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hl, 9 months ago to Cute

Child A is currently enjoying #model making with card, glue and scissors. Their attempts are as you would expect, but the little robots they create are very #cute especially the square one and their friend triangle. #parenting

hl, 10 months ago to haskell

#RuinAFilm but programming language names:
Ghost in the #Haskell
#Perl Is For Heros
In The Name Of The #Java
Schindler's #Lisp
Star Wars: The #FORTH Awakens
Manchester By the #C
The Truman #Go
Bringing Up #Ruby
Anyone get any other good ideas?
#Puns #Joke

hl, 5 months ago to hamburg

Heute sind alle die Nebenstraßen in #Hamburg so eisig das Mann nur mit einem Traktor durchkommen könnte...warte, da war doch etwas...

hl, 9 months ago to random

Recently I've been reflecting on friendships, what makes good ones, and how the last few years I've not had much chance to make many new ones. https://www.henryleach.com/2023/08/on-friendships

hl, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to android

It's 2023; why can #bluetooth still not send a photo from my #android phone to the #apple macbook that it's paired with? This feels like such a 2010's problem, but no, I'm still emailing the file to myself like some kind of digital cave man.

hl, 5 months ago to Germany

I'm BOOM! pretty much BANG! done with KAPOW! the fireworks pffftBOOM! now. We've BANG! had them wizzzzPOW! all day BANG! already, and it's KA-BOOOM only 4pm. Seriously BANG! it's not BOOM! even dark Pffft-pfft-BANG! yet.

#germany #Silvester #fireworks #boller

hl, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to Parenting

I stopped my kids chasing the #pigeons but felt like a killjoy, as everyone else was letting them at it. AITA, or: Should I let my children chase pigeons? #parenting

hl, 8 months ago to random

I've been BSD-curious for a while, it's #OctOpenBSD and an old laptop needed a refresh, so naturally I tried installing #OpenBSD
https://www.henryleach.com/2023/10/installing-openbsd-on-a-hp-stream-11-laptop

Good news, it works! Now I've just got to try and configure it.

hl, 5 months ago to random

Merry Christmas! Frohe Weihnachten!

hl, 10 months ago to cooking

Satisfaction: The feeling you get when you remembered to take out tonight's dinner from the freezer this morning, and it could defrost by itself, and doesn't need any panicked microwaving. #cooking

hl, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Halloween

Wife: You're not very dressed up to go trick or treating with the children, what's your costume?
Me: The terror of a parent who's just seen their children eat a kilo of sweets half an hour before bed time, and knows there won't be any sleep any time soon.

#halloween #parenting #EveryDayHorror

hl, 11 months ago to news

I feel the last 12 hours have been a crash course in reminding me that all #news punditry is useless, and anyone who called it 'correctly' did so by sheer chance.

hl, 5 months ago to coffee

Living dangerously

#coffee

hl, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to Emo

Got my German #emo #music starter kit courtesy of the Grand Hotel Van Cleef #Hamburg label.

hl, 10 months ago to puns

I assumed all the screens and ordering kiosks at McDonald's would be running on Android, but turns out it's McOS! #joke #puns

hl, 10 months ago to showerthoughts

#ShowerThoughts: If birds, like chickens, evolved from #dinosaurs and we were to, Jurassic Park style, recreate them, and then eat them; they'd probably taste like chicken...but since dinos came first, shouldn't we be saying that chicken tastes like dinosaur and not the other way around? (PS I'm not advocating that we eat dinosaurs, this is purely a grammatical thought.)

hl, 10 months ago to random

Me working from home: "Finally, some uninterrupted quiet time so I can concentrate and GSD". Also me: "Why are there biscuit crumbs all over my keyboard, again?!". #workfromhome

hl, 10 months ago to Parenting

Today I discovered the #parenting hack: vacuum the inside of your children's pockets after visiting the sand pit to prevent having to vacuum it from everywhere else. Learnt that the hard way.

hl, 11 months ago to emacs

A colleague saw me using #Emacs and #OrgMode for my notes, to-dos etc. and said "If you like that, you should try Obsidian". I asked if that has a built-in file browser, shell or can be used as an IDE, and he gave me a confused look that said "Why should it?". One of us is beyond help, I just don't know which one.

hl, 9 months ago to Parenting

We had a children's party last week with lots of balloons, but then we couldn't just throw them out or pop them without a lot of tears. So now they're either slowly deflating and looking small and sad under chairs, or going BANG at random in our house and scaring us witless. #parenting

hl, 11 months ago to Parenting

Suggesting to our children that they politely ask for something results in them chanting the last demand in unison: "Banana Milk, banana milk...", which like almost anything else child related is both very cute, and very annoying. #parenting

hl, 9 months ago to random

#tacos

hl, 11 months ago to Futurology

Part 5 of setting up my home sensor network: https://www.henryleach.com/2023/06/home-sensor-network-part-5-temperature-sensors/ now with temperature sensors, so I'm actually sensing something #IOT #ESP8266 #RaspberryPi

hl, 1 year ago to random

LIVE TONIGHT, at our house: World's Slowest Pea Eating Championship. Child B in the red corner made a good show, taking 20 minutes to eat their veg, on a promise of dessert. But the winner is child A, who took 30 minutes, with detours into detailed questions on the nature of clouds and the human cardiovascular system, with bonus material on which sauce bottle makes the funniest squirting noise! A true champion! #parenting

hl, 9 months ago to emacs

For a smooth Monday, you should never, last thing on a Friday;

1. Change any passwords,
2. Change any #emacs keybindings

This toot is to remind Monday me of this stupidity.