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Costs on the road

It sure is cheaper to drive electric car even on a longer trips when you need to charge on those public charging stations. They do charge quite a premium over the price you pay for electricity at home, but the total expense is still a fraction of what you would need to pay for gas on such trips.

"Time is money" and those charging stops do take some time. Not too much to bother me. It's just a matter of being prepared for it and planning so that you leave enough time to get to your destination in time. On longer trips you would need to stop every now and then anyway for a break.

Sort, mix, repeat

While I don't like going to search for a missing piece when I'm building a LEGO set, finding the piece when it happens is relatively easy and fast. Sometimes it's even faster than finding a correct piece from the mixed pile of bricks for a set when I happen to have all the sorted boxes at hands reach. So why bother mixing up all those pieces again after going through all the effort to sort them?

Brand new and outdated

Today I had to drive a substitute var while our new car was at the repair shop. No, there is nothing wrong with it, it's just getting it's windshield replaced. I noticed a small crack at the windshield back when I was test driving it and requested it to be repaired before making the deal. The dealer agreed and told me I could either get the car in a few days and bring it back when the new windshield arrives or wait a couple of weeks. Of course I couldn't wait, even with this little hassle of getting the car back there and having a substitute for a couple of days.

Mirror screen

I hate reflective screens! For my laptop and external screens I always opt for matte screens. Unfortunately there is no phone maker that provides that option for any of their phones. To solve this issue I have been using matte screen protectors to get rid of that annoying glare.

Fun on their own, not so together

Putting random piles of LEGO brocks back into sets has several steps. After acquiring a mixed pile of LEGO the first step is sorting the bricks into different piles based on their shape. After identifying the potential sets the next step is collecting all the pieces for that set and listing the missing pieces. Then I need to go hunting for the missing pieces. When I finally have (hopefully) all the pieces it's time to start building.

The doomsday algorithm

Now that I have gone through all the things to remember when calculating the weekday of any given date it's finally time to go through the actual algorithm. The basic odea is to figure out the weekday of the doomsday and then use those dates to calculate the weekday of the actual date relative to them.

Dates to remember, part 2

Final thing you need to memorize before you can use the doomsday algorithm are the actual "doomsday dates". These are the dates across the year that fall on the same weekday. Of course you can add or subtract any multiples of seven if you feel you have better mnemonics for any particular month.

Dates to remember

To figure out the weekday of any given date you need two things: a list of numbers to remember and the way to calculate the doomsday number for any given year.

There are 3 set of numbers to remember. The first one is easy, just the order number of the weekday. Starting from Monday as 1, Tuesday as 2 and so on. Except Sunday is 0. So kinda like starting the week from Sunday and counting from zero instead of Monday and one.

What day is it?

There sometimes comes situations when you need to know the weekday of some particular date. If it's close enough to the current date, or some other date you know the weekday it's quite simple to count the weekday. But when you don't have any reference point it becomes a trickier.

The doomsday algorithm solves that problem. It's a simple mathematical formula you can use to calculate the weekday of any date. In addition to knowing the formula you also need to memorize few set of rules to assign certain numbers based on the century the date is on and a number for each month.

Filling up the silence

Apart from all those beeping noises and warnings the new car does have some other ways to make up the lack of engine sounds. The mandatory VESS is there, now it can't be turned off anymore. I wish they could have done the same with the speed limit notification as they did with the VESS before it became mandatory.

All the bells and whistles

When I first got my hands on on our previous car I thought it had everything. Well, there were two things missing that I knew of, but it felt like there wasn't anything else one can hope from a car. After two test drives, driving the new car back home and a couple of hours of driving around just for the joy the old car seems so outdated. The new car has everything, even those two features I was missing on the old one. And then some more!

Stuck in my head

According to some random internet statistics 90% of the people experience earworms.e.g. getting a song, or usually part of a song, stuck on repeat playing in your head. Sometimes it can also be just a word, a thought or memory. But why does this happen?

Sealing the deal

I went to see another Ioniq 6 today from another dealer. I have been discussing about this car and the deal for a while already over the emails with the dealer, but wanted to see the car in person before making the deal as it was from the beginning a better deal even though the cars are almost identical.

Alone

The home feels empty, silent. My youngest one, who had been staying with me/us since autumn moved back to their own home yesterday. There is just me living here now. And a cat. I was left with one.

It's weird. I have never lived alone in my life. We moved together with my wife, then girlfriend straight from our parents houses. While she was studying she did live away during the weeks, so that could be considered living alone. At least part time. But I didn't realize the implications back then. We were still living together, she was just away a lot. It was different.

Brand loyalty

I'm not the type of person who always picks the same brand just because it's the same brand. I know some people do, sometimes even to the point that they are making actual bad choices just because they pick their favourite brand even if there would be better choices available.

Many brands do earn their fans. They put a lot of effort to not let their hardcore fans down. And it does make things easier, no need to compare dozens of options when your favourite brand has only a few, or even one available.

Test drive

We went to test drive the new Ioniq 6 at the local dealership today. It's the car I habe been waiting for ever since the first details of the Prophesy concept it is based on were published. It took a long time to get into production, mostly due to the redesign they had to do as the initial model didn't have much of any resemblance to the concept. Of course the concepts are always done with no limitations while the production cars need to abide a plethora of regulations. Despite the changes I still love the final design.

How much was written by AI?

Today I posted a big announcement about one of this years action plans in our company's general Slack channel. Afterwards I got a few private messages asking how much of that post was written by AI. We do have a policy that every piece of AI written ot assisted texts should be clearly marked as such and I do also follow that rule.

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