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About 30 cm (12") of snow to shovel, and I think I need to get to the shop tomorrow. (Sigh!)
The -7°C (19.5°F) with 5 m/s wind doesn't exactly make the shoveling a pleasure.
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Man... That's some icky-tasting stuff!
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Also jiggering with the ship date since I am invited to another voyage to SLC. It seems grandad is needed to stimulate interest in calculus. The science inclined one needs no motivational lecture. The business inclined one will have the usefulness of higher maths in optimization, finance and (most importantly) video games as carrots.
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The podcast has just dropped. We did 70 minutes of recordings, of which about 1 minute of my audio made it into the program.
I expected heavy editing. After all, it is only a 9 minute podcast.
Here is the link to the podcast, available worldwide:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1x8w
In general, I think Nick has done an excellent job producing and editing this and after the interview, we chatted about doing a much longer special for a different program about the worldwide community of solar eclipse chasers and the "sport" of solar eclipse chasing.
cheers
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You came across very professionally and knowledgeable
Maybe you should consider doing some YouTube videos (if you haven't already) about your astronomy experiences and post links on the Forum.
If you could get sponsorship from some companies you could make a bit of pocket money from them
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Hi Vanessa,Butterfly Maiden wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 11:19 am Good to listen to Joe.
You came across very professionally and knowledgeable
Maybe you should consider doing some YouTube videos (if you haven't already) about your astronomy experiences and post links on the Forum.
If you could get sponsorship from some companies you could make a bit of pocket money from them
Thank you so much. I have some eclipse videos on Vimeo but they are not monetised. I also have some astronomical image processing tutorials on the same vimeo channel. Vimeo allows videos to be password protected and hidden, So I have done that with those tutorials and they are only available to my workshop students.
The problem I see with what you suggest is that I have little to no audio or video on file. Mostly stills. So it would mostly be me talking behind stills or Burns effect pans. But thank you for your suggestion. I'll give it some thought.
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Maybe it's good: my next credit card bill will be about 3000 eur. Hurts to think that.
Also shoveled the last third of the snow from my yard. I hope I get to go to sauna next weekend without having to shovel snow again before that.
Still have to study if there's something I could do to the stove to get more löyly. Cleaning the fireplace (or whatchacallit, where you put the firewood) might help a bit, now that the holes are welded.
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He's a very funny man.
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FedEx was supposed to deliver my 102ED Thursday, but delivery was delayed. I opted to have them hold it at a local office, but I don't have much faith in FedEx from previous experiences, so we'll see where the scope actually winds up. Guess it's also time to decide which scope(s) to sell to thin the herd.
Sold my TW-1 mount so it might also be time to consider getting something with a higher load capacity than my
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Installed Windows 11 on the desktop since it was holding up some other upgrades and Micro$oft would not quite bugging me about it. So far everything seems to be working.
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The batteries are pretty easy to replace and readily availabe.GCoyote wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 1:16 am My 2012 Samsung tablet is dying, no longer holding a charge. I was never able to get my Amazon Fire tablet to accept the change of cookies the site went through so I used the Samsung for browsing the forum and my astronomy aps. Without it, I have to use the desktop PC to access the forums, hence my lack of participation these past few weeks.
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I also found ZWO LRGB filter set in a shop here in Finland. Ordered.
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Not sure it's worth it for a device that old.UlteriorModem wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 3:07 amThe batteries are pretty easy to replace and readily availabe.GCoyote wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 1:16 am My 2012 Samsung tablet is dying, no longer holding a charge. I was never able to get my Amazon Fire tablet to accept the change of cookies the site went through so I used the Samsung for browsing the forum and my astronomy aps. Without it, I have to use the desktop PC to access the forums, hence my lack of participation these past few weeks.
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If that was me Gary, I would put the money a new battery would cost towards a new device - ten years is quite old for the other components to be reliable for much longer.GCoyote wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 4:47 pmNot sure it's worth it for a device that old.UlteriorModem wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 3:07 amThe batteries are pretty easy to replace and readily availabe.GCoyote wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 1:16 am My 2012 Samsung tablet is dying, no longer holding a charge. I was never able to get my Amazon Fire tablet to accept the change of cookies the site went through so I used the Samsung for browsing the forum and my astronomy aps. Without it, I have to use the desktop PC to access the forums, hence my lack of participation these past few weeks.
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I have replaced the battery in my wifes Kindle fire like 3 times now. It's still chugging along. Though I did have to explain to her to turn off the damn wifi when reading booksGCoyote wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 4:47 pmNot sure it's worth it for a device that old.UlteriorModem wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 3:07 amThe batteries are pretty easy to replace and readily availabe.GCoyote wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 1:16 am My 2012 Samsung tablet is dying, no longer holding a charge. I was never able to get my Amazon Fire tablet to accept the change of cookies the site went through so I used the Samsung for browsing the forum and my astronomy aps. Without it, I have to use the desktop PC to access the forums, hence my lack of participation these past few weeks.
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I have replaced the battery in my wifes Kindle fire like 3 times now. It's still chugging along. Though I did have to explain to her to turn off the damn wifi when reading books
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Yeah, I like NEVER use wi-fi for my phone, except for downloading apps. Leaving it on, for some reason just eats up battery time.
I have a cap of 5 gigs a month for whatever before I am charged extra, and barely squeak out 2 or 3.
I think it is all those things that are "calling home", even though I have just about ALL the permissions turned off.
Go figure.
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It keeps communicating with the tower, so the system knows if it can be paged, but yes, also those "news" polls by applications. They usually wait for available WiFi. And if there's no WiFi available, some of them may even use 3G/4G/5G.515bonner wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 9:34 pmYeah, I like NEVER use wi-fi for my phone, except for downloading apps. Leaving it on, for some reason just eats up battery time.I have replaced the battery in my wifes Kindle fire like 3 times now. It's still chugging along. Though I did have to explain to her to turn off the damn wifi when reading books
I have a cap of 5 gigs a month for whatever before I am charged extra, and barely squeak out 2 or 3.
I think it is all those things that are "calling home", even though I have just about ALL the permissions turned off.
Go figure.
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Trying to get him to move here, but stubborn is what stubborn does.
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I had the same difficult discussion with my Mom. I failed to persuade and didn’t force the issue though I had PoA. It’s tricky. Good luck.
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