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| Just for those, who doesen't read journal info |
[Jan. 13th, 2015|07:59 pm] |
This journal in frends-only mode (for the most part).
You could add me, but this doesen't mean I'll add you back.
Yes, you could leave requests here =^_^=.
P.S. Dear friends, i post quite a bit of photos (and now even video) in either public or private posts. I try to use my own common sense to judge which post or theme is innocent enough to be public (landscape photos, public events interesting to a wide group of people, general talk), friends only or targeted group access (private events photos, life talk, some art), or won't post at all. If I'm feel uneasy I'll ask for a permission. But we are all people. If I'm wrong with some private information of yours - feel free to point it out.
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| Important Internet Spaceships part 2 - survival of the fittest? |
[Apr. 19th, 2012|05:39 pm] |
Okay, we found out obvious priorities in interstellar travel (thank you, thank you captain Obvious), so let's see what technologies we have nowadays at our disposal.
Survival of the crew, that's the toughest one, all right. The thing is, small social group (the size of, lets say, small provincial town) need to survive and continue to exist as a whole through a few generations in the conditions of limited space and resources. It's not a technical problem per se where the hardest task lies but the social one. Biological shields, close-cycle water-and-air, food production - any other technical problem could be solved within technological advancement. But I don't see the easy way out of social problems.
Lets see, for a starter, government and economical structure of our space town, what could it be? We have to stretch our resources thin for a long run, so we can't afford to have big social and economical segregation. Money as universal resource has a meaning if there is a range of commodities and services to buy, not in the condition of rationing our supplies (so, good old capitalistic society in it's raw form won't work in our environment. We can't afford rich and poor in a general sense). We have no (or have very limited) natural resources, every new thing must be manufactured from something we take with us from the start. And, frankly, we can't afford any civilian unrest, high crime levels and many other things we have in our everyday societies no matter what country we live in.
Okay, I see several ways.
First one. Some sort of communism and paramilitary government structure. Strong control of the state for every activity of the crew, centralized resource management. Well, yes, the funny thing - it seems that it's model was tested in my own country as in some eastern ones (yay for interstellar technologies in our life!). Well, as far as USSR, we had too many natural resources, so that could be the whole problem of an experiment. But despite all recent black PR I myself remember old country as a place where children dreamt of space exploration and, yes, interstellar flights. Still, we need something more stable as a society, we also has a poorer North Korea as much cleaner (and harsh) experiment. Yep, I don't think it's perfect structure, but it could do.
Second one. Let's go at the fantasy world for a change. Virtual social-capitalistic society. We could have some sort of money to buy non-material resources, not essential for the main mission. Yep, music, movies, that sort of thing, some personalized entertainment like online gaming. Oh yeah, the ship full of MMORPG gamers with real-money-trade, all those premium items and services of a free-to-play game. Well, I will have a nightmares about that, but we could kill two birds with one stone - make a virtual economy (to stimulate self-improvement through competition) and also make recreation capabilities with limited resources. Oh, and mix it with communism and we will get another real-life interstellar spaceship experiment, yip, that will be the PRC :P
Third one. Well, let's dream it could be some sort of neo-society, like self-organised net society, crowd sourcing, open source, so-called democracy 2.0, any other things. Well, we are talking now about spaceships, right, not today's political movements (like US Occupy WallStreet, Russian White Ribbons, Egyptian Tahrir Sq, etc etc... even movements like Anonimous), but I hope the analogies is clear enough.. For it to work we need everyone on the net and with some minimum level of education, but that's one thing we could provide for sure in the interstellar spaceship conditions, right? At least we're doing small scale experiments all around the world now, so we could develop some kind of answer in the near future. As for economics, it could be something new, like today's "attention economy" or even some kind of "trust economy", where we earn not some kind of material resources but some kind of equivalent of trust as a commodity (think about "reputation" on some internet portals and social networks).
