm, for the first time in weeks. I went to the house, replaced one light switch, hung around while the cable guy did his thing, and put together a wire shelf and loaded it with some board games. Also did some minor door maintenance.

The light switches, apparently the old owners loved dimmer knobs, because they put them on everything. This means that turning on the lights is kind of a chore, and anyway why would you ever want a light to be dimmer? So yesterday I bought a bunch of light switches, with the intention of replacing most of the dimmers with normal switches (Cassie doesn't mind the dimmers, so the one in her writing room and the one in the hall will stay). I found out that none of the breakers are labeled, so I had to switch the whole house off, but whatever. Other than that it was pretty straightforward.

The door, there were two things wrong with: one, it didn't latch; you could open it by just pushing it in, without turning the knob. What happened there was that the strike plate came loose, one of the screws worked its way out, and nobody noticed and kept slamming the door on it. So part of the wood there is pretty shattered. I was able to hold it on with just one screw, so now it latches, but it's pretty crappy, I need to work out a better way to fix it. The internet says "fill the hole with JB Weld and drill a new everything" which seems plausible.

Cable though, that went perfectly. The outlet is replacing the old AT&T one, and it's right where I wanted it to be, behind the TV. There's a cable running directly from the pedestal (serves the whole block) to my modem, so in a first time occurrence for me there was actually too much signal; he had to put in a splitter to nothing just to make it work. So I have really fast internet there now.

The plan now is, have most everything moved by the end of next week. Cassie has next week off (spring break) so I'm going to pack stuff into boxes and stack them in my room, she'll move the boxes during the day, and I'll pack more / unpack (to reuse the boxes) at night. Then next weekend we can borrow her father's truck.

Surprisingly, I kind of love fixing things on this house. Which is probably a good thing. But this is why I've only moved like five boxes; every time I go over there I end up fixing something instead.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:348285 I have a cold 2014-03-07T05:19:27Z 2014-03-07T05:19:27Z public 2 Which is making moving hard. I caught it from Cassie, but I didn't get it as badly as she did, or I'm recovering faster maybe. I took a sick day yesterday and just reread a Laundry novel all day.

On Saturday I learned that there's an Asimov book called An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule. My copy arrived on Monday, way faster than I expected, and I read through as much as I could follow without having a slide rule in hand.

My slide rule arrived today, fresh from eBay. It's the oldest object I own by a wide margin (fossils excepted, I suppose), a Keuffel & Esser rule made in 1940. Keuffel and Esser, after slide rules stopped being a thing, kept making regular rulers and other drafting equipment, under the name K&E, until I was a kid. My father always had a bunch of their stuff laying around from surveying.

I don't really know how to do much yet. I can multiply numbers and find square roots, that's about it. The thing is actually pretty handy: you slide the middle part so that one end is lined up with one of the numbers you're multiplying, and the answer is under the other one. The way it works is that they're not linear rulers, they're log scales. Anyway, it's an interesting tool because of what it doesn't do: in order to work at all, it only deals with numbers between 1 and 10. So, you have to track the decimal points yourself, which isn't actually that hard. It's also limited in how precise it can be (being, you know, a piece of wood and all), so really what it is is a quick way to estimate answers, more accurate than an order of magnitude (since you have to track that part yourself anyway) but less accurate than getting the actual answer with arithmetic.

House-wise, we have no internet yet, because of a dog, but we finished putting together my desk today, and moved some more boxes over. This weekend (assuming I get over being sick) I hope to move all the board games over, and the electronics table in my room.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:348065 Done! 2014-03-01T03:25:32Z 2014-03-01T03:25:32Z public 0 Today I closed on the house, and got the keys. The previous owners are still moving some things out of the backyard, but it's officially mine and I can go over there whenever I want to, because it's my house.

Closing was insanely fast. The bank did it in two weeks, because they were super into getting it done in February for some reason. I got a bunch of concessions from them too, they waived almost all of my closing costs, I paid about $150 over the down payment. So that's cool.

I bought a refrigerator today too, which I'm actually more freaked out about than the house. A fancy french-door stainless steel refrigerator.

