Sunday, May 24, 2015

Direcția Apelor Bacău

Revizuit, 20/01 2016

A fost o inundație mare în județul Bacău parcă în orice caz într-o localitate unde era un baraj care aparținea de Direcția Apelor Bacău, mi se pare deja Regia Autonomă Apele Române. Berești Tazlău în 28-29 iulie 1991. (Bere= bear, Taz = Austraian Devil whatever).

Eu am lucrat la ELBAC până în vara aceea ca programator la oficiul de calcul. Șefa mea era o tipă Nuți care semăna cu Madonna. Mai era o tipă Nela care semăna cu Frida de la ABBA și un tip care semăna cu Boy George. A și Pușcuță, un tip care dacă n-ar fi fost brunet cu ochi negri aș zice că semăna cu Sean Penn. Erau mai mulți care semănau cu mai mulți dar n-are rost să-i numesc pe toți. Unul Liviu cu mustață proaspăt venit la oficiul de calcul. Care după aceea a fost la un curs și a ajuns să mă învețe el pe mine trucuri din FoxPro (un limbaj de PC devreme).

La început la ELBAC lucram în turboPascal pe niște calc Z80 cu floppy. Apoi directorul a pus niște bani și am adus eu de la Fabrica de Calculatoare București un PDP compatibil (Era un inginer pe acolo Puiu Mandler care chiar semăna puțin cu Seinfeld care tot mă trimitea la Samsung la București, dar nu aveam ce face cu un PC, PDP-ul avea 16 terminale pentru culegere date). Pe acela m-am apucat să fac un nou program de salarii. Instigat de Pușcuță, cât era Nuți (șefa) în concediu.

În timp ce ea era în concediu, Pușcuță a organizat un complot să-i ia locul lui Nuți din care parte centrală era noul program de salarii pe care trebuia să-l termin. Când a venit Nuți din concediu eu nu terminasem programul decât partea de avans, eram epuizat de enorm de multe ore suplimentare, Pușcuță și-a dat demisia și eu după el (de onoare adică).

Și am prins un contract la R.A.Apele Române printr-un amic care a devenit mai recent dușman. Am lucrat acolo vreo 6 luni și am terminat programul.

Dar am văzut recent la BBC un interviu cu Don McLean și mi se pare că seamănă cu directorul economic de atunci, Angheluță. Mai era la oficiu la Direcția Apelor o tipă mișto tare care mi se pare că seamănă cu Penelope Cruz. (A trecut un Harely chiar când scriam numele acestea). Și una care semăna cu "Laura Stoica".

Într-o seara am primit o ofertă de la o firmă în care era băgat Angheluță să le fac un program până dimineață (peste ce lucram eu acolo la salarii). Plăteau bine, cred un salariu pe o lună pe atunci pentru o noapte de scris și testat un program. Angheluță (cel care semăna cu Don McLean, deja în vârstă pe atunci, adică dacă acum are 70 de ani atunci avea 48) a aranjat să pot sta la calc. (mini, PDP) în noaptea aceea cu tipa care semăna cu Penelope (era operatoare). Man ce mișto era fără machiaj nimic. Dar cam supărată tot timpul și vorbea câte un cuvânt două. Spunea că taică-su era prof de mate și a bătut-o cu capul de masă fiindcă era cam proastă. Dar acum cred că pur și simplu nu știa română.

Nu știu dacă inundația a fost înainte, după sau chiar în acea noapte. Nu am făcut niciodată legătura până acum.

Spre dimineață am condus-o pe "Irina" undeva la un bloc în Miorița cred. Stătea supărată și serioasă în fața mea și nu zicea nimic. Nu am zis nici eu nimic, adică am zis noapte bună sau bună dimineața și ea a plecat. După aceea m-am dus la Contexpert unde era șef unul Doru Corban și le-am predat programul și print-out-ul. Era un tabel, o progresie de calculat impozit pe salarii. Dar nu a ținut mult. Pe atunci legile se schimbau mereu.

