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RE: https://aus.social/@spacelizard/111593468170505537
Oh, seems that we've had our car for two years now. I still think it's great, and certainly have no regrets about going electric.
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Some more interesting output from my Markov text generator. It apparently got locked into that repetitive string of all caps phrases because the "STOP" at the end of each line gives it little to work with that isn't from the story that originally prompted it to start doing that. Still, I quite like "It is like dogs’ tongues flick and ask the smell," and also the thing about the space lizard with a bomb-ring in its mouth water.
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Some more interesting output from my Markov text generator. It apparently got locked into that repetitive string of all caps phrases because the "STOP" at the end of each line gives it little to work with that isn't from the story that originally prompted it to start doing that. Still, I quite like "It is like dogs’ tongues flick and ask the smell," and also the thing about the space lizard with a bomb-ring in its mouth water.
#MarkovChain #TextGeneration #FlashFiction #SpaceLizard -
Some more interesting output from my Markov text generator. It apparently got locked into that repetitive string of all caps phrases because the "STOP" at the end of each line gives it little to work with that isn't from the story that originally prompted it to start doing that. Still, I quite like "It is like dogs’ tongues flick and ask the smell," and also the thing about the space lizard with a bomb-ring in its mouth water.
#MarkovChain #TextGeneration #FlashFiction #SpaceLizard -
Some more interesting output from my Markov text generator. It apparently got locked into that repetitive string of all caps phrases because the "STOP" at the end of each line gives it little to work with that isn't from the story that originally prompted it to start doing that. Still, I quite like "It is like dogs’ tongues flick and ask the smell," and also the thing about the space lizard with a bomb-ring in its mouth water.
#MarkovChain #TextGeneration #FlashFiction #SpaceLizard -
Some more interesting output from my Markov text generator. It apparently got locked into that repetitive string of all caps phrases because the "STOP" at the end of each line gives it little to work with that isn't from the story that originally prompted it to start doing that. Still, I quite like "It is like dogs’ tongues flick and ask the smell," and also the thing about the space lizard with a bomb-ring in its mouth water.
#MarkovChain #TextGeneration #FlashFiction #SpaceLizard -
OK, that's it. Need to stop fiddling with this now. Same as the previous one with a slight tweak of the black level.
I think this crop is a better picture than the full mosaic too. Full res here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-vjXSLcv/A
#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro
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Or maybe the answer is none of the above. Keep the greatly reduced stars but don't darken the background quite so much so more extended faint details are visible.
#Astrophotography #Seestar
#Seestar30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope
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Meanwhile I've fallen down a rabbit hole trying to decide how best to process my big Eta Carina mosaic. All the stars, slightly reduced stars, or greatly reduced stars? Too much and the stars do distract from the nebulosity, which is the main subject of the image, but too few and it looks sterile and artificial. I'm struggling to find the right balance.
The three crops from part of the mosaic run the range from all the stars to greatly reduced. I keep changing my mind about which is best, or whether I need to go somewhere in between them. I also think the answer is different for this crop, and for the full mosaic (which isn't as full of bright nebulosity).
#Astrophotography #Seestar
#Seestar30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope
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I got some more data on the Helix Nebula too, now totalling just over 11 hours. I think this is about as good as it's going to get with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope.
#Astrophotography #Seestar
#Seestar30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope
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It may be the most photographed deep sky object in the night sky, but the Orion Nebula is still rewarding. Here's what I got from an hour and 40 minutes of exposure time just before morning twilight last night.
As usual all data from my Seestar S30 Pro, processed in Siril with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts.
#Astrophotography #Seestar #Seestar30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro
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The epilogue for my trip to Siding Spring Observatory a week and a half ago: while the weather wasn't very cooperative I did manage to come away with a bit of usable data in the Thirty Millimetre Telescope, including some on comets 220P/McNaught and 10P/Tempel.
#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #SidingSpringObservatory
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Damn, there was a funnier way to caption this.
Jerry doing his impressions:
1. Baguette
2. Croissant#LizardPosting #SkinksOfMastodon #LizardsOfMastodon #Skink #Lizard #BlueTongueSkink #BlueTongueLizard
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You could do worse than setting aside 2 1/4 hours to watch Clint Laidlaw run through the phylogeny of *all* the lizards.
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Jerry would like to remind you all that tomorrow, the 14th of August, is World Lizard Day. How are you planning to celebrate?
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Someone has removed Jerry's photo from the Pets of AAO and SoE board! I can only assume someone liked looking at Jerry so much that they couldn't help themselves and stole the picture so that they could look at it all the time. 🤔
#LizardPosting #SkinksOfMastodon #BlueTongueSkink #Skink #Lizard
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The scaly sausage has come out for a bask.
#LizardPosting #SkinksOfMastodon #Skink #BlueTongueSkink #LizardsOfMastodon #Lizard #BlueTongueLizard
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Oh hi, car software updates. Long time no see.
Not right now though, eh? I'm trying to run some errands.
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Rare brumation season appearance from the scaly sausage. Jerry decided to come out of hiding and do a bit of basking just before the timer turned his lights off for the night.
Good to see him as I haven't had a good look at him in weeks. Pleased to see he seems to be in good condition.
#LizardPosting #BlueTongueSkink #BlueTongueLizard #SkinksOfMastodon #LizardsOfMastodon #Skink #Lizard
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Got the blue tongue out of his hide to check on him as I hadn't seen him since he shed, and I wanted to make sure he was OK and didn't have any stuck scales anywhere.
