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I’m brewing up a little something, with the unusual arrangement of having an eeePC as the TV display for a Beagle. Sometimes it is hard to know which keyboard I’m supposed to be using! A friend brought over a generic dirt-cheap USB keyboard, you’ll be pleased to know it works fine, unlike that other one.

There’s a long way to go before my pet project is ready, but at least enough of it is in place that it does something now. ;-)

The lamp, by the way, is this really cool thing that you stick a candle into and a spring pushes the candle up so it always burns at the top (and burning the wax instead of dribbling all over the place like usual, it lasts quite a while per candle). Delightfully retro! (^_^)

Oh, and I find sometimes Zap is buggy (bombing out after some CLN_BACKWARD errors) and sometimes it does the exact same thing without a hiccup. If it helps, I run with alignment faults turned off (because my older compiler kind of needs it like that or else it faults!).

That’s all. Just thought it would be a prettier picture than a bunch of Michelle-bleedin’-Obama. :-P

;-)

Did you not try the Chalk display?

Did you not try the Chalk display?

Can’t afford that right now. :-(

Thankfully the price of petrol is going down a little bit, and I’m going to lay off McDonald’s after adding up how much I spent there last month (it isn’t much fun taking a long time to make a meal you’ll eat in minutes). But, then, first thing I need to get is the up to date compiler!

Sorry. I thought you work on a project. Because Calling Raik ;-)

Ah, I understand.
It is a software project. Requires some specific hardware, but what I’m doing is purely in software.

I am only user and a bad programmer. :-(
What I’m doing is purely in hardware ;-)

Nothing happening this week – it’s Eurovision week. ;-)

nothing happening this week – it’s Eurovision week. ;-)

Run and hide or turn brain off?
I know, I’ll volunteer to work as a gopher for the desktop support team and work on being less intelligent.

@Rick and Steve

???? :-(

Funny how many people are willing to malign Eurovision and those who enjoy it.

So, I’ll tell you what. I feel much the same way about football.

You grant me my seven and a half hours per year of comical singing in strange languages with even stranger staging… and I’ll say nothing about the billion hours of overpaid twats kicking round objects up and down a patch of grass to rhetoric like “FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT WEEK OF YOUR LIFE”, as if England ever winning The World Cup will rank as being more important than, say, the death of a parent, or getting married, or becoming a father…

Deal?

Raik – is that a touchpad I see on the right of the keyboard? I really like the touchpad on my eeePC – I find using a mouse to be… ungeschickt.¹

¹ One of the few words I remember from when I used to watch German MTV (back when MTV actually played music and stuff); let’s see… klingeltöne, jetzt gleich, and damenbinden (!) – such useful words learned from advertising. ;-)

I feel much the same way about football.

We have a commonality.

Ashes tests have provided more tension for me than any football match…

I feel somehow this ought to be over in aldershot.

Meanwhile this week (and most of next) I’m in Cisco indoctrination (er, training) – something of a novelty as learning from a pdf or twenty has been the order of the day for the last decade or so and training was deemed to be actually Trai-Ning: a place in China…

BTW. There’s a guy at work does EuroV parties. He, his partner¹ and the attendees all agree on the content of the event, but have a fun time anyway.

¹ .

I’m not sure if I understand you both correctly ;-)
At First I’m a German, then a “europe people”, and I also a footballfan ;-) I look Chelsea win (the same as last year :-( but it is only a game) and at the same time I solder any (bigger) parts to my RPi. My eyes are burning from “hay fever”. So I couldt not solder a HDMI-cable :-(
My club is not represented and that not change next years.
Lets talk about similarities ;-)

Yes you see a touchpad and this can also emulate the mouse button … tap with two fingers = middle mouse button. The computer is the prototype of the ARMicro presented by rcomp at Wakefield. The display is the chalk one for RPi and at the right you can see a Accupack. A portable system also ;-)