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The Universe Entrusted Me With A Pumpkin
Some time ago we had our lawn mowed. It’s a long story but we were in the process of saving up for a nice lawn mower and didn’t have the ability to mow our lawn ourselves. In any case, the…
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The Mushrooms Of My Yard
This blog post is dedicated to the mushrooms I am finding in my back yard. I don’t know what kinds of mushrooms these are. Photogenic ones I suppose. I’ll update this page periodically if I find additional good ones.
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Playing With The Mandelbrot Set
A little math isn’t that scary. Quick adventure. 15 minutes.
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Operation Spring Camp
In our preparation for a grand adventure we took our camper trailer to Spring Valley for a weekend. The night before we left we brought the trailer home to charge the batteries and load up. Then came the big day.…
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Fermented Honey Garlic
So my wife and I subscribe to a service called Every Plate. It’s a meal delivery service that sends you groceries for home-cooked meals every week. Its pretty great, but instead of sending just a few cloves of garlic where…
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Refurbishing Old Switch
You might have read in the datacenter diary that a switch was failing, it had a bad fan. Clearly the device had to go, but I had hopes of refurbishing it. If anything, its a test-run of doing more of…
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Growing Oysters
I wanted to try my hand at growing oyster mushrooms. They are tasty and supposedly easy to grow. It cant be that hard, right? This blog post isn’t meant to be a comprehensive guide on how to do this, you…
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Mushroom In December
It rained for a few days and these appeared apparently out of nowhere. Wild that they can grow so late in the year. Also featured, puppy snoots.
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Yellow Mushroom
While out with my family gathering firewood, I stumbled upon some real nifty mushrooms. There must have been a hundred or more all growing out of one dead tree.
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A Failing Switch
Datacenter Diary #1 Im starting off a new category on my blog, “Datacenter Diary.” It basically just chronicles my adventures in the “Server Canyon” (or other) realm. In this post I recount dealing with our first major hardware failure. Hardware…