Chrisus zlog

If you want to walk through 15,7 TB of stardata, have fun with it. But here you can get a snippet: M 51

Today I found my first Geocache ever. Nice thing: walking through the wood, over snow, finding the location. I got a little gimmick and gave one back.

- still 242 days left until new years day of the jewisch year 5771
- 23 days since the new years day of the islamic year 1431
- still 248 days left until the new years day of the byzantinic year 7519
- tomorrow begins the japanese year 2670
- in 244 days is the new years day of the Diocletian era year 1727
- in 248 days is the new years day of the Seleucidian year 2322
- still 14 days until new years day of the Julian calendar

btw.: In the Julian periode the year 2010 equals the year 6723.

So this will be a year with a lot of new years parties!

Happy new year!

Watched the Perseides and still got a glimps on them!

To be shared with all of you:
William Shatner

I have my new car since October 1st. Until now the motor was ON for 74 hours and 48 minutes. We drove 3821 km at an average speed of 51 km/h. The average sprit consumption was 7,2 l/100km.

The caretaker is on the run again: SH3 ordered the caretaker for solving the "running toilet", that is exchanging the sealing. Also SH3 ordered the caretaker for hints arranging Davids two new rooms. Let's see, how the caretaker will manage these two new adventures!

I soldered a little electronic wiring to connect a FONera via the serial interface to the pc. All it does is balancing out the different voltage settings. After exchanging Rx and Tx it worked on Gregors PC. I hope, he has fun with it!

This will be grilled today evening at the CUG meeting:
algerian Tadamouvis
polynesian Pullis
molukkian Ambons
Start collecting spittle!

Tested the grillage for the cug meeting. Great taste! But I will make some refinements to make it superb for all. Start collecting spittle is the command for all participants.

13 years ago I bought an airbrush system. In the meantime the company is gone. Even the colours. So I stirred up the old colours and tried if they are useful and what a surprise: They work! After 13 years! First I tested flat black on the moon surface of the Apollo landing module. Have a look:

Then I tested flat white on Galileo, the USS Enterprise shuttle and it worked too:

And at last I tested the new acrylic colours with water as solution with "earth brown" on the tower building of a WW II airfield and it works perfect. Look:

After 13 years of abstinence I reactivated building kits as one of my hobbies. I started finishing some model kits I started to build in 1994. That means, I had to throw away a lot of enamel colours and buy new ones. I noticed, that there was a big evolution. The future will be no more enamel colours but acrylic colours with water as solution. That will make airbrushing easier; and cleaning brushes too. And the smell in the house is gone. But it's a new feeling and smelling. The modelling gives me balance and it calms down. You will see pictures soon.

Yesterday was my first contact with the new Talent-train. Here is my report:
Until now I do not like him very much, because:
The passage way in the middle is very wide, so the place for the chairs is very small.
The seats are very poky arranged.
There is no armrest in the middle of the chairs.
No sunshades are installed.
The air condition is very very loud.
Chris Lohner announces the station twice so sleeping is very disturbed.
The train is not faster than the 40 year old trains.
There is only one toilet in the train.
The train cannot be enlarged.
And now the poitiv things:
The toilet is very very large and some kind of spacy.
The looking of the train is very cool.
This all may be the reason that it is not in use in the morning, when there are a lot of commuter. I hope they do not take a museum-additional-cash for travelling in the morning with "historic" trains.

I had to order a camera for a friend of mine, especially the Fuji E900. In all austrian shops it was sold out. Then I found it in Europe, in Paris. So I ordered the camera in Paris, and it should be here within 2 or 3 days. The world becomes a village!

As amateur radio operator you have to log each and every use of the frequencies. So I had a look at my log and saw my last entry at 14.10.1988. Today I tried for the first time to make a call, to see if my transmitter works. And it does. So after 17 years and 6 month I was on air again. Amazing, that batteries still are alive after recharging after that time. Unfortunately none of the person I know are radio amateurs. So I will see, what I will do with this.
For interested people: First I tried 3 Watt to reach the Patscherkofel relais OE7XTI. There were no problems. Then I tried 0,1 Watt to reach it, also no problems. That means: I can reach the Patscherkofel relais as I would use a small pocket lamp over this distance. And the Patscherkofel relais sends with 10 W the recieved signal. So it is no problem to talk to people from Kufstein to Landeck and sometimes Munich.