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Printed circuit board jargon includes the term
annular
ring. When I was in the PCB design software business, my co-workers and
I made fun of the term's redundancy by saying "ring-like annulus" instead.
Speaking of things annular, there's an eclipse tomorrow.
My digital camera, like most of them, has monochrome pixel sensors behind
a color filter
array. If a resulting image file has as many pixels as the
sensor does and if each of those pixels has combined R, G, and B values,
they were interpolated
by demosaicing software.
When I do the digital equivalent of taking black-and-white landscape pics with a red filter, the process wastes information and detail. That waste is irrelevant for the sizes of images I post here, but I wouldn't mind having a camera more optimized for black-and-white. Film is always an option, and I have some nice, slow, black-and-white film from Croatia. But I take pictures more by trial and error than I would if I were a skilled photographer, and digital is good for making lots of exposures. If digital cameras already have monochrome sensors in them, shouldn't it be easy to make one without the color filter array? Kodak made such a camera for a while, but it's discontinued. The Leica M Monochrom was introduced this month, but it's $7950. I have no illusions that this trifle of a blog has influence on the powers that be, but yet: could Fuji or Canon or someone please make an affordable black-and-white digital camera? Last year, I wrote about Deep Springs College Time has caught up with the will of Deep Springs' founder. Last month, the college's trustees voted 10-2 to admit women. It's not a done deal; a court might enforce the Deed of Trust as written. We'll see.The 2 who voted against the 10 have asked our county's court to block the change to coëducation. Their filing recounts some of the history of the founder's estate planning: At the time, there was a mortmain statute in place in California (...) that restricted a devise to a charitable organization to no greater than one-third of a decedent's estate unless that devise was executed by a person with no children, parents, or spouse at least six months before that person's death. Therefore, being childless, parentless, and a lifelong bachelor, if Nunn could live at least six months after October 1, 1924 (i.e., until April 1, 1925), he could leave as large an endowment as possible to Deep Springs from his estate.Nunn was dying a miserable death from tuberculosis and stuck around by force of will. He died on April 2. After L. L. Nunn's death in 1925, his brother P. N. Nunn and close associates moved quickly to destroy L. L. Nunn's papers (likely consisting of several thousand files). There was a second purging by Frank Noon of L. L. Nunn's remaining papers at the college. Due to these massive culls any available articulation for why Mr. Nunn wanted to educate only "promising young men" was likely destroyed.The next court date is a status conference on June 22.
great headline.  ---> The article quotes Cheney defending 'enhanced interrogation' techniques: "We didn't pull anybody's fingernails out with a file or something like that." No, we just tortured some of them to death. The guy should be in jail.
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bee on short final to flowers of Robinia pseudoacacia
After a recent exchange about the sad state of—well, it doesn't really matter what—one of them wrote, I would move to New Zealand, but I am stuck because of the kids.I don't think he would do it. Or: if he didn't have kids, he'd find another excuse. I say this as someone who has, on occasion, been fed up enough with US politics to have said I was tempted to leave. Not having kids, I had a different excuse. It all reminds me of a line from Nietzsche: The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night.Capybaras that look like Rafael Nadal. |