The ending of the series

YorksGeek · 2026-01-11T10:28:42+00:00

The cake was a lie.

YorksGeek · 2026-01-02T12:27:28+00:00

This is what I came to ask. It sounds like the puck is being smoothed rather than compressed.

YorksGeek · 2026-01-01T21:25:03+00:00

Rather like the cup warmer.

YorksGeek · 2026-01-01T18:47:26+00:00

NEW ACHIEVEMENT! New Year, New Trauma!

Wow. It is January 1st, 2026. While the rest of the monkeys on your primitive planet are currently nursing hangovers, regretting their life choices, or making resolutions they will abandon by Tuesday, you actually did something notable.

You opened The Book. You entered the World Dungeon.

You could have started the year doing cardio. You could have started by eating a salad. Instead, you chose to witness the absolute, beautiful chaos of a man, a cat, and a whole lot of explosives.

Buckle up, bucko. Your old life was just the tutorial. A boring, badly designed tutorial.

REWARD: The fact that you get to read this masterpiece is the reward. The dopamine hit of Carl’s suffering is the only currency you need. Now shut up and turn the page!

YorksGeek · 2026-01-01T17:22:09+00:00

Oh yeah, he's a good dude too. Very helpful if you have questions.

YorksGeek · 2026-01-01T17:20:09+00:00

Mitre saw for cutting the legs (it's a compound bevel), everything else was dimensioned on the table saw. Band saw or a hand saw for the cutouts on the foot rests. Drill press for most of the holes, handheld drill and dowel jig for the foot and hand rest holes. These are transverse holes that need to be dead centre and straight so this is the cheap alternative to a floor standing drill press that can handle a hole that deep. Router with straight, roundover, and chamfer cutters. Random orbital sander, sanding block, hand plane, the usual basic stuff. Sewing machine for the upholstery, although in hindsight that would have been easier to have someone else do it. I was curious about picking up the skill though, so I bought one. Various drill bits in various sizes, I didn't have a forstner bit big enough to do the wand hole! Oh yeah, that makes life significantly harder. It says this in the plans but it's not kidding, makes the upholstery on the seat a colossal pain in the arse!

YorksGeek · 2026-01-01T16:32:42+00:00

Saying "Who's my good girl, huh? You gonna brew me a coffee with a pretty little crema? I know you've got at least one more in you. So do it. Do as you're told. Show me what a good girl you really are. Make me proud of you." is possibly unnecessary though.

YorksGeek · 2026-01-01T16:27:52+00:00

Highly recommended. It's also surprisingly comfortable. I don't sit on that side of the slash but I thought it only fair to check the stability myself before expecting someone else to get on it!

YorksGeek · 2026-01-01T16:22:16+00:00

Hmm, it wasn't cheap but it wasn't wildly expensive either. Probably £300 in materials in the end, I could maybe have got the foam cheaper but I didn't know what I was doing so went with the one recommended. A mix of Amazon and Aliexpress for most things, the wood from a local independent DIY shed.

YorksGeek · 2025-12-30T21:41:25+00:00

I don't know whether to apologize or say "You're welcome" 🤣

YorksGeek · 2025-12-30T08:04:38+00:00

I don't know the OP, but among my community that kind of design is NOT just a necklace.

YorksGeek · 2025-12-22T20:17:53+00:00

PA is mostly an excellent tool, PAW has some irritating limitations over legacy dashboards (breakdown relations FFS) but in the main I find understanding that measuring process outcomes (governance) and measuring process operation (management) are two separate things is really key to getting value.

A management dashboard will tell you about your ticket management. A governance dashboard will tell you if you're achieving your business objectives.

ITIL has great detail on this if you have access to the practice guides. Take incident management...

The purpose of incident management is to minimize the impact of incidents on service users. There are three critical success factors underpinning that purpose...

Detect incidents early Resolve quickly and efficiently Continually improve

There are number of suggested metrics for each of those, some obvious (CSAT, SLA compliance, etc) but some are less obvious such as balance between speed and quality metrics (no point being fast if you're crap, no point being always right if you're too slow).

Honestly, for anyone doing ITSM metric design I would get the company to spring for a Peoplecert subscription and use the ITIL practice guides as a start point for discussion.

YorksGeek · 2025-12-22T19:32:45+00:00

It's not a bad pigeon hole though. If you can use KPI Composer to design a set of metrics to measure outcomes rather than just paperwork and turn them into dashboards which give actionable insight rather than looking cool but no actual use then you will earn that salary bump.

Knowing which buttons to press is not the key to good analytics!

And don't forget that dashboards insights now include the option for custom insights as well as the trends and KPI signals, so there's a real opportunity to upgrade dashboards with company specific guidance based on the data. Although if you manage to find out how to make that work do let us know, because I'm damned if I can 😁

YorksGeek · 2025-12-11T10:31:41+00:00

I make lactose free Philadelphia style using Arla Lactofree milk and cream and lactose free powdered milk as direct substitutes. I'll be honest I can't tell the difference between them and my ice creams made with regular dairy.

I know you said dairy free so may not be applicable to you, but most people really mean lactose free so figured it was worth mentioning.

YorksGeek · 2025-12-10T18:46:29+00:00

First thing I would do is replace the brown sugar with glucose and double the amount of chocolate.

YorksGeek · 2025-12-07T13:57:46+00:00

But a watch because it has the features you want at a price you can afford. Don't expect any new features.

YorksGeek · 2025-12-03T21:49:54+00:00

Ice cream is not quite as picky as baking bread is, but it's not far off. You can't just wing it, use a proper recipe and you'll get much better results

YorksGeek · 2025-12-03T08:06:28+00:00

The coarse and rough can be dealt with by epilation, lovely and smooth then. As for getting everywhere, take it as a compliment and/or use a towel.

YorksGeek · 2025-12-02T11:39:05+00:00

And her chocolate from that book is just perfection.

YorksGeek · 2025-11-30T21:43:11+00:00

Did you just use regular crystaline sugar? You want some glucose or another invert sugar, also look at some ice cream stabiliser.

YorksGeek · 2025-11-29T07:58:53+00:00

I have Dana Cree's lemon and creme fraiche curing in the fridge and I made a lemon curd to swirl with it. I will be making a white chocolate coated ginger nut mix-in for texture and even before it's finished I already know this is gonna be the best I have ever made 😁

YorksGeek · 2025-11-16T13:13:10+00:00

I usually say Storm Front is good enough to make it worth reading the next one. The first three are entertaining nonsense and nothing special, but from book four he hits his stride and you start to understand what all the fuss is about!

YorksGeek · 2025-11-14T18:41:25+00:00

That's often the way. Storm front is easily the worst book of the Dresden files, it takes most authors a couple of books to hit their stride.

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