Oh yes, folks, feel free to express your own opinions on discussed matters of today's interstellar technologies :P. |
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| Important Internet Spaceships part 1 - set the course |
[Apr. 18th, 2012|10:37 pm] |
Thinking about design tradeoffs at my work and at some of my hobbies lead me to a strange idea... Let's say we want to build a manned interstellar spaceship meant to reach nearest star systems without any faster-than-light cosmo-fantasy technologies. What will be the key characteristics of it's construction? Which goals we must seek the most while in highlevel design stage? Let's think like an architects, not just an engineers.
My pick is:
1. Survivability of the crew. Our first and foremost priority. As with hundreds of years ago, crew, our people, is our most valuable resource. Not just from ethical point-of-view, it's also a practical one. Human adapt, survive, have the ability to self-replicate. We build the machines to build machines to carry us at some distant places. Manned mission could be a success only if the crew reach it's destination. And that doesn't mean just biological shielding and life support systems, it's also a preservation of society. We have a long flight ahead, yes, more than one generation will live here.
2.Survivability of the construction. We must survive. So the key construction points must survive (with humans as number 1 components, yes). And we can't build a city-size machine without some bugs (look for software engineering, yes :P). So it's not indestructibility build-to-last parts. It's repairability, redundancy, multi-purposing of the components. Build something stronger from weaker parts. If something will broke we should be able to replace it, reroute it, repurpose it. Just look at some offroad legends like LR Defender, it's not reliability but repairability and heroic actions of the "crew" what makes that cars an Africa legend, something that venture "where no car rode before". Everything could break, even the most reliable parts. We must build our ship according to that. Nothing is perfect, no part is everlasting and indestructible.
3. Versatility of whole construction and its parts. The travel will take a few human generations and look at the technological improvements we made at last 30-40 years. Our space mission could benefit greatly from such technological breakthroughs if we could upgrade our ship on the go. Make better machines, to build better machines to build ship parts, with limited onboard resources. Recycling. Rebuilding. Conservation of energy. We could receive technology updates fom our planet back there, even ready-to-deploy upgrade plans and we could have something better at the end than the steam train we started with. Okay, the Earth discovered faster-than-light travel, let's download and install the upgrade and up we go to Tau Ceti!
1-3 is closely related to each other. Humans means versatility and survival. Survival of some key construction points is crucial, but with enough human and technical ability to adapt we could rebuild everything else, using broken parts as source of materials for a new (and with some updates) even better ones. Our steam engine broke, we could build gasoline engine from the same material. I think there is enough raw materials in some old transistor receivers to build quite a few iPods, if only we could have the ability to recycle it properly and have enough energy and knowledge.
4. Power source longevity ...
5. Engine speed and efficiency ...
6. ...
Will be continued in the next post. |
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| logbook - 10th day |
[Jan. 10th, 2012|09:57 pm] |
Today is the final day of our little adventure. The thousands kilometers of snow, cold and struggle to keep our truck, no, our moving home, is behind us. But still, let me tell you something.
It isn't cold or other hardships what we will remember from this trip, but the feeling of trust, friendsip and accomplishment. Our travel was a bit troublesome and, frankly, reckless. Every day prepared for us some new challenges, tiny or big. And you know what, we beat them all.
And I'm feeling a bit philosophical (thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.6) malck, clancynorthwind and some others who shared their thoughts with me during the course of travel). So bear with my ramblings a little, or just see the photos.
On every log page I wrote "stress level of the crew - absolute zero", and that wasn't bluff. Yes, we have some stressfull moments, but it all passed very quickly. I think it's the nature of such travels, when you live by your own struggle and struggles of few close friends.
There are nobody to blame here, nobody to moan. Nobody owes you nothing, your complaints have no meaning there. You either do everything you can to survive and go forward, or you stays where you are, alone and in the deadly cold. Your engine stuck because of some bastard at refueling station, well, maybe you could sue him. But it won't get you out of where you are right now, in the cold without means to go forward or sometimes heat yourself. So your only way is to do what you must to repair it, no other options, no complaints, no regrets. Just do what you must and you will win. Rawr!
