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Category Archives: Life In General
Time is the enemy of the privileged few. Cost is the enemy of the masses.
Stumbled upon an youtube video: Why Planes Don’t Fly Faster Turns out making travel cheaper is way more important, very well said at the end: “Time is the enemy of the privileged few. Cost is the enemy of the masses.”
Current state of solar energy for NZ customers
Recently there is a wave of ads/posts on my facebook about solar energy, ranging from installations to solar tax. I did a quick calculation from https://www.energywise.govt.nz/tools/solar-calculator/, using all the standard attributes and costs, it worked out that I will save a HUGE(not) $1100 in 22 years, that is without any issues within 22 years. I don’t really think… Read More »
Building a bed rail
As Casey grows older, wife would like her to be able to climb out of her own bed(cot), so we have to replace the bed rail. No worries, I had some scrap timber laying around ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]I had some trouble with the scrap timber as they were not straight so the measurement was… Read More »
Building a shed
When we went out to parks, my daughter seemed she enjoyed playing in mini-houses, which made me want to build one in our backyard so she can play whenever she wants. Since it’s a bit more complicated structure than previous ones, I had to draw it up somewhere, and I used an online 3D modelling… Read More »
Mini Deck
Another retrospect to my wood work hobby, so I was looking for things to make (and make more use of the mitre saw), I managed to find a small project to do, building a mini-deck between the main house and laundry room, we used to leap across the concrete foundation between the 2 areas since… Read More »
Wood work, something that I have never done before.
This is a small post goes back to July 2016, my dad bought me an AEG mitre saw from Bunnings which I had no project in mind and have never done wood work before. So I did big clean up in the garage in the morning to make room for the to be built workshop, then… Read More »
A good article about face recognition
View at Medium.com
Alkaline Battery Comparison
Been studying electricity lately and stumbled on to this article http://www.powerstream.com/AA-tests.htm Looks like Energizer is a clear winner.
Suppressing imported but unused warnings from flake
If you are a good python dev, surely you follow PEP8 coding style guidelines, and surely you have installed the flake8 plugin to constantly reminding yourself to format your code properly, and surely you have valid cases that you import stuff but not used, eg. __init__.py and surely your IDE will annoy the fuck out of… Read More »