Erling Jacobsen

"thoughts" on relativity

linuxcub — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:51:23 GMT

How does special relativity, speaking about frames of reference, survive when space-time geometry is an emergent phenomenon ? meaning (perhaps) that large-scale frames-of-reference are also emergent, not a fundamental thing.

Had to say something.

linuxcub — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:38:15 GMT

www.gaystarnews.com/article/mother-writes-foul-response-birthday-party-invite-kid-gay-dads130214

Str8 people should be followed around by "lifestyle-police" who'd slap them whenever they broadcast their own "lifestyle". I think part of the problem here is that, seemingly, dumb str8 people equate gay people simply being themselves with "gay propaganda". If such a thing existed, and worked, then nobody would be gay, because of all the str8 propaganda we're surrounded by (and which str8 idiots are unaware of).

And how is it worse for kids being made aware of the fact that men can love each other ? Aren't kids already being made aware of the fact that men and women can love each other ? Are str8 people so fixated on sex that they cannot explain the former without talking about sex ? How do they explain the latter ? (Personally, I partly blame the term "homosexual". Had we been known as Homoemotional or some other term, the focus isn't so much on the sex. This would also help differentiate between "homo-tourists" (emotionally str8 men just looking for sex with gays) and "real gays" (who fall in love with other men)).

I am so smart ... S M R T ...

linuxcub — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:11:22 GMT

loft-living = lift-loving ?

And 1st world annoyance of the day: Why does the theme-song to Scrubs go "I'm no supermarn" ? Sounds as ridiculous as the series itself (note to self: get a job, to avoid staying at home, watching bad TV all the time).

The Shockwave Rider

linuxcub — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:45:10 GMT

Well --- how did you vote ?

Inches, feet, US weirdness ?

linuxcub — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:16:40 GMT

On datingsites, I sometimes see people listed as being 5 feet, 12 inches ... Uhm, why isn't that simply 6 feet ???

Makes as much sense as this: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2009/02/18 :-)

Am I right ?

linuxcub — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:58:15 GMT

Every now and then, one hears straight, homophobic men (it usually seems to be men ?) criticize gay marriage by arguing "Next, I'll be allowed to marry my goat" (or something similar). Usually something involving animals. What is wrong with that argument ? What can another person provide, which animals cannot ? That's right: informed consent. By ignoring this aspect, these men are saying that consent from their partner-to-be isn't required; thus it follows: marriage can be forced upon women. And indeed many places in the world we hear about arranged marriages, sometimes with horrible consequences. This mindset damages more than the women, it corrupts the men, too.

Pride 2013

linuxcub — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 18:11:11 GMT

Thursday Aug 22nd, I went to Block66, a new gay place in Cph, for their "Cobearhagen goes instinct" party, a part of the Cobearhagen series of events. The place was rather small, but not many bears turned up anyway (and the dancefloor was empty). I didn't recognize many of the bears, most were already in pairs or groups, and I didn't feel like trying my luck there. Anyway, most weren't of the "chubby bear" variety I prefer, but a bit on the skinny side. A shame that Denmark (let alone Cph) is too small to have both a chub/chaser _and_ a bear community of a useful size.

I did notice another big bear sitting alone, with a nice bear-couple between us. I couldn't really tell if he was looking at them or me ... Turned out it was me :-) So we talked a bit, until the place closed at 2AM (surprisingly early). He was from Finland.

Friday, I was joined by Johan for the party in SLM-CPH, where we also met our new friend from Finland. I spent some time alone, but eventually some fun was had by all 3 ;-)

Saturday, we (all 3) watched the pride parade, and later watched the shows in the central square, including a brief performance by the recent danish winner of ESC (since the finn was really into ESC, that was a must).

Eventually, we ended up at my place, where we relaxed (etc) until my guests had to leave sunday evening.

Johan pronounced it the best pride in Cph with me ever. Myself, I felt somewhat disappointed, since I would rather have found some new local friend, rather than a tourist, however nice and sexy. OK, I've never been really good at "being in the moment", but yes it was an OK pride ;-)

Rapoo A3020 Bluetooth speaker

linuxcub — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:23:28 GMT

Having trouble with this new bluetooth speaker I bought a week ago: Every now and then it would seemingly lock up, the touch-buttons for volume and track navigation and even the power button becoming completely unresponsive to the point where it couldn't even be turned off. While this would be going on, the speaker would be bluetoothing track-next commands to the connected phone ... you can imagine how annoying that is.

Finally took it apart (difficult since the screws holding it together were hidden behind the glued-on front) to see WTH was going on ...

My current thinking is that the bluetooth antenna is placed far to close to the touch buttons, which are sensitive to the signals. There was no shielding between the main electronics (with the bluetooth antenna) and the front (with the sensitive buttons) ...

So I've added a layer of tinfoil as shielding, held in place with doublesided tape, inside the thing, between the main PCB and the front ...

Initial test seems promising.

But Rapoo really need better QA or electronics/RF designers ...

