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Terry Karney's LiveJournal:
| Friday, March 15th, 2013 | |
| 10:45 am | Pump up the Volume Some guys, a few years back, found a treasure trove of date from the Lunar Program, specifically a lot of analog tapes from the Lunar Orbiter Missions of 1966-1967. Not only are they fragile, but the means to read them were practically non-existent. So they did what any technical types who could would do, they set up shop at Moffett Field, and went to work. They got NASA to contribute some, and they went to the drawing boards (literally) and reconstructed, rebuilt, and re-engineered the needed equipment (seriously, some of the equipment they devised from looking at the mathematics of the old systems). But they need more money. NASA's contribution has run out. They have a rockethub crowdsourcing project. We are looking for people to help us complete the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP). We call this technoarchaeology - mining the past to support science in the future. Between 1966 and 1967, NASA sent five Lunar Orbiter missions to the Moon. Their mission was to photograph the lunar surface to help identify future Apollo mission landing sites. The spacecraft carried 70mm photographic film which was developed automatically in lunar orbit aboard the spacecraft. The developed film was then scanned with a light beam and this modulated a signal which was sent back to Earth. I think it's worth it. I certainly think spreading the word is worth it. |
| Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 | |
| 9:42 pm | Plans I'll be in SF for about two weeks at the beginning of March. There is a filk convention in Newark, and then I'll be a guest of FogCon, where something relating to interogation/torture/affiliated issues will be the subject of some discussion. In between I'll have some time in Palo Alto. If anyone wants to try and make plans, feel free to drop me a line. |
| Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 | |
| 12:05 pm | Pretty pictures I have a new post up. showing off some of my progress at spinning. I am not actually pubbing all the new material I put up to DW/LJ, so @betterthansalt is probably the most reliable way to know when I have something new up. |
| Monday, February 4th, 2013 | |
| 12:35 am | |
| Thursday, January 24th, 2013 | |
| 8:43 pm | |
| Sunday, January 13th, 2013 | |
| 9:13 am | |
| Friday, January 11th, 2013 | |
| 9:23 pm | |
| Thursday, January 10th, 2013 | |
| 10:49 pm | |
| 6:52 pm | |
| Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 | |
| 11:22 pm | On seeing things New Post Up, sort of about spinning, sort of about looking at the world through new eyes. Also, replug of the twitterfeed for the blog @BetterThanSalt |
| Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 | |
| 1:58 pm | I have made a dedicated twitter for links to blog posts: https://twitter.com/BetterThanSalt Not to be confused with my personal twitter at https://twitter.com/pecunium |
| Monday, December 31st, 2012 | |
| 11:32 pm | |
| Friday, November 16th, 2012 | |
| 1:22 pm | |
| Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 | |
| 6:15 pm | On Petreaus I don't think he should have been allowed to resign, and It's not about the sex. Please comment there, not here. |
| Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 | |
| 11:37 pm | Oi.... Fingering on bagpipes is horrid. The top half of the octave is bizzare. I'll figure it out, but cross-fingering to get up past the fifth note? |
| 2:22 pm | In other news I have a practice chanter. I can now do something I've wanted to do for ages, learn the bagpipes. :) |
| 2:21 pm | |
| Saturday, October 20th, 2012 | |
| 12:45 am | New blog post Voter fraud is rare, and when it does happen it’s either extremely local, or small beans. It’s not that it’s rare, it’s that it’s infinitesimal. The sort of fraud being alleged… one person pretending to be someone they aren’t, so as to vote more than once (which is the ostensible reason for the voter ID laws 12 states have tried to implement this election cycle) has been the cause of 10 arrests since 2000.... |
| Thursday, October 18th, 2012 | |
| 1:41 pm | I'll have to come up with a catchy header Or perhaps a new icon, so that posts about new posts on my wordpress blog are distinct. Suffice it to say, I have one. You have to own your deeds about gawker/reddit and what accountability (or the lack thereof) means to community. |
| Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 | |
| 11:08 pm | Changes in latitudes I've created a wordpress blog. It's been a long time coming, and I'll be linking entries to here (as I do on my with twitter and G+). Lj has been semi-moribund for me for a bit, and I want some of the greater control I have at wordpress. It's with mixed feelings this platform becomes secondary to me. http://pecunium.wordpress.com/ |