Ramblings
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Turning my first bowl
I’ve been following a bunch of YouTube channels (like Mike Waldt’s) for over a year now, watching people turn wood into household furniture, pens, bowls etc. It’s been very soothing, and rather interesting (then add channels like AvE, This Old Tony, and so on for mechanical gubbins), and I’ve been a bit keen on converting…
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Bajan directions
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a tourist in possession of a bad road map must be in want of a Bajan to give directions. And Bajan directions are not some trite notion of how to get from A to B. They are a narrative of our lives. The other day I was in…
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PlantUML, sequence diagrams
Today I learned that the diagram style that shows two or more vertical lines with actions going from line to line is called a sequence diagram, and it’s a UML thing (we never got in to UML when I was in college). Then I discovered PlantUML, which takes plain text input (like Graphviz dot files),…
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Home waste disposal
There appear to be two companies that do household garbage collection in my neck of the woods – Panda and Greyhound. Panda have no pricing on their website, and their new customer page doesn’t exist. When I called them, I was given the following numbers Type Per lift of bin (€) Per kg in bin(€)…
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iPhone GPS .. untrustworthy
All of the photos in the bottom half of this screenshot were taken in the same place. The GPS module of the iPhone XS that was use has placed the photos in 5 different places, and only one of them is partially right. So yeah, trusting the GPS to say where you were based on…
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A pottering weekend
Now that I’ve got a bed, I’ve moved off of my boat and back to dry land (though Ireland can have a tendency to disagree with the marrying of those words), even if the house isn’t actually finished. The major holdup has been the electrician; he’s finally started showing up again, and bare wires are…