La vreo săptămână două a venit tipa cealaltă care semăna cu Laura Stoica, secretara directorului și m-a invitat la un weekend în patru împreună cu un tip de pe la oficiu.

La un moment dat (după inundație) o tipă blondă de la oficiu mi-a zis că danezii oferă azil politic la toți cei din zona sinistrată. Cred că ea a și plecat. Dacă era ea. Nu știu sigur dar poate tipa era însărcinată.

Bine au fost multe faze pe acolo nu pot să le povestesc pe toate. Șeful birou salarii Adam cu care lucram non stop semăna cu CTP. Azi când mă gândesc, pare logic că programul acela al meu s-a desfășurat paralel cu tot ce făceau ei la oficiu. Poate că acel calc la care lucram eu nu a funcționat vreodată pe bune... Și miile de modificări pe care mi le cerea mereu Adam... Nici nu vreau să mă gândesc. Eu aveam terminalul într-o cameră undeva la mansardă și mai era unul în birou la salarii unde lucram cu o tipă care semăna cu Rodica Mandache.

Nu știu exact câți și cine au plecat în Danemarca.

Din câte știu eu, barajul putea fi salvat dacă era deschis. A plouat enorm, în 24 de ore cât în câteva luni. Poarta sau cum se cheamă a barajului era acționată electric și manual, a picat curentul iar tipul care trebuia s-o deschidă nu a mai ajuns la timp. Apa a curs pe lângă și a spălat un dig.

Pentru câteva ore a fost un debit egal cu al Dunării pe acolo. Dar astăzi încep să mă îndoiesc, ca de orice catastrofă care se petrece în zone îndepărtate, greu de verificat de public.

Și la un moment dat Adam a vrut să mă angajeze, dar nu la oficiu, fiindcă "nu avea loc pe schemă de toate putorile directorului de acolo ci într-un birou de ingineri".

În România puțini știu melodia asta dar în America e una din cele mai celebre.



http://www.bibliaortodoxa.ro/carte.php?id=4&cap=12

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Rhododendron, Oregon

Never knew. Never cared. Today i paid more attention to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhododendron#Toxicology

Here in Portland there are maybe 1 plant for 10 people. "It is the national flower of Nepal."

Hm. Surrounded by coincidences. Today i realized that in every place i lived i had one next to door and/or window. Don't know if it's toxic only by smelling it. Probably in combination with something else, like some building materials, cigarette smoke or exhaust. Maybe just as cover, the main amount coming from somewhere else.


Here is 1122 SW Stephenson, my first address in Portland where i was living at Mladin's house. Here i met Mladin's daughter, a girl that looked like Malin from Ace of Base. I was living in a small room at ground level next to the furnace, under the balcony. 4 months at this address September-December 1995.


At Fox Pointe in Vancouver, 3015 NE 57th as remember from documents. But i don't believe i've been staying next to the laundry room... Anyways, the only rhododendron i could see here was in front of 3017, on the right in the picture. But it's also been 20 years since... The apartment seems very small but actually was bigger than the one i live in right now.


6810 SW Hall Blvd @16, Beaverton. Sussex Village. 14 years at this address. The upper right window is the kitchen. The same 600 sqft living space as before in Vancouver and after in Lake Oswego.






47 Eagle Crest Lake Oswego. Balcony in the upper middle-right of the picture. 2nd level. Here since February 2010.


I've been there the other day and moved the rock (fresh ground upper right corner). There it was smelling like in a restaurant with don't know a dozen people smelling simultaneously additive free cigarettes).





Saturday, April 25, 2015

Electricity in Ancient Egypt

Pyramids are not only mounds of limestone or primitive concrete in slightly irregularly shaped blocks arranged by some strange but precise geometry. I mean they are for the most part. Inside there are complicated, outworldish structures that only a few on this planet understand.

All the drawings inside the pyramids (ideograms) are made to look at first sight as highly stylized and refined shapes and symbols representing everyday and mythical objects. I think they where drawn this way to mislead and be ignored by the unaware and the primitive. In fact they can be interpreted by every person's level of education and become apparent contradictory for those who can with higher education who can also emulate a lower level understanding (intuition) of the world.

