Got to hang out at KDHX's Art Attack 4 this past weekend. It was a pretty neat event. It put up 32 local artists head to head against each other. The popular paintings got to move on while the losers got to be auctioned off for KDHX. The even bigger losers paintings that did not get to the threshold bid amount got brutally destroyed by the wheel of destruction.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
Some Photos of Summer/Fall 2012 (Part 3)
More shenanigans. The upper two are some images from Loufest. While I was only there for the second half of the first day, it was a pretty cool event. Lots of great music. Would of been there longer but I did have the Tie Dye event just before this one. Long day though. You should check it out.
Next handful are from the U City Jazz Festival It was a good event with a few minor tweaks that could be made. Lots of great jazz going on and good food. It was also slim picking on food as well.
Should be caught up with photo's at this point. If you got this far, I hope you enjoyed my summer.
Next handful are from the U City Jazz Festival It was a good event with a few minor tweaks that could be made. Lots of great jazz going on and good food. It was also slim picking on food as well.
Should be caught up with photo's at this point. If you got this far, I hope you enjoyed my summer.
Curiosities: Wobbly Tables
Sometimes curiosities happen when you least expect them to. I've moved a lot of tables in volunteering and a curiosity that I stumbled upon was the possibility of an easier solution to wobbly tables. Turns out that there is an easy way to take care of the issue of wobbly tables. Mind you I have not tried it yet but I do intend to with the intent of reporting back the results here. The solution turns out to be pretty simple.
The solution assumes that the legs are of the same lengths or are in the same plane. If they are not then the problem is that you have a wobbly table. According to my second souce, tiled floors may also cause problems. The solution should work for any uneven surface even your back yard. The solution turns out to be to turn the table around it's center. If you can keep the table roughly centered, the table can be rotated and a stable (non-wobbly) position can be found. Pretty simple, pretty elegant.
Like I said above, I haven't verified it yet but my second source seems pretty good at assuring that it does work. Assuming that the legs are of equal length (on the same geometric plane) and not on tiled floors.
Source 1: Scientific American
Source 2: Original Paper: Mathematical Table Turning from November 14, 2005.
The solution assumes that the legs are of the same lengths or are in the same plane. If they are not then the problem is that you have a wobbly table. According to my second souce, tiled floors may also cause problems. The solution should work for any uneven surface even your back yard. The solution turns out to be to turn the table around it's center. If you can keep the table roughly centered, the table can be rotated and a stable (non-wobbly) position can be found. Pretty simple, pretty elegant.
Like I said above, I haven't verified it yet but my second source seems pretty good at assuring that it does work. Assuming that the legs are of equal length (on the same geometric plane) and not on tiled floors.
Source 1: Scientific American
Source 2: Original Paper: Mathematical Table Turning from November 14, 2005.
Friday, November 2, 2012
Some Photos of Summer/Fall 2012 (Part 2)
More photos of stuff that I did this summer. First one is from one of the Thursday's at the Intersection out in front of The Fox. JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound were the main act for this concert. The concert also doubled as a fairwell party for one of the KDHX directors. It's not to far off from Circus Flora that I've mentioned before in other posts.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Wine, DIne, and Jazz 2012
Past weekend was the Wine, DIne, and Jazz Festival. Pretty good event. Unfortunately the weather didn't fully cooperate. Friday night (Oct 19th) was cold and the St. Louis Cardinals were in the NLCS playoff series. But we did have a screen out there to watch part of the game that night.
Saturday (Oct 20) was busier. Loads more people relative to the night before. Seemed to taper off during the night. The night went smooth though. Certainly kept busy throughout the night helping folks out. That's the way it goes sometimes.
Saturday (Oct 20) was busier. Loads more people relative to the night before. Seemed to taper off during the night. The night went smooth though. Certainly kept busy throughout the night helping folks out. That's the way it goes sometimes.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Uni-vall Vision Shameless Plug
Just trying stuff out and seeing what happens with stuff.
Uni-ball Vision Stick Roller Ball Pen - Blue - Rollerball Pens (Google Affiliate Ad) are great pens. Overall the Uni-ball folks can do no wrong by me. There was a point when I would "borrow" pens that I could use for writing. But when I discovered Uni-ball, just wow. Very nice smooth writing and very clear lines. It's about the only pens I'll ever use for writing.
Only major complaint is that the ink can smear sometimes. Otherwise it is the only pens that I'll ever use.
Anyways that is all. See what happens with this. Mostly curious to see what happens with the Google Affiliate Ad thingy. Full disclosure about this post. I'm just trying it out. But besides that I do seriously love these pens, they are awesome.
Uni-ball Vision Stick Roller Ball Pen - Blue - Rollerball Pens (Google Affiliate Ad) are great pens. Overall the Uni-ball folks can do no wrong by me. There was a point when I would "borrow" pens that I could use for writing. But when I discovered Uni-ball, just wow. Very nice smooth writing and very clear lines. It's about the only pens I'll ever use for writing.
Only major complaint is that the ink can smear sometimes. Otherwise it is the only pens that I'll ever use.
Anyways that is all. See what happens with this. Mostly curious to see what happens with the Google Affiliate Ad thingy. Full disclosure about this post. I'm just trying it out. But besides that I do seriously love these pens, they are awesome.
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