test please delete

[NickFitz]

I tend to buy the same stuff several times.

Then wonder why the cupboards are stuffed full of salt.

I often do that. I don't think I'll need to buy any more bin liners for the tall pedal bin until a year or so from now, and it's already over a year since I've bought any detergent for the washing machine

I'm quite proud of my new shelves.

They're full already.

Maybe I need another shelf.

[vetran]

I bought 120 christmas pudding bin liners they were on reduced 10p per pack of 12.

Its going to be silly putting them out in July but they were cheap and more importantly for the manshack very strong.

My wife fills the garage with cheap non perishable items. Next purchase of dishwasher powder will be in 20 years.

[NickFitz]

Oh FFS.

I just installed a Python library for working with Project Gutenberg metadata. It took ages to get it installed, as it has a dependency on Berkely DB, and since version 6 that's had some weird licence that open source types don't like - seriously, the package manager stopped and said it didn't want to install it for legal reasons, and it was just trying to protect me.

I found the magic incantation that made it do what I sodding well told it, and got everything installed. Naturally, I then wanted to try it. Glancing through the documentation, there was an example of how to do a query:

print(get_metadata('author', 2701)) # prints frozenset([u'Melville, Hermann'])

So I typed that in at a Python prompt, which proceeded to just sit there, apparently thinking to itself

Looking back at the documentation to make sure I'd got it right, I then saw this below the example (my highlighting):

Note: The first time that one of the functions from gutenberg.query is called, the library will create a rather large database of meta-data about the Project Gutenberg texts. This one-off process will take quite a while to complete (18 hours on my machine)…

So now it's just sitting there until sometime tomorrow

I'm going to get dinner and watch TV rather than all this trying to make useful things

[NickFitz]

I should add that I've already downloaded all the Project Gutenberg metadata: it's a 38MB bzipped file, which when expanded provides an RDF file for every text in the project.

But there's no way to get the library to use it that I can see, so now it seems to be downloading them all individually instead. There are about 50,000 of them; around 716MB

[NickFitz]

So now it's just sitting there until sometime tomorrow

Ah! His 18 hours must have been on a slow connection, and a machine less mighty than my iMac; for it has finished!

Well, it's stopped, at any rate.

[DaveB]

Pub time.

[NickFitz]

Early night

[SueEllen]

Morning - need to go on a walk as I can't run due to a headache.

[SimonMac]

Some people go to a pub on a Friday night,

Some people try and create an Apple Profile to configure all the iOS devices to use the home VPN automatically.

I think we know who had the most productive night

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rainy out

Somebody's just bought a large stepladder from the hardware store and marched off up the road with their prize over their shoulder. More on this if we get it, which, frankly, is very unlikely