Apple charger actually compatible with a standard ? What is the world coming to ? :-)

linuxcub — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:16:56 GMT

A couple of years ago (or so), I bought an Apple USB charger, their 1A european model (Model A1300).

Why ? Because it is the smallest charger around that is not utter crap.

The downside: The A1300 had the Apple-proprietary arrangement of resistors connected to the D+/- pins, signalling to iDevices that this is an Apple charger, and confusing the hell out of other equipment (like my Nokia N9 mobile phone). So, since the charger is impossible to disassemble (neatly), I'd have to modify USB cables, turning them into pure charging cables (sacrificing the data capability). Ugh.

Just today, I bought another Apple USB charger, and on a whim, tested it with my Nokia N9, and subsequently measured with a mutimeter ...

Yay. It seems the new Model A1400 is actually "dumb charger" compatible (having the D+/- pins shorted), so it should be useful for charging _any_ modern equipment, not just iDevices !

The Question Club ?

linuxcub — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:53:18 GMT

Why don't they allow anyone to answer their questions ? WTF ?

http://xkcd.com/386/ (<--- that's me)

Unwanted attention ?

linuxcub — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:30:20 GMT

Saw someone on my FoF list (almost) complain about that ... I wish I had that problem :-(

If space is an illusion ...

linuxcub — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:08:20 GMT

... or rather an emergent phenomenon, is there any real need for a "standard model" (or preon model) to include gravity ? It, too, will be an emergent property.

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Happy New Year !

linuxcub — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:25:06 GMT

Here's my summary of 2012: http://linuxcub.adsl.dk/pub/newyearseve2012.pdf

I hope, in the future, to be able to travel more, or otherwise get a chance to meet you all.

I really do appreciate my LJ friendships!

Big Hugs
Erling

Are you trying to call me ?

linuxcub — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:18:20 GMT

I keep getting phonecalls from "Anonymous" (no, not the group, just without CallerID).

Is it someone here, trying to call me ?

I keep getting phone-spam (calls from +8888888888 etc), so I'm not answering the phone unless I see a known CallerID.

Registering to vote ?

linuxcub — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:39:06 GMT

Could some of my american friends explain to me why you have to "register" to vote ? Why doesn't that happen automatically as soon as one is a citizen ?

All That Jazz

linuxcub — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:31:24 GMT

Would you believe that All That Jazz is a favourite movie of mine ?

I remember that it was shown on TV a couple of years ago, on new years eve ... I wonder what the hell the station was thinking ... the movie is too dark for new years eve, and too good to be watched by drunks who are mostly waiting for Dinner For One to come on (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_one ).

Found it recently on DVD, and watching it now, with commentary by Roy Scheider

Health and evolution ...

linuxcub — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:59:46 GMT

Just heard, on swedish television, that we still eat too much food with too much sugar, fat and salt ...

We should instead encourage kids to eat even more of the good stuff, so that evolution takes care of adapting the human race ... :-) let the ones who can't handle it, have heart attacks before they breed :-)

I think that sounds like a simple solution, a modest proposal :-)

The next time ...

linuxcub — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:43:44 GMT

... someone asks me if I'm FileMaker 11 certified, I'm going to answer "No, I have no history of mental illness".

Eärendil

linuxcub — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:22:30 GMT

Odd that I didn't think of this before ...

Did the Valar really make him a star, or was he part of the first space-program ?

Google found this: http://www.fanfiction.net/r/1124504/

linuxcub — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:35:29 GMT

Johan and I have spent yet another quiet but cozy newyears eve together

Looking at the fireworks (there's a really good view from the 10th floor :-)

Positive strees vs. iStress ...

linuxcub — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:23:40 GMT

Oh, I just found out that Positive Stress is called Eustress: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Positive_Stress

I was looking up the phrase to make sure that I was using the correct idiom, because after seeing yet another report of someones iTunes messing up, I started thinking of the difference between closed-source, proprietary iDevices and open-source things like Linux ...

Yes, both kinds can misbehave and/or break.

But one kind cannot be fixed by you (meaning oneself), and the other kind can be fixed.

It strongly reminded me of the one thing I'm usually not good at in real life, namely not worrying about things that are out of my control. Doing so leads to the bad kind of stress, which I'm now going to call iStress !

See :-)

Cosmology ?

linuxcub — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:36:56 GMT

Watching the Nobel prize talks on TV ...

I know the secret behind the "missing matter" !

The universes _mother_ has been tidying up the place, and _that's_ why we can't find 70 % of our stuff !

A poem about dimensions

linuxcub — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:17:20 GMT

Why four?
Why sometimes more?

Posted via m.livejournal.com.

Monty and I

linuxcub — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:40:34 GMT

I'm unemployed and actually find Richard Griffiths attractive. I need an Uncle Monty of my own. He wouldn't need to resort to burglary ;-)

I just realised ...

linuxcub — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:43:53 GMT

... that the people who think I'm not "bear" enough, are being overbearing ...