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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 06:47pm on 2005-06-14 under , ,

Hey [livejournal.com profile] realinterrobang, if you loathe wasabi peas, you'll really despise wasabi peanuts! (But that's okay: more for me.)

Well, I found the shoes that I had gotten specifically to wear in Poughkeepsie. They never made it out of my house. Argh.

When I came home this afternoon, the atmosphere at the nearest automatic time & temperature sign to my house was 96F. On most of the second floor of my house, it's 90F. In the blue bedroom (window AC going, door closed) it's 80F. By my way of looking at things, 300K (27C, 80F) is a perfectly reasonable temperature outdoors with a breeze but is definitely too warm indoors. Let's see how it is after running the window units a while longer and having a cool front (please please oh please) move through. Still, it's not as bad as predicted in here.

How hard would it be to build an automatic targeting system for a parabolic dish so that it points at whatever car in front of my house is playing the loudest, thumpiest "music", so I can return fire with a narrow beam, high volume playback of something loud and medieval, or perhaps some Boiled In Lead or the punchiest tracks from the HCB CDs?

Now to see whether I remember enough of my high school physics to figure out how many grams of water there are in 22.4 liters of air at 310K and 90% relative humidity.

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You going to Poughkeepsie this weekend?

posted by [identity profile] keith-m043.livejournal.com at 11:30pm on 2005-06-14
wink wink nudge nudge say no more? :3
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Beaming Music

posted by [personal profile] gorgeousgary at 12:09am on 2005-06-15
Suggestion if you build the dish...

Rogues. V5.0. "Seven Minutes"

Of course, the scream of pain from the targetted car may prove more disruptive than the thumping music... 8-)
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posted by [identity profile] dfn-doe.livejournal.com at 12:53am on 2005-06-15
Depending on how fast your target is moving a simple scanning back and forth combined with a comparator should give you okay accuracy...
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 06:17am on 2005-06-15
Oh! [slaps forehead] The ones moving at or exceeding the speed limit will be gone too quickly to bother with (though the loudest of those still garners a grimace); the ones I want to hit will be moving <15 MPH, and most of them will stop. (There's a traffic light four houses away.)

That sounds like a design I could diagram at the black-box level after reading the data sheets on a few components ... but would need someone with respectable EE-fu to translate into an actual circuit diagram with capacitors and resistors and their values on it. ("Respectable" levels of EEness in this context means basically "any". I've got this funny disconnect between the abstract concepts and the concrete implementations that I really must educate away one of these years. But given a schematic and a box of parts, I can (clumsily, fugly-ly) solder things together according to the map.)

This device is sounding more simple the more I think about it... Thanks for the Clue.
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 12:55am on 2005-06-15
Um, if you meant me, you b0rked the link... :D Apparently there is no user "realinterrogang."

Since I don't especially like peanuts to begin with, you're probably right.

May I suggest The Makkabees? I'll send some with Sian for you at Pennsic, assuming I don't figure out a way to go before then...
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 05:31am on 2005-06-15
I've been most amazingly fubmlefingred all f'ing day. Argh. Catch most of 'em before hitting "send", but that'n got by. Fixed now. Probably.
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Uggggh

posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 04:31am on 2005-06-15
Wasabi anything........vomit!
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posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 04:32am on 2005-06-15
I'll take the Physics for $800 question, though :)
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Re: Uggggh

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 06:01am on 2005-06-15
Go for it. So far I'm thinking that the vapor pressure of H2O at a given temperature translates to the quantity in the air at 100% relative humidity, and planned to work forward from there once Google finds me a chart of partial pressures or I find my high school chemistry book. But maybe there's a shorter way?
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Re: Uggggh

posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 01:43pm on 2005-06-15
Don't think there is one but I'll try to get back to this after a crazy day :)
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posted by [identity profile] malada.livejournal.com at 05:24am on 2005-06-15
Forget the narrow beam, high volume audio and go for laser guided missiles packed with high explosives.

BOOM!

-m
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 05:44am on 2005-06-15
Believe you me, the thought's crossed my mind more than a few times. But I've been trying to channel my energies into tactics that a) are legal, b) can't easily be traced back to me, or c) are things the police will decide aren't worth investigating, or will settle for giving me a stern talking to instead of real trouble if they notice me.

At this range, laser guidance systems would be pointless. Since the ones I'd want to hit are either parked or stopped at a red light, I wouldn't even need to practice leading a moving target. But I'd probably only get to do it once. On the other hand, if I could hit them with a big enough EMP to cook their stereo (and, aw darn, maybe their electronic ignition at the same time) without damaging anything in my house and my neighbours' homes, I could probably do that a bunch of times before anyone thought the coincidences interesting enough to investigate.

The advantage of a noise blast is that the message isn't likely to be missed due to excessive subtlety.

But I admit there'd be a certain cinematic satisfaction to the missiles.
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Wasabi Peanuts +

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 05:27am on 2005-06-15
Well, I like them well enough, and got them mostly for you. Wasabi peas are less fattening, and with roasted edamame, might be healthful. Ha. So you get the bulk of the peanuts.

For the thumpy counteractive music once the dish is prepared, I have only one suggestion--pipes. Scots, Northumbrian, Uileann...whatever. They all have a bad effect on Loud-thumpy-music players. Betcha.

And I have seduced Perrine with tuna and she's sleeping with me now. Muahahahaah! >:->
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Re: Wasabi Peanuts +

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 05:48am on 2005-06-15
Aaaaaaiiiiiieeeee! How can I match the power of tuna? Will she remember that my house has better prey?
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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 08:52am on 2005-06-15
Tomorrow I will place two large crickets in a plastic jar and let her play with them.
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posted by [identity profile] still-asking.livejournal.com at 11:50pm on 2005-06-15
Same as cold, if the heat gets too bad, call us and come over, or just come over - ok?

And if you get the anti stereo device perfected, may I suggest a new project? Something to take out ice cream truck speakers! I've got fond memories of them from a childhood in suburbia, but the B'lmr ones are not the same. I HATE ours. I can't even begin to describe how annoying it can make the simple word "Hello."
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 03:21pm on 2005-06-16
Oy vey. I know exactly which recording you're talking about (dunno whether it's the same truck or not). Yes, a few repetitions makes that "Hello" incredibly annoying.

They've been using that one for a few years. Before that it was the first half of "Turkey in the Straw", and I kept waiting and waiting for the second half of the tune ...

When I was a child in the suburbs the ice cream trucks didn't play -- or need -- music. They just had those little bells they would jingle, and we kids would notice from a couple blocks away. (Then again, the ice cream trucks weren't competing with cars playing rap music through subwoofers, either.)
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More betterer even than wasabi peanuts...

posted by [identity profile] jmax315.livejournal.com at 03:35am on 2005-06-16
Half-and-half wasabi and honey-roasted peanuts. Better known as Trader Joe's Yin/Yang Peanuts. So addictive that I don't dare buy them unless I'm sure there will be people around to eat them with, else I shall surely gorge myself.
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Re: More betterer even than wasabi peanuts...

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 03:23pm on 2005-06-16
Oh my. :-),,,,, I'll have to look for those. I'm not a huge fan of honey-roasted, but imagining how those would be alongside the wasabi ones makes them sound quite appealing.
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