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See this is where "go big or go home" came from.
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See this is where "go big or go home" came from.
I thought rotoscoping was largely automated in CS5 and above?When you want to make a little joke, and then everything turns into a rotoscoping nightmare.
Yes, heat. Here south of Richmond it’s been hot, and seems it will continue until Tuesday.
Not much reason to go outside during the bulk of the day. Early morning is ok.
I worry about my SO’s parents, who live on the same farm. He’s 94 and she’s 86. He stays put nearly all the time, as he isn’t very mobile, but she still goes out grocery shopping a couple of times a week, and isn’t playing with a full deck. She gets confused, and has gotten lost a couple of times.
Last night we went the grocery store for them, so hopefully she won’t venture forth for a few days.
The power grid is not all that great here, but my SO’s parents have a whole-house backup generator. Thing is, a couple of weeks ago a storm took the power out (for seven hours), and also took out their generator. It’s apparently something that happens very rarely to backup generators, and is the only time it has happened to them. It could have been really ugly, but fortunately the storm also dropped the temperature. And the generator was repaired the next morning.
Speaking of generators, we’ve decided to bite the bullet and have one installed in our house. Expensive, but worth it, in my opinion. Some folks I’ve spoken with about it have commented that one can buy a lot of hotel room nights for the cost of a generator. My feeling is that being able to remain at home during an extended outage makes a huge difference in both psychological and practical terms. Having livestock and a dog, even more so.
Not much reason to go outside during the bulk of the day. Early morning is ok.
I worry about my SO’s parents, who live on the same farm. He’s 94 and she’s 86. He stays put nearly all the time, as he isn’t very mobile, but she still goes out grocery shopping a couple of times a week, and isn’t playing with a full deck. She gets confused, and has gotten lost a couple of times.
Last night we went the grocery store for them, so hopefully she won’t venture forth for a few days.
The power grid is not all that great here, but my SO’s parents have a whole-house backup generator. Thing is, a couple of weeks ago a storm took the power out (for seven hours), and also took out their generator. It’s apparently something that happens very rarely to backup generators, and is the only time it has happened to them. It could have been really ugly, but fortunately the storm also dropped the temperature. And the generator was repaired the next morning.
Speaking of generators, we’ve decided to bite the bullet and have one installed in our house. Expensive, but worth it, in my opinion. Some folks I’ve spoken with about it have commented that one can buy a lot of hotel room nights for the cost of a generator. My feeling is that being able to remain at home during an extended outage makes a huge difference in both psychological and practical terms. Having livestock and a dog, even more so.
50 years guys. Fifty years ago we landed at the Sea of Tranquility, and humans took their first step on another world. As a space fanatic, today is a day of celebration.
Today I’ll remember with pleasure a chat I had with Michael Collins of Apollo XI many years ago. I will also probably watch First Man, and I will look at the many pictures I have taken at the various space museums across the country (one of the best memories was being in Houston when both the Apollo XI and Apollo XVII, the last moon mission command modules were almost one next to the other).
Today I’ll remember with pleasure a chat I had with Michael Collins of Apollo XI many years ago. I will also probably watch First Man, and I will look at the many pictures I have taken at the various space museums across the country (one of the best memories was being in Houston when both the Apollo XI and Apollo XVII, the last moon mission command modules were almost one next to the other).
Its more amazing to think how many years since we've not been back!
Dunning-Kruger isn't a manufacturer of watches, but our resident expert didn't seem to pick up on that. This makes me tremendously happy.
Machine-learning is the next step in automated rotoscoping. Using the same app—which has recently become the subject of controversy—I mentioned in this post, I was able to roto without specifying what part was the background or using stereoscopic cameras.
Here's what it did with a cat, which is pretty incredible considering it was trained on photos of people.
I think it's still a mixed bag. As powerful as AE's roto-brush is, my issue was that it didn't seem to be caching everything I'd previously brushed. I'd go back to view my work from the beginning, and then I'd notice it had to re-interpolate and would do so with sub-par results, adding a janky shadow here and popping off a finger there.
Machine-learning is the next step in automated rotoscoping. Using the same app—which has recently become the subject of controversy—I mentioned in this post, I was able to roto without specifying what part was the background or using stereoscopic cameras.
