収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

This is a link to my new Greater Northshore bike connector map, built to link the long-maintained Seattle and new Eastside 2 Line Rail connector bike maps. Since we haven’t had one and nobody else is going to connect the dots, I decided I would.

The partially-covered white map at the bottom left is Seattle’s; and the lower-down equivalent on the bottom right is the very top of the 2 Line Rail Eastside map. Everything else is this map.

If printed at 300dpi actual, the map is 24″x10.4″ or 608x264mm in size. It should fold down nicely if you’re into that sort of thing.

NEW IN RC1:

• Steepness markings, measured using Google Maps data and trigonometry, with the single- and double-chevron steepness indicators pointing uphill and scaled as per the 2 Line Eastside map.
• A couple of very small corrections

What’s not listed: trails on private property and some completely isolated islands of quasi-bike-lanes that go nowhere.

Corrections desired.

Finally, thanks to the other contributors to this map:

• Erik H on Facebook (Bothell additions)
• @sip@social.ridetrans.it (Shoreline additions)

#BikeTooter #BikeMap #maps #Shoreline #LakeForestPark #Kenmore #Bothell #Woodinville

Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.

I'd reblog this, but you can't do that here, so I'm just going to link. mdlbear has put up a good compilation post on getting the best out of Dreamwidth, linking to a lot of posts and resources specifically aimed at people coming over from tumblr, but also from other social media servers.

A couple of weeks ago I needed to replace a floodlight and discovered makers have mostly stopped listing CRI numbers, which pisses me off, and that I think is probably because they've decided 80 is Good Enough, which - okay, it's pretty good, and it's a lot better than anything off a compact florescent bulb. But >90 bulbs are available and I want them!

So I started ordering high CR and replacing/relocating-to-less-important-area other bulbs and it's kind of got away from me a bit. Because if CRI data is going to be difficult to get I'm gonna buy a lot of bulbs that I know are right and install them because they will last a good little while, so.

(Don't get me wrong, 80 is entirely reasonable. But I can get 92-93 and I will pay extra for it, where 'extra' translates to "$1-2/bulb.")

I also figured out that what I was really doing when I was mixing colour temperatures of CF and traditional tube bulbs wasn't so much for the colour temperature itself as for filling in the gaps in spectrum and improving the overall CRI.

So if anybody in your house cares, these are good:

A19 60 watt equivalent: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O75K6AS/
A19 40 watt equivalent: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RQPHU5K/
BR30 (overhead can) 60/65 watt equivalent: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LTAOIA8/

"A19" means "ordinary bulb" for people who don't speak bulb types. The BR30s are not always as good in dimmers as the packaging says, according to reviews; I don't have any of that type dimmers, so I don't care.

If anyone is wondering, the CRI of LED filament bulbs is 80, which is, again, perfectly reasonable. But one can go above that if one so desires.

I recently found turntable.fm. It’s kind of a chat site except for playing music. Each room is a also DJ room; you can play music for everybody in your room, your own or from the site’s library. People can take turns playing DJ, and they make it easy to buy tracks you like, which is how they make their money and how they don’t get shut down. You need a US proxy server or a an IP in a block that is generally believed to be in the US because of DMCA bullshit, but if you have that, it’s pretty epic.

Here’s the thing; I live in range of KEXP and C89FM, two of the best independent music stations in North America. I listen to them! They’re locally programmed and that’s awesome, because they’re run by people who care about music.

But they each have their preferences. There’s a definite KEXP sound. Same for C89FM. Once upon a time, a decently-sized city would’ve had a few of these stations – if you were lucky, several – so you’d have non-generic options in the ways you don’t, generally, now. Most towns ended up with zero; we’re lucky even to have the two.

This brings some of that back. Different rooms, different DJs, taking turns, a lot of different styles. You guys, I have bought so much new music in the last couple of days it’s just stupid. And cool. Like a fez.

WE HAVE SHOW POSTERS! TAKE AND SHARE! Print some out for your bulletin board! You must have something, right? I know it’s the Friday of Conflikt, I take the gigs when I gets ‘em. NOT ALL OF YOU ARE GOING TO CONFLIKT! So come here if you’re not, and bring a friend. Three bands, three sets, no cover! Show page here, poster:

Click image for the JPG; the PDF version is here.

Oh, I forgot; I’m DJ Solarbirdy on turntable.fm, and am usually in J-Pop-and-Anime or Indie While You Work. But I hang out in the K-pop room sometimes too and I will wander around. Wave if you see me. ^_^

Mirrored from Crime and the Blog of Evil. Come listen to our music!

House Cerulia has a spare bedroom and is looking for a fourth person! They're a North Seattle group house, only without the college party annoyance. It's also a geek community social nexus; they host house concerts, occasionally entertain on a large scale, and have monthly gaming nights. Queer/alt-lifestyle/alt-diet friendly; anyone interested must also be similarly so! Bonus points: approximately 100% less hornet infested than Murkworks North has been this week. XD

If interested, check here for details:

http://housecerulia.livejournal.com/22118.html

Go read this:

https://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-and-the-computer-conspiracy-“to-destroy-this-invisible-government”/#

Key excerpt:

For Assange... a conspiracy is something fairly banal, simply any network of associates who act in concert by hiding their concerted association from outsiders, an authority that proceeds by preventing its activities from being visible enough to provoke counter-reaction. ...most of the media commentary on the latest round of leaks has totally missed the point. After all, why are diplomatic cables being leaked? ... most seem to simply be a broad swath of the everyday normal secrets that a security state keeps... But Assange is not trying to produce a journalistic scandal which will then provoke red-faced government reforms or something, precisely because no one is all that scandalized by such things any more. Instead, he is trying to strangle the links that make the conspiracy possible, to expose the necessary porousness of the American state’s conspiratorial network in hopes that the security state will then try to shrink its computational network in response, thereby making itself dumber and slower and smaller.

Emphases added.

Recently, I saw a post someone made on legitimate work-at-home jobs - ones where you actually make some, if not awesome, money, and actually get paid, and so on, as opposed to all the scams. I would really like to find this post again but am not having a lot of luck. Did any of you lot post this? If not, did you see it and do you remember where it is?

(And if you're wondering, no, this isn't for anybody at the Murkworks. I'm researching for someone else.)

5 creepy ways video games are trying to get you addicted.

How to keep someone with you forever.

Data not graphed by today's XKCD and "I've had {x} boy/girlfriends":

x: "I've had {x}" "boy/girlfriends", I've had {x} "boy/girlfriends"
1: 0, 44,100
2: 5, 46,400
3: 8, 47,800
4: 9, 42,600
5: 8, 42,000
6: 3, 40,100
7: 3, 39,600
8: 4, 39,300
9: 2, 38,200
10: 0, 42,700
Note: Google suggested "without quotes" in most cases.

x: "I've had {x}" "girl/boyfriends", I've had {x} "girl/boyfriends"
1: 2, 16,600
2: 5670, 16,600 <-- a HA!
3: 722, 20,600
4: 7, 18,300
5: 5, 15,200
6: 4, 14,800
7: 1, 14,200
8: 3, 13,600
9: 1, 13,300
10: 3, 16,900
Note: Google suggested "girlfriends" in most cases.

I'm not going to work on this right now, because I'm trying to make a CD, not tweak the DAW more, but here're some instructions for optimising Jack on Ubuntu Studio 8.04. I have not done all of this - mostly I still have PulseAudio running. But for future reference: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.