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Bring Your Own Beamer
This afternoon, I went to Tetem Art spaces to
join in the Bring Your Own Beamer event held in the evening. I spend some time
trying to get my project to work. I had brought
both my netbook and the Dell Latitude D630 laptop besides two old monitors: The one that I am
using at TkkrLab and the Iiyama ProLite E438S-B LCD monitor. After some experimenting, I
concluded that the VGA output of the netbook was giving some problems with
respect to producing a stable image on the monitors. I was happy that I had
brought the laptop with me. It took me some time to get the resolutions right,
At the end of the afternoon, some others from TkkrLab arrived. I could use one
of the beamers that they had brought. One of them helped me to get the right
settings for the beamer to work. It has only a 800 times 640 resolution, which
meant I had to adapt my page a little. There were people from Germany and
Belgium (Ghent) who had come
to show their art. It seems that I was the oldest person that had brought a
beamer.
Around eight in the evening, the first people started to arrive. Vistors had
to pay a € 3.00 enterance fee, for which they got three tokens
(jigsaw puzzle pieces) that they could donate to the people having brought a
beamer, who at the end of the evening can exchange them for money again. The
city councillor for culture, Jeroen Hatenboer, also came. He went around everybody, because he was
asked to award a price. At the price giving event, he did mention my work
briefly. Some people asked me how I had made it. Some were surprised that I
used JavaScript and that the beamer simply showed
a full screen webpage. I also talked with some other constributers and
artist, such as Willemijn
Calis, gehirn1984.tumblr.com,
Kitty Kruidhof, and
Stefan Siderius. At the end of the
evening, I counted six tokens, which I donated to some other contributors. The
two other contributions from TkkrLab did get more tokens. I did bring the
token bucket home as a souvenir.
moving to space 5.0
This afternoon and some part of the evening, I helped with moving TkkrLab to our new location, called Space 5.0. Not everything has been moved yet and there still a lot that
needs to be done at our new location. I spend most of the time moving things
from a side entrance to the new room using two trolley carts, while other
worked on getting things from the old location or putting up cupboards in the
new room and stacking them with boxes. Around dinner time, someone went to get
some Chinese food we ordered. After the dinner we had a team effort bringing
the parts of the large (about four meters long) electronics desk up to the
room.
Basic Teachings of the Buddha
Last Friday, I finished reading the book Basic
Teachings of the Buddha by Glenn
Wallis, which I started reading on January 19,
the day I bought it. The books tries to give a basis introduction to Buddism
based on sixteen suttas selected by the author and translated from the
original Pali. The book start with a good overview of Buddhism through the
ages. Then the text of the sixteen suttas is given, followed by sixteen
sections with explaination and notes. Because I read these sections right
after reading the text of the sutta, I would have preferred it when the
explaination and notes would have followed immediately the sutta text they
are related to. I like the non-religious, scientific approach that the book
takes in explaining Buddism, taking the text as a starting point instead of
a certain tradition, of which there are many within Buddhism. I also like
that Wallis is not affraid to use his own translations of certain
Pali words, instead of the
common English translation, usually accompanied with a detail explaination.
The book made me realize that the philosophy behind Buddhism is deeper than I
had thought. Yet it did not make turn to Buddhism.
Book
For time in a long time, I found some AKI finals catalogues at thrift store Het Goed. From the three that I found, there was one, that I
did not have already. I also found some other new art and architecture books.
At 16:38, I bought the book AKI Akademie voor Beeldende Kunst:
eindexamencatalogus 1997 edited by Bas Könning, Marijke Harmens,
Coen Scheen, Sipke Huisman, and Maarten Binnendijk, written in Dutch, published
by AKI Akademie voor Beeldende Kunst in 1997,
ISBN:9789075522082, for € 2.50.
