Week 100: duck shaped snowballs
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In 2019, I saw a video that inspired me to buy a tool for making duck shaped snowballs. The Amazon reviews there are all singularly unhelpful: folks waiting for it to snow so they can try it out. There must have been opportunities in the intervening years, but this week there was finally the intersection of enough snow and my remembering I own that product.
Well, what is there to say? I made some snow ducks. Thereās some difficulty in gathering up just enough snow to make a complete duck with no seams. I donāt have any pictures, but you can see various folksā (apparently multiple K-pop youthsā) on Twitter. 17p plus P&P well spent. (Itās several times more expensive now ā such inflation/snow related surge pricing.)
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Snow. Itās a lovely idea, but now Iām slightly old itās a bit of a pain in the arse, especially a whole week of cycle paths and pavements being treacherously slippery. Now the temperature is above zero and Iāve never been more excited about the melting of the melty brown slush.
Watched a parade of bicycle users a-slippery-sliding over a bridge and thought itās a shame the council coffers donāt stretch to sprinkling salt over more then a few key pavements. Oh well. Someone posted a link to this āBicycles work on snowā, which is good. The āavoid camberā point is a shitter ā when I used to have to cycle to a workplace in the ice, the only roads available all had pernicious cambers, which was the worst, until I got a front tyre with metal studs in it. Maybe I should get such a tyre for the current bicycle, but who knows what the world will be like the next time itās icy, will I have a differently sized bicycle, etc?
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Exercising, I finally found the holy grail of some skipfuls of lightly used office furniture, which was bound to happen after I bought that expensive office chair. So, without doxing myself, if you need an office chair in the east Norwich area, go! I think this office chair is enough, and donāt fancy returning it for a refund, but maybe Iāll still return to the scene for a rummage.
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Something made me think about a snippet of David Bowie saying a ā⦠a mountain ⦠or a treeā thatās occasionally heard on the Adam Buxton podcast. Always wondered where it was from. Well, itās from this widely cringy Russell Harty interview.
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Some work. I was confounded by some runaway database queries that went running despite timeouts being set and resisting my attempts to use
pg_cancel_backend
and thenpg_terminate_backend
to stop them. Hmm.Now, Iām not doing anything too āweb scaleā for Postgres or anything, but I think I can make some things faster and cheaper by changing them to use Redis instead. Thatās reasonable, isnāt it? So thatās something for me to do next week along with all of the other things.
How do you do.