Digital x-rays are nifty. When going to the dentist today I happened to get an every-five-year full mouth set. Fortunately earlier this year I installed a digital x-ray system at my dentist’s office.
The full set (plus one mistake where the sensor slipped from the holder) is available here: Dental X-Rays (photo gallery retired)
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Ryoji Ikeda + Oscilloscope on speaker line == amazing.
This is almost as good of a reason for hanging speakers next to my workbench as listening to music itself.
Continuing with photos of things in my basement, I give you this: a photo of one of the speakers now hanging next to my workbench.
I’ve had these speakers hanging around in a closet for a few years now after acquiring them during a quantity purchase from ABC Warehouse where they were being sold for cheap. They were briefly used in my office back in my apartment, but were put away when I moved here.
In the end I only had to spend around US$4 to get everything hung, and all of that was spent on eye hooks and some 20 gauge steel wire at Lowes. Partially because I was too cheap to buy ~100′ of zip cord (and partially because I knew it would work) I cabled them up with a single run of CAT5, one pair for each terminal. Suspension was done via eye hooks and some measured, cut, and bent wire. It seems to have worked out well. As expected, the hardest part was the cable run across the basement. During this I was reminded something I already knew: construction people are lazy.
As I was being lazy myself, I decided to just run the speaker wire parallel to the mains power, through the same holes in the joists. Since the speakers aren’t that great to begin with, I shouldn’t notice any interference. Well, in running this I found that (as expected) all the holes drilled by my dad and I were nice and clean, parallel with the floor. All the holes drilled by the original electricians were sloppy, mostly pointing upwards with the original Romex simply rammed through.
Anyway, it’s done, and now I can listen to music at my workbench without having to turn the home theater stuff at the other end of the basement up. I’ve been somewhat worried about bothering my neighbors, so I figure that this is a good way to cut down on such noise.
Now to get a good night sleep, something I haven’t done in all too many days.
I’m surprised by how un-dusty the inside of the cold air return is, just above my furnace. I opened it up today as part of installing a second doorbell chime in my basement because, as anyone who has come by my place has likely noticed, I can’t hear the doorbell when I’m down there. Additionally, I tend to be downstairs working on things fairly often, so the lack of doorbell pretty much makes people have to just walk in.
I am also really liking Adobe Photoshop Lightroom again. Beta 4 is really quite polished, to the point where I’m considering buying CS3 when it comes out. It just simply seems like a much better app than Digital Photo Professional, which I’d been using for a while now.
Today an order of camera stuffs came in, too. This is good. Now I’ve got a hunk of protective glass on the 24-70 L, a lens cap for it, more lens cleaning stuffs, and step-up rings so the circular polarizer can be used on both the 50mm and 100mm lenses. However, when going to take a photo of the bottle of Fiddler’s Elbow I’m trying tonight I didn’t put a memory card in the camera. With the camera set to take pictures when no card is installed, you can imagine where the photos went. Whoops.
Woo! $475 for the lens and $20 for the hood, sold to a guy in South Africa who appears to be legit.
I like to think that I get more bids by being willing to ship overseas. I think if one is careful it’s generally safe, and with the US dollar doing horribly there’s a big advantage for people in other countries to buy our stuff. Shipping overseas is pretty easy, too. Same old USPS, just different options to pick from.
Do any of you know how to donate software licenses?
I’ve got a 20 CAL copy of Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, for x64 here. It’s NFR, and was handed to me by a MS rep. Unfortunately I don’t have a use for it. I can’t really sell it, so I’d like to donate it to a charity which can use it. But I don’t know of any. If any of you know of a organization which can (and will) use it, and how I can get it to them, please let me know.
And yes, it’s brand new, still sealed, etc.
Thanks. :D
Thanks to LJ’s new AJAX-ness breaking and the built-in autosave stuff failing, I just lost what I wrote here. So, I’ll try again:
Upon arriving home from work today I found a small box on the porch. Upon opening it I remembered that last week I had ordered a eval kit for Cypress’ PSoC Express. I had figured that it would just be a CD or something, but it turned out to be a lot more. What I received is the package you see above, containing two CY3210-PSoCEVAL1 boards, a CY8C29446 PSoC, a CY8C27443 PSoC, a 9V battery, cables, jumpers, and everything else one could need for getting familiar with PSoCs.
Thus far I have to say that I’m pretty impressed with PSoC Express. It’s a bit clunky to work with, but in a few minutes I was able to bang together a blinking LED, the turning on/off of LEDs at various positions on a pot, latching an LED on or off with each button press, etc. It’s really quite nifty.
If you’re interested in seeing more photos of the eval kit, take a look here: Cypress PSoC ExpressEval Kit (photo gallery retired)
If you’d like one, they can be acquired from Cypress’ Get PSoC site.
Anyone interested in buying my Canon EF-S 17-85MM f4-5.6 IS USM? I’m asking US$500 for it, along with the EW-73B hood and two filters, a Hoya slim circular polarizer and Tiffen UV. (The UV filter was generally kept on the lens to help mitigate damage, were the lens to be bumped or dropped.)
The lens was purchased by me at the very end of last year along with my Canon 20D. As I’ve acquired a new lens which overlaps the usefulness of this one, I’ve decided to sell it.
It has never been dropped, is in excellent condition, and works great. I simply don’t need it any more.
It’ll likely go up on eBay within a day or so if I don’t hear from anyone, so please let me know if you are interested.
Thanks!
UPDATE: It’s now on eBay, along with the hood: 290038467858 & 290038468779
