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JR:
Capellini Pomodoro
- On Oct 15, 2013, I used Angel Hair pasta.
The recipe said prep time was 10 minutes. Not for me. Maybe for a team of people working in the kitchen.
I used the Amish Paste plum tomatoes from our garden. The recipe said 8 medium tomatoes, but I'm uns...
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2 min read
- Oct 16, 2013
- #food #recipe #blog_jr
JR:
Growing tomatoes in our garden 2013
- We grew four species of tomatoes in our backyard garden in 2013. As of now, October 16, the garden is still producing tomatoes. Many green ones are still ripening slowly. No frost yet this season. No real threat of a frost thus far this season, so I ...
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2 min read
- Nov 02, 2013
- #todo #home #garden #food #blog_jr
JR:
Restaurants to try
- or to try again
Anna's Restaurant at 4505 Woodville Road in Northwood. Like The Budapest, it is a time warp
Veritas Cork and Craft
Black Forest Cafe - German food, located in Oregon
Fowl and Fodder - opens in June 2014 - Opened on Jul 17, 2014, a...
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- Oct 22, 2014
- #food #restaurant #blog_jr
JR:
Baked eggplant
- I don't do this often enough.
Last Saturday, Oct 12, 2013, we bought eggplant at the downtown Toledo Farmers Market. I also used the skinny eggplant that we grow in our garden for a meal on Oct 14, 2013.
Nothing fancy. I'm sure a better way exist...
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- Oct 16, 2013
- #food #recipe #blog_jr
JR:
Does the NFL really care about player safety?
- I don't think so. The league does a good job of pretending to care while slowly ruining the game.
Here's an example of the league's rampant hypocrisy regarding the safety of players in the National Football League: the NFL wants to add more games to...
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19 min read
- Dec 05, 2013
- #sports #football #nfl #health #moronism #blog_jr
JR:
Redis programmer info to read later
- https://twitter.com/antirez
https://github.com/antirez/lamernews
Sensible explanation for not providing a plug-in architecture for Redis:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/redis-db/kjUEvxPuxSE/epMjr4KDcGUJ
#todo - #readlater
- Oct 16, 2013
JR:
CMS based upon a file system and not a database
- I wouldn't want to write something new. So, what, then? SQLite, LevelDB, Kyoto Cabinet? None of the above -- I'd use the file system.
My rough design was something fairly obvious: tables are folders. Objects are files. And each table gets one specia...
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- Oct 15, 2013
- #database #blogging #cms
JR:
NWS message from Thompson
- When I see the last name "Thompson" used on messages issued by the Cleveland National Weather Service, I wonder if it's Bob Thompson who gave me a tour of the Akron-Canton NWS when I was in grade school.
short term forecast
national weather service...
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1 min read
- Oct 23, 2013
- #weather
JR:
Logging into Junco app with LWP
- #perl #programming
sub test_log_into_account {
my $email = shift;
my $password = shift;
my $function = "login";
my $domain = Config::get_value_for("email_host");
my $prog = Config::get_value_for("cgi_app");
my $url = ...
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- Oct 15, 2013
JR:
Different ways of making a POST request with Perl
- #perl #programming
use REST::Client;
use LWP;
use WWW::Mechanize;
sub test_create_user_account {
my $username = shift;
my $email = shift;
my $function = "createnewuser";
my $domain = Config::get_value_for("email_host");
my $...
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1 min read
- Oct 15, 2013
JR:
Toledo gang sweep collects one gun and 90 traffic citations
- My October 2013 comment to this ToledoTalk.com thread.
I'm flummoxed by this Oct 14, 2013 Blade story titled
30 arrested, gun taken by police in gang sweep
Gang sweep? What is a "gang sweep?"
From the story:
A gang sweep last week resulte...
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1 min read
- Oct 14, 2013
- #toledo #crime #police #politics #moronism #humor #blog_jr
JR:
GTD - Don't break the chain - Seinfeld productivity tip
- Lifehacker:
2007 - Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret
2012 - How Seinfeld's Productivity Secret Fixed My Procrastination Problem
Hacker News:
October 2013 thread
Excerpts from the 2007 Lifehacker article:
I had to ask Seinfeld if he had...
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7 min read
- Jan 15, 2014
- #gtd #blog_jr
JR:
Scott Adams - How to Be Successful
- October 2013
WSJ article!
HN thread
Systems-oriented is preferred over goal-oriented.
Adams in the WSJ article:
Had I been goal-oriented instead of system-oriented, I imagine I would have given up after the first several failures. It would...
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1 min read
- Jan 15, 2014
- #gtd #howto #blog_jr
JR:
Junco Data Dump after logging in
- $VAR1 = bless( {
'_protocol' = 'HTTP/1.1',
'_content' = '',
'_rc' = '302',
'_headers' = bless( {
'connection' = 'close',
...
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- Oct 13, 2013
JR:
Junco Curl testing
- Logging in
curl -i -d "email=test@test.compassword=strongpass" http//jothut.com/cgi-bin/app.pl/login
Successful login returned response:
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 22:36:35 GMT
Server: Apache
Set-Cookie: juncouserid=3; domain=.jot...
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- Nov 19, 2013
- #juncotodo #testing #curl