Sphere of Seven

I'm obsessing about the sphere again. A long while ago, I was reading an old alchemical text. There was an illustration of a unique style of globe shape cage. It was made of 7 great circles. I think it was a map of the heavens - ie 7th heaven.  With a bit of time and effort, I figured out how to make one.  I have yet to construct one, but I know how.

Today I was looking at flat pak furniture and housing. These are large projects that work not unlike those snap apart wooden dinosaur models.

So now, I am fighting the urge to make a small scale cardboard model of my 7sphere. The full size would be made out of mdf panels which will be two panels thick, offsetting the seam by one half each arc. Without giving away my design, I think each of the 7 great circles will have an obvious and similar number of segments, each layer rotated one half way round the circle, intersections to be calculated. It is a good thing I received ribbons for my geometry grades.

The purpose of  writing this was to get my brain solving the problem. - It happened. This work is closely related to Buckminster Fuller's Bamboo Geodesic. If that means anything to anyone.
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For more info

1. A mathematician's view of the significance of 7
2. Forty two Flat Pak furniture and house designs
3. Free Spirit Spheres
4. Circle and sphere calculator
5. Means nothing to you?

Fire

I cannot say enough about fire. I arrived in camp pretty late Saturday night, fully expecting to fire up my vintage 425 camp stove and finish the pot of spaghetti I brought along for first night.
Pump pump times 50 and no pressure. So cheese sandwiches.  The next morning I went to my back up plan. Grilling. I grilled hot dogs for breakfast but never managed a good boil for either my coffee or the spaghetti. Back up number two was my bottle stove with fuel tabs. Boils water in a jiffy with sterno, but the fuel tabs fizzled. 
Yesterday after kayaking and swimming at my aunt's nearby lake home, I mentioned my gas pressure problem. She and my uncle lent me some 3 in 1 oil. Apparently the pump seal dries out. Well considering the stove was my other uncle's and was stored nearly 20 years I figured it was likely. Last night I had my spaghetti dinner and this morning i have my coffee.
Fire rocks. I understand what all those cavemen were so excited about.
-Kevin Fillips

Abandoned log house loft

http://instagr.am/p/Kkv9WiGSb9/

tested in the brain

Last week, in a switch, I took aptitude, skill, dexterity, memory, IQ, pyschological  screenings and more.

This is all for my reboot of my career. While my cardiologist is not willing to release me to work, after my valve surgery, she'll consider it.

I am in a vocational rehabilitation program through Social Security and the State of Minnesota.  That's why all the tests.  It was fascinating to see how completely unsuited I was for some of the skills, as well as how I was the "fasted the tester had ever seen" in others. Proof that for this world to work, it takes all types.

One of the tests was a vocabulary test. I had answers for every word but one, the final one.

What I remember seeing was: PILLIATE

In this test, no context or pronunciation was offered.

I focused on the word "pill" and the perceived action of ate.

When I got home, I mentioned the word to my dad. He knew of the pileated woodpecker. I was certain that was not the spelling.

It became an obsession of mine, as outlined in my tumblr.

Better Health, Dismal resume

The Ticket-to-work (TTW)

It is supposed to shrink the rolls.  I have been dancing around with the program for some time, and still do not get it.  The explanatory process is circular.  This points you to that which points you back to this.  It reminds me of looking up "adult words" in the dictionary, each definition  pointing to another unfamiliar word which takes a route round back to the first word with a few stops.

I downloaded the audio file.  It was pleasant enough, just the same information on the web site, read slowly and deliberately.  When I worked in a financial department, I would hear other agents simply repeat themselves when their callers asked "What?" as if the problem was with hearing and not understanding.  Being able to explain something someone does not know within a context they do know is the gift of teaching.  Soap box, off.

If you read my medical blog about my heart surgery experiences and recovery, you may have gleaned that I have many of the symptoms of a healthy person.  It is time for me to try to find a way to support myself without grabbing the government teat.

Last week I had over $7,000 worth of medical tests, simply to confirm this healthiness.  My ssdi check certainly does not afford me the life I would prefer.  But the specter of losing Medicare for a job that may or may not provide health care, is scary./

I am 48 years old.  Prime for re-employment. I would love to be able to get the TTW program to provide back office and confidence building.  Finding the right Employment Network (EN) is like picking a college.  The big key difference is there is not the infrastructure that colleges have for information and recruitment.  To me choosing a network is like a bad Japanese game show.  Push the wrong button, and you get bonked in the kanoidy noids.

The article below outlines my experience with Social Security's "Ticket to work" program

BUSINESS DAY

Disabled, but Looking for Work

By MOTOKO RICH

Published: April 6, 2011

The number of people collecting Social Security disability benefits is rising, and the agency’s Ticket to Work employment program has done little to ease the burden.

More later.
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K
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104 year old barge sinks

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/224506/group/homepage/

Did I Ever post this

Self portrait?

Flying

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WebUrbanist/~3/mJyPxwRjFQo/

I dream of flying

Short stack

Stacking in Style: New Trend Puts Houses on Houses

Wow-worthy Pet Portraiture

via cuteoverload.com

fascinating

Blog Post #Brandsterbation specifically GE

21518_IB_CAN_EF_0_00023888.pdf Download this file

http://www.scribd.com/doc/80573303

I own this perfectly nifty device, that pairs my bluetooth enabled  cell phone to a landline phone.  Only recently experiencing the POTS landline service while house sitting, naturally I wanted to give it a whirl.  But after a cross country move, I was not sure I had the  manual.

But today, you can find most anything online.  But I thought it would be quick and easy.

First I googled it by name

"Ge CellFusion gateway" I got a bunch of listings for sale for my device.

Predominantly amazon.com - fine, but the big river does not have downloadable manuals.

But I got the model number from that. GE-21518 - Great!

Remembering GE had sold its RCA and GE brands to Thomson, I started looking for Thomson, or was it Thompson? But the exited the consumer electronic business, and changed their name to Technicolor USA.  As they exited the business, the brands got redistributed. Probably by GE.  Consumer electronics, small appliances, telephones and accessories were now handled by different companies.  But t his device was hard to categorize.  It wasn't a phone, it wasn't an answering machine, it was bluetooth, but not computer.  So

I had little luck at Jasco or TTC Tech Usa, the two obvious choices for something.  

Apparently Technicolor (formerly Thomson) runs http://www.homelectronics.net which is supposed to sort through the confusion for you.  But the triage process of sorting out where I need to go got me tot he North American division which was only able to find advertising products for my device, not the manual.  The bulk of the site was having server errors of a technical nature.  I am not sure if it was limited to the time of my three hour tour, or if this problem is chronic.

After a bit, I had a brainstorm.  I will pretend I am from somewhere else, in the english speaking world.  I picked Middle east and found the english manual for my device.  

But should it really have been that hard?

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