Inns and Cathedrals added to the tile counter

EDIT: Latest post about this tool is here The Carcassonne tile counter I made a year ago has now been extended with tiles from the Inns and Cathedrals extension: Tile counter incl. Inns and Cathedrals.

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Wooden Tsuro tiles

Well, plywood, really. With printed paper glued on top to make the paths. What I actually want is a set of tiles where the paths and the background are made of different coloured wood veneer, but that would require investing in some new tools and spending a lot of time cutting the pieces. So, for… Continue reading Wooden Tsuro tiles

The number of uses of the word “fuck” in Tim Minchin’s “The Pope Song”

This is a breakdown of how many times Tim Minchin uses the word “fuck” or some derivative thereof during the performance of “The Pope Song”, as performed in the Royal Albert Hall with The Heritage Orchestra. The lyrics have 454 words in total. “motherfucker” is used 42 times (9%) “motherfucking” is used 11 times (2%)… Continue reading The number of uses of the word “fuck” in Tim Minchin’s “The Pope Song”

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Carcassonne tile counter

EDIT: Latest post about this tool is here While playing Carcassonne this Christmas, the discussion turned towards optimal playing, and how that would require memorizing the distribution of different tiles in the deck, as well as keeping in mind which tiles have already been played. We thought that making decisions based on knowing what’s left… Continue reading Carcassonne tile counter

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OS X 10.10 Yosemite phones home

After OS X 10.10 Yosemite came out, a lot of people noticed the OS sending private information to Apple’s servers without the user’s consent. I haven’t updated to Yosemite yet, and I might not update at all, largely because of such disturbing findings. Apple has released a statement saying “we take privacy seriously”, but sending… Continue reading OS X 10.10 Yosemite phones home

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Whiskygate

This has been discussed online at length, so I won’t go into details. In short, Finland’s State Regional Administration Agency (Avi) told the organizers of the “Beer and Whisky Expo” that if Google searches for “whisky” return links to their event, they’d lose their liquor licence and the event would have to be cancelled. According… Continue reading Whiskygate

My worst job ever

I originally wrote this as a comment on the Tested.com Still Untitled episode about worst jobs, and it just seemed postworthy enough to publish here as well. I ended up with my worst job ever after responding to an classifieds ad about “warehouse work”. I had previously worked at an auto parts warehouse driving a… Continue reading My worst job ever

Launching Newsbeuter from the Dock

There are plenty of RSS readers out there, but I just found one that fits my minimalistic CLI needs like a glove: Newsbeuter. It’s available for OS X via Homebrew (as well as multiple flavours of Linux). Installing Newsbeuter wasn’t quite as straightforward as it could’ve been, especially since I wanted to be able to… Continue reading Launching Newsbeuter from the Dock

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Creating Drupal 7 nodes with PHP via the restws API

Drupal 8 has a built-in REST API that allows programmatical access to all the entities on a site. Similar functionality has been implemented for Drupal 7, in the RESTful Web Services (restws) module. In project I’m working on, in preparation for upgrading a site to Drupal 8, we were looking into options for creating “D8… Continue reading Creating Drupal 7 nodes with PHP via the restws API