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rain_gryphon) wrote2004-08-03 05:24 am
rain_gryphon) wrote2004-08-03 05:24 am
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Those Things that do that Stuff
Yesterday, in a fit of boredom, I took out a sheet of foam that I've had lying about forever, and started making a Deer tail from it. I surprised myself. It turned out amazingly well, and weighs less than half of what it would in solid foam or stuffed fabric form. I've always been sort of intimidated by sheet foam, but that was remarkably easy and quick. The shape is just lovely, all curved and swoopy, as good as anything I could carve.
I just more or less envisioned how the flat foam would wrap around the shape I wanted, and cut the pattern accordingly. It's no different really than fitting faux fur to a carved surface, except that the surface is imaginary instead of real. I'm going to get some more sheeting, and try something a bit more ambitious. I may make the Skiltaire that way.
I'm going to make myself a tail, antlers and ears for Christmas, I think. Maybe a red velvet harness with bells too. Then I shall talk Goofius Maximus into going to the mall with me. If I'm very lucky, he'll agree to wear a Santa hat and fake beard.
I've not forgotten about making you Bunny ears (or else posting a pattern) either, Loganberry.
*****
I still can't get sound to work in Linux. I even bought an Ensoniq 16 bit card to use in place of the on-the-board Yamaha. The drivers are there, the equipment is all recognized and reports itself as ready, the CD player seems to be engaging the sound engine, but nothing comes out the speakers :P I'm probably overlooking something minor.
On the bright side, everything else works, even the Palm Pilot link and client, which I understand some people have had issues with.
*****
The BBC is carrying on about the President of Turkmenistan again. You have to learn his political precepts (handily set forth in a book that everyone gets a copy of) before you can get a drivers' license. Now frankly that's stupid, but it's not a bit more stupid than what goes on here in the several states, where teenagers can't get their license without fulfilling various 'good citizenship' requirements, etc.
*****
There's an interesting speculation on AFF as to whether Hitler might have been furry. I'd never really considered it before, but some interesting points are being raised about his attachment to Wolves, and certain figures of speech he favoured.
Now that the conceptual hurdle has been crossed, I'm starting to wonder about Charles Manson, who seems to be very into animals in general, from what I've read of his writings.
*****
Distressingly, the organizers of the Phoenix World's Fair are now touting the idea of having a 'distributed' fair, with various venues all across Arizona. I smell the unsubtle hand of the state here, certain that tourists will happily drive all over Arizona, spending as they go :P More to the point, breaking the thing up into dozens of small fairs misses the point of a World's Fair entirely. If I were still making good money like I used to back in 2001, I'd just go to China for their fair and spend my money with the commies.
*****
This sounds stupid, but is on the level. Josephine the Milk Jug Lady makes sculptures from plastic milk jugs. She'd be grateful if anyone could send her one or more. She wants the semi-transparent one-gallon square sort, ideally the ones that have pop-off (as opposed to screw top) caps, and also ideally with either red, white or blue caps
Her address is:
Josephine Stapleton
6752 Harding Highway
Mays Landing, NJ 08330
She'll be grateful for any she can get, as she can sculpt a lot faster than she can drink milk.
I just more or less envisioned how the flat foam would wrap around the shape I wanted, and cut the pattern accordingly. It's no different really than fitting faux fur to a carved surface, except that the surface is imaginary instead of real. I'm going to get some more sheeting, and try something a bit more ambitious. I may make the Skiltaire that way.
I'm going to make myself a tail, antlers and ears for Christmas, I think. Maybe a red velvet harness with bells too. Then I shall talk Goofius Maximus into going to the mall with me. If I'm very lucky, he'll agree to wear a Santa hat and fake beard.
I've not forgotten about making you Bunny ears (or else posting a pattern) either, Loganberry.
*****
I still can't get sound to work in Linux. I even bought an Ensoniq 16 bit card to use in place of the on-the-board Yamaha. The drivers are there, the equipment is all recognized and reports itself as ready, the CD player seems to be engaging the sound engine, but nothing comes out the speakers :P I'm probably overlooking something minor.
On the bright side, everything else works, even the Palm Pilot link and client, which I understand some people have had issues with.
*****
The BBC is carrying on about the President of Turkmenistan again. You have to learn his political precepts (handily set forth in a book that everyone gets a copy of) before you can get a drivers' license. Now frankly that's stupid, but it's not a bit more stupid than what goes on here in the several states, where teenagers can't get their license without fulfilling various 'good citizenship' requirements, etc.
*****
There's an interesting speculation on AFF as to whether Hitler might have been furry. I'd never really considered it before, but some interesting points are being raised about his attachment to Wolves, and certain figures of speech he favoured.
Now that the conceptual hurdle has been crossed, I'm starting to wonder about Charles Manson, who seems to be very into animals in general, from what I've read of his writings.
*****
Distressingly, the organizers of the Phoenix World's Fair are now touting the idea of having a 'distributed' fair, with various venues all across Arizona. I smell the unsubtle hand of the state here, certain that tourists will happily drive all over Arizona, spending as they go :P More to the point, breaking the thing up into dozens of small fairs misses the point of a World's Fair entirely. If I were still making good money like I used to back in 2001, I'd just go to China for their fair and spend my money with the commies.
*****
This sounds stupid, but is on the level. Josephine the Milk Jug Lady makes sculptures from plastic milk jugs. She'd be grateful if anyone could send her one or more. She wants the semi-transparent one-gallon square sort, ideally the ones that have pop-off (as opposed to screw top) caps, and also ideally with either red, white or blue caps
Her address is:
Josephine Stapleton
6752 Harding Highway
Mays Landing, NJ 08330
She'll be grateful for any she can get, as she can sculpt a lot faster than she can drink milk.
The Sound of Linux
http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/sndconfig.shtml
The link is to a guide to using sndconfig.
BTW, you might want to play with a Knoppix live CD release of linux. It runs from the CDrom drive and only touches your hard drive if you tell it to. It also seems to find a lot of hardware on its own.
Good luck!
Whiffert
Re: The Sound of Linux