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Fri Nov 13 06:00:01 EST 2020 ======================================== Slept from ten to six without waking. Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain showers in the morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Work ---------------------------------------- - Follow up on Entrata email ticket Done. - Follow up with Randy about monitors Done. - Follow up on Dell account! Done. - Car ports for Heather No. - Order check scanning computer to sit at Kari's laptop No. - Order monitors for Randy Done. - Check lockbox file Done. - Get Greg on the domain on his laptop Done. Twenty-minute walk at lunch. Overcast, somewhat dreary. Saw a cardinal and a pair of tiny woodpeckers. Home ---------------------------------------- Vacuumed. https://www.npr.org/2020/11/13/934459505/japanese-town-uses-robot-wolf-to-scare-away-bears > Officials in the Japanese town of Takikawa saw bears roaming around and were worried about an attack. So they used a fur covered wolf scarecrow that howls when it detects motion to scare them away. https://www.unilad.co.uk/animals/japanese-city-uses-monster-wolf-robots-to-scare-away-bears/ > The robots are around one metre in size and, by using infrared sensors, can detect when a bear is near. When a bear is detected, the robot wolf begins to make loud noises and shake it heads while its eyes light up in a menacing red. > It also boasts large white fangs and shaggy fur, which add to its overall appearance as something you definitely wouldn’t want to stumble across late at night. NHK > Apparently the robots have 60 different types of sounds ranging from human voices, gun shots and a wolf’s bark, so that the bears don’t get used to the robot. > Takikawa, home to around 41,000 residents, had recently seen a rise in bear activity and found they had started to become more dangerous while they look for food, ABC News reports. This spurred the city on to take on the new approach to deterring bears, especially at a time when bears go on large hunts for food before going into hibernation in late November. > There’s also been a decrease in acorns and nuts in the wild which officials think has played a part in the bears coming closer to residential areas to find food. > Machinery company Ohta Seiki are the brains behind the quirky robots and are said to have sold around 70 of them in the past two years. > Reports say that bear sightings are at a five-year high in western and northern Japan and that this year has seen dozens of attacks – two of which were fatal. https://warisboring.com/tyndall-air-force-base-to-receive-militarys-first-robot-dogs/ http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2020/11/interview-rick-priestley-part-ii.html > Well I had a game called "Rogue Trader" that I brought to Citadel when I joined – but that game was basically a spaceship combat style game for which I’d designed the models. I joined Citadel on the understanding that I’d "get to do" Rogue Trader one day – and we got as far as advertising it in one of the early Citadel Journals if I remember correctly. Once Warhammer took off we started to put science-fiction elements in right away – you can see it in some of the Journal and Compendium articles, especially in the scenarios set in Lustria where the Amazons are often armed with alien weapons of mysterious kind. > So, the idea was always there, and I was always pushing to "do Rogue Trader" but didn’t get a chance until the TSR crew joined up. After that we were awash with designers, and at the time there was an assumption that the "big money" was in role-playing games and board games – so we started to produce those in some quantity. We also employed Nigel Stillman to take on some of the Warhammer work specifically, and Hal re-joined the studio at about the same time. So, whilst everyone else was distracted I finally got to "do Rogue Trader," although when I started no one expected it to amount to much. The word at the time was that "science-fiction doesn’t sell," this was so axiomatic that I was to understand we wouldn’t make many new models, but people would be encouraged to convert their fantasy models into science-fiction equivalents, to which end we would make conversion packs of weapons. That’s why the Rogue Trader/40K alien races are basically Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, etc "in space" – although to be fair that was also the premise of my original spaceship rules. Those spaceship rules were supposed to be printed in the back of the Rogue Trader book – but alas by the time I’d written everything else there wasn’t room! Received my carbon steel pan today. Attempting to season it…. https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/24520/is-there-a-difference-in-the-ease-of-seasoning-cast-iron-forged-iron-and-carbo > For my forged iron DeBuyer fry pan, I followed the manufacturer's recommendation for initial seasoning: put enough oil in the pan (I use canola) to coat the bottom. Heat to smoking. I swirled the hot oil around to coat the sides a bit. Let it cool, pour and wipe out the oil. https://debuyer-usa.com/pages/use-care-de-buyer-usa > 1. Remove the beeswax by scrubbing with hot water and a soft sponge. > 2. Pour a thin layer of oil (preferably with a high smoke point) at the bottom of the pan and apply slightly on sides too. Heat up. > 3. Once the oil starts smoking, let it cool down on the side. Remove hot oil ald let dry. Wipe down sides with oil an store in a dry place when done using. One annoying thing about this MS Sculpt keyboard: it prevents Linux from suspending. Rather, the box suspends, then immediately wakes back up. https://askubuntu.com/questions/509017/desktop-wakes-from-suspend-at-random-14-04 https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface/issues/525 ``` 🐚 bava ~ $ cat /proc/acpi/wakeup … 🐚 bava ~ $ sudo sh -c 'echo EHC1 > /proc/acpi/wakeup' 🐚 bava ~ $ sudo sh -c 'echo EHC2 > /proc/acpi/wakeup' 🐚 bava ~ $ sudo sh -c 'echo XHC > /proc/acpi/wakeup' ``` Disabling (until the next reboot) the XHC device _does_ allow my my machine to stay suspended. I expected that this would also prevent me from waking it my pressing a key on the keyboard (I'd have to use the power button) but strangely that doesn't seem to the case. Keyboard input still wakes it. Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: banana, cucumber, cookies, coffee Lunch: orange, egg and avocado wrap Dinner: Cheetos

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