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Sunday Jan 12, 2014 #
2 PM
Orienteering race 1:24:51 [3] *** 5.87 km (14:28 / km) +147m 12:51 / km
Green course at Big Bone Lick SP, set by Ben Hart and flyingsquirrel. Just a really fun course, with some seriously tricky legs. I got lucky on my number 2. I miscounted ditches (actually misidentified the third ditch on the left), and ended up short. Probably should have stayed on the left side of the stream until I got to the third ditch. Could have lost a lot more time here. I need to ask O Joy her route on 7. I went downhill to the lake---She's certainly just a lot faster than I am. I was too conservative on 9, the bridge control---I went to the right by the shelter we used for the Flying Pig finish area. The last half of the course was a lot of fun. On paper, several of the legs look too easy, but they simply aren't. Some of them were just incredibly well set-up legs. I would make a mistake, like seeing the church and identifying the wrong building on the map, and IT JUST WASN'T MAKING SENSE, and then---Wow, they got me on that one (maybe 15 or 20 seconds error). Then the next leg, distinctive single tree. I look up, see a really huge distinctive tree, then 7 or 10 seconds later realize it's the wrong one. I wouldn't call this an error because I lost no time, but again, it was just a really clever leg. On the last half of the course, it was flat with a lot of standing water and some ice, so my feet got *cold*. I knew from the ambient temperature that it was impossible to get frostbite, but *wow* my feet were cold.
Some random notes:
Watched all eight Harry Potter movies (1) with my niece. Somehow I missed the last four in theaters. I was impressed. I might dig out our stock of HP books and start reading them. I will need to acquire a few, hopefully in the Half Price Books clearance aisle.
I have been processing a lot of lidar data. I'm actually backlogged. With my niece finished with break and back at school, I should be making some progress. I need to get some image-processing questions (a la Photoshop or GIMP) answered. I need to separate out one color in a big image, possibly change that color to black or white, then use the filters Dilate and Erode to try to link up groups of blobs and eliminate small blobs all together. It's an attempt at generalization.
I'm kinda mad that Kentucky lidar (that which exists) is so hard to get and so expensive. (DEMs and DTMs just don't cut it.) I can download Ohio and Indiana data for free. Will be stirring the pot on this.
Really bummed I missed almost all of FlyingSquirrel's AR Expo. But I had the choice of spending time with my niece (for example, installing an iPhone Aux adapter into her car, eating at Dewey's) or going to the Expo, and...I made the right choice. Really looking forward to the next one.
Saw the Hobbit 2 (1, grudgingly). I really enjoyed it. It's been years since I read the Hobbit, but I remember it as a children's book. This is like a LOTR adaptation of the Hobbit to show the quote-unquote "actual" story. I kinda get that. But it's really hard to shake the idea that this is first and foremost an attempt to make an obscene quantity of money.
Rewatched "Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale" (2010) (1). I love this movie. (Suomi with English subtitles; also, kinda scary. I don't like the ending, but the movie is too awesome to avoid because of the semi-lame ending.) See also my log 2011-02-13.
Finally, for those unfamiliar with Attackpoint movie reviews: The rating scale is binary, 0 or 1, identical to Siskel and Ebert's "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". No wussified, equivocating "2.5 stars out of four"---the choices are "see it" or "don't see it".
Some random notes:
Watched all eight Harry Potter movies (1) with my niece. Somehow I missed the last four in theaters. I was impressed. I might dig out our stock of HP books and start reading them. I will need to acquire a few, hopefully in the Half Price Books clearance aisle.
I have been processing a lot of lidar data. I'm actually backlogged. With my niece finished with break and back at school, I should be making some progress. I need to get some image-processing questions (a la Photoshop or GIMP) answered. I need to separate out one color in a big image, possibly change that color to black or white, then use the filters Dilate and Erode to try to link up groups of blobs and eliminate small blobs all together. It's an attempt at generalization.
I'm kinda mad that Kentucky lidar (that which exists) is so hard to get and so expensive. (DEMs and DTMs just don't cut it.) I can download Ohio and Indiana data for free. Will be stirring the pot on this.
Really bummed I missed almost all of FlyingSquirrel's AR Expo. But I had the choice of spending time with my niece (for example, installing an iPhone Aux adapter into her car, eating at Dewey's) or going to the Expo, and...I made the right choice. Really looking forward to the next one.
Saw the Hobbit 2 (1, grudgingly). I really enjoyed it. It's been years since I read the Hobbit, but I remember it as a children's book. This is like a LOTR adaptation of the Hobbit to show the quote-unquote "actual" story. I kinda get that. But it's really hard to shake the idea that this is first and foremost an attempt to make an obscene quantity of money.
Rewatched "Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale" (2010) (1). I love this movie. (Suomi with English subtitles; also, kinda scary. I don't like the ending, but the movie is too awesome to avoid because of the semi-lame ending.) See also my log 2011-02-13.
Finally, for those unfamiliar with Attackpoint movie reviews: The rating scale is binary, 0 or 1, identical to Siskel and Ebert's "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". No wussified, equivocating "2.5 stars out of four"---the choices are "see it" or "don't see it".
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