This kind of thoughts, primal, animal-like, leave no place for doubts and other complex existential things. So you really at peace inside, inner tranquility of struggle to survive, and as you continue to beat the odds this feeling grew, and you don't need to be a tibet monk to feel like buddha.
Purrs and whiskers, my dear readers, purrs and whiskers.
The temperature outside is -15 degree celsius;
temperature inside living space of our truck is +19 celsius;
temperature inside truck cabin is +5 celsius;
local time zone - GMT+9 (Moscow standart time +5);
stress level of the crew - absolute zero;
10 meters to our destination.
And now the photos:
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| logbook - 9th day |
[Jan. 10th, 2012|01:58 am] |
I'm typing this log in a truck's cabin while we crossing the border of Irkutsk oblast.
Yes, our destination is almost within our grasp, and it fills our hearts with joy (oh, yeah, bath, warm water, we soo missed ya)! The taiga surrounds us, pine trees all covered with fluffy snow, very cozy.
Feels almost like home. Well, it's certainly home for our truck, it seems to love deep snow and forest roads.
Yes, deep snow =^_^=.
Oh, and as for our habit of saving people along the way - today we helped out 4th one. This far it was the easiest of our cases. WV in the snow so near the road we wasn't need our heavy offroad arsenal. Just a little tug, here you go little one:
The temperature outside is -16 degree celsius;
temperature inside living space of our truck is +18 celsius;
temperature inside truck cabin is +3 celsius;
local time zone - GMT+9 (Moscow standart time +5);
stress level of the crew - absolute zero ;
600 km to our destination.
And now the photos:
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| logbook - 8th day |
[Jan. 9th, 2012|11:51 am] |
Okay, I must admit it, saving people from snow became our hobby. We saved the third car today, some nissan was thrown out of the road near Kemerovo. The driver was so thankful for our help, so he just open a trunk of his car, took from there huge sack of ... wheat flour and threw it inside our truck. And refused to take it back by all means. "You helped me, I will help you, no isn't the option!" He was soo persuasive we just can't say no (by the way, owner mazda we saved yesterday tried to gave us money but we utterly refused to take 'em) . So now we have 30-40 kg of wheat flour in our living space and wonder what use could it be to us...
Yes, our truck may be a bit ugly and the worst thing to long-distance travel, with it's huge fuel consumption, noise, vibrations, no comfort whatsoever. Our paws may be dirty from constant repairs and adjustments. But this truck is the best thing you could hope to meet on the road when your comfy little car happened to be stuck in deep snow, at night, far from asphalt so other cars can't dug you out. We have a sack full of flour to prove it!
Oh, and tiggah made a little fire alarm in the truck's cabin, never mind that.
The temperature outside is -10 degree celsius;
temperature inside living space of our truck is +19 celsius;
temperature inside truck cabin is +6 celsius;
stress level of the crew - absolute zero ;
1350 km to our destination.
And now the photos:
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| logbook - 7th day |
[Jan. 8th, 2012|12:59 am] |
Our internal clock set for gmt+4 (aka Moscow time). And while we travel futher east, we shift our driving time more and more for the night one. We already crossed GMT+6 (Ural) and now we travel in western Siberia's GMT+7 (Novosibirsk) time zone. Combine all this time shifts with midwinter shot daylight duration and you will get a complete mess with the times of the day.
Well, at least we free from any kind of dogmas. We eat when we get hungry and have the time for cook or some roadside cafe near. We sleep when we want to (or when we had to)...
