I ran for South Kingstown School Committee this past November and so this blog has been quiet as I worked on my campaign. My online campaigning was on Facebook as it gave me the broadest reach into the community and the community an easy way to find me and to keep current. Here is a complete capture, I think/hope, of my postings and comments.
Update: I pulled the better postings into A chronological selection of Andrew Gilmartin’s posting made during his 2016 run for School Committee.
To have the itch to paint miniatures again. My paints have been sitting unused for much of a year and many have the pigment separated from the medium. It would take me only a few minutes to shake them all, but this needs a tool! So I built this paint shaker from parts I had on-hand.
function f() {
for e in "$@"
do
echo $e
done
}
A=( x y z )
f a b "${A[@]}" 'c d' "e f"
will outputa b x y z c d e fwhen I expected it to output
a b x y z c d e fGoogle and stackoverflow.com both failed me, as did trying lots of variations.
If you are not following my South Kingstown School Committee candidate Facebook page, but are interested in South Kingstown School Committee's happenings then you might be interested in my observations on the School Committee's retreat this past Friday, July 15: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
This kind of astrology is important to me. I'm a
This posting is mostly to remind myself how to eliminate page breaks from Emerald Data Solutions's BoardDocs. BoardDocs is used by lots of organizations that want control over their governance documents. The South Kingstown School Committee just started using it. Its configuration is such that when the detailed agenda is printed there will be a page break after each agenda item. I don't want this -- either on paper or PDF. To fix this I installed Stylebot and added the following style for BoardDoc URLs to turn off forced page breaks
* {
break-after: auto;
}
This seems to work. My preference would be for a less heavy handed solution, however.
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SELECT
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MAX( y.document_id ),
COUNT( * )
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I bought some of Games Workshop's liquid green stuff and have been waiting to use it to clean up some plastic kits I am currently working on (well, next in line). Today, however, I found out about the superglue + baby powder putty. Dries rock hard and can be filed to shape.
Finally made the cubby to hold my modeling tools, materials, and stuff. Still need to paint it, but that might happen in another life.
would have their spine column exposed and then their ribs severed from the spine and pulled open (to resemble wings). Finally the lungs were exposed (and in some instances covered in salt) to complete the torture and lead to the death of the prisoner. (source)is too much for me. I won't be playing that game.
This posting is mostly here to remind me how to configure the DNS records for a site where the www subdomain's content is hosted by Blogger and other subdomains are hosted by my colocation server.
DNS A record
| Host | Points To | TTL |
|---|---|---|
| @ | 111.222.333.444 | 1 hour |
DNS CNAME records
| Host | Points To | TTL |
|---|---|---|
| * | @ | 1 hour |
| www | ghs.google.com | 1 hour |
| X | Y.googlehosted.com | 1 hour |
Where X and Y are given by Google/Blogger.
When I figure out the MX records I will update this page!
In a previous posting I wrote about using "splinters" to represent the kind of deadfall you find in the woods and bogs. I spent more energy that I care to admit settling on a source for the splinters: block planer shavings, chainsaw chunks, drill bit waste, ... In the end I used the dried up branches one drives over time and again on the driveway. A hand full of this material will spread out to a square foot of forest floor. Just split off a chunk, flatten it a few times with a hammer, and then pull it apart.
Preparing two more tables tops for May's Great Swamp Wargamers game night. The table tops are 4'×3' hardboard glued and nailed on a framework made from 2"×1" pine boards. The edges are blue-taped to keep them clean until the terraforming is done. The terraforming is a simple process of
Sometime ago I found online a discussion about using D6 dice to simulate percentage dice. Unfortunately, I did not keep a link to the discussion. Anyway, I wanted to add my 2 cents and so here it is. You can use 2 D6 to compute a value over the 1 to 100 percentage range. The two dice, A and B, are treated as base 6 1st and 2nd place values. The range is 0 to 35, ie, ( A - 1 ) * 6 + ( B - 1 ), and so the percentage step is roughly 2.7%. This seems like enough granularity for most games using percentage dice. The lookup table is
Source code.
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I am going to say it. I hate the giant spaulders, that bulbous shoulder armor, that so many 40K and Warmachine figures & factions have. I like my fantasy armies to have some grounding in practicality. How can the fighter use peripheral vision to see anything to his or her left and right? Will fantasy combat newsreel footage look like a mostly disorganized and violent tennis match audience? Heads wildly swinging from left to right and back again as they attempt to keep aware of the battlefield! Or perhaps spaulders are just the result of retinitis pigmentosa becoming rampant along with other degenerative, inheritable DNA mutations -- like shoulders wide enough to hold up the damned things. I should pity them.
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tell application "System Events"
keystroke "k" using command down
end tell
"SlackCommandK.workflow" was blocked from opening because it is not from an identified developer."
I needed a quick and dirty worker pool within bash. Easy parallelization with Bash in Linux worked well. In short,
create-a-stream-of-bash-commands | xargs --max-procs=3 -I CMD bash -c CMD
echo -e "\nSource $USER@$HOSTNAME:$(readlink -f $0)"which, for the hypothetical script at $HOME/bin/reports/tellme.sh on host42, outputs
Source ag@host42:/home/ag/bin/reports/tellme.sh
I finished priming and painting the faces and arms of the 6mm Vikings and Anglo-Saxons. I like priming with black gesso as it is very matte and masks no detail, but I never seem put enough on to account for its extreme shrinkage during drying. So lots of spot touch ups were needed.
I have several of sci-fi artist Simon Stålenhag's prints. I just discovered that he has a new book, Tales from the Loop, of them out now.
Weekend workbench saw painting of a dozen 60mm × 20mm blue and red bases for use in learning To the Strongest while I prepare the actual figures and bases. A long time ago I bought some Baccus 6mm Vikings and Anglo-Saxons to play DBA and so am preparing them while I contemplate which 6mm ancients to buy. Which is really a non-decision as by the end of this year I am likely to have Rome and all her enemies.
Taylor Mali's "Totally like whatever, you know"
Melissa Lozada-Oliva's "Like Totally Whatever"
Listen to Wikipedia is wonderful and a good example of an ambient display. Reminds me of listening to the music of the stars in Carl Sagan's Cosmos series.
Anyone know of a laser cutting service in South Kingstown or vicinity? AS220 Labs has a low cost service (4 hours / $25), but I normally only need an hour and don't want the cost of driving to and parking in Providence. Does URI have a maker space or have plans to create one?