Here's what it did with a cat, which is pretty incredible considering it was trained on photos of people.
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Well, I, for one, had never heard of them, although subsequent to your post, I saw small need to further investigate their provenance.
Hotter than Hades here in Northern Virginia -- what's on my mind is being thankful for functioning air-conditioning and electricity.
Right now it is a sultry, sizzling 96 degrees Fahrenheit and climbing....That situation with the elderly parents sounds rather concerning; has anyone broached the topic of assisted living for them? If he has mobility issues and she is showing signs of dementia, it really isn't safe for them to be living where they are.
Not really if you take into account that it’s a rock we know everything about and that it costs like $2B per launch... by Apollo 12 people stopped caring. The Apollo 13 near miss sparked some interest for a short time but certainly not enough to maintain the $$$.
Hotter than Hades here in Northern Virginia -- what's on my mind is being thankful for functioning air-conditioning and electricity.
That situation with the elderly parents sounds rather concerning; has anyone broached the topic of assisted living for them? If he has mobility issues and she is showing signs of dementia, it really isn't safe for them to be living where they are.
I agree, but they aren't interested in that yet. My guess is things will have to get a bit more dire before they seriously consider a change.
Probably more realistic for them would be having somebody stay with them at least part time, and take over the grocery shopping and other chores that involve driving.
They both have health conditions which are probably terminal in the next year or two. The emotional trauma of moving them out of their home at this point may be too much.
In the meantime, occasional part time hired help, along with friends and neighbors help with trips to doctors, hairdresser, and other appointments. My SO keeps their medications straight, and pays their bills. I'm going to install some handrails at strategic locations in their house, which should help him get around.
All things considered, they are doing surprisingly well.
96 degrees F here as well. And quite humid. I, too, am grateful for functioning air conditioning.
In a way an extended focus on unmanned space exploration seems a very necessary prelude to next manned adventures. More valuable than trying to hop out to a semi-inhabitable planet as demo of a last ditch measure for escape from some impending catastrophe on our planet.
To try that without knowing more about interstellar space would seem like putting carts before horses. Distances are huge so whatever we do does take a long time, and in putting some unmanned projects out there to send back data, we can meanwhile strategize "What next?" and incorporate what we learn as the unmanned projects' data transmissions help inform the discussions.
After all there might not be too much point getting stranded a couple dozen billion miles from our first home if we don't know what to head for or avoid farther out in the galaxy after "whew, a narrow escape!"
Long-running, unmanned exploration projects and the positioning of assorted types of space telescopes do let us further refine our understanding of the physical sciences without undue risk to human life. Maybe we'll even learn things that let us eventually overcome obstacles now seemingly posed by the extreme distances of interstellar space.
I have an Oreck orbiter cleaner. I humped everything out and have to put it all back in.
You've outhumped yourself. Have a few cold beers. Do it tomorrow.
Yes, chances are that if they're not interested in making a move, things will have to get worse.....Just saw a similar situation here in my condo building, where an elderly neighbor who was clearly showing signs of dementia from time to time along with various serious physical issues, was adamantly refusing to go to the hospital for a basic overall well-being check, and the EMS personnel could not take her involuntarily because she still sounded fairly reasonable. Her daughter and son have waited through several months during which the woman was pretty much left to her own devices except for a weekly cleaning woman, until last week things came to a head and the woman was taken to the hospital, even though she had been protesting. She was afraid to go to the hospital because she was uneasily sensing that she would never be coming back home again A sad situation, really.
Yes, having someone checking in on the parents each day, plus doing things such as shopping for them, cleaning for them, etc, helps, but only to a certain extent. However....all too often eventually the time comes when friends and neighbors back off because the responsibility is becoming too great, and paid help may or may not continue to work for someone in a situation which is deteriorating.
In the meantime that is good that your SO is keeping track of the finances and and medications and ensuring that all of that is right, bills are paid on time, etc. Does she have legal power of attorney over their affairs? Important to get if she does not already have that.
Her parents are very fortunate to have their daughter looking out for them! And, yes, installing handrails and such will help as far as the father getting around the house more easily.