I suppose I should start packing things. Cassie has a cold so I guess that's why she's not moving things yet. She says she's going to move a bunch of stuff over spring break though.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:347741 My neighbors now have a yappy dog 2014-02-28T15:23:42Z 2014-02-28T15:23:42Z public 0 Death to yappy dog!

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:347437 Fortune 2014-02-19T21:11:13Z 2014-02-19T21:11:13Z public 0 "Character is to man what carbon is to steel."

So, too much makes them brittle and easy to break?

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:347362 Milestone 2014-02-16T21:43:40Z 2014-02-16T21:43:40Z public 0 For Christmas of 2006, my uncle gave me a Roomba. I started running it around my apartment, as you do, and after a couple days I noticed that it wasn't detecting walls right, it wouldn't follow edges correctly, that sort of thing. I took it apart to see what was up, and found that one of the leads to one of the sensors was broken off from the wire.

I went to Fry's, bought a cheap soldering pencil (no temperature control, not even a stand), some electrical tape, and a spool of solder. I did the world's worst solder joint, wrapped it in tape, and the Roomba worked again! And the electronics bug was planted.

Now, almost exactly eight years later, I have run out of solder.

In that time, I've gone from that horrible solder pencil (which I once dropped into my lap, but somehow managed to dodge away from), through two battery powered irons, three nicer temperature controlled stations, to my current station with the SMD rework gun and the smoke absorber.

What I'm a lot more proud of is, I've gone from building blinky-light kits to building much more complex kits, to designing my own things. I've built a gamepad, tweaks to my helicopter, Christmas gifts for people. I've taught myself everything from lighting up an LED with a battery to decoding radio signals. Gone from Dremeling a hole in a candy tin to printing my own enclosures. And from not even knowing what most tools do, to having a decent workbench setup.

And soon, I'm going to go from the little folding table I used in my apartment eight years ago, to having an entire room to build my stuff in, in my new house.

You know the whole thing about, to be a writer, you have to write a million (or whatever) words of bad writing before you get to start writing good things? That roll of solder was my million words. And now I'm going to take the plastic wrap off my next roll.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:346934 Also: 2014-02-16T07:47:36Z 2014-02-16T07:47:36Z public 0 Flappy Space Program

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:346777 I already know I'm going to need this icon 2014-02-16T07:43:54Z 2014-02-16T07:43:54Z public 0 Yesterday, after work, Cassie and I went to look at a couple houses. One of them was sort of lame; it had narrow little everything, old-ladyish wallpaper and woodwork and such, and a kitchen that was probably really fancy in 1977. Which was a shame because it was the one I was looking forward the most to looking at. The garage was kinda nice too, it was clearly the domain of an old man who liked to tinker with things. It was an estate sale and there was random junk everywhere, too.

Anyway, that one was a no. The second one on the other hand, was nice. You walk in, and you think "huh, this is a decent sized living room," and then you turn on the lights and you see that you're standing in an entryway, and the actual living room is the size of a small skating rink. And covered in hardwood floors. With a kitchen next to it, that's got all modern appliances and a glass-top stove.

There are four bedrooms, all with laminate floors, and the garage is converted to a den, which we'll use as a library of both books and games (and which is the future home of a Geek Chic table).

We made an offer on it yesterday, and it was accepted today, pending an inspection Wednesday. Assuming the place isn't infested with Deep Crows or something, I'm going to buy it.

So, that's the news I have to share. :)

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:346482 Lost an arm 2014-02-08T22:07:01Z 2014-02-11T01:38:06Z public 0 A couple days ago I bought Phoenix RC, an RC aircraft simulator. It's an amazing amount of fun, I've been playing with it like nonstop. Thursday night I stayed up Far Too Late messing with transmitter settings (on the transmitter itself; I can use my tweaks on the real quad) and last night I was playing with acrobatics (which I will likely never do with the real, $400 quad, but is a lot of fun on the imaginary one). It has a USB widget where I can plug in my actual controller, and the physics are great. It emulates different kinds of wind, you can tweak the weight / horsepower settings of the quad, simulate random equipment failures, etc.

Anyway, after doing that for two days, and today being the first nice day in a week, I took it out and immediately lost an arm. I was practicing zooming as fast as I could toward the construction site and then back, and I flew too fast too close to the ground and crashed.

