[Today’s run: 3.2 miles]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I finished the Aerostar spark plugs on Sunday afternoon. I also found another vacuum line that was disconnected. After fixing that stuff I took it for a ride and it still shifts funny. I have a few more things to check out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve been thinking about my home-built WWV clock and some improvements I could make. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each minute has some fixed waypoints. So what I’m thinking is I could accumulate some number of minutes of data in a 60 second histogram. The data is in the form of low\/mid\/high, so I would probably use 0,1,2 for the values. The minutes would layer on top of each other. Then I would look for the expected pattern of waypoints and try to find the start\/finish of the minute pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next step would be to attempt to read some of the informational data, like month\/day\/year, stuff that doesn’t change very often. And slowly accumulate the actual information. When I get the quicker-changing data I would probably have a complete set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After “lock” I could possibly incorporate knowledge of the incrementing values to set some expectation of what values are coming next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I need to think about a way to recognize the waypoints patterns and the expected values so I can score a given data and then maximize the score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still been listening to Paul VanderKlay on Youtube along with Judge Middleton in Michigan. There is an informal group of people around Vanderklay and I’m not sure that I fit in, or want to try. I’m finding it interesting. Hard to know if I could bring anything useful to the conversation. A lot of people in the group seem to be 12-step folks, which is fine but not really my area of experience. He did talk a bit about his ministry to the homeless around his church and dealing with people who have mental illness. I don’t do that a lot, but I have had reason to think about the unreliable nature of our senses and the need for trust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because of that thinking, I find my tolerance for people who are “just joking” in a not obvious or in a harmful way has gone down. I despise “prank” video channels and things like the old Candid Camera show. Trying to catch people doing bad or embarrassing things… it is maybe useful in a law enforcement “sting” sense, but I don’t see it as healthy entertainment. Our connection with reality is tenuous enough that eroding the trust we share just for yuks is evil, in my opinion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I watched a video of Tom Hanks at a speech at Oxford (or Cambridge?) in the UK. He talked about acting and used words like “truth” to describe a good depiction of a made up scene. I have a hard time with that. In fact I seriously wonder whether acting is much more than learning how to lie really well. I’m not sure. I watch plenty of shows, and I enjoy them. So it doesn’t keep me from doing that. But I wonder if it is good for the people participating and I tend to think it isn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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