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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 29/04/2025

Poll #257 reported! If the remaining 9 polling stations have the same amount of ballots as the average station in the first 257 polls reported, then there are only 2889 votes expected** and a gap of 3649 votes!

spreadsheet screenshot calculation showing 257/266 polls reporting and an estimated 113% of the remaining votes needed to close the gap between Fanjoy and PP in the Carleton riding (under a lot of assumptions)

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 29/04/2025

another station reported! 94% of remaining vote to cover the gap. 255/266.

screenshot of spreadsheet showing a gap of 3062 votes and calculations showing 94.16% of remaining votes needed to close the gap. 255/266 polls reporting

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 01/04/2025

Queen of Oak Bay: you're....you're REPLACING me???? 😭😭😭😭

Screenshot of headline reading "BC ferry breaks down as commissioner announces 4 new vessels coming"

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 05/06/2024

Got another scrap from the kid! Now it's clear that it's f(a,b) = (a*b)^2

child's writing, black marker on brown paper: 10 (dagger) 3 = 900

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 04/06/2024

6yo said they invented a "new math sign" and handed me this lol Anyways, they said you have to times the two numbers together then times by itself. I only received one scrap so I'm not sure if they mean f(a,b) = (a*b)^b or f(a,b) = (a*b)^2

child's writing, black pencil crayon on brown construction paper: 10 (dagger symbol) 2 = 400

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 30/03/2024

Changelog for recipe tweaking experiments. Trying to decide if I should reduce the honey if I reduce the yeast

Photo of recipe printout with an image of gluten free bread loaf and text: V2.0: base recipe. V2.1: reduce yeast to 1 tsp

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 03/02/2024

Kids favourite fruit snack bar flavour/ safe food has been discontinued! So time to do taste testing to pick acceptable replacements :)

Three kids plates covered in kids bowls (blue, yellow, purple), containing new snack flavours.

Kids rating sheet with a space for their names and three rows numbered 1-3, each with three stars to colour in. A guide at the bottom shows that 1-star is sad face, 2-star is neutral face and 3-star is happy face. (Hand drawn by me in sharpie then photocopied)

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 23/01/2024

Not surprised at all for me, but that "you are tied between evil and good" is a bit much lol. Also, not very chaotic to quantify one's chaotic-ness.

Results of a moral alignment test showing my score in the chaotic neutral sector.

Text below the 3x3 grid says "you are tied between evil and good, 64.2% chaotic, making you chaotic neutral".

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 16/01/2024

Latest and most complex Cricut project. The layers are a bit off because I did it by eye. But next time I will add registration marks in hopes of better alignment! Most of my recent projects are rice container labels (this is for my sushi rice of course)

A layered vinyl design on a blue Cricut mat that looks like tamago nigiri

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 01/01/2024

First Cricut project! Play buttons for microwave on the IKEA play kitchen. We went back to fill in two spots with a sharpie.

Close up of the IKEA play kitchen's microwave, with some vinyl stickers applied. The stickers represent microwave buttons, kind of.

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 31/12/2023

The kids are Gingerbread Mans (sic) and I am a gingerbread eating monster. They have tried dumping potty water on me but I am impervious because I come from the sewars. But the oldest inscribed these Runes of Warding to keep the monster out of their fort. (One of their first written words lol)

Entrance of a play structure in the backyard. A child has written "no" in purple chalk on both sides of the opening to keep a monster out

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 30/12/2023

Nice. I finally replaced my dying go-to calculator and posted it in my work's data science community of practice lol. Left is the old one, right is the new. This model has been my top choice since grade 8, the white one is the 3rd incarnation.

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 29/12/2023

"Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre as a kid." First movie I ever saw in theatre! I can count the total movies seen in a theatre before university on one hand, going to the movies wasn't really a thing for our family.

Movie poster for "Pokemon: The First Movie". Background is purple haze, showing Mewtwo in the front and Mew in the background.

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 19/12/2023

6yo got super frustrated at getting all the low rolls in board games (truly really bad luck several nights in a row). So our self regulation is to roll 100 times and tally. We will make a plot after 1000 rolls lol.

Post it note with tally marks and counts for rolls of 1-6. The counts are 19, 23, 14, 14, 15, 15 for 1-6, respectively. At the top, the sheet is dated: le 17 décembre.

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 29/11/2023

Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college. (Grad school for me, since I went to college in the same place I grew up)

Front of a restaurant with a green and white sign showing its name "PIE 'N BURGER". The storefront is mostly a large window with signs showing the hours they are open.

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 14/11/2023

1. Really interesting or really incorrect statistical statements 2. Iced coffee 3. A high quality plate of Mexican food, e.g. the kind you find on a worksite taco truck or hole in the wall place, ideally from Southern California (but not Baja style).

A meme image showing an attic or basement with symbols on the ground and text: your friends are trying to summon you... What the items will they need?

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 07/11/2023

Finally found some in our grocery store after >1.5 years. Haven't tried it yet but have heard that new source of peppers = different taste?

A small bottle (229ml) of Huy Fong Sriracha sauce with its signature green cap.

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 19/09/2023

This was an unexpected and ominous greeting from my dishwasher just now.

An LCD screen from my dishwasher saying " software update was successfully installed".

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 01/09/2023

Decided that stay = multi visits or like 4+ days, visit = shorter trip, stopped = intentional stop to see something (day trip), pass = airport or driving thru / truck stop etc tenpages.github.io/us-level/us....

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 27/08/2023

Found the plot. Looks like we usually have a rise in flu in late Nov (week 48) but last year was much earlier (week 43, late Oct!). 2020/21 had no season effectively. Will be interested to see if we will now start flu season earlier now. www.bccdc.ca/health-profe...

Plot of influenza, RSV, rhinovirus and COVID-19 infection counts and positivity rates, for previous (22/23) season and 10 year historical average. From BCCDC respiratory surveillance report 2022/23.

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 27/08/2023

Reskeet with something you own that most people don't. Here is some lunar regolith simulant! Got it during a prospective graduate student visit, in 2012.

A close up of a small vial of simulated moon rocks.

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 19/08/2023

Yay, it works now! I had tried to press the exact same button previously but nothing happened (the camera button worked though. Maybe a temp glitch in my app then. Thanks!

A gray utensil tray for knives, forks and spoons. Instead of a left to right layout, the sections are front to back

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 28/07/2023

Friday mornings are for sucking the air out of meat bags.

500g of ground beef being vacuum sealed in a foodsaver device.

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 23/07/2023

Whenever systems tell users to use a specific flow instead of what makes sense to users, I think of this:

Image of a "desire path" from its Wikipedia page. There is a paved pathway around the grass and a desire path through the grass formed by users taking the more logical route.

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 22/07/2023

I found the pic that I shared with my friends but it turns out it was actually 1 year ago?? Where did that time go? I think the yellow bags were "miracle noodle", by the same people.

Bag of "miracle rice", marketed as "plant based rice"

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Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca · 18/07/2023

Me, at work this week, as I realise I severely underestimated how much effort something would take. 🫠

meme image of a dog in a room with flames and smoke saying "This is fine"

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