And just when I wrote this very words the life made a brief test to our freedom. We was targeted for protection racket by some, I dunno, local gang maybe. At 1:10 AM local time we stopped to check our cheetah riding in unheated living space of our truck (well, we run out of gas for our heating and still can't find a refuel). Federal road, empty, no towns or villages near, closest big city in about 200 km from our stop. Next to us, just a meter from our bumper, stops BMW, and a few guys walk towards me (I was sitting at passenger seat in our truck cabin). "- Where are you from?" "-And where to...?" I answered about Moscow and Irkutsk. "- So you're the head guy" "- Okay, pay 12 grand and you're got a safe road from all bad guys". I answered politely, guys, this is old military track, we're not hauling any commodities, we're just a travellers. So, our answer will be STEP ON IT AND RUN YOU OVER. The dragon at driver's seat just answered the same and as he added some gas and handled the gearbox, the guys answered "- Oh, so you're travelers, sorry to bother ya", run to their car and ride out full speed.
That's the story.
Oh, and as a matter of fact it wasn't bluff. We were ready to do it, especially at the sign of possible weapons. We knew our truck good enough now, the mere bmw sedan won't stop it, we will run over it.
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Oh, no, another adventure prevents me from finishing this log. Another +1 to karma. 3AM local. This time Mazda 3 was thrown out from the road at huge speed, a family of 3 inside. We helped to extract it from the snow. Everybody in mazda is alive, through their car is trashed pretty badly. Torn our "10 ton" rope a few times in process, cheap chineese crap.
The temperature outside is -12 degree celsius;
temperature inside living space of our truck is -6 celsius and raising (we just now refueled our gas);
temperature inside truck cabin is +5 celsius;
stress level of the crew - absolute zero ;
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| logbook - 6th day |
[Jan. 7th, 2012|11:11 am] |
Yesterday was a hard day, so I'm writing this report today, a bit late. It all began at around 4AM GMT+6, when we had our road accident. As we found out later the fuel from our last refuel was, well, let's say "homemade", it happens in this oil-rich Tyumen Oblast. And the engine fuel line, fuel filters and fuel line all went clogged mid-run. And the engine stopped on our way, just the moment when we travelled at roadside at 65 kmph, It happens unexpected enough for our dragon driver to sway a course a little (as the power steering went down with the engine) and we fall out of the road, into deep road ditch, filled with show. The ditch was deep enough (something like two -three times height of our truck) and had the harsh slopes (something about 45 degrees), but the deep snow, from ankle-deep to waist-deep stopped our fall and cushioned our speed. The truck stayed upright and undamaged, even on the bottom of ditch, we all - unharmed. And the long night struggle begun.
First of all we tried to restart the engine. After some manipulations it started, through it lost much of it's power and runs with conks. Still the truck was able to move and we decided getting out was our first priority and the engine our second. Even with unstable engine and deep snow (sometimes it was so hard to walk in it we had to crawl) the truck could move with 4WD and demultiplicator on, thanks to it's huge tires and locking differentials. But it lacked the power to crawl on the slope and the angles was dangerous high to it to overturn. So after some struggle we decided to travel along the ditch in search of a easier slopes. The truck travelled down in the ditch and chetah and I walked on the road above. After kilometer of such long and tiresome travel with frequent engine stops we found slope easy enough visually to get out.
We stayed there for awhile trying to start the engine, and after an hour we could make it run long enough for the escape attempt.
It was dawn already, and after few run-downs and some digging the truck was free from it's snow prison.
We was tired enough from the struggle and sleepless night to start engine repairs right away and we just went to sleep. And only afrer sleep and few test runs we determined the reason for power loss and engine unstable work - not enough fuel. First step - checking the fuel filters. All clogged up by dirt and rust particles. After a cleaning and replacing the filters we did the test run - bah, no effect whatsoever. Next check - fuel pump. Dirt inside, clogged out pretty badly.
Cleaned it and washed with petroleum, reassembled and installed. All in the field, just on a roadside, at -18 celsius. We even made makeshift "hand warmer" fire, from aluminum cup filled with petrol, just to allow us to work on cold metal parts and fuel without risk of cold burns.
