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My hamster Lucy, tracked with HamsterTracker™ Powered by Peacoque Labs, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Created by Mathijs van der Paauw - Online since September 5th, 2004 - http://feeds.feedburner.com/HamstertrackertmRssStream |
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - day 278 - current treadmill total: 376,728.00 meters! (19:45 CET)
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Sunday, March 19, 2006 - day 276 - current treadmill total: 375,682.44 meters! (11:15 CET)
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Saturday, March 18, 2006 - day 275 - current treadmill total: 375,512.22 meters! (12:25 CET)
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 - day 273 - current treadmill total: 373,881.00 meters! (17:00 CET)
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - day 272 - current treadmill total: 373,592.84 meters! (17:15 CET)
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - day 271 - current treadmill total: 373,228.66 meters! (18:35 CET)
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Monday, March 13, 2006 - day 270 - current treadmill total: 372,480.16 meters! (16:45 CET)
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Sunday, March 12, 2006 - day 269 - current treadmill total: 371,896.81 meters! (10:25 CET)
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Friday, March 10, 2006 - day 267 - current treadmill total: 371,700.62 meters! (18:45 CET)
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Thursday, March 9, 2006 - day 266 - current treadmill total: 370,990.72 meters! (19:35 CET)
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - day 265 - current treadmill total: 370,482.06 meters! (17:05 CET)
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Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - day 264 - current treadmill total: 370,211.72 meters! (18:45 CET)
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Monday, March 6, 2006 - day 263 - current treadmill total: 370,160.72 meters! (17:30 CET)
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Friday, March 3, 2006 - day 260 - current treadmill total: 368,303.38 meters! (20:30 CET)
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Thursday, March 2, 2006 - day 259 - current treadmill total: 367,827.34 meters! (17:15 CET)
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - day 257 - current treadmill total: 365,633.00 meters! (19:30 CET)
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Monday, February 27, 2006 - day 256 - current treadmill total: 365,389.50 meters! (19:50 CET)
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 - day 255 - current treadmill total: 365,052.22 meters! (10:10 CET)
HamsterTracker™-shouts to Linda!Very cool! |
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Friday, February 24, 2006 - day 253 - current treadmill total: 363,239.12 meters! (23:10 CET)
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 - day 252 - current treadmill total: 362,770.78 meters! (17:30 CET)
Lucy never had Yohgurt Drops before, a quick test unveiled that she loves it! She also never had a "Happy Teddy" treat before. I haven't got the chance to give it to her... Naturally, I've also updated Lucy's Expenses page |
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - day 251 - current treadmill total: 362,480.72 meters! (20:45 CET)
The small picture of Lucy's webcam (in the bottom right corner) is not included in the download, (as well as all the icons that mess up Lucy's picture). |
Monday, February 20, 2006 - day 249 - current treadmill total: 360,554.84 meters! (17:20 CET)
" Who? ... me? " - Lucy |
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Friday, February 17, 2006 - day 246 - current treadmill total: 359,240.34 meters! (18:10 CET)
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 - day 245 - current treadmill total: 358,401.53 meters! (17:20 CET) Lucy's Statistical Graphs updateHere's an update of Lucy's latest statistical graphs. HamsterTracker™ Server crashes: Day: 12, 30, 44, 57, 67, 68, 76, 90, 91, 96, 99, 116, 182 Total Distance Trend Graph: |
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - day 244 - current treadmill total: 358,076.19 meters! (19:50 CET)
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - day 243 - current treadmill total: 357,604.38 meters! (17:30 CET)
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Monday, February 13, 2006 - day 242 - current treadmill total: 356,737.47 meters! (17:20 CET)
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Friday, February 10, 2006 - day 239 - current treadmill total: 354,472.03 meters! (20:00 CET)
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Tuesday, February 6, 2006 - day 236 - current treadmill total: 352,115.03 meters! (18:10 CET)
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Monday, February 6, 2006 - day 235 - current treadmill total: 351,874.41 meters! (18:30 CET)
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Saturday, February 4, 2006 - day 233 - current treadmill total: 350,437.62 meters! (11:05 CET)
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Thursday, February 2, 2006 - day 231 - current treadmill total: 350,313.66 meters! (18:05 CET)
