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New Clear Sky Energy Paper

Posted on April 5, 2020June 13, 2020 by Joe Del Rocco

We published a new paper on estimating clear sky energy across the entire skydome. Wide spectrum sky energy is useful for many downstream applications, including PV building energy modeling, panel alignment, rendering, etc. This is a data-driven technique, using regression models on measured sky data. We validated the method with holdout data and with libRadtran,…

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Bats About The House

Posted on March 7, 2020July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

Noticed a handful of bats swarming around near our front door tonight, hopefully eating lots of mosquitoes πŸ™‚ More information about bats from the University of Florida, including awesome videos of their well-known bat barns.

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Vanwho? Yes.

Posted on February 10, 2020July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

We had the pleasure of opening up for Vanwho last night at Uncle Lou’s. If music comes from the soul, this is music. She has a beautiful voice and playing style, very emotional and unique. I also like her use of whistling for leads πŸ™‚ She is very talented. Make it a point to see…

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Blues Jam @ Home

Posted on January 19, 2020July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

An impromptu blues jam at the house with some friends. My neighbor Jeff (of Lure Design and the Ten10 open mic jam) is shredding it as usual on guitar. Long time no see multi-band mate, Scott Sigman, on bass in this video, but Jason Hinders played bass most of the night. Joel Pickering and UCF…

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House 2 Remodel: Addition

Posted on December 20, 2019June 11, 2020 by Joe Del Rocco

It took a loooooooooooooooooooooong time, but we finally finished our house addition. It’s actually been “finished” for 8 months or so, but we’ve been doing some landscaping and waiting for the city to approve our new fence. We added roughly 800 sqft to our house and remodeled another 400 or so (almost entirely downstairs). Tom…

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Adjustable Height Desk

Posted on October 19, 2019July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

I’ve wanted an adjustable height desk for a very long time. I was even considering building my own. Recently I happened upon one in my very own home office! It was an early Christmas present from my wife. Awwwwww πŸ™‚ I must say, I am very impressed with it. It’s quiet, sturdy, and can be…

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Vibrotactile Awareness

Posted on October 10, 2019July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

Saw a talk today at the Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence at Stetson by Assistant Professor of Voice, Chadley Ballantyne, titled What’s the Buzz? Auditory roughness and vibrotactile awareness. It was fantastic! I admit, I know very little music theory in general (and absolutely nothing about vocal theory!), but Chad’s talk was still…

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My FFXIV WHM

Posted on September 1, 2019July 18, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

— Update 07/2021: I wasn’t aware until recently of the Japanese show (Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light) and movie (Brave Father Online: Our Story of Final Fantasy XIV) that featured FFXIV as a plot vehicle. Pretty cool idea and very enjoyable for FFXIV fans. — As I wind down another 4 month mini-addiction of…

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Diagram Radiometry

Posted on August 30, 2019July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

I needed to illustrate a radiometry concept recently, but I didn’t want to draw it manually with Adobe Illustrator or whatever. I was afraid that parts of the diagram wouldn’t look to-scale, and I was especially worried that if I had to show the diagram from multiple angles, that proportions wouldn’t line up exactly. I’m…

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Terri Binion

Posted on August 14, 2019February 10, 2020 by Joe Del Rocco

I saw Terri Binion tonight at Imperial Wine Bar at Washburn Imports on North Orange. She plays folky Americana songs, and has a fantastic voice. She’s been in and Central Florida for a long time, but has also toured nationally and played with some greats. She knows what she’s doing. She handled the loud, chatty…

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