That construction site makes me sad, too: we used to have this enormous field behind our office, but now past about 50 yards it's a muddy construction site. For what I'm sure is going to be Joe's Pine Tree, Doberman, and Swimming Pool Emporium or something equally unfriendly to fly over.

It was a pretty impressive crash, to be fair. Even from about 30 yards I could see little bits fly into the air, the thing flipped and rolled a couple times, it was very photogenic, unlike when I lost a prop flying it into a ping pong table. I managed to find all the bits that fell off, and I snapped an arm in half.

Funny thing: the props, including the ones that dug into the ground, were perfectly fine. Carbon fiber is some tough shit. The arm was toast but the prop on it still looks (and works) great.

I have eight (now seven) spare arms, so it's already flying again. But, first major crash! Woo!

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:346152 Of helicopters and hand grenades 2014-02-03T06:38:36Z 2014-02-03T06:40:02Z public 0 I was talking to Cassie today about RC flying culture, and how quadcopters are changing it. Unlike planes, quadcopters don't need an airstrip or a lot of space to fly, so you don't need to be part of a club to fly one. This change has been made possible by two major new developments: cheap microcontrollers (a quad without a computer-controlled autoleveling system is a crash looking for a place to happen) and Lithium-ion polymer batteries. The amount of power needed to run, essentially, four RC airplane power systems at once would have been too much to lift with those systems, until batteries got much smaller and better.

How much smaller and better?

Well, the batteries I use are fairly medium-sized ones, with 3000 milliamp-hours of charge, meaning that they can put out 3000 milliamps for an hour, or 6000 mA (6 amps) for 20 minutes, and so on. There's an upper limit to how fast they can be safely discharged, but let's ignore that and just look at the total power available.

If we know the voltage the battery provides, which the label tells us (and a meter confirms) is 11.1 volts, we can convert that to watt hours: 3 amp-hours times 11.1 volts is 33.3 watt-hours. One watt-second is a joule, so 33.3 watt-hours times 3600 seconds in an hour is 119880 joules. Let's round that off a bit and say 120 kJ.

Now, something to compare it to:

One gram of TNT is, Google conveniently informs me, 4184 joules. It's a bit harder to find the TNT-equivalent of modern grenades, but Wikipedia says that the stereotypical "pineapple" grenade seen in a thousand world war II movies contained 57 grams of TNT (the real ones, I mean, not the ones in the movies. Those were fake, I hope). That means a grenade in the '40s would put a total of 4184 joules-per-gram times 57 grams, or 238488 joules of energy into the Nazi tank of your choice.

So again, let's round that off for convenience and say 240 kJ. What that means is, the little blue battery pack on top of my quadcopter is the energy equivalent of half a hand grenade.

For a fun exercise, look up the specs on your smartphone. It's probably got a LiPo battery, just like my quadcopter. How much TNT do you carry in your pocket?

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:345974 Remote control lights! 2014-02-01T23:00:19Z 2014-02-01T23:00:19Z public 0 I made the lights on the quadcopter operate by remote control. Here's how that went:

There were two general problems to solve here: one is, I needed to control 12 volts to the lights, with a 5 volt signal from the receiver. So there's the voltage mismatch. The second is, the signal from the receiver isn't a simple on-off, it's a pulsed signal, so I needed some way to decode that to decide whether the receiver was saying "lights on" or "lights off."

First, the voltage. The usual way to control one signal with another one is a transistor, so that's the first thing I tried, but the normal kind of transistor (that I have a drawer full of) really wants the signals to be the same voltage. If there's too much of a difference between the base voltage (that controls whether the transistor is on or off) and the source voltage (that the transistor allows through, or doesn't) then the source voltage just goes through the base. I burned up a resistor last weekend playing around with this.

The solution to this problem is called a MOSFET: metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor. The difference between a normal transistor and a MOSFET is that once a little voltage starts to go through, that sets up a reinforcement effect that lets the rest through. So a small voltage to the base starts this avalanche going, and so a 5 volt signal will turn on or off a 12 volt signal.