I wasn't sure if he'd be hungry as we're getting into the time of year where he might start brumating and go off his food for a couple of months, so rather than make up a dish of food for him I just offered him dog food still in the tray. It's fair to say he was indeed hungry!
#LizardPosting #BlueTongueSkink #BlueTongueLizard #SkinksOfMastodon #LizardsOfMastodon #Skink #Lizard
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The scaly sausage has been hiding more or less continually for the last couple of weeks. I thought he might be going into brumation a touch early due to the cool nights we had before it was raining all the time, but it seems he was instead preparing to shed his skin. He finally emerged this evening and spent a while rubbing himself on things to get the old skin off and, as usual, eating most of it. There were a few scraps left though, like this bit from his tail.
#LizardPosting #SkinksOfMastodon #Skink #BlueTongueSkink #BlueTongueLizard #LizardsOfMastodon #Lizard
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Range anxiety? Yeah, nah.
This was mostly intentional. It is recommended, every now and then, to run the battery down to under 10% and then charge to 100% in one go. This gives the battery management system an opportunity to recalibrate its state of charge measurements, ensuring it will give accurate percent remaining readings.
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The long saga of bureaucratic mismanagement that was the renewal of my Companion Native Animal Keeper licence has finally come to a conclusion.
13 1/2 weeks after submitting my renewal application to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service I have now received my new licence. That means that this scaly sausage is legit again, after being held on an expired licence for the past 12 1/2 weeks through no fault of my own.
As noted up thread these types of licences used to be granted automatically within minutes, but then the NSW goverment decided that all animal licence applications needed to be reviewed, but didn't give the NPWS Wildlife Licencing Team the necessary resources to do it. The inevitable result has been months long backlogs of applications awaiting manual processing.
#LizardPosting #BlueTongueSkink #BlueTongueLizard #LizardsOfMastodon #SkinksOfMastodon #Lizard #Skink
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If you read the first sentence of that and are thinking, "hang on, do BYD Seals come with a dashcam or not?" the answer is they do come with one. In China.
To avoid potential privacy concerns BYD leave out the dashcam camera module when assembling export Seals, but the missing modules are readily available from AliExpress, etc., for about $100. I just had to buy one, pop open the windscreen electronics housing, click the camera into place, plug in the cable that was already there, and stick a microSD card in the slot below the centre console.
The video isn't great, it only records from a single camera, and only when the car is turned on (no "sentry mode" here), but it's cheaper and less faff than getting a 3rd party dashcam wired up.
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I finally remembered that our Seal has the OEM dashcam installed, so there would be video of our wallaby encounters between Tenterfield and Glen Innes during our drive back to Sydney from Brisbane. They hadn't been overwritten yet so I was able to grab the relevant bits.
The video quality is pretty rubbish but it's better than nothing, and the data overlay is neat.
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One of my more successful 3D printing projects: Jerry's platforms and ramps. The scaly sausage does seem to like them.
#LizardPosting #LizardsOfMastodon #SkinksOfMastodon #Lizard #Skink #BlueTongueSkink #BlueTongueLizard #3Dprinting
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Home again. Our road trip from Sydney to Brisbane totalled 2616.9 km over 17 days. I noticed that the media were running their "long queues at EV chargers" stories again over the Easter long weekend so I'll just note that during our entire trip we had to wait for a charger a total of once, for 15 minutes. Most of the times I charged the car ours was the only car charging.
Today's drive from Glen Innes to Sydney went smoothly. We drove to Armidale where we charged and had an early lunch (including, for me, a massive coffee), then drove Thunderbolt's Way through Gloucester to Raymond Terrace where we topped up the car again and had dinner. After that it was just a boring drive down the Pacific Motorway to Sydney.
Minor rant again about the stupid Tesla chargers. Tesla took government subsidies to build these chargers and in exchange had to open them to non-Tesla cars, but they still insisted on placing the chargers between parking bays. The cables are just long enough to stretch across to the other side of the bay for cars that have their charging port on the other side but the main problem is that Tesla makes no effort to make it clear which charger is supposed to be used from which bay. No signage, no markings on the ground, you're just supposed to know. Consequently a lot of drivers of non-Tesla cars who either don't know or don't care just plug in whichever charger is nearest to their car's charging port, and if they use the wrong side then they effectively occupy two spaces. I saw two cars doing this today.
Tesla should put the chargers in the middle of the bay so the cable can easily reach either side and it's obvious which charger goes with which bay, but failing that they could at least put up some signs.
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So far so good. Charged at our favourite AmpCharge before leaving Brisbane, topped up at the awkward wrong-side chargers in Tenterfield, and made it to our motel in Glen Innes in time to go get a chicken parmi at the Railway Tavern.
In hindsight it would have been good to leave Brisbane about an hour earlier so that we'd have arrived in Glen Innes well before sunset. As it was we ended up driving the last half an hour or so during dusk and had several close encounters with wallabies between Tenterfield and Glen Innes. Nothing requiring full on emergency braking fortunately, but at one point we did have to quickly stop due to a group of 3 wallabies just standing in the middle of the road in front of us.
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The drive back to Sydney begins tomorrow. About 1000 km with an overnight stop in a motel in Glen Innes.
We could potentially save about 25 minutes by going back via Gloucester instead of Tamworth. There's some nice scenic bits that way, but more demanding driving and fewer good places to take a break. I'll see how I feel on the day.