I couldn't take a picture of this because I needed both hands, to keep her on it... Lucy's pouches seemed empty, not influencing her weight, because she just awoken from her beauty sleep. My appologies to the office, for not being able to send a single letter, without this scale, today! Therefore: HamsterTracker™ shouts to my office! |
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - day 230 - current treadmill total: 349,724.44 meters! (19:05 CET)
To be continiued... |
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - day 229 - current treadmill total: 349,029.25 meters! (21:05 CET) Lucy Promotion Difficulties - part IIYesterday (see down below) I couldn't descide on what to use for HamsterTracker™ promotion cards. As promised, I "discussed" this with Lucy, and even she can't can't decide: " I don't know! " - Lucy |
Monday, January 30, 2006 - day 228 - current treadmill total: 348,805.91 meters! (18:05 CET) Lucy Promotion DifficultiesI've been working on a new Lucy promotion card, and I can't decide: I am going to discuss this with Lucy The cactus in the picture is there for symbolic reasons. (It is a pain to decide!) If you have suggestions, don't hesitate to let me know! |
Friday, January 27, 2006 - day 225 - current treadmill total: 346,980.81 meters! (17:45 CET) Lucy's Statistical Graphs updateHere's an update of Lucy's latest statistical graphs. HamsterTracker™ Server crashes: Day: 12, 30, 44, 57, 67, 68, 76, 90, 91, 96, 99, 116, 182 All new Total Distance Trend Graph: |
Thursday, January 26, 2006 - day 224 - current treadmill total: 346,394.19 meters! (17:35 CET) Profile of Lucy's faceHer face is outside of her cage, just in front of the vertical-cage-bar: "How's this?" - Lucy |
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - day 223 - current treadmill total: 346,170.50 meters! (17:35 CET)
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Monday, January 23, 2006 - day 221 - current treadmill total: 344,162.00 meters! (18:35 CET)
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Saturday, January 21, 2006 - day 219 - current treadmill total: 343,617.69 meters! (19:15 CET) Spread the hamster love!I got an email from my Canadian friend Debbie, pointing out the following:
Who can resist hamster-love? I love this kind of news! HamsterTracker™ shouts to Debbie! |
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Friday, January 20, 2006 - day 218 - current treadmill total: 343,379.78 meters! (17:00 CET) RAQ: Recently Asked QuestionI recently enjoyed meeting with my friend Gerrit (from Belgium) who I only see a couple of times a year. Amoungst discussing a lot of things, he asked me the following question:
Here it goes... my attempt to explain this:It is true, that Lucy is running less distance (and spends less of her time) in her treadmill.It could well be that, I let Lucy run, around in the living room, in her Explorer Ball for 20-30 minutes (nearly) every evening. I also think that when hamsters grow up, they have a less of an interest in a treadmill. (Hopefully this is only temporary!) I was very worried when I noticed a decline in treadmill interest by Lucy. Because Lucy (1.0) died after only 6 months these where her first signs something was wrong. The difference today is, that Lucy 2.0 has a healthy intake of water, and she also achieves an average speed of approx. 20 cm/s, which is a good indication of good health. Lucy also drinks an average of 6 ml. of water each day. Once that drops to nearly zero, then there is a problem. Now there isn't! I've also checked the HamsterTracker™ system for bugs, or inproper data-collection. As it seems, when I spin the treadmill manually, the HamsterTracker™ system works fine; so I don't think there is a technical problem that causes Lucy's decline in treadmill distance. Maybe it's just simply Hamster puberty! HamsterTracker™ shouts to Gerrit, for this interesting RAQ! |
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 - day 217 - current treadmill total: 342,659.34 meters! (18:30 CET) Checking the IR gates and softwareBecause I expanded Lucy's cage a while ago, I want to get the Infrared gates working again. For some reason, they stopped functioning like it should. In the picture below, you can see the test setup: (See also: the IR Sensors page.)
There where some strange results while testing this:
This subject requires a bit more attention than I anticipated. But I will get it working soon (although I don't know when)! I totally forgot to mention that I've updated Lucy's expenses page. |
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - day 216 - current treadmill total: 342,300.12 meters! (18:20 CET) How to determine your hamsters true colors using a picture editorI always thought that my dear little Lucy had a bright white color all over. Because I thought it was poor lighting that was to blame. It seems that I was wrong. I have seen some slight color variance near her ears, but never paid too much attention to it, for the above mentioned reason. In the picture below, you can hardly see it: (once you know it, you can see it!)
Another HamsterTracker™ fact:Now if you look closely at the pictures I posted yesterday (down below on this page), you'll also spot it! (How mysteriously our mind works!) |
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - day 215 - current treadmill total: 341,805.00 meters! (18:15 CET) Lucy's Upcomming ExperimentWhen taking the following pictures of Lucy putting half a (mini) corn on the cob in her pouches, I was wondering how much that was.
