Potatoes
Did I mention the potatoes? Here I some I dug up, cleaned, and ate (some of ) last night: Red potatoes from our garden
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From the Garden
Last week, a couple of tomatoes, a few potatoes, and these butternut squash: Yesterday I made first salsa. Five tomatoes, one each habañero, jalapeño, and cerrano pepper, and some cilantro from the garden. A small onion, and half a clove of garlic. Yummy, but a full 2.75 on my 3 point scale of salsa. I could not finish a measly three cups of salsa - I stopped when I noticed that my lips, cheeks, and tongue were all numb with the heat. Yummy, but too darn hot. It was four hours before that wore off... Today, from the garden: Tomatoes,…
Continue reading...Mob Rule
Yikes: http://culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/Fidelity_archives/parricide.html So much for a happy celebration of Bastille Day (yesterday). The things people do to each other... Sigh. It's on teh Internets, so it must be true! Alas, not much in the way of references there, so for me, for now, a grain of salt. But I think I want to know more, in a way that doesn't really want to know that sort of thing at all. Compared to that account, the worst doings in Iraq and Afghanistan are the work of a few isolated children. * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units…
Continue reading...The Dortmunder
I've decided to name the newest Linux system in the house Dortmunder. