May 31, 2019
Test riding a new frame
—orc Fri May 31 23:57:39 2019
A crow browses for bagel crumbs out in front of Henry Higgins this afternoon.
—orc Fri May 31 19:47:05 2019
May 30, 2019
Approximately 6 miles to the doctor’s office, then approximately 30 miles (+1700 feet of climbing) back home.
—orc Thu May 30 19:45:54 2019
May 28, 2019
Mavis sits on one of the scratching blocks
—orc Tue May 28 17:50:46 2019
May 24, 2019
Flickr’s new corporate overlords decided to move their (bazillion) photos off whoever owns yahoo these days to bezoscloud, decided that wednesday was a good day to do the easy overnight migration, and, as is traditional, the easy overnight migration ended up taking about 40 hours. (Hopefully the systems engineering people who were doing the big push got some sleep in the middle of this job, and will be given a week or so off with pay after the last bits of debris stop bouncing.) To take away the sting of having flickr just not be there for a while, they did a contest involving a print of the flickr “we are dead” panda, and Dust Mite wanted in on it. Sooo, here’s Dust Mite and the 2D proxy of W. A. D. Panda forlornly looking at the still-dead screen on the flickr Unix (iOS, not the other one) app about 30 minutes before the app unlocked itself.
—orc Fri May 24 22:26:17 2019
Thor curls up in a basket
—orc Fri May 24 01:05:11 2019
May 22, 2019
A trolley, a bicycle, and a couple of cars on or above Water Ave today.
—orc Wed May 22 15:45:58 2019
May 20, 2019
Thor unfolded a quilt so she could make herself all cozy
—orc Mon May 20 20:44:41 2019
May 19, 2019
Levee has, after approximately 30 years, been bumped up to a new major version # – Version 4.0, which has been fairly extensively worked over to make it more portable (and as a bonus, I finally got around to implementing tags.)
This release was provoked by Microsoft releasing a port of ssh for Windows 10, which allowed me to telnet in and do some limited sysadmin work on the windows minecraft server in the basement (but not actually edit anything, because there’s no windows editor that works over telnet) and when I thought about porting Levee back over to Windows to fix that wagon I quickly discovered that the huge mass of #ifdefs that I’d put in for portability weren’t working anymore.
So I went in and moved everything that talks to the OS out of the mainline code and into separate modules for each supported system (and then discovered that Windows 10 tries to emulate a command line shell window over telnet, which means it captures escape sequences in an attempt to do ansi-inside-of-ansi (yes, at Microsoft everything is a vt100. Sigh.), even when you tell the output terminal descriptor that no, really, I don’t want you doing terminal emulation, and then completely bodges the emulation to the point where things like reverse scrolling just bottles everything up. It’s fine on the console, but not so fine across the net. Sigh.
But anyway the portability layers are in, so I could then turn around and report to OS/2 (version 3.5; Warp, I think?) and have the same version of levee running on Unix, Win32, and OS/2, and on ia32, amd64, and ARM architectures. I’ve been running it locally for the past 40 days now without any unpleasant surprises, so it’s not likely it will kill your computer. So if you’re a fan of my vi clone, try it out and see how you like it.
—orc Sun May 19 21:39:03 2019
May 18, 2019
A frame for a friend who is shorter than I am, and doesn’t have the long torso/short legs that I do. So it’s as high as one of my machines, but much stubbier (it’s got a 53cm ST vs 52 on mine, but a 50cm TT vs my 60cm.)
—orc Sat May 18 22:59:10 2019
May 17, 2019
May 16, 2019
It isn’t finished, but I’m cleaning up my bike mess and the best place to put these parts is on the machine that they’re destined for.
—orc Thu May 16 20:09:37 2019
May 11, 2019
Two trolleys block our way as we come back from dinner
—orc Sat May 11 23:36:43 2019
May 10, 2019
Dust Mite helps me ream & face the traditional randonneuse’s headtube
—orc Fri May 10 23:58:24 2019
May 09, 2019
A quick mockup build of my new traditional randonneuse frame so I can do my initial “will it explode?” test (spoiler: it didn’t.) I didn’t even bother to clean it; I just chased & faced the BB, reamed out the ST, then tossed the bare minimum # of components on to make it sitworthy.
Gory details so far:
- frame weight: 1680 grams (3 pounds 11 oz)
- 130mm OLD (actually a tiny bit more; I could, if I really wanted, stretch the rear triangle to fit a 135mm wheel.)
- 425mm chainstays
- rear triangle has clearance for 42mm (the Clement Strada USH tire on the rear wheel.)
- bosses for three bottle cages
- ports for internally routing the lighting circuit
- ports for internally routing the shifter cables.
—orc Thu May 9 16:08:23 2019
May 06, 2019
EPT #100 sits on the McBrod Ave lead just south of the shop yard.
—orc Mon May 6 18:18:00 2019
May 05, 2019
Another day, another circuitous return from Trader Joe’s
—orc Sun May 5 19:03:46 2019
May 04, 2019
Another frame lumbers slowly towards completion. This one is yet another 650b randonneuse/cargobike/commuter/gravel/etc frame which I’m going to try to make fit 42mm tires (not that I plan to use them; I just want to see if I can properly crimp the chainstays to give me closer to 50mm spacing where the tires are), make it as light as I can (I’m using one of my hoarded True Temper OX-P downtubes, and every other tube has been weighed to make certain it’s the lightest one I’ve got), and have provisions for a fly-by-wire drivetrain.
I could make it lighter if I didn’t use a hellenic triple triangle, but I really like the looks of them so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
—orc Sat May 4 23:57:56 2019
May 03, 2019
Dust Mite sorts through what’s left after flipping a bunch of fly-by-wire bicycle parts.
—orc Fri May 3 23:34:15 2019
May 01, 2019
Mavis found a better use for my computer
—orc Wed May 1 20:29:20 2019
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