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Cake day: September 9th, 2025

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  • This pretty close to the best answer I came up with. BUT. Woodchucks are rodents, not monkey-ancestor brachiators like us. So their shoulder and arm assembly is geared to grip & gather, not swing and bear weight. So the ‘calculated’ answer I came up with was 35grams. Given the moment arm and leverage etc. Plus claws get in the way - woodchucks don’t have fingers/thumb for gripping like us. No doubt this question will continue to bother me.


  • Might be interesting to check your step counter/watch/whatever in case it reset itself to zero at midday. My boss has a watch thingy that counts his steps and one day he was morally certain he’d done ‘enough’ only to find that only the steps from midday onward had been counted. Something to do with a 12 hour clock not a 24 hour one. The watch turned out not to be faulty, he’d just set it up on the wrong timing. Worth checking imo. And happy birfday!