1.5 cm snow
Yesterday afternoon, it started to snow. At first the
snow did not stay, but later more and more stayed. When I biked home from
TkkrLab it was snowing. This morning, I
measured more than 1.5 cm of snow on the table outside, but the ground was not
completely covered with snow, due to the fact that it is still too warm for
the snow to stay. For the coming days the forcast is that temperatures will be
below zero degrees Celsius, so some of the snow may stay for some days.
Book
At 10:43, I bought the folowwing books from thrift store Het Goed:
- Documenta 11, Platform 5: Exhibition, Catalogue edited by Heike
Ander and Nadja Rottner, written in English, published by Hatje Cantz
Publishers in 2002,
ISBN:9783775790864, for € 12.50.
- Documenta 11, Platform 5: Austellung | Exhibition, Austellingsorte |
Exhibition Venues edited by Heike Ander, photographs by Werner
Maschmann, written in German and English, published by Hatje Cantz
Publishers in 2002,
ISBN:9783775790888, for € 6.50.
- The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and
Society in the Information Age written by Manuel Gausa, Vicente
Guallart, Willy Müller, Federico Soriano, Fernando Porras, and
José Morales, written in English, published by Actar in 2003,
ISBN:9788495951229, for € 8.50.
The Mating Mind
This morning, I finished reading the book The
Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped Human Nature by
Geoffrey Miller, which I started reading on November 19, 2016, a few
days, after I bought it. My favourite quote from
the book taken from section So Why Can't My Boyfriend Communicate? on page 382 is:
Evolution's job is to motivate us, not to satisfy us
I found this an interesting and insightful book. Although the author admits
that some parts are speculative, it seems to be reliable and based on
scientific research of the past decennia. The only comment that I have, is
that at some places, it is a little too exhaustive in it reasoning, making it
sound repetitive.
Eth0:2017 Winter
Today, I attended Eth0:2017 Winter. When I arrived at a quarter past nine (after having
traveling through a village called Stroet when I realized I was on the wrong road and wanted to take a short
cut towards the correct road, but got a little lost), most people who attended
for the whole weekend, were still asleep. I spend some time reading a book
until the Frack space opened
around half past ten. During the day, I spend some time working on
Webserver on NodeMCU and talked with various
people. I talked with man who had developed various configurations of fixed
sized PCB's
into round shapes. The idea is that PCB's get cheaper when you order in larger
quantities. But if all the PCB's are the same, you need to find a way how to
connect them all in nice way, without wires going everywhere. I wrote some
Python scripts to solve some of these problems. I talked with a woman
about wearable electronics based on the LilyPad platform and she showed the
various components she had bought. I also did the free soldering project from
Frack: A
bistable flip-flop with two LEDs and two small
potentiometers. It
was tested with some almost empty 9V batteries.
SD custom file system
In the past weeks, I have been experimenting with designing a simple file
system to be stored on an SD card, as part of the project to build
a webserver on a NodeMCU that could serve this
website. I finished a first implementation,
which uses a file as a block device. This evening, I checked in a first version
on GitHub and
experimented with mmc-utils, but not
which much success.
Book
At 09:31, I received the book Designer Apartments written by Julio
Fajardo, written in English, German, French, and Dutch, published by
h.f.ullmann in 2007, translated by Frieda B.K., Ulrike Hanselle, Arnaud Dupin
de Beyssat, and Tanja Timmerman from Diseño De Apartamentos
written in Spanish,
ISBN:9783833123535, which I had bought on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 18:23
from BOL.com for € 9.99.
Rainbow
Just when I wanted to leave the office, I noticed that the sun was shining
while it was still raining. I also noticed that the sun was low at the
horizon. I quickly ran over to the otherside of the building to see a
complete rainbow (not fully visible from the
point I was standing) with a very bright patch just above the horizon. I took
the above picture. Later, I went to another side of the building to take
another picture of the bright
spot at the other end of the rainbow and affirming it was indeed a complete
rainbow. This was between 10 to six and six in the afternoon.
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