Stijn!!

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Jim, I hope the mud stays on the hills and does not wash downhill. Of course the national news makes it sound a lot worse than it is.

Well, if it does, my house will be a lot closer to the marina!

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. after a long night at home I am back to work for now.

[GH85Carrera]

Good Morning all. Hey Jim, hopefully you house did not take a trip to the marina.

My greedy mean boss made me work late last night. Well actually I made my poor computer work on a project that took it 8 hours to complete late in the night. I was in bed asleep. The CPU runs at 100% most of the time. The video card is banging away for a lot of it. The good new is it did what it is supposed to do. So this morning I get to clean up the image.
The project is in a heavily wooded area. Lots of houses with trees everywhere. The leaves are off the trees so we can sorta see the ground in most areas. The image the computer puts together is a mosaic of several hundred images. Then it builds a 3D model of the ground and rectifies all the images into a Orthophoto. That is a fancy name for a photo that has all the structures and even the terrain corrected to show the elevation changes. Mostly that means the building all stand straight up. It is impossible to have a photo of every building from directly above. Many of the buildings are at the side of the image and the camera sees the all four sides of the building from all the image overlap. We fly back and forth like mowing the lawn in the sky. The sidelap and forward overlap allow us to image all sides of a structure. It then builds a model and moves the pixels around to make the building stand straight up. That all works great if we have a clear photo of each building. When they are partially obscured by trees the computer blends tree and building and can make some strange looking buildings. Then I get to go in and tell it to ignore this but use this. Kinda tedious but it is cool to see it all come together. In the end we have an image and a 3D terrain model. We can then remove every object, trees and structures to show just the ground. Then we can show the elevations and show each foot of elevation change. We have a bunch of ground targets that the surveyor put down. We give him (well we sell him) the data. He can then double check any elevation point and verify we are accurate. He has to put his stamp on it. He is the surveyor. We just collect the points. He could do it all from the ground. It would take months. We do it in short order.

[Jim Richards]

We’re still in the same place. And I was hoping for a great harbor view!

[RKDinOKC]

Mertnin.

So Glen, you have the mapping equivalent of those x-ray glasses in that back of comic books?

Jim, we are glad you are not having to redo your property description and maybe pay for increased value due to habor view.

Chair of board got his email password hacked yesterday. Kept telling him his password was not complicated enough, he refused to change it. Now he has too. They tried to get $157,000 wired to them in Hong Kong. Telling the other board members the money needed to be wired so it could be invested in a "Christian Ministry" venture by tomorrow.

I disable his account so everything would be logged out, then changed his password and re-enabled his account. This morning he got an email from "Microsoft Office" saying he had suspicious activity and need to check his activity page. It was from a bogus email with a link to try to get him to enter his new password. Told him he is part of a Business account, and microsoft does NOT send any sort of emails to business users, instead they send them to the admins like me.

One of these days our IT Director is going to quit putting off our Cyber Awareness training. We are almost into the 3rd year of paying for the training modules and he has not let me implement them!

I've recommended since it was available that anyone with a phone and/or home or mobile computer go to Multiple Factor Authentication, MFA, and Mobile Device Management, MDM for company information. Think it is called uhhh, Security.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

We’re still in the same place. And I was hoping for a great harbor view!

That is good to hear. The national news made is seem like Armageddon again. I usually see the report and divide by 10 to get a feel for the real level of the issue. They love to do that with tornadoes. They focus on one tiny area thet was hit hard, and never show that 100 feet away is normal civilization.

No x-ray glasses. Just remember we have hundreds of images and multiple views of any point on the ground. It builds a point cloud of the image and if I can't see the ground in one image the next one along has an angle that will show it or the one just north or the one just south or the one northeast and so on. There were two points in the image that had 2,626,847 3D points visible. They average 10,000 3D point per image. There were 1104 total images of the area.

[flipper35]

Jim, glad you didn't have to redo your plumbing. I don't think it would stretch very well if your house moved.

David, sorry to hear about your dad's treatments not going well.

[RKDinOKC]

Off to see my foot doctor. He just got a 996. Going to talk to him about heel and toe to see if I am wasting my time trying to learn the heel and toe where you use your heel instead of the side of your foot to blip the gas while braking.

[flipper35]

In the Cobra I would have to put my heel on the brake and blip with my toe the way they are laid out. Not so bad when there is no power assist! I still prefer inside/outside ball of the foot but I don't brace my heel on the floor either way.

[GH85Carrera]

I never even thought about it when I was learning to heel and toe. I had no instructor. I just did not want to wear out my transmission synchros so I would blip the throttle with my heel if I was on the brakes. Ball of the foot on the brakes, heel on the gas pedal. It was just how I learned to do it. Now I don't think about it at all. Just like shifting, I just do it, no real thought involved. My hand and feet know what to do.

I do the very same thing with my mouse. I have no conscious thought on when to click, double click or right click, my hand just does it.

[Jim Richards]

Raining again all afternoon. Watch out marina, here I come!

[RKDinOKC]

Spent a long time with the foot doc. Because he is also a foot wound care doc, he brought over a therapist and they both worked with me and my foot. Guess what...the ligaments and stuff on the farthest right two toes are not going to let me do heel and toe either way. Just ain't enough left hooked up on the right side of my foot to move it that way. If I can't twist my foot to blip the throttle with the right side of my foot, I also can't twist my foot to blip the throttle with my heel. Would have to do two or three reconstruction surgeries (not covered by my insurance) to be able to heel and toe. They estimated it would cost about what the 928GTS is worth.

That sucks.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Raining again all afternoon. Watch out marina, here I come!

So are you south or north of LA? Amazing to see a Simi stuck in the mud in the 101. Good luck.

[Jim Richards]

We’re south of LA. And still here...

[RKDinOKC]

Glad to hear no Stijners were ravaged by the recent weather pattern. Specially the retired ones. They just don't got time for that.

[Jim Richards]

Still raining...

[RKDinOKC]

Goodo Freakin Hump Day Wakey Wakey!

The weekly trudge to the department meeting has been changed from too Dad gum early to drop by before lunch. Still have to put on pants and drive 9 miles from my office to the meeting room though.

[GH85Carrera]

Jim, you guys are stealing all the rain from that storm. It is supposed to be dry here when all we get is colder weather when your storm gets here. We want some rain but no freezing crap.

Happy hump day everyone!

[RKDinOKC]

Just want it to rain enough to keep the outside plants alive. Suck at caring for indoor plants. All but three have turned into dried plants. And that includes succulents. Only one of those actually looks good. The other two are displaying the slow death of de leafing.

[Jim Richards]

It stopped raining and we’re still here.