They most likely contain instructions for designing of devices from a civilization that was in ways more advanced than ours, probably thousands of years more advanced, probably in a slightly different direction, most likely unsustainable.

Maybe localized or isolated here on Earth alien sophisticated and hostile ancient civilizations went in conflict. Could this be in conjunctions with other stories like Mahabharata. Or maybe they did something wrong and created Sahara or climate changes and had to move further north. Or maybe because of this http://georgesblogforfriends.blogspot.com/2015/01/great-pyramid-and-earth-precession.html

There are also strange coincidences in choosing the location of pyramids. One of their functions was and maybe still is interacting with the ionosphere. But this wouldn't have worked in a rainy area, because there would have been much fluctuations in interacting with ionosphere during rain. Also rain would have destroyed the outer limestone to a much greater extent. The location took advantage though of the rains further south. Coming on Nile, a body of water with predictable flooding, an ideal source of food. I mean, all you had to do was seed and rip. Also, Pyramids are located in the geometrical centre of the Earth. Could Nile itself had been changed course for the purpose? Etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_centre_of_Earth

And now let's take a look at some of the drawings.

There is little doubt to me that the four disks on a djed collumn represent high voltage insulators. But there could be more to it. Maybe entirely, if raised to full scale, they could be generators or receivers or resonators of wireless electricity from a distance source, that might have been (one of the functions of) the Great Pyramid.

The number of disks could tell an electrical engineer the voltage we are dealing with. Most likely AC but i'm thinking now...

For a century or so we all still digest Tesla's inventions. What if there's more to "basic electric devices" that he invented (generators, motors, transformers and coils)? (not thinking of the gadgets we use today). Devices deriving from higher science, all based on shapes and materials?

We all know they were writing with ideograms.
http://www.citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/ideograms.html

In this type of writing or communicating visually ideograms or hieroglyphs represent abstract symbols. By the drawing of the djed we may realize that at least in part it was dealing with high voltage.

Starting with this, through extrapolation we can hypothesize this is a representation of a CRT... Or other type of high voltage tube.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=14651
I found many representations like this, but slightly different. In some, the serpents may represent sweeping electron rays in CRTs. Those with the head of snake inward maybe be for cameras and outwards for TV sets.

But they could be several valid interpretation of the same ideogram. Those devices could represent anti-gravity or impulse drives. Narrow beams of gases accelerated in the middle of a vacuum filled tube to relativistic speeds and returning at the lower speeds could generate a difference in momentum.

Here we might have a light bulb in top of a djed that might act as a wireless receiver or even some type of unknown generator or resonator that extracts electricity from some unknown or distant source (Pyramid maybe). But the 23 degrees angle of the djed and the shape of the top may also represent Earth and its magnetic field.
Here is Tesla with a wireless bulb in his hand. High voltage, high frequency. (Why is Tesla represented always in a Vulcan mind meld session with self, or maybe it was trendy back then).
Heating? Don't know how the weather is in Egypt year round. But what about the walking anthropomorphic figures on the sides? Could this represent periodic migrations due to ice ages? Different populations separated for thousands of years surviving then coming in conflict? Or an illustration of the fact that moving heat like in heat pumps is more efficient then producing with resistors?
And last but not least. Are these light sabers from the Star Wars movies inspired by the djed? Just think of... jedi...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrojet
"There are two electrojets". No there are four. LOL

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Mysteries of the Attic, Revealed II

Ok. This has gotten pretty complicated so i'm going to try to summarize. About one year after i moved here, intrigued by smell, dust, sound of belts of cars starting, i popped the attic lid that was made of drywall with popcorn on it. One corner was cracked. Too bad back then i didn't take pictures of everything.

None of the three pipes from all levels did have an individual passage through the roof. Mine was laying on the floor like this blowing insulation and smell above the kitchen window and in the parking lot and the other two were hanging near an airing vent, partially evacuating the smell in the attic.

First i replaced the lid with i guess 3/4 inch white laminated fiberboard to which i attached two hooks. Later i added an alarm to it (and it was effective, for a while).

