Month: July 2018

@sciencemag 02018/07/13 highlights

Iceman’s last meal analyzed – Otzi loved icecream! (or the equivalent 5300 years ago)
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/112

Ice reveals a messenger from a blazing galaxy – the IceCube results of neutrino observations (neutrinos from a blazar) is fantastic!
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/115 and http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/eaat1378

Citizen science, public policy – looks at important policy questions – protecting participants and results from citizen science. A challenge for sure. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/134

Open source nuclear test monitoring – http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/166

An interesting cross-species look at behavorial economics and the “sunk cost” falacy
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/178

Important quantification of methane emissions http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/186

@sciencemag 02018/07/06 highlights

Optical interferometers – a new set of telescopes in New Mexico is great to read about.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6397/12

Atmospheric blocking as a traffic jam in the jet stream is a great look at modeling capability and changes in global circulation driving increased extreme weather events. Great work and important implications.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6397/42

Biological uptake and reversible scavenging of zinc in the global ocean was a good look at ocean changes.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6397/72

@NYTimes obits: 131 males, 61 females

Today, July 15, there were 1 male and 3 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Yesterday, July 24, there were 3 male and 1 female features obituaries in the NYT. Since I started tracking it here, that is 131 males featured and 61 females featured.

(I started tracking the obits here on May 14, but I’ve missed days when on travel. This is the New Mexico version of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.

@NYTimes obits: 127 males, 57 females

Today, July 23, there were 2 male and 2 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Yesterday, July 22, there were 2 male and 1 female features obituaries in the NYT. Catching up, July 21, there were 2 male and 0 female features obituaries in the NYT.  Still catching up, July 20, there were 2 male and 3 female features obituaries in the NYT.   Since I started tracking it here, that is 127 males featured and 57 females featured.

(I started tracking the obits here on May 14, but I’ve missed days when on travel. This is the New Mexico version of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.

@NYTimes obits: 119 males, 51 females

Today, July 19, there were 2 male and 0 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Yesterday, July 18, there were 2 male and 2 female features obituaries in the NYT. Catching up, July 17, there were 2 male and 0 female features obituaries in the NYT. Still catching up, July 16, there were 3 male and 1 female features obituaries in the NYT. Finally, July 15, there were 2 male and 2 female features obituaries in the NYT. Since I started tracking it here, that is 119 males featured and 51 females featured.

(I started tracking the obits here on May 14, but I’ve missed days when on travel. This is the New Mexico version of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.

solar pi zero w camera

I decided to try and make a homebridge camera from a solar powered raspberry pi zero w.  First I tried building homebridge with these directions – I tried different versions and builds, but both ran out of memory on the raspberry.  Then I decided to go the docker route from these directions.

I got some errors in the build:

Setting up aufs-dkms (4.9+20161219-1) ...
Loading new aufs-4.9+20161219 DKMS files...
It is likely that 4.14.50+ belongs to a chroot's host
Building for 3.6-trunk-rpi, 4.14.50+ and 4.14.50-v7+
Building initial module for 3.6-trunk-rpi
Error!  The dkms.conf for this module includes a BUILD_EXCLUSIVE directive which does not match this kernel/arch.  This indicates that it should not be built.
Skipped.
Module build for kernel 4.14.50+ was skipped since the kernel headers for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
Module build for kernel 4.14.50-v7+ was skipped since the kernel headers for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
Setting up linux-headers-3.6-trunk-rpi (3.6.9-1~experimental.1+rpi7) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms 3.6-trunk-rpi
Error!  The dkms.conf for this module includes a BUILD_EXCLUSIVE directive which does not match this kernel/arch.  This indicates that it should not be built.

Homebridge is up and running- I can’t find it from the iphone, so I’ll have to work on it a bit more.  Getting weather might be the first plug-in (I don’t have the camera installed yet, but that is on the list).

Oh, for solar power, I ended up just going with solar charger / battery (the Ayyie 25 Amp-hour).  I tested out my (several years old, much used and abused) 10 Amp-hour (no solar charging) and got about 36 hours of raspberry life.

@NYTimes obits: 108 males, 46 females

Today, July 14, there were 3 male and 0 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Yesterday, July 13, there were 1 male and 1 female features obituaries in the NYT.  Since I started tracking it here, that is 108 males featured and 46 females featured.

(I started tracking the obits here on May 14, but I’ve missed days when on travel. This is the New Mexico version of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)

@NYTimes obits: 100 males, 44 females

Today, July 11, there were 3 male and 0 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Since I started tracking it here, that is 100 males featured and 44 females featured.

(I started tracking the obits here on May 14, but I’ve missed days when on travel. This is the New Mexico version of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)

@NYTimes obits: 97 males, 44 females

Today, July 10, there were 4 male and 0 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Catching up – on July 9 it was 0 male and 2 female, July 8 was 2 male and 0 female.  Since I started tracking it here, that is 97 males featured and 44 females featured.

(I started tracking the obits here on May 14, but I’ve missed days when on travel. This is the New Mexico version of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)