Yeah, it's HOT and humid here -- in some places around this area I think it did actually hit 100 degrees fahrenheit! OUCH.....
She does have legal POA, which helps.
As an only child, she is at times overwhelmed with it all. But she soldiers on.
In a totally unrelated vein, I had an extraordinary experience about an hour ago. My SO called me outside and told me come armed. Fearing a coyote or pack of dogs attacking the goat herd, I rushed out, prepared to meet whatever it was. She pointed at the ground near the fish pond just outside the back door, and I was greeted by the sight of a serious-looking snake, black, and very aggressive, raised up with neck swollen like a cobra. It was not backing down, and seemed poised to lunge at us.
After a bit of inspection with the binoculars (I didn't trust my unaided vision), I confirmed that it was in fact an Eastern Hognose Snake (Heterodon platyrhinos).
Taking a long stick, I gently prodded it, and, true to form, it immediately began writhing about in apparent death throes. Then, dramatically, it rolled over on its back and lay still, as seen in the picture below:
Not fooled for a moment, I picked up the now-limp snake with the stick, and turned it over. Sure enough, it immediately flopped over, belly-up, as a properly dead snake would do.
More gentle prodding resulted in it opening its mouth wide, still on its back, thus appearing that it had breathed its last gasp.
It was a great show, and we withdrew and went inside (still very hot outside) to give the poor snake a chance to find suitable shelter.
Sure enough, a few minutes later it was gone from the spot where it had 'died.'
So I am most pleased that we have this creature living in the yard. It's harmless, according to the literature. At first most fearsome in appearance, then ridiculous. And they don't bite. Made my day, actually. And it improved my SO's mood, which had bordered on somewhat grumpy.
After a bit of inspection with the binoculars (I didn't trust my unaided vision), I confirmed that it was in fact an Eastern Hognose Snake (Heterodon platyrhinos).
Taking a long stick, I gently prodded it, and, true to form, it immediately began writhing about in apparent death throes. Then, dramatically, it rolled over on its back and lay still, as seen in the picture below:
Not fooled for a moment, I picked up the now-limp snake with the stick, and turned it over. Sure enough, it immediately flopped over, belly-up, as a properly dead snake would do.
More gentle prodding resulted in it opening its mouth wide, still on its back, thus appearing that it had breathed its last gasp.
It was a great show, and we withdrew and went inside (still very hot outside) to give the poor snake a chance to find suitable shelter.
Sure enough, a few minutes later it was gone from the spot where it had 'died.'
So I am most pleased that we have this creature living in the yard. It's harmless, according to the literature. At first most fearsome in appearance, then ridiculous. And they don't bite. Made my day, actually. And it improved my SO's mood, which had bordered on somewhat grumpy.
Thought they looked familiar. Those are really good at playing dead. I've seen a couple in the south when I briefly lived there many years ago. My general reaction to snacks is to dispatch them regardless of how safe they are. In the same vain, I still take decent joy in dispatching gophers and similar on land. Haven't done it in maybe 15 years but the last time I did it was land owned by an old hunting buddy I still keep in touch. Owned by his extended family. Our long range rifles were severely overkill so we took a few hundred rounds of .22 and went to exterminating the vermin.
.22 is the perfect round for them. It's a clean dispatch. 17 HMR shreds them and it's a mess to discard their corpses. 223 is way, way overkill.
I'd love to go iguana hunting in Florida or the Caribbean since they're a pest. I think for a snake, a veterinarian's pistol would be a fantastic weapon. One round manual chambering and it's deadly silent with the built in suppressor. I've seen it used a few times by vets who get called out by police to put a hit animal out of its misery since cops don't want to fire their weapon on animal. I'm guessing a mix of policy and emotional burden.
.22 is the perfect round for them. It's a clean dispatch. 17 HMR shreds them and it's a mess to discard their corpses. 223 is way, way overkill.
I'd love to go iguana hunting in Florida or the Caribbean since they're a pest. I think for a snake, a veterinarian's pistol would be a fantastic weapon. One round manual chambering and it's deadly silent with the built in suppressor. I've seen it used a few times by vets who get called out by police to put a hit animal out of its misery since cops don't want to fire their weapon on animal. I'm guessing a mix of policy and emotional burden.