Next problem, the pulses. RC aircraft are designed to have a bunch of analog signals to control servos: some level for the throttle, an angle for ailerons or whatever. An on-off signal isn't very useful on an RC plane, so RC equipment isn't really set up to produce it. What happens instead is you get a pulse: if the throttle (say) is at 0, then you get a pulse 1000 microseconds long followed by 1500 microseconds of nothing; if it's at 100% you get a 2000 microsecond pulse followed by 500 microseconds of nothing. But it's never fully on or off: the minimum pulse is 1000 us, the maximum is 2000 us. So I need something to decode that.

There were a few solutions to this: build an analog circuit which will charge a capacitor with the long pulse but the short pulse won't charge it enough, for example. Or buy another component called a speed controller, which is meant as a go-between to translate this kind of signal for an RC aircraft engine (which the copter already has four of). In the end, I cheated, and took a more expandable approach: I used an Arduino.

The Arduino reads the pulses, looks at the width, and either writes (or doesn't) to an output pin, which is connected to the MOSFET. This is kind of cheating since I used a fairly powerful computer where a few cents of passive components would do, but on the other hand now that I have this, I can use the same board do to other things later, like landing gear or control a camera or whatever.

But for now, what I have is, a board sitting on top of my copter that allows me to flip a switch and turn some lights on or off in flight. Which is kinda useless (I know when I take off whether it's dark enough for lights or not) but also kinda cool.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:345854 I need a quadcopter icon 2014-01-30T05:07:54Z 2014-01-30T05:07:54Z public 0 I finished putting lights on the quadcopter. Image album!

This involved making little feet to raise the whole thing up 30 mm, and making a little power supply board for them (since they want 12 volts and the batteries might provide anywhere from 11 to 14, depending on battery size). It means I can fly the copter at night, because I can see it. Cassie thinks it looks like a UFO and she's totally right. I'll have to get her to take a video of it next time.

The little yard-space in front of my apartment is big enough to hover in, although not as roomy as the field behind my office. I plan to fly there plenty. :)

Next step is making the lights controllable with a switch on the radio. I'm pretty sure I know how to do that, although the last time I thought that, on Sunday, I started a small fire.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:345344 Today I: 2014-01-26T01:06:21Z 2014-01-26T01:06:21Z public 0 Today I:

- Went to EPO and spent about seventy bucks. I needed some parts for something I'm doing to the quadcopter, putting lights on it. Got 12V voltage regulators (Radio Shack supposedly sells them but they were out), LEDs (I actually already had these but I found better ones), perfboard, wires (better wires for this purpose than what I already had), stuff to make connectors, and some random odds and ends. I forgot to get a switch, which is a little annoying.

The goal here is to have red lights on the back arms of the copter and white lights on the front arms. This way I can see how it's facing in the dark, so I can fly it later in the evening, so I can fly it more often. One of the sort of annoying things about flying something like this is that it's easy to lose track of how it's oriented, since it's square and spends most of its time hovering in place.

- Cleaned my room. Cleaned off my desk, cleaned the work table, put things in boxes and in the closet. I hadn't done this since, oh, October sometime? And in that time I've built several small projects, one big project, added a tool (the cutter), spent two weeks sick, et cetera. My desk was actually buried. Like, the level of crap covered up the bottom of the monitor.

- Put the Commando 23 set on a keyboard. This was a group buy for some keycaps that I got in on a while back, and last week they were delivered. They were the final straw for junk piled on my desk. They look pretty all right on a keyboard though.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:345114 Getting projects done 2014-01-20T06:23:20Z 2014-01-20T06:23:20Z public 0 I've had a piece of cardstock stuck to the cutting mat, ready to be fed through the cutter, for over a month. Tonight I finally got around to doing that, and now I have a little custom deck of Werewolf cards. They're not too fancy but they're definitely a proof that I can make cards. I'll post pictures tomorrow.

Part of the problem is that I am about at maximum table capacity: I had to run a USB cable across the room to reach the cutter, and I'll have to move the whole thing when I want to solder anything again. I can't wait to get into a house and have a room I can line with 6-foot tables.

Cards came out pretty well though. I need to do two things: one, figure out how to do the classic WarGames-like monoline font thing (looks like this). Since it's a cutter, it thinks it's cutting the outline of something, it can't shade in solid shapes. I need to teach it to be a plotter.

