Fun with tyres
This is from a facebook post on 18/10/2016. It was a rather odd evening.
Just learned a lot of things.
Read more“Do you think she’ll win?”
After a lifetime of talking politics, we were kind of ignoring this election. There were other, more immediate concerns. I’m not sure when she first asked, but it was when Bernie seemed to be doing better than the pundits had expected.
Read moreReview: Girl With All The Gifts
The Zombie genre has been a bit, well, full the past number of years. But there are still some really interesting stories nestled in amongst the survivalist ammosexual fantasy crud this genre has descended into. Happily this is one of them. Reviewing this without giving bits away is hard. So I’ll say first off that I liked the book. It leaves you wondering what you’d do; whether the right decisions had been made. Read moreSome Drabbles and Twabbles
A number of years ago I was introduced to the Escape Pod and Drabblecast podcasts. And when reading up more about them I discovered the Drabblecast forums and the amusing Drabbles (100 word stories) and Twabbles (100 char stories). I even got a few on the show and thought I’d put them here. Note that the drabblecast is for weird stories… Four times they took him. Every time an anal probe. Read moreLiquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
One of the neatest bits of my first trip to Denmark wasn’t Legoland amazingly enough. It was a place that did liquid nitrogen ice cream. Istid is this little shop on a residential street in Copenhagen. Happily the street I was staying with a friend on! The setup is simple: on a counter behind glass are four brightly coloured Kitchen-Aid mixers; opposite them is a chalkboard explaining the four flavours of ice cream with toppings they offer. Read moreRetirement Update
An update to my original retirement post. One issue I didn’t really highlight in the original post was debt. Pay it off. Not having debt could be considered a leg in itself. No mortgage, no credit card debt, no student loans, etc. That all needs to be gone once you retire. Private pensions sometimes have an option to borrow from them for various reasons. You should almost never do this. Right now interest rates are low so mortgages will generally give you decent rates, so even using your pension to buy property isn’t a great idea. Read moreBack Home
My mom came home today. As per normal, I got confused about the time and place. While I was generally pretty good at collecting my mom from the airport, I ended up showing up a bit late from time to time. And there was often mixups with alarm clocks or wake up calls that made my on-time pickups a bit miraculous. This time there was a mix-up in getting my mom’s ashes. Read moreHugo
I had been using Pelican to manage this site, but switched it to Hugo this week. My main reason for this is that I want to learn Go and Hugo is written in Go and uses Go templates in themes and a few other places. After having played with it for a few weeks, I thought I’d share my impressions so far.
Read moreMultiple repos
Quite often I find it useful to push to more than one repo. If a repo is used for system configuration, I might have a central repo github.com but also have it on the servers it’s used to manage. It can also be useful for some code review scenarios.
Read moreFridge repair (update)
So back in January I had a fridge issue. Unsurprisingly that was not technically fixed. So in early March I managed to replace it.
Read moreLetters of Note
I think I’ve found the last batch of pictures. I’m a little overwhelmed so another scanning session is a while off. However there were other things with the pictures - there were five letters.
Read moreThings to do for starting a php project
So php isn’t the greatest thing ever. Nonetheless its tooling has evolved and that are a number of things you can do to make it less auful. The goal of this is to cover setting of a php project so that you can pull in dependancies and provide an easy way for users to install your software.
Read moreCups
Been going through my mom’s things. Tax season doesn’t stop for death so I had one last bit of paperwork to find. Mom wasn’t a fan of paperwork so it took a little hunting - found it in the end though.
Read moreLaundry
Finished mom’s laundry. It seems some lasts you do know when they happen.Fridge repair
Problem: Fridge was making loud buzzing noise.
Solution #1: Ignore it, hope it would go away. I invested 5 days into
this solution.