Year: 2006

Science Demonstrations, more ways to fail

Sigh. One last control experiment. Put the baking soda in the control jar. Oops, the control jar still doesn’t heat as fast as the other one (which is now effectively the "control"). I’ve got something which appears to be sensor/jar dependent but in an odd fashion. I did a check before running the experiment by …

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Boiler Plate

This is the easy part. If you have never written a Perl module, you can find some tutorials elsewhere [need reference]. Our Perl module will be called Astro::INDI and we can produce a skeleton quite simply. I’m going to be bit picky here and insert POD (plain-old documentation) as I do this. It’s a habit …

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G2Image Hacks

After a bit of work, I’ve been able to hack the Drupal G2Image module to allow inserting full-size images. This isn’t exactly what I want, but it is better than inserting thumbnails. The problem with thumbnails is they look like crap when scaled up. The problem with full-sized images is that they end up being …

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Unbalanced

No, not me (well…), it’s my scope. I loaded everything onto my MI-250 as planned for next week and discovered I can’t get a good balance left-right (uhm, declination). It’s that 300mm f/4 lens on the Pentax 67. I had a clever idea that suffered the same fate as many of my clever ideas—it didn’t …

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