Blog comes to life

I guess the spider must have come around yesterday. 12 hits in one day is a record for my blog. My last record was 3. Seven of those came from search engines using the following search terms:

gay calgary
price on copper in ottawa
“how to” build “3d printer”
“3d printer’
where to buy 3d glasses in ottawa
salvation army ottawa blog

with two people searching for gay calgary.

I’ve never really tried to do anything in the Calgary gay community. I’m not sure if I’ve really said anything meaningful on that topic. I have talked about a few queer issues, what happened at pride is the only Calgary specific thing that I talked about. The price of copper in ottawa was definately about my talk of the production cost of a penny and what those are made of. For the record, there’s very little copper in a penny. The bulk of all canadian coins are steel.

How to build a 3d printer and 3d printer hits, I might be able to be more helpful with that. I’ve been meaning to do a bit of experimentation to see what works. Thus far I haven’t really done anything useful though. Maybe I should go to the mall and gather parts for testing my printhead idea and see how it compares to the one the people in the bath project are using. There’s still a few details that need to be hashed out.

As for where to buy 3d glasses in ottawa, you got me. I don’t really know where would have something like that. My first instinct is to ask the people who supplied the 3d projector and media that you want the 3d glasses to use. If that doesn’t work, maybe try asking the museum of science and technology.

I never made any comments about the Salvation Army in Ottawa. However, I did make comments about a retailer, Target, which does not have a location in Ottawa, Ontario, and their interactions with the Salvation Army. They might do good work, but when people start getting polical. Maybe I didn’t quite bash traditional media enough when I wrote about the Salvation Army. Knowing the way they generate profit, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just one screwball who yelled gay-wiccan conspiracy. If you simply don’t print any other statements, you can make it look like a prodominent view. If that screwball happens to be part of the salvation army, you can even make it sound like the general view of the organization. There’s a chance the truth could have been twisted. Religion and politics is a hazardous mix. You can use them as leverage for fundraising in charity, but using them to lash out in anger really makes you look bad.

Now that people see me, I wonder when they’ll start commenting… As in legitimate, non-spam comments.

One last post tonight

School work is moving a little slower than I had hoped. My notes are a little incomplete and I was hoping to clear enough of the stuff I know for sure is correct tonight. There’s still quite a bit that needs to be recorded in my 7 pages of crib sheets that I’m allowed to bring in. The goal is still to get all that out of the way by noon. The only way I’ll be doing that is to get a good night sleep and start right away in the morning. At the moment, thoughts are on getting this material covered so that I can stop worrying about the last exam.
I also can’t stop thinking of the 3d printer nozzle that I want to build. I think I’ll try to get everything I need at one stop after the exams. There’s some information that I need first, mainly the grain size of the pellets, what temperature they melt at, and what temperature they’ll be irreperably damaged. I’ll also need a good termometer. At the moment, I’m thinking one of those meat thermometers will do nicely. It’s roughly the right temperature range and I should be able to just poke the tip into the test area. I’m undecided about how to connect my drive motor to my drill bit, though cordless screwdrivers are cheap enough. Heating element is also undecided at this point. I’m kind of leaning towards seeing what’s inside a USB coffee warmer simply because of low voltage. I’m also tempted to just keep looking around the trash till I find a broken toaster or just use a few resistors. Light bulb is undesirable at the moment. Maybe an old transformer. At the moment, I want to keep my voltages low and avoid using house current when possible. There’s still many details to be decided. Of course, most of them will be just improvised.
Goals for the moment, good night sleep, early start tomorrow, finish static stability section of crib sheets and move onto dynamic.