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Dave Dustin

@dustin

Semi competent Principal Engineer based in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Ex-Microsoft SQL Server MVP. Hobbies include cooking, photography, and woodworking.

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Dave Dustin@dustin· 27d

Hmmm....

Photograph of the wrapper for a slab of chololate

Whittaker's Limited Edition
Gumdrop Block
28% cocoa White chocolate combined with bubble gum flavour and chewy gumdrops.
250g

Dave Dustin@dustin· 27d

I remember trying this

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Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 12

The real Febrezze Bomb

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 12

Mince on toast

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 11

Our local Crackerjack has all the flavour variants.

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 10

My ducks are not in a row.
Some are missing, one's on fire, and I'm pretty sure one's a pigeon.

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 10

Yummers...

A photograph of a container holding a bottle of 12 year old Glenfiddich whisky

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 9

Bwhahaha

A photograph of a sausage roll maker

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 8

Those are inferior examples. The pie is meant to be in a bun

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 8

Finally got books 5 & 6 of @scalzi.com Old Man's War in the new edition.

Photograph of a small shelf of books.
From left to right
- A blink of the Screen; collected short stories by Terry Pratchett
- Greatest Hits by Harlon Ellison
- Red Sonja Consumed by Gail Simone
- The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
- Starter Villain by John Scalzi
- When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
- Old Man's War by John Scalzi
- The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
- The Last Colony by John Scalzi
- Zoë's Tale by John Scalzi
- The Human Division by John Scalzi
- The End of All Things by John Scalzi
- The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 7

@straczynski.bsky.social You sneaky bugger. S01E08

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 4

Post a random picture or else everything will go tits up in July

tightly framed photograph of a cat focusing/staring at a ladybug on the end of a leaf, as if planning to pounce

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 4

Best generally available soy sauce? My wife swears by HighMark but I prefer Lee Kum Kee.

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jul 4

Maybe don't always blame the AI

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 30

Best CAPTCHA ever.

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 30

A cartoon showing two people in front of an exhibit labeled "Museum of Meaningless Metrics"
There are four exhibits.
The guide is pointing at exhibit #4.

#1 - Lines of code, accompanied by a very large pile of printer paper.
#2 - Story Points, with 7 index cards with 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 printed on them
#3 - Pull Requests, with a model that looks like a complex molecular structure, nodes and branches all over the place
#4 - Tokens Spent - A tower of dots, and at the bottom a digital counter showing 9,876,543,210

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 28

Having a good afternoon turning large pieces of wood into tiny bits. I really need a cyclone.

Photograph of a sack of sawdust and wood shavings.

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 28

Sorry I'm late, I was busy yesterday

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 27

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 27

The perfect present for the DBA in your life.

A large red button with NO! printed on it.
When you push the button a prerecorded voice says "no", "noooooo", "for the last time, no" or "n-o"

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 26

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 26

It's blowing straight up Welly's jaxie

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 24

Have you seen the scale of Jim's these days?

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 24

A week after the publication date?

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 23

I know what they were trying to say, but I still giggled.

A sign on a wall stating "Please do not flush anything except toilet paper"

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 21

Cat-Trap 2026 edition is 100% successful

Dave Dustin@dustin· Jun 21