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Projects I am currently working on (and where they’re at):
A Wear OS watch app which keeps track of train journeys, showing a “complication” which shows how long it has left and the platform number of your connection (if applicable).
I think I have most of what I need for this, the data feeds, how to do the complication in Watch Studio, how to get the data from one to the other. I just have a few bits where I can’t decide on frequencies and setting up the trigger for updates.
A Wear OS watch app that displays QR code tickets. Starting with cinema (not trains atm because I’m not sure the rules)
An AWS lambda in JS to turn the emails into just key data and the QR code seems fairly easy. I am trying to see if I can get my head around kotlin and the associated android APIs, I’m not currently winning but I’m not ready to give up. I might go back to my original plan of this being an e-ink thing, but the watch has some advantages.
Moving my home automation over to home assistant
It gives me a good framework so I don’t have to write the meat of an automation system. And it has stuff built in, or community contributed, that talks to a whole bunch the stuff I already have, I just need to rewrite the stuff that talks to my custom lights built on the Plasma Stick 2040 W
CCTV
Something something off-site backups, something. This has involved a lot of yak shaving, (often held up by systemd-resolved.service being pants). I think the expansion of features on the free Tailscale plan, and the OpenWrt port seeming to be stable may deliver some moderatly pre-shaved yaks.

As ever a combination of factors are at play in how they are progressing, not least that I am not really concentrating on any one of them. Other things include remembering to have local copies of stuff before getting on trains, trying to do things in languages/ecosystems I am learning as I go along (the greatest lie kotlin ever told was sprinkling “fun” through the source ;->) and my star-sign being the opposite to completer finisher (with mercury in retrograde). Drop a comment if you have any questions.



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Jun 14, 2023

Good news, research shows you can reduce your exposure to arsenic from eating rice.
Firstly: I want to point out that the Food Standards Agency does not recommend cutting rice out of your diet, and there are regulations about how much arsenic there is in our food. 


They do however make a specific point about not using rice milk as a substitute for breast milk, infant formula, or cow’s milk for children under 5.

On to the good news.

In a paper published in Science of The Total Environment (Volume 755, Part 2), researchers from the University of Sheffield and UCLA compared four different methods of preparing rice before using the absorption method of cooking whether this was in a pan, rice cooker or pressure cooker.

The four methods were: not washing the rice, washing the rice, soaking the rice and parboiling the rice before discarding the water.

The parboiling method removed 73% of the inorganic arsenic from the white rice.

The procedure in the paper is as follows
  • Into a pan put 4 cups of water for every cup of raw rice, and bring to the boil
  • Add the rice and boil for a further 5 minutes
  • Drain and discard the water
  • Using fresh water, finish cooking the rice using the absorption method.
A diagrammatic representation of the method described above. There are also three info bubbles outlining advantages 'Highly effective for removing inorganic arsenic from brown (54%) and white rice (73%)' 'Safer for preparing rice for infants and children as the margin of exposure is increased to desired levels' 'Reduced nutrient element losses and home friendly (saving time, water and energy)'


Finally a huge vote of thanks to HAUS OF PETTY who posted a video on TikTok about arsenic in white rice, that lead me down the rabbit hole of looking to see if there was anything you could do to deal with it at home. 


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Jun 12, 2023
Good news, research shows you can reduce your exposure to arsenic from eating rice. Firstly: I want to point out that the Food Standards Agency does not recommend cutting rice out of your diet, and there are regulations about how much arsenic there...

Good news, research shows you can reduce your exposure to arsenic from eating rice.

Firstly: I want to point out that the Food Standards Agency does not recommend cutting rice out of your diet, and there are regulations about how much arsenic there is in our food. 


They do however make a specific point about not using rice milk as a substitute for breast milk, infant formula, or cow’s milk for children under 5.

On to the good news.

In a paper published in Science of The Total Environment (Volume 755, Part 2), researchers from the University of Sheffield and UCLA compared four different methods of preparing rice before using the absorption method of cooking whether this was in a pan, rice cooker or pressure cooker.

The four methods were: not washing the rice, washing the rice, soaking the rice and parboiling the rice before discarding the water.

The parboiling method removed 73% of the inorganic arsenic from the white rice.

The procedure in the paper is as follows
  • Into a pan put 4 cups of water for every cup of raw rice, and bring to the boil
  • Add the rice and boil for a further 5 minutes
  • Drain and discard the water
  • Using fresh water, finish cooking the rice using the absorption method.
A diagrammatic representation of the method described above. There are also three info bubbles outlining advantages 'Highly effective for removing inorganic arsenic from brown (54%) and white rice (73%)' 'Safer for preparing rice for infants and children as the margin of exposure is increased to desired levels' 'Reduced nutrient element losses and home friendly (saving time, water and energy)'


Finally a huge vote of thanks to HAUS OF PETTY who posted a video on TikTok about arsenic in white rice, that lead me down the rabbit hole of looking to see if there was anything you could do to deal with it at home. 
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Jun 12, 2023

Doctor Who Sings - The Galaxy Song

We’re taking a tour around the Whoniverse to the tune of Monty Python’s “The Galaxy Song” (with a little help from ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’…).

This video contains very mild swearing.

Disclaimer: We do not own any of the material in this video.

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Jun 11, 2023

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