Still occasionally feels like a contact lens stuck where it shouldn’t be, but the heat compresses are really helping. Seems dry eye and this sort of thing are not an unknown result of the cataract surgery—I have this from a friend online who is an opthamologist—and all I can do is just keep at the compresses.
Jane has dry eyes also, and says the compresses (we got her one, too) are the best thing since sliced bread.
I’ll try to fix that over-run glitch in the left column — may take me a couple of days. I’m not focussing mentally real well past this discomfort. But I’ll get it.
BTW, sort of heads-up tomorrow re news on gravitational waves, and possibly a proof or disproof of General Relativity. There is a competing theory.
There are quite a number of competing theories to General Relativity, but so far it seems to be holding up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_general_relativity
Good you’re feeling better. What are those compresses again? They might help me. Thanks in advance.
I’ve been working on fonts, and I’m still behind the curve.
Based on comments I received on Cedar Spirit, I’ll be adding a lowercase. This will make it more useful and versatile. I’m near the point where I can work on another weight.
I’m not yet used to FontLab, but may need to move up to it. I’ve been working in Fontographer.
Adding small-caps versus lowercase to a font is a problem for fonts and for programs that use the fonts. Most programs won’t take advantage of drawn small-caps; instead, they scale down the uppercase. How the small-caps are stored in fonts that are smart enough to contain both LC and SC is managed by the font editor, but poorly, in how the user interface shows what’s what and where it is.
The more practical solution has been to provide separate fonts, the regular upper- and lowercase in one, and the uppper- and small-caps in another. This is easier for users and for the programs that don’t automatically know how to use the drawn small-caps.
So that’s what I’m going to do, at least for now, rather than the single font-file with UC, LC, and SC all in one.
If FontLab’s interface will let me manage it more easily, I might get to stay with the single file, but for now, it’ll be two.
It seems I missed a web seminar yesterday. Better luck next time.
a disproof of General Relativity? Would be great if I happened to win the Powerball…..I don’t need to find more “relatives”…..
Oh, right, not talking about THAT kind of relativity…..
Did the doctor recommend anything else for the dry eyes that wouldn’t conflict with the medicine for the styes?
BCS, the brand mentioned was Bruder. I got one from my eye doctor last year to help with the tear ducts that should produce oil and are doing less so as I get older. When I’m diligent about using it each night, my eyes feel better and don’t tear as much when I’m out in the cold.
So, gravitational waves have been found! 🌊🌊🌊
So the basis of LIGO is that these incredibly rare collisions of black holes don’t have to be in our galaxy, but anywhere in the Universe within the range of the intruments’ sensitivity–bearing in mind the Inverse Square Law, of course. So this one happened 1.3E9 years ago. Two ~30sols black holes converted 3sols of mass into energy, exceeding the total energy of the visible Universe 50 times.
Gee, do you think this explains Fermi’s “Where are they?” Paradox? Nothing survives something like that anywhere around the “neighborhood”! We are under a non-zero threat from the supernova of Sirius here.
So, since Sirius is relatively close in our stellar neighborhood, does this translate into a ‘fear of relatives’? 😀
I dunno, but I’m not too Siriusly afraid of my relatives. Not too thrilled by ’em, lately, but not afraid of ’em, even the more ornery, anti-aunt one. Got one number one boorish cousin I wouldn’t mind trading, but well, haven’t seen him in quite some time, which is fine by me. So I s’pose there’s no great urge to trade him. His wife, however, might think otherwise. Dunno. Heh.
Sirius — isn’t too likely to go critical while humans are still humans and not…whatever we might evolve into if we don’t manage to do ourselves in some way. As I understand it, Sirius isn’t likely to go boom for several million or more years.
However, it’s what, less than a hundred light years away. About 26, if my memory’s half right. (It’s likely not quite right, though.) So when and if Sirius does go out with a bang, well, you know how those obnoxious neighbors are about shooting off fireworks when they’re not supposed to?
That, only…yeah, OK, no comparison fits. Big boom.
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Hey, if the theory of relativity is wrong, who’s related to whom, and who’s yer daddy, anyway, yo?
OK, yeah, I got nothin’.
Actually, if there’s even a slightly not quite right bit of Einstein’s theory, it could mean all sorts of things are possible or impossible that we didn’t know before. As I recall, he was famous for saying he’d be happy to be proven wrong, as it would mean some things were possible, or at least, it would open up areas for more exploration by science, math, physics, philosophy….. (I’m inferring . I think he’d only said he’d be happy to be proven wrong.)
And yet, at some point, someone very, very bright is likely to come up with a better theory or to discover and correct the existing one. Either way, that could turn up all sorts of strange, new, ah, worlds, as it were. (I didn’t honestly intend to fit that reference in. It just happened on its own. Why the universe does that with us, sometimes, I also have no idea.)
Sirius: 8.6ly according to Wikipedia.
Lizzy Borden is my 12th cousin 6 times removed. O’course, another cousin is the Queen! And 7 ancestors & relatives on the Mayflower are closer, including John & Priscilla.
Thus spake Albert Einstein
‘Now zis is the vay mass behaves:
Vhen it’s moved, it makes gravity vaves.’
And black holes, in collision,
Confirm Einstein’s vision
Of space ripples mass engraves 😮 .
Forgot attribution: David James Jones.