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Cake day: November 2nd, 2024

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  • Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

    Common names include:

    • armadillo bug
    • boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
    • butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
    • carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
    • cheeselog (Reading, England)
    • cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
    • cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
    • chiggy pig (Devon, England)
    • chisel pig
    • chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
    • doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
    • fat pig (Ireland)
    • gramersow (Cornwall, England)
    • hog-louse
    • millipedus
    • QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
    • mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales
    • pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
    • potato bug
    • roll up bug
    • roly-poly
    • slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
    • sow bug
    • woodbunter
    • wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)


  • On and off over the last 15 years or so.

    Only recently have I become much more comfortable & able to resolve things without resorting to search, stackoverflow etc.

    The turnover point was the day I finally learned vi & cron so I could fiddle with an old Buffalo NAS, that was long out of support, riddled with security holes, and offered only very limited tooling.

    Was a great learning experience, but it didn’t pan out the way I wanted. So it runs Debian now, supports modern protocols, and continues to serve. Amazing what you can keep in service when you try.


  • Two strokes, trans, and yet still pushing forward against the shit shoveled your way. You are objectively kicking ass despite the hand dealt & that needs to be said.

    Some great tips above that I won’t try to clumsily add to, but you have my best wishes. I hope you get to where you want to be.





  • Runny whites are terrible, way undercooked. We call them snotty here, due to the consistency similarities. Nobody I know likes a snotty egg, glad you seem to be in the same boat :)

    Over easy is fantastic in a sandwich with bacon, but I go for a soft-boil if dipping. Precut toast soldiers when feeling particularly childish.