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10,000 Petrol-Free Kilometers
I recently ticked over 10,000 km of travel in my electric Nissan Leaf. Cummuting 65 km per day really adds up ( Read more... ) -
More Car Madness
I must be a sucker because I recenlty bought another Morris Minor 1000 ( Read more... ) -
VR
My housemate is playing "Witcher 3". I'm not really into all the monster fighting and skill tree development, but wow, the world is amazing. Graphically, it's up there with the most beautiful games I've seen. However, the really impressive aspect is the scale of the world. The maps are vast and you can pretty much go anywhere. There are large ( Read more... ) -
Regular Expression ASCII Art
Today I wrote a regular expression to search for a line beginning with "./", followed by any other character. Since the expression had to be inside a pair of "/" for awk, and both "." and "/" are special characters which must be escaped with "\", I ended up with:
/^\.\/./
Which looks like a crowd doing a mexican wave. I laughed. -
A Writing Journey
A few years ago, I started writing a novel. It began as a fairly silly idea about dogs living on a diet of drug-laced "kibble" in an underground city. Somehow, it expanded into more than 60,000 words. I thought it was a good effort, but when I submitted it to a publisher (just for a giggle) some deficiencies in my literary style were pointed out ( Read more... ) -
General Erection
The General Election campaign has started in earnest now, and it's actually quite good sport. I'm resigned about politics in general. I have my own strong opinions, but ultimately the two main parties are fairly close in the middle of the spectrum, so there won't be any huge changes no matter who wins. However, I do actually enjoy the theater and ( Read more... ) -
Mun or Bust
I've become quite addicted to playing Kerbal Space Program. It's like NASA but without all the boring maths. You just stick rocket bits together, point it generally upwards, and see what happens. If you don't quite make orbit, Add More Boosters ( Read more... ) -
Lies, Damned Lies, and Bananas
It seems that a banana shortage looms over the nation, after a shipload of the curvy fruit had to turn back with engine trouble.
I learned from this New Zealand Herald article that New Zealand has the highest per-capita banana consumption in the world.
I found this small fact to be quite interesting, until A did some research and found it to be ( Read more... ) -
The EV Grin
My second Electric Vehicle project drove out of the garage today, and proceeded to drive around the section, including up and down some real hills ( Read more... ) -
Have a Merry Fraud and a Happy New Card
According to my credit card statement, I bought someone a new iPhone for Christmas (from an online store in the US, as far as I can tell). You'd think I would remember spending nearly $1000, especially as it was just a few days ago.
I'd better call the bank tomorrow.