JR:
Jan 15, 2015 insights from Tom at Titgemeier's.
- I visited Titgemeier's this morning to buy bird seed, honey, and a bottle capper. I broke our capper last night.
I chatted with Tom for a while. We definitely missed a good Glass City Mashers meeting last Thursday. Chris spoke. He's the owner of Bla...
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- Jan 15, 2015
- #beer #business #toledo
JR:
2014 Black Swamp Spinners Guild Market Day and Fiber Fair Vendors
- Unfortunately, we missed this event held in Bowling Green, Ohio on Sat, Mar 29, 2014.
Vendors:
Ann M Beck
Bowling Green, Ohio
ambeckartist@gmail.com
Bad Amy Knits
Toledo, Ohio
Amy Duvendack
www.badamyknits.etsy.com
badamyknits@gmail.com
Bi...
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2 min read
- Jan 15, 2015
- #business #art #farming #yarn #blog_jr #event #wool
JR:
Living in Cold Weather
- It got down to -24 degrees Fahrenheit in Oymyakon, Russia, over the weekend. As frigid as that seems, its typical for this town, long known as the coldest inhabited place on Earth.
Hacker News thread that contained the above Wired story.
https...
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- Jan 14, 2015
- #weather #wool
JR:
Making things in 2015
- Jan 1: I began my first double crochet stitch project. Naturally, another wool scarf. This one uses bulky, dark green wool.
Jan 2: I baked a no-knead bread recipe that I assembled two days earlier.
Jan 3: More double-crochet work on my dark green s...
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- Jan 14, 2015
- #make #diy
JR:
Installing a Perl Module
- perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTML::Template'
OR
Download module to install.
tar -zxvf HTML-Template-2.8.tar.gz
(cd into the module directory)
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
#perl - #programming - #howto
- Jan 13, 2015
JR:
Forecast.io has a new partner
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8875478
#weather #api
- Jan 13, 2015
JR:
Gawker Feed
- {{feed=
- Jan 12, 2015
JR:
What a shock, Toledo mayor Collins lies to the public
- From the Blade story:
As a councilman, Mr. Collins had a history of opposing so-called double-dipping but soon after his election, the mayor retreated from a promise not to hire city retirees.
Mayor Collins said he needed to hire experienced offi...
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1 min read
- Jan 12, 2015
- #toledo #politics #moronism
JR:
Upcoming snow
- jan 10, 2015 notes:
A persistent, light snow pattern is forecast to begin on Sunday, and it may drop 2 to 3 inches of snow over Toledo by Monday morning. Most of the snowfall will occur on Sunday night.
The Sunday-Monday snow event will be spread o...
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- Jan 10, 2015
JR:
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing header
- for client-side javascripts that get downloaded from server that want to access an API on another server.
#api - #web - #programming - #javascript
- Jan 09, 2015
JR:
NFL Divisional Playoff Round - Jan 2015
- A good crop of QBs on these teams.
Carolina - Cam Newton
at Seattle - Russell Wilson - one Super Bowl appearance; one Super Bowl win
Dallas - Tony Romo
at Green Bay - Aaron Rogers - one Super Bowl appearance; one Super Bowl win
Indianapolis - Andr...
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- Jan 09, 2015
- #nfl
JR:
Fri, Jan 9, 2015 Weather
- Fri, Jan 9, 2015 - The sky dawned mostly clear. It was still breezy. It appeared to have snowed a little more, since I measured last night at 10:44 p.m. I'm guessing that around 2.0 to 2.25 inches of snow fell over West Toledo during the 12-hour peri...
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1 min read
- Jan 09, 2015
- #home #snowfall #bird
JR:
Snow prediction as of Jan 8, 2015
- "are my kids getting yet ANOTHER day off from school?"
All signs point to YES.
School was canceled on Tue after we received one-inch of snow with temps around 10 degrees, and nearly a calm wind, so no blowing snow and no below zero wind chills.
Sc...
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1 min read
- Jan 08, 2015
- #toledo #weather
JR:
Crochet hats for a cottage business
- Crocheted caps, in a variety of sizes, colors and styles, are among their best sellers. Stoeger figures theyve sold at least 500 of them at the Skylight last season and so far this season. He or Rhode made every one by hand. They cost from $20 to $40...
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1 min read
- Jan 08, 2015
- #crochet #business