JR: Maftoul Salad - Last Fri, Jul 18, 2014 DD and I shopped at the new Mediterranean market, located near us that opened this year called Al Habib. Fun store to browse. They have a butcher. They provide take-out meals too. Big menu. It's like a small restaurant, locate... more>>
- Jul 22, 2014 - #food #toledo #business

JR: Hempoline bio-fuel - (My ToledoTalk.com post from 2007) Info related to hemp and other products used for bio-fuels. Some of the information is from a July 11, 2006 Toledo Talk thread titled More ethanol plants by The Andersons. Hemp summary points Today, more tha... more>> 30 min read
- Jul 22, 2014 - #environment #energy #biofuel #activism #auto #farming #politics #blog_jr

JR: Drone photography in Toledo - YouTube - Exploring Northwest Ohio from the Sky! From the above YouTube link: I enjoy photography and things that fly, model aircraft have been a long-time hobby and now I've found a fun way to combine the two with a quadcopter. I created this ... more>> 1 min read
- Jul 20, 2014 - #photo #video #drone

JR: Local sweet corn thoughts - The best time to eat sweet corn is immediately after it's picked, or as close as possible to the day that it was picked. The starches or whatever in the sweet corn that make it taste great start to go bad soon after it's picked. I think that's wha... more>> 2 min read
- Jul 19, 2014 - #Toledo #farming #local #food

JR: A Well-Made Tripel - One Gallon Batch - Brooklyn Brew Shop - This was a recipe from their book titled Beer Making Book Belgian trippel according to the book, it's suppose to have a 9.9% ABV brewed on June 4, 2014 More notes we used Wyeast Trappist HG 3787 we finished brewing and ad... more>> 3 min read
- Jul 18, 2014 - #home #beer

JR: Grebe API - Old Page - https://github.com/WhiteHouse/api-standards Use three simple, common response codes indicating (1) success, (2) failure due to client-side problem, (3) failure due to server-side problem: 200 - OK 400 - Bad Request 500 - Internal Server Error Greb... more>> 5 min read
- Jul 18, 2014 - #grebe #blogging #api #programming

JR: Cell phone noise-oholics - December 2002 - Hah! This observation is from a December 2002 blog post that I made: A person using a cell phone talks louder than anyone else around them and louder than he or she would normally. Is the person on the other end of the line always loading baggage... more>>
- Jul 18, 2014 - #technology #mobile #humor

JR: Testing module to keep in mind - November 2002 - (my blog post from Saturday, November 30, 2002) As the project matured, we added regression tests using Perl's HTTP::WebTest module and added the regression tests to the daily build process. Thus, regressions in the core application were tested dai... more>>
- Jul 18, 2014 - #perl #programming #testing

JR: Books recently read - November 2002 - (my blog post from Saturday, November 30, 2002) In the past week I've read: Torrents of Spring and The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Skipping Christmas by John Grisham, Fight Club and Lullaby by [Chuck] Palahniuk. I'm going to stick with rea... more>>
- Jul 18, 2014 - #book #reading

JR: Taking coffee seriously - November 2002 - (my blog post from Friday, November 22, 2002) Coffee Measure Tests Berkeleys Taste for Fair Trade Local coffee shops won out over small Central American farmers as voters overwhelmingly rejected the closely watched Fair Trade coffee initiative. Me... more>>
- Jul 18, 2014 - #politics #business #activism #local #beverage #coffee #environment #moronism

JR: Jul 16-17, 2014 links - iphone apps to try Github commits future of news business overcast review Vox - Hamas and Israel info Programming-related: https://the-pastry-box-project.net/ed-finkler/2014-july-6 -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8030010 ... more>>
- Jul 18, 2014

JR: Interview with Mojo Mail author - November 2002 - (my blog post from Friday, November 22, 2002) An interesting discussion with a young, bright artist and programmer. "I'm a curious person and activities such as painting and programming aren't too too different. Both need you to have a amazing i... more>> 2 min read
- Jul 18, 2014 - #art #programming #email #perl

JR: Interview with Chuck Palahniuk - Fiction Writing Advice - (my blog post from Tuesday, November 19, 2002) In the Onion: "For each character, I try to identify a body of knowledge. What is it that that character knows so well that it colors how they see the rest of the world? So I'll do a bunch of researc... more>>
- Jul 18, 2014 - #writing #author #howto

JR: Malaysian passenger plane shot down over Ukraine - My microblog notes this evening: A Malaysian passenger jet was blown out of the sky over eastern Ukraine today. It occurred around mid-day our time, but as of 8:55 p.m., I have not read a story about it yet. I'm waiting for the media to finish with ... more>> 2 min read
- Jul 18, 2014

JR: World hot spots - Jul 17, 2014 - Ukraine Gaza Iraq Afghanistan Syria Iran From Drudge Report home page: PASSENGER JET SHOT DOWN OVER UKRAINE... Boeing 777 Travelling From Amsterdam With 295 On Board... MALAYSIAN AIRLINES lost contact with flight... REPORT: Was flying 33,000 fe... more>>
- Jul 17, 2014