they ain't THAT good!
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A wee walkabout
took a little walk this morning. 3.5 hours, 17 kilos. Not a bad way to spend a morning.
School To Work
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=208582122114344737111.0004ce04453033af4719a Created by My Tracks on Android. Name: School To Work Activity type: walking Description: - Total distance: 2.64 km (1.6 mi) Total time: 30:36 Moving time: 28:05 Average speed: 5.18 km/h (3.2 mi/h) Average moving speed: 5.65 km/h (3.5 mi/h) Max speed: 11.70 km/h (7.3 mi/h) Average pace: 11.57 min/km (18.6 min/mi) Average moving pace: 10.62 min/km (17.1 min/mi) Fastest pace: 5.13 min/km (8.3 min/mi) Max elevation: 71 m (233 ft) Min elevation: 21 m (68 ft) Elevation gain: 155 m (509 ft) Max grade: 0 % Min grade: 0 % Recorded: 2012/11/09 8:03am
Work to Dojo walk
I think you might be interested in this track: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=208582122114344737111.0004ce02f559f312280df Created by My Tracks on Android. Name: Work To Dojo Activity type: walking Description: - Total distance: 2.02 km (1.3 mi) Total time: 23:50 Moving time: 22:50 Average speed: 5.08 km/h (3.2 mi/h) Average moving speed: 5.31 km/h (3.3 mi/h) Max speed: 10.80 km/h (6.7 mi/h) Average pace: 11.81 min/km (19.0 min/mi) Average moving pace: 11.31 min/km (18.2 min/mi) Fastest pace: 5.56 min/km (8.9 min/mi) Max elevation: 112 m (368 ft) Min elevation: 40 m (131 ft) Elevation gain: 181 m (593 ft) Max grade: 0 % Min grade: 0 % Recorded: 2012/11/08 6:21pm
my first python
Decided to write a simple, stand-alone calculator. In Python.
Uses Tkinter for platform-independent (Tk-based) GUI and re module for regular expressions.
Tried to be reasonably Pythony about it, using tuples and lists and dictionaries etc. as (I think) is typical.
The worst parts were trying to remember regex syntax and formatting syntax; nothing really to do with Python itself. Just rusty on those bits because I don't use them much these days.
The code:
Uses Tkinter for platform-independent (Tk-based) GUI and re module for regular expressions.
Tried to be reasonably Pythony about it, using tuples and lists and dictionaries etc. as (I think) is typical.
The worst parts were trying to remember regex syntax and formatting syntax; nothing really to do with Python itself. Just rusty on those bits because I don't use them much these days.
The code:
from Tkinter import *
import re
class Calculator(Frame):
# dict of buttons
buttons = {}
# track if need to clear display before updating display
to_clear = True
def createWidgets(self):
options = {'width':10, 'textvariable':'self.display', 'bd':1, 'relief':GROOVE, 'anchor':E}
self.label = Label(self, options)
self.label.grid(row=0, column=0, columnspan=4, sticky=W+E)
# labels for calculator buttons
b_text = ["/"] + range(9, 6, -1)
b_text += ["*"] + range(6, 3, -1)
b_text += ["-"] + range(3, 0, -1) + ["+", "=", ".", 0]
# lay the buttons out, making the key layout coords, value a button widget
for row in range(4, 0, -1):
for column in range(4):
self.buttons[(column, row)] = Button(self, text = b_text.pop())
self.buttons[(column, row)].grid(row = row, column = column)
self.buttons[(column, row)].bind('', self.button_click)
def __init__(self, master):
Frame.__init__(self, master)
self.pack()
# to keep the display dynamically updated
self.display = StringVar()
# initialize to something purty
self.display.set("0.0")
# set me up!
self.createWidgets()
# callback when button is click'd
def button_click(self, event):
wut = event.widget['text']
if wut == '=': # calc it!
eval_me = self.display.get()
# if there are no decimals, convert the first number to a float
# this forces floating-point maths
if not '.' in self.display.get():
# find the first group of digits, stick a '.0' on the end of it!
eval_me = re.sub(r'(\d+)', r'\1.0', self.display.get(), count=1)
result = '{: f}'.format(eval(eval_me))
self.display.set(str(result).rstrip('0').rstrip('.'))
self.to_clear = True
else: # track the input
# keep using result if you want to
if wut in ["+", "-", ".", "/", "*"]:
self.to_clear = False
if self.to_clear:
self.display.set(wut)
self.to_clear = False
else: #keep using the result value displayed
show_me = self.display.get() + str(wut)
self.display.set(show_me)
# begin!
root = Tk()
calculator = Calculator(root)
calculator.mainloop()
root.destroy()
Never underestimate kids
I am not saying my kids are geniuses. In fact, I have made peace with the knowledge that my kids are not likely to be Nobel laureates. And I am cool with that. But I am seriously and consistently impressed with what they can actually do versus what I think they are capable of.
Now, Ton is all of 5 years old, and given the choice, she would sit in her underwear all day watching Adventure Time and eating senbei.
But in just three weeks (one lesson a week) she managed to learn a whole hula song and two taiko drumming songs.
Now if only she would show that much enthusiasm to learn how to read Japanese. Then again, she is making steady progress, and I look forward to the day, some time soon, when we can sit on the couch side by side and read our respective books.
The mighty Mo, all of 3 years and change, is seriously some kind of architectural mechanical engineering savant. I watch the other kids in LegoLand and Bornelund putting together various vehicles and buildings, so I see what is typical for small and big kids. Maybe my boy has an almost autistic fascination with symmetry, but he builds some seriously tricked out constructions, with symmetry down to the brick color.
And the other day on the bus he looked at the KIRIN truck in the next lane and said "Riku's K!...and, I...wait...it say, papa, it say Riku, but not Riku, but just RIK! See it papa, you see it? My name, it says my name but not RIKU, just it say RIK!! I my truck papa, get it for me, please? PLEASE?! Wait, my truck it go that way and why we no go that way my truck have to come THIS way, to Riku!! Papa?! Get it! PAPA!"
Sorry son, I love you but not enough to jump out a bus window and flag down a beer truck.
Food fair!
Big feast and fun times! Volunteered all day at the kimono photo booth, ate a bunch of food, checked out P and Ton doing taiko drumming and Ton's hula dancing, then ate some more.
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