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Pictures please 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Follow link and in menu on left click on Projects.
Sewing Cabinet
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
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Wow. Very, very nice Mike.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Thanks Gary.
She likes it but the finish I put on it takes 30 days to cure so she won't get it in time for xmas.
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.0 JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate
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Recreating the Battlefield of Gettysburg. With blocks.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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My dad's side of the family is from Gettysburg. Definitely not the same town it was when I was a kid. Much more crowded with general commerce that you see in any town and less touristy.
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Computer graphics stuff and robot simulators. I have figured out forward kinematics and I'm trying to figure out inverse kinematics now. There are pictures in my profile. My 'avatar' is one example of the CGI stuff.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I've used inverse kinematics in AutoDesk 3D Studio with a biped. Fun stuff.
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I have a recording studioette in the basement where I dick around mixing and remixing then mixing again songs I wrote.
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Writing, recording, mixing my own music, usually very badly.
Creating things with stained or art glass.
DIY home improvement projects.
Exploring a few of Tennessee's 12,000 known caves.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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TNCaver wrote: Tennessee's 12,000 known caves.
Wow, no kidding? There are THAT many caves in Tennessee? That sounds really cool. 
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I think the official count by the Tennessee Cave Survey is actually somewhere around 11,600. But we count anything at least 50' in horizontal length, or at least 30' deep if it's a pit requiring vertical gear, as a cave. And we're finding more every year.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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I really want to re-write a manufacturing system I've supported for 20+ years. Sometime in the near future, there is a small sailboat in my dreams.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Writing a program to calculate fractals rigorously (i.e. being certain that a point is inside, outside, or "unknown" as yet)
Writing a full implementation of the IEEE 754-2019 Floating-Point Standard, with the intention of expanding it to higher-precision types
Learning all the Physics that I missed out on by becoming a software engineer
Converting the WINFRACT (FRACTINT for Windows) program to run on Win32 or Win64
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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may i inquire which Physics topics / authors you are studying assuming of course you have time for such whilst writing great code .
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I've always wanted to actually understand General Relativity. The undergraduate degree that I did in Physics only covered Special Relativity. I've been going back to the original papers - Einstein, Minkowski, etc. for the physics, and studying Tensor Analysis from a few different books (M.L. Boas - general math, A. Lichnerowicz - Tensor Calculus, ...). At the rate I'm going, it will probably take me a few years to thoroughly understand the subject, but I'm in no hurry... 
Ditto for everything else. These are hobbies, so I have no deadlines.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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do you have a copy of Gravitation (book) - Wikipedia[^] i use mine as a door stop as i have yet to finish Classical Mechanics (Goldstein) - Wikipedia[^] . it required several readings with an overly lengthy interruption in order to begin to understand virtual displacements as utilized in deducing LaGrange's equations . i have to read it again to consider if my understanding is correct .
re/ tensors i viewed a few years ago a superb YouTube series on the subject . unfortunately i no longer have the link .
also do you have a copy of "Spacetime Physics", Second Edition by Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler .
i also have a oopy of Einsein's GR paper . i did not find it helpful . the references to Mach and his ideas i have yet to understand .
i wish you great success in this fine pursuit .
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I have a copy of Gravitation, but not the other books.
I have a copy of Einstein's GR paper, and am trying to collect the papers that Einstein referenced (and in some cases - the papers that they referenced). The problem is that many of them are available only in German - and I don't read German.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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of course it may be useful to steady the original papers . however it seems to me you are eschewing the modern texts . if so i do not understand why . don't forget papers published in scientific journals are terse and not meant to be edumakational exempli gratia Einstein's original GR paper to now a 1,000+ page tome by Wheeler et al . also i am a believer in multiple authors / texts . by the way my undergrad physics instructor was kind enough to give to me the gift of a Xerox "orignal" copy of Michelson's "SPEED OF LIGHT" notebook complete w/ tea cup stains and his fine penmanship .
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I didn't say that I intend to neglect modern treatments of the subject. I just want to start from the original papers, and take it from there. I know, for example, that in order to understand GR I must review Tensor Analysis, study Differential Geometry, etc. before even trying to tackle Einstein's papers, to say nothing of later texts.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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- Trying to not get nuts
- Learning communication skill
- Learning DIY
- Learning survival stuff
- Maybe learning domotics? It was an idea to make a consultant service for Smart-Homes as second job.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: - Trying to not get nuts
You're fortunate. Most of us are already already there. 
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I have apart time bladesmithing business. It is a hobby that got out of hand and now I make high end things for collectors.
Aside from that I'm on and off writing a book about DCOM and Windows Security for developers.
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Mersenne primes
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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