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Turning the corner?
Jun. 13th, 2008 11:27 pmWe had a major shift in the weather, but I don't think it's permanent. This afternoon the sun put in an appearance and the air dried so that it felt more like June for a change.
Found a use for the high speed printer at work. I generally avoid the thing because it is so complex and doesn't do much that another printer can't do aside from producing many copies of an item quickly. However, it is also a document and image scanner. I had borrowed an out of print book through interlibrary loan and decided to see if I could create an "e-book" of it. It was a good subject for the experiment because the binding was loose enough to let it lie flat without damage and a two page spread fit nicely on one legal sized sheet. The scanner is able to store a whole sequence of frames in its memory and assemble them into a single PDF file, so after some experiments to set resolution and format, I flipped pages one at a time and scanned the entire thing. The results aren't bad at all, except for the fact that the print was fairly small, so I had to use a higher resolution, making the file quite large.
The tomatoes and peppers I started from seed a month ago are ready to plant. Unfortunately everything is too soggy for them. If the weather will hold for two or three days, then we'll be ready, but it looks like even more rain is coming tomorrow night.
The sword of Damocles is hanging over our arena roof too, in the form of a very large oak branch. I noticed this morning that the top of one of our tall oaks had broken during one of this week's storms, but rather than falling all the way to the ground it caught by one branch and is suspended about 50 feet in the air, upside down over the roof. Hopefully it will fall soon while it is still green and springy. Then the thinner branches and leaves will cushion the impact and bounce it off the edge of the roof. If it stays up there until winter, it may do a lot more damage. It's too high and inaccessible for us to do much other than wait for it to fall of its own accord. Guess I should try to get a photo of it in case we need to file an insurance claim.
Found a use for the high speed printer at work. I generally avoid the thing because it is so complex and doesn't do much that another printer can't do aside from producing many copies of an item quickly. However, it is also a document and image scanner. I had borrowed an out of print book through interlibrary loan and decided to see if I could create an "e-book" of it. It was a good subject for the experiment because the binding was loose enough to let it lie flat without damage and a two page spread fit nicely on one legal sized sheet. The scanner is able to store a whole sequence of frames in its memory and assemble them into a single PDF file, so after some experiments to set resolution and format, I flipped pages one at a time and scanned the entire thing. The results aren't bad at all, except for the fact that the print was fairly small, so I had to use a higher resolution, making the file quite large.
The tomatoes and peppers I started from seed a month ago are ready to plant. Unfortunately everything is too soggy for them. If the weather will hold for two or three days, then we'll be ready, but it looks like even more rain is coming tomorrow night.
The sword of Damocles is hanging over our arena roof too, in the form of a very large oak branch. I noticed this morning that the top of one of our tall oaks had broken during one of this week's storms, but rather than falling all the way to the ground it caught by one branch and is suspended about 50 feet in the air, upside down over the roof. Hopefully it will fall soon while it is still green and springy. Then the thinner branches and leaves will cushion the impact and bounce it off the edge of the roof. If it stays up there until winter, it may do a lot more damage. It's too high and inaccessible for us to do much other than wait for it to fall of its own accord. Guess I should try to get a photo of it in case we need to file an insurance claim.