I put all three bathroom exhaust together with a fan on top near a vent and enclosed it. I made an enclosure too for the 6" kitchen exhaust. After many trials it all started looking like this:



All three pipes in the first of two picture above have dampers at the end near the vent. There is one more damper preventing backlow in the attic.

Today they look different. I attached some pieces of rubber pipes in the end for attenuating vibrations.

After the neighbors downstairs let their exhaust fans running for years and creating all sort of problems, i moved my pipe near my kitchen exahust with some dampers preventing backflow both in the attic and in the bathroom exhaust. The kitchen 6" exhaust pipe does not have a damper at the end but has one near the lower end on top of the present mold evacuation system (not seen in last picture). The polystiren foam adapter for that damper broke and i replaced it Monday with a plywood ring.

Today i moved back my exhaust pipe near the other two since currently the bathroom fan downstairs is running less than an hour a day like it's supposed to. This way there can be no suspicion that i'm using it to pump stuff back in the kitchen exhaust and into the floor but there will be that i'm using to pump air back in the other two bathroom exhaust but there are two dampers on each of those, one installed by me at the upper end as seen in the pictures and one near each fan. (All three pipes are fitted and connected symmetrical with dampers and everything). But to me there is no doubt to me they will adapt and will come with more insinuating actions like last night leaving the window cracked. Cause they are http://georgesblogforfriends.blogspot.com/2012/01/kaiser-khazaria-and-lenin.html Now, featuring ninja.

The two 1.5 pipes hanging near the attic damper where the fan pulls air from the attic insuring the airing at all times are connecting to the two exhaust pipes' housing from the lower levels, as some of the pipes are leaking. Airing those housings, through thermal flow only.

The fan in the picture below is now above my stove in the place normally used for the kitchen exhaust, that is the lower end of the 6" pipe seen in the pictures above and turns counterclockwise as most BLCD (BrushLess DC) computer (not laptop) fans do http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushless_DC_electric_motor . (BLCD is an improper name, they are actually AC motors with a built in inverter). It is part of the system that pulls with two 1.5" flexible hoses air from the floor, behind the fridge, where there's been a leak and near the bathroom. Initially built last November for eliminating mold from floor after a leak, i keep it running now for eliminating smoke (probably cigarette) that for some reason is present in floor and kitchen wall common with the next entrance) near the fridge.

Computer fans can't turn the other way because they are actually synchronous AC motors with a built in invertor (improperly named BLCDs). By inverting the polarity of the power supply they simply won't start.
One more thing before i forget. I might be wrong, but there is one passage visible from the parking lot, a chmney like 3 or 4 inch thick structure somewhere above the kitchen that doesn't seem to have a correspondent in the attic.

This is the last configuration as of 03/04/2015 10 AM
03/05/2015 @7 PM


04/06/2015 I discovered this: Just above the kitchen, the exhaust 6" pipe sits next to the hot water pipe that goes left to the kitchen and right to the bathroom. The tape was all dried and not sealing anymore. Parts of it came easily. The remaining one was put by me more recently, however that is not a good job either, is very hard to work, you have to kinda sit on your knees beacause the roof is too close. So i poured two cans of Great Stuff Fire Block that actually does not extend as much as the cheaper foam. It covered almost to the last fold of the pipe. I'm gone keep an eye on to see if the foam does not bend a pipe or cracks a solder joint or something but i don't think it's possible in open space.

The whole pipe was covered with an insulation blanket; every time i was using the exhaust stuff was getting in it. This spring when it got hot the first time it was stinking really bad, i went in the attic and removed the blanket from the top of the pipe. But there is one more thing. During the night time the pipe was cooling (in the morning i have to leave the water to run like one whole minute). Since everything was covered with an insulating blanket, i assume the whole pipe was heating and cooling loosing heat but also dilating and contracting, with the folds opening and closing. Quite a piece of engineering. Also cannot understand why they didn't use that T at the right the other way and save an elbow. Just to make the hot water pipe run under the elbow of the exhaust?