Two, I want a better way to remove the cards from the mat than "peel them off individually with a spatula." It's kind of annoying, especially if I want to make multiple cardsheets.

I also got a servo working on an Arduino, and got my print on with a little mount for a laser module. I can now send commands to aim a laser (although only on one axis; I haven't finished the whole assembly yet).

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:344879 Flying a quadcopter 2014-01-18T23:54:48Z 2014-01-18T23:54:48Z public 0 My transmitter module came on Friday, so today I went to the field behind my office to fly. Mike, my friend who ran the class for building them, came too.

Hovering inside is more or less easy. Holding a constant altitude is tough, the throttle is really sensitive, making it pretty much like every other RC helicopter I've ever flown.

Flying outside is a bit harder. I don't have to care as much how high I am, so it's easier in that respect, but then there's wind. Holding it steady in the wind (even a fairly light breeze) isn't easy. I did figure out how to recover from an imminent crash: cut the throttle, so I start falling, then gun it right before I hit the ground to soften the landing. I saved the thing from being carried away by the wind a few times by doing that.

We found out that there's an RC hobby place about 15 minutes from work, and although they don't have replacement rotors, they do have tools, servos, radio stuff, batteries, et cetera. I bought some tiny screws and a hot air gun (for something else I'm building).

I also found that some (expensive, carbon fiber) propellers can be had from Amazon for about $16. This is more expensive than the $4 / set prop sets from the Chinese site Hobbyking, but they also don't take three weeks to be shipped.

Why do I care about props all of a sudden? Because, naturally, I managed to flip it over (I blame the wind) and break a prop in half. So, it'll be Wednesday before I can fly it again.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-07-06:528277:344701 Building a quadcopter 2014-01-14T05:27:53Z 2014-01-14T05:27:53Z public 0 A few months ago, Tina told me that Mike was running a class at the hackerspace on building remote-control quadcopters, so I signed up. The class was last weekend.

The class cost $250 or so, which included a bunch of quadcopter parts. It didn't include all the parts, though, because some stuff (a radio, batteries and a charger, etc) would already be owned by someone who was into RC stuff, so I had to buy those separately, another $200 or so. Which wasn't really a problem.

First day, I come in a little late, and we start assembling things. I brought my own soldering iron and some other tools, because I was kinda worried that the hackerspace would have crummy tools, and I wasn't disappointed: their iron was pretty low quality and the soldering we had to do was actually fairly hard (really giant wires, to pass really giant currents to motors) so I busted out mine. The guy I was sitting next to, Michael, was really cool and we helped each other out a lot.

First problem I had was that apparently my transmitter module was dead. The receiver works because it worked with Michael's (identical) transmitter, but I can't transmit. Still, I'm able to get everything built by borrowing his transmitter to test it. Solder on some wires, assemble the frame, attach components to the frame, use a laptop to set up the firmware and calibrate the sensors, balance the props, configure the RC controller, it took pretty much all day. But I had the hardware done!

Second day, we get to test them. Everyone took their copter out to a warehouse in the back of the building and we flew them around some. I lagged behind a little bit because I was trying to set up the firmware again on my laptop (I had used Michael's on Saturday) but I eventually get out there, borrow Michael's transmitter again, and fire it up.

The thing flies perfectly. It's completely stable, because the controller board is smart enough to sense whether it's level and adjust it. I can pretty easily hover it at about chest high, move it around, land it without letting it drop too far. Way easier to fly than my other (little bitty) one.

Of course, after flying it for a bit, I discover that the battery charger I ordered was also DOA. Argh.

So, now I have a nice quadcopter sitting on my bed that I can't do anything with. I bought another battery charger from a hobby store locally, and I ordered another transmitter but until I get it in I can't fly it. It's pretty annoying.

On the other hand, after this class, I have a pretty good idea how to build RC things. I think I want to build a little RC robot next, like a tanklike thing (maybe not a tank, maybe wheels, I dunno) with a turret I can aim. I think I can print most of it and I know enough electronics to make it.

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Usually these missteps cause me to doubt my entire existence. Questions of "why am I on the earth? Am I no good? I can't even defend my own opinion. How am I qualified to be a mother? Everyone thinks I am dumb. I'm sure my husband is just putting up with me."
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