Engine runs better but still not as good as before, without full power. Next stop - checking out the fuel line. Also clogged, in the multiple places, even inside the fuel tank. To disassemble it we need to disassemble the fuel tank, and we had only one tank in a working condition right now, so we can't do that in field. So we worked out the makeshift solution. Using the hose we had in our spare parts, smaller hose we salvaged from remains of military air purification and filtering equipment (those things above truck's cabin, we should only need those in case of a nuclear or chemical war) we made new makeshift fuel line.
I'm afraid we getting better and better at those makeshift things. And I thought the joke about duct tape and WD40 as universal solution to all engineering problems supposed to be a joke. Silly tigah is silly =-_-=.
All those repairs makes us tired so much, that after a short travel we went to sleep without daily report.
The temperature outside is -18 degree celsius;
temperature inside living space of our truck is +12 celsius;
temperature inside truck cabin is -2 celsius;
stress level of the crew - absolute zero ;
2800 km to our destination.
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| logbook - 5th day |
[Jan. 5th, 2012|11:19 pm] |
Yesterday night was cold, the temperature outside dropped below -26 when we went to sleep, and even through our gas heater was turned on maximum setting, frankly it wasn't a comfort sleep. At morning we doesn't want to stress the engine by the cold start and tried to heat it by petroleum wielding torch, to no avail (our torch was a bit broken and can't give a decent fire).
So we risked the cold start, and all goes well thanks to new starter we installed the day before.
We made some adjustments to our truck before riding out, most noteworthy was layer of thermo insulation outside the cabin and engine hold, to prevent engine (and those inside the cabin) from freeze.
Well, at first we overdone it, and on long climbing roads we had a few boilings of antifreeze in truck's radiator.
So, we added a hole to ventilate radiator and experimented with shapes for a while =^_^=
Today we passed through Ural mountains and hills. A magnificent sight, and a hard road, with continuos ascends, descents and turns, combined with heavy long-haul traffic. As wikipedia notes this part of the road nicknamed by the locals as "Death's road", due to heavy casualties from numerous road accidents (more than 50 deaths annually on a small 150km part of the road). We also has our small incident, nothing serious... almost nothing. The makeshift fuel filter that was installed by army technicians had a loose screw at one of the fittings and long runs with heavy load produced enough vibration for it to fall off, and the jet of fuel split on the hot engine. Well, we was lucky as cold weather prevent it from ignition at exhaust pipes, so all we needed to do is reconnect it and double-check all the fittings.
Oh, and tiggah got himself a nice pair of mukluks. Through I prefer not to buy any natural fur things, this one buy was more of a necessity as it is one of the best ways to keep your feet warm in extreme cold conditions. And I'm really sorry for the dog who gave his life (and fur) to keep me warm.
The temperature outside is -22 degree celsius;
temperature inside living space of our truck is +11 celsius;
temperature inside truck cabin is -6 celsius;
stress level of the crew - absolute zero;
3100km to our destination.
And now the photos:
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| logbook - 4th day |
[Jan. 4th, 2012|10:27 pm] |
It looks as if we riding in the heart of winter. Through we riding east, not north, the weather became colder every day. So today was a day of white silence (no pun intended, if our Whitey is silent, just check his pulse, he could be dead).
The contrast with first two days is strikingly vivid, while at the beginning of our journey everything was dirty gray and wet, now everything is white. Cold white. Really cold white.
We prepared extreme measures for engine start at extreme conditions (i.e. wielding lamp/torch) and will think of a way to add extra heat insulation for our living space. Oh, and it's cold to type something in a cabin without gloves.. and it's hard to type in a warm gloves.I even thought of disabling click-to-flash in Chrome to warm my laptop a little :P
The temperature outside is -23 degree celsius and dropping;
temperature inside living space of our truck is +11 celsius;
temperature inside truck cabin is -7 celsius;
stress level of the crew - absolute zero ;
3650km to our destination.
