Judah Things

Author: Judah Wright

  • The Universe Entrusted Me With A Pumpkin

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    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 lawn was mowed, then afterwards this mystery plant sprouted. Here’s my thinking. This plant saw…

  • The Mushrooms Of My Yard

    The Mushrooms Of My Yard

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    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.

  • Playing With The Mandelbrot Set

    Playing With The Mandelbrot Set

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    A little math isn’t that scary. Quick adventure. 15 minutes.

  • Operation Spring Camp

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    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. We set out early to go de-winterize the water systems. We partially filled our fresh…

  • Fermented Honey Garlic

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    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 needed they send an entire head. This isn’t a huge deal, we eat a lot…

  • Refurbishing Old Switch

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    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 this. Just out of curiosity I popped the lid open. The fans look like pretty…

  • Growing Oysters

    Growing Oysters

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    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 can find better instructions on YouTube. If we try this again I’ll make a point…

  • Mushroom In December

    Mushroom In December

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    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.

  • Yellow Mushroom

    Yellow Mushroom

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    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.

  • A Failing Switch

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    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 failure happens all the time, but this was a single-point-of-failure device. Our main backbone switch.…