Next time, I'll weigh the corn on the cob first. Then wait untill her pouches are so much stuffed, that she can't put more corn in. (This is her normal behaviour, and much needed in this experiment). After this I weigh the corn again. Although it doesn't really say much on how much a hamster can carry in the pouches, it does give an indication on corn! To be continued... |
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Friday, January 13, 2006 - day 211 - current treadmill total: 339,139.94 meters! (18:15 CET) Lucy's Statistical Graphs updateHere's an update of Lucy's latest statistical graphs. HamsterTracker™ Server crashes: Day: 12, 30, 44, 57, 67, 68, 76, 90, 91, 96, 99, 116, 182 |
Thursday, January 12, 2006 - day 210 - current treadmill total: 338,510.34 meters! (18:25 CET) Lucy animation experimentThis little ( and ultra high budget ) animation took quite some time to produce. I could have filmed Lucy with my camera, but that has been done...
When watching, just focus on Lucy (this way the background isn't too distracting); it looks like she is endlessly stuffing her pouches, finding the same over and over again. At least I got some of the sequencing right! Next time I will also use a tripod, therefore the backgroud is more stable, and the animation will be quite more relaxed to view. Even though the result is not exactly as hoped and expected, I had great fun and learned a lot, while doing this! I guess I'm not a Spielberg or Disney just yet, allthough I've got an excellent actrice! |
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - day 209 - current treadmill total: 337,785.16 meters! (17:30 CET) 'the LOOK' by LucyLucy spend 2 x 20 minutes ( = 40 minutes total! ) in her explorer ball. After I put her back in her cage, I took some photographs. It all started out very nice... After taking this picture she immidiately noticed me... Here is Lucy trying to be cute, in the hope I let her out of the cage again! Because I didn't let her out AGAIN, Lucy gave me 'the LOOK':" hmmmmmmmm ... I'm gonna remember this! " - Lucy |
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - day 208 - current treadmill total: 337,548.62 meters! (17:30 CET) Update of Lucy's Jingle Dumbell experimentSee also: December 28,2005. I've done some more experiments with Lucy and the Jingle Dumbell on the couch, because she completely ignored it in her cage: "Not that Jingle Dumbell again?" - Lucy "I told you already that I don't really like it..." - Lucy "This is much more interesting" - Lucy I guess the Jingle Dumbell isn't for Lucy! I will keep it, and test it again with another hamster in the future. But for now Lucy calls it her Jingle DUMBell! HamsterTracker™ shouts to Sandra for this interesting experiment! |
Monday, January 9, 2006 - day 207 - current treadmill total: 337,063.34 meters! (18:30 CET) Lucy's water consumption now in RSS-feedBy adding the following line of code I've added Lucy's waterconsumption to the RSS-feed. Call UpdateStatisticsRss(Replace(tmpString, vbCrLf, "<br />"), "Lucy's water consumption") I love simple solutions! Not that Lucy minds:"I've got a great snack" - Lucy As it seems Lucy didn't run much in her treadmill, december 29, 2005 - january 1, 2006. Could this be because of fireworks exploding during these days? Lucy is running more and more each night in her treadmill; last night she ran 790.09 meters (from 22:06 till 4:23)! |
Friday, January 6, 2006 - day 204 - current treadmill total: 335,671.31 meters! (22:40 CET) Lucy's BIG climb and descendI've expanded Lucy's cage! I've raised the 'Meditation room' about 80 cm closer to the sky! Pretty fun to watch my Lucy exploring. She went up and down like crazy! Knawing (or at least trying) and licking and rubbing her scent glands all over, thereby making it her own! Here's a picture of Lucy in her new expansion, going back to familiar territory, after inspection: (Look close to spot Lucy!) "Coool!" - Lucy BTW: NO! She doesn't get sick running those U-joints! |
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - day 202 - current treadmill total: 335,173.69 meters! (17:50 CET) Lucy's checkupI was a little worried because of Lucy treadmill statistics. She has been taking it very easy these last couple of day's, not running more than a few meters. I've checked the HamsterTracker™ system, which runs fine. Afraid of the same scenario that Lucy (1.0), I thought I'd give Lucy (2.0) a checkup. "I am telling you all is Ok!" - Lucy I gave my little Lucy a carefull inspection. She seemed alright. She doesn't smell (that's always an indication something is the matter!) When Lucy jawned, her teeth seemed also of correct lenght! As it seems, Lucy ran 277.38 meters last night (before 0:00). Her treadmill running has shifted from 1:00 - 5:00 am to 21:00 - 0:00 pm! And because her waterconsumption is also Ok, I think she is Ok! |
Tuesday, January 3, 2006 - day 201 - current treadmill total: 334,895.25 meters! (18:50 CET) A small change!I've changed the RSS 2.0 logo's to comply with the new standard. "A new standard is being established to indentify syndicated content." See: feedicons.com for more information. |
Sunday, January 1, 2006 - day 199 - current treadmill total: 334,857.69 meters! (19:10 CET) Happy 2006!Lucy & myself, hope you will realize all or one of your dreams this year! Fireworks for 2006 |
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