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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-11-01 05:43 pm
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Thoughts on the way home.

Glasgow still feels much more city-like to me than Edinburgh.

Which is probably why I prefer living in Edinburgh.

(Great to visit though)
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-11-01 12:04 pm
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Sophia and Gideon making the DNA for their respective eye colours.

(First ever trip to the Glasgow Science Centre, it was awesome)
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-10-30 05:45 pm

Life with two kids: Wednesday shoes

This morning Sophia announced, as we were about to leave the house, that she couldn't find her school shoes.

Her black school shoes.

The ones that are and integral part of her Wednesday costume. For the school Halloween disco. This evening.

Jane and I frantically tore the house apart for fifteen minutes and checked *everywhere*. Eventually we forced her, crying, to put on her trainers, promising her that if her shoes turned up we would bring them in to her.

Because we left fifteen minutes late we missed the bus. And so it was that we were halfway through the walk to school when Sophia quietly said "Oh."

And then told me that she'd just remembered that yesterday she'd come home from school in her welly boots, leaving her shoes at her peg.

You'll be delighted to hear that I didn't murder her.
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-10-26 08:07 pm
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Life with two kids: Very wet test subjects

There's research that if you leave people in a room with an electro-shock shock device long enough to get bored they will deliberately shock themselves.

In other news I took Sophia's phone away from the kids while they were in the bath and now they're repeatedly pouring cold water over themselves while shrieking like baboons.
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-10-26 01:45 pm
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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2025-10-25 08:42 am

Database maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-10-25 10:29 am
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One of these children won at Ticket To Ride: First Journey, the other...did not.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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fanf ([personal profile] fanf) wrote2025-10-24 10:42 pm

how to draw a tetrapod

https://dotat.at/@/2025-10-24-tetrapod.html

Concrete tetrapods are used to dissipate wave energy in coastal defences.

There's a bit of a craze for making tetrapod-shaped things: recently I've seen people making a plush tetrapod and a tetrapod lamp. So I thought it might be fun to model one.

I found a nice way to describe tetrapods that relies on very few arbitrary aesthetic choices.

Click here to play with an animated tetrapod which I made using three.js. (You can see its source code too.)

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