More free things

I updated the surveillance weather satellite image viewing program. It has a new GUI, and the animation is smoother.

You can check it out here.

a silly game

I wrote a silly game program. Some people think this sort of thing can test for Extra Sensory Perception. I doubt it. But it's free and has all the relevant source code, so go ahead and try.

It is here at qt-apps.org.

free stuff

I'm giving away a little system I made. It lets you view weather satellite images as animations.
I put it here and
here, and
here, in three different ways.

No, you can't run it from your browser :)

critters

Here are some little critters from the back 5 acres or so. One is a dragonfly, the other some kind of grasshopper. Don't whine about the plants being out of focus, the depth of field on live insects is tricky.

The alien critters in the scary movies got nothing on real insects. But then real insects don't have to show human-like motion and expression.

A little story

A little story of a little more than 2 weeks ago, the weather was really nice and I had time. So I went for a little walk. I live in the middle of the continent, and there is a little canal in my town. In the first picture is a lock (they are numbered, this is #2) in that canal.

In the little canal travel little ships, like the one in the next 2 pictures. The dude on board the ship is included for scale, also he has a job on the ship. As you can see in the next pricture, the ships just barely fit into these locks. This ship was going downhill, towards the ocean, although it probably doesn't go that far (wrong kind of ship).

Then you can see the other (downward) side of the lock, with 2 little people there for scale. You can see a little of the ship sticking out the top of the lock.

Next you see the ship a little firther down, as it is coming out of the lock. And then it is going on it's way on, where ever it is going.

Along the canal is a nice little park.

If you want to go, by ship, to Montreal, or out to the Atlantic, say from Duluth, Chicago or Detroit – you go through this lock. These days, the big container ships don't fit through the locks, so traffic is not what it used to be. But historically, being able to move goods by seagoing ships into the middle of the continent has been important.

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A Bored Bird on the Beach

Considering the strong beak, I guess this one likes shellfish. But I am not sure.

I am however sure that (s)he was bored at the time, and that the wind was coming from the left.

PS: I looked it up, this appears to be a crested tern of some sort. As such it would eat fish, not shellfish. Only problem is that they are supposed to migrate to South America in the winter, and these ones (there were a lot of them) were in North America in february. The bird had no comment on this.

Under Siege

Ok "Under Siege" was a really bad movie, I won't link to credits in case they want to sue me. But here is another conspiracy:

I live in that little house.


Yesterday, some official looking people dug trenches along the whole block, it was hard to leave the place.

Today they show up with these spools of stuff, they are as tall as half the house. Maybe it is electronic equipment to listen to what I publish? Oh wait, what I publish is public.

This stuff is just piping for more cables, brought to you by Bell Canada. It just looks funny in front of the little house.