The World According To PTK

While looking at Google Maps for the umpteenth time, I finally noticed that Canada comes very far south near Detroit. It appeared to lie further south than my town, Uxbridge, Massachusetts, which is on the border between Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which is not an island. I looked it up. Sure enough, it's true. The uninhabited Pelee Island in Lake Erie, not far north of Sandusky, Ohio is, as I learned, the southernmost point in Canada. Leaving that aside, though,  one can see on a map that Kingsville, Ontario is the southernmost town in Canada, at 42° 2' 10.68" N 82° 44' 20.4" W. The location of Uxbridge is 42° 4' 37.92" N 71° 37' 49.08" W. That puts Uxbridge 2 minutes, 27 seconds north of the southernmost town in Canada. That means I can get in my car and head southwest to Canada. And I might.

to-mop-ta-mist  \ tǝ-'mäp-tǝ-mǝst \ n  [fr. tomato + optimist] : one who is optimistic about tomatoes -  to-mop-ta-mis-tic  adj  - to-mop-ta-mis-ti-cal adj - to-mop-ta-mis-ti-cal-ly adv Sample usage: 1. Of some leftover tomato : "I'll leave it on the counter for now. Someone might want it. I'm a tomoptamist.' 2. Of a tomato of unknown quality : I'll just try it. I like to think tomoptamistically.' Origin: I just made it up.

A PostgreSQL server installation includes database templates. These are used when creating new databases. By default, template1 is copied when you create a new database. This makes it easy to create copies of a customized database design. You can customize template1, and then easily make as many copies as you like, and they will all start out with the same objects, such as tables, languages, etc. Specify template0 to create a standard, out-of-the-box database with no custom additions that may have been added to your server installation. Make sure that you do not make any changes to template0. Create a database using template0, from a command line A database can be created in various ways. Here we will create one from the command line, using the tool PostgreSQL createdb. By default, the logged in user will be the owner of a newly created database. While logged in as user postgres, from a command line, create a database named exampledb, using template0: bash-4.2$ createdb

This technique can easily be applied to other databases. 1. pip install two packages if you do not already have them in your Python environment. (Search the internet for ‘python pip install’ if you need help.) A. psycopg2: To interact with PostgreSQL databases B. configparser: To interact with config files 2. Create a config file named config.ini. Paste in the text below: [ default] host = localhost db_name = your_database_name postgres_user = postgres_username postgres_password = your_password Edit the details to match your environment. 3. Create a Python file named main.py. Paste in the text below: from configparser import SafeConfigParser import psycopg2 parser = SafeConfigParser() parser.read('config.ini') host = parser.get('default', 'host') db_name = parser.get('default', 'db_name') postgres_user = parser.get('default', 'postgres_user') postgres_password = parser.get('default', 'po

Ten minutes ago I played a song I had not heard before and said, that was a good song! I should send it to Sam. But it's in WAV format so it's really big. Wouldn't it be nice if Python could convert it to mp3 to make it smaller? Ten minutes later it was done. Amazing. Here are the easy steps to follow if you would like to try it. 1. Search the internet for 'python convert wav mp3'. 2. Download FFmpeg and add it to your system path: http://adaptivesamples.com/how-to-install-ffmpeg-on-windows/ 3. 'pip install pydub', then copy some sample code from here and make slight adjustments to match your file paths and song file name: https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub 4. Run the script: from pydub import AudioSegment song = AudioSegment.from_wav("G:/Music/Rock/The I Don't Cares/Wild Stab/Sorry for Tomorrow Night.wav") song.export("Sorry for Tomorrow Night.mp3", format="mp3") 5. Email the mp3 file to Sam. And do