And now the photos:
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| logbook - 3rd day |
[Jan. 3rd, 2012|11:50 pm] |
Okay, today's log is a short one. We spend most of the day getting necessary supplies (yes, like sleep-bags), spare parts and making repairs and upgrades for the cold weather. So, not so much adventuring, more of a hard work in not-so-pleasant environment.
Repairs for today:
- oil leak (after cold night engine start) repair;
- makeshift windshield washers as ours are dead;
- additional thermo insulation of a cabin;
- cabin heater repair;
- new starter (yip, we replaced it on the road, as the old one was getting weak).
Well, and for those of you who may think we won't having our share of fun, a little video. We had to make an U-turn in a snow more than half meter deep. Well, I shot only the last part of it, buh...
The temperature outside is -11 degree celsius;
temperature inside living space of our truck is +16 celsius;
temperature inside truck cabin is +6 celsius (bought another thermometer)
stress level of the crew - absolute zero;
4100km to our destination. |
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| logbook - 2nd day |
[Jan. 2nd, 2012|10:45 pm] |
So, today's log written while passing republic of Tatarstan. After our first night in our "house-on-a-wheels", we had less surprises and more of a long and sometimes even boring road through snow. Oh, and we almost ride on Lada Oka. This small car tried to outrun us on a slippery wet ice road, got a nice spin just before our wheels and skidded into a roadside snow. We helped to get it out of snow. Oh, and we found out a leak in the fuel tank, freshly made (it wasn't there yesterday), neat round hole at the bottom. Fixed it with a soap bar and a bit of silicone.
So, our score is:
+1 to luck for evading making a tin can out of Oka;
+1 to karma for getting Oka out;
+1 to makeshift repait skill;
-1 to cheetah's memory for forgetting 2 spare sleep-bags (just... I was speechless for the half an hour... just how...);
+0 for general neatness.
The temperature outside is -7 degree celsius;
temperature inside living space of our truck is +16 celsius;
stress level of the crew - absolute zero (yip, I checked my pulse now, nevermind the cheetah incident);
4200km to our destination.
And now the photos:
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| logbook - 1st day |
[Jan. 1st, 2012|10:16 pm] |
I'm writing this post in the moving truck, moving east at 60 kph on E22/M7 federal road. Now we passed Vladimir and moving towards Nizhnii Novgorod.
Today was a busy day, with last moment preparations, gathering some supplies and a whole load of repair work. On the first few meters we had to change spark plugs and ignition coil, and only after that we could ride out. On our next 100 kilometers we:
- run out of gas due to wrong fuel level reading;
- drunk beer out of electric kettle (we forgot our mugs at home);
- run out of electricity due to faulty wiring;
- rewire pull-out starter relay while lying on the wet snow and dirt;
- ate the cake;
- trained one tigah how to operate non-synchronised manual gear box (and that is a experience, let me tell you);
- boiled the oil in power steering pump;
- worked in a graphic and texr editor while on the bumpy road.
The temperature outside is 0 degree celsius;
temperature inside living space of our truck is +15 celsius;
stress level of the crew - absolute zero;
5001km to our destination.
And now the photos:
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[Dec. 31st, 2011|10:40 pm] |
As some of you already knew we have a huge plans for this new year eve and beyond. Yes, another travel adventure, risky and fun. On our previous travels we reached southern and northern corners of mainland Russia, so now it's time for the eastern direction. What could be more fun than travel 5000 km through Siberia at the midst of Winter, when the air temperature could fall beneath -30 or even -40 degree celsius, rright? To add some thrill to it we will be travelling not in my venerable Koshak but in old Soviet military beast, a legendary truck created about half a century ago.
Our vehicle, Gaz 66 is a pure legend and a piece of history itself. Sixty six or "shishiga" as some calls it was a main medium truck in a Soviet Army.
For the first time in ages I'm not a main driver but a navigator and support (as I'm still in the process of getting truck driver license), so I should have a time to write and make a photo/video coverage of our travel along the way, and even will try and post "live" when we will ride through places with a decent cell coverage. Just check my Twitter, LiveJournal or Google+ pages for the news!
Purrs and cheers, traveling tigah out.
Oh, and happy new year =^_^= |
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| Next best thing to coffee |
[Oct. 27th, 2011|07:28 pm] |
As some of my friends twitted earlier some British scientists found out the LED lighting could affect our natural sleep patterns. Well, I don't know is it true or not... but if true for me and others IT-centric people out there it could mean one thing - there is some other thing between heavy caffeine diet to stay sharp. And, well, I don't really think something could damage cycles of sleep for IT geek or programmer :P. Nothing natural there, let me assure you.
Nevertheless, I continue to introduce LED-based lighting in my home. All lighting based on "warm-light" LEDs, emitting white light with color temperature around 2500-2700K. Here is a few samples of LED lighting (hi, basil_lion) at my place:
 Ceiling lighting, LED panels. Custom-fitted by me. Based on a same tech as back light for your laptop screen, with LED stripes at the sides and light filters in the middle of a panel. ( More LED lighting ) |
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| Another one of my stainless steel USB sticks |
[May. 27th, 2011|01:41 am] |
This was my first attempt at wielding something useful, second being "Old Soviet" USB flash. But I did the engraving and epoxy filling at much later time than wielding of a case itself. So let me present you, my new rugged 16gb usb flash:
 "Steel Tiger" USB Flash drive
media: 1.5mm thick stainless steel, TIG (gas/tungsten arc welding) equipment, angle grinder, epoxy glue, mini drill with mill, burnishing paste =^_^= |
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| Offroading on a 1st of may |
[May. 3rd, 2011|08:13 pm] |
Well, the spring is here and once again we could travel to some remote places without fear of frozing of our tails. So, for a starters, binadamu, krylcw and yours truly decided to see some parts of Meshchera Lowlands, most notably Svyatoye (Saint) lake.
And as always with remote places here, getting there was a bit of a challenge. Not a hardcore type of challenge, but still requiring something of a off-road capability from a vehicle (if any) or, well, rubber-boots :P.
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| Karelia and Ribachii photos - part three, Zapadnaya Litsa River |
[Oct. 29th, 2010|06:13 pm] |
And once again I'm waiting for report from binadamu and post next part of photos from summer trip to Rybachy. This photos taken on Kola Peninsula on our way north from Polar Circle, through Murmansk and up to the Zapadnaya Litsa River, near famous Death Valley (Valey of Honour).
Zapadnaya Litsa part takes us a few days of heavy offroading. The only roads there are ones build by german military at the days of stalemate siege operation, some of them become a river bed or part of the swamp. The winch, Highlift jack and offroad wheels is a must for the road, as good protection (carter, gearbox, etc). The road could be a bit easier if I have a snorkel, because there was a great deal of crossing the river fords.
 Polar Circle
( Photos Part three - North of polar circle, Death Valley and the beauty of northern nature ) |
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| My tweets |
[Oct. 23rd, 2010|12:20 pm] |
- Thu, 15:53: Karelia and Ribachii photos - part two, taiga zoo http://j.mp/bT7DVd
- Thu, 15:56: @ClusterM год назад бы спросил, я бы мог помочь, но я уже с коробоксами наигрался, скучно. Потому отстал от темы.
- Thu, 23:55: @Shadow_Panther к маленьким, если заметишь, нас пустили прямо внутрь клетки =^_^=
- Fri, 00:26: @snaury =_-_=
- Fri, 11:28: @Shadow_Panther нет, они же дикие.
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| My tweets |
[Oct. 22nd, 2010|12:23 pm] |
- Wed, 15:52: Federal security agents is like elves - you can't expect a straight answer for a tricky question =^_^=
- Wed, 16:59: @Icelyon ME2 is at it's best when played with imported ME1 character. It's as if you in the same universe, your previous decisions matters
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