Author: Michael Werecat Dean

I use an oxygen concentrator at night when I sleep. If it’s turned off I don’t die, but I wake up with a bad headache. Every couple months on average, my cat, Beast, jumps on it to get on to the nearby microwave oven, to jump from there to the top of the white counter, near the ceiling, the highest point in the house.

The cat almost always presses the off button when he does this. I don’t notice until I wake up with a headache.

Ironically, the Philips Respironics EverFlo oxygen concentrator sounds an alarm when you turn it ON, but not when you turn it OFF. That’s the opposite of what makes sense, and there is no user-available way to change this.

My wife made this CatMaster 3000 for me. It’s an update on the CatMaster 300, a similar but larger device we made to protect my mixing board from cats pushing buttons when they walk on it.

To make a CatMaster 3000, get UCreate Foam Board, or similar (must be thick), and cut it into a piece 7×10 inches, and fold it at 5 inches. Put duct tape on the edges (I use this), and duct tape it onto the oxygen concentrator over the switch to protect against accidental pressing by cat feet. Duct tape becomes a hinge at the top.

This would probably work with most oxygen concentrators, and could be modified to work with a CPAP machine. (I keep mine near the floor to prevent water backflow into the mask)

You lift the flap to turn it on, then the flap drops back down to keep cat paws off. You can see the ON light from the right side, so you can tell that it’s on without lifting the flap.

Here’s Beast, the big doofus that turns it off:

 

Grok code for converting number sequences to notes 

I wanted this, for helping with my new hobby of 12-tone Serialism music. I use Reaper as my DAW.

There is a little coding window in Reaper, but it doesn’t “vibe code.” I am almost positive that Reaper (thankfully) will never contain AI functions, knowing how Justin operates.

However, I did recently vibe code a function in Reaper via Grok. entering the Grok result into Reaper using the built-in Reaper actions / effects coding environment, JSFX (often just called “JS”) / Jesusonic (or JesuSonic)

I told Grok what I needed, it gave me the code, I entered into Reaper, tested, asked for an improvement, tested, and was done.

Worked great.

It’s NOT in any way “AI music” (which I would never do), it’s AI helping with the backend of the tools.

In the same way that if a guy works on your guitar to make it play better, he isn’t a member of your band.

EXAMPLES OF 12-TONE SERIAL MUSIC I DID, WITH THIS AS A STARTING POINT:

Ding Dong, Stockhausen Is Dead

and

Barlow Bortle Binning Bias Bahtinov Bayer Broadband Backfocus

and Live Witnessing Wiggling Active Region Filaments

 

 

Bird was too close to be in focus. Maybe next time.

See the finished photo set here.

Check out my new album too: 

Bottom of the pic. Looks kind of like a bird, but was going too fast, and was going sideways from how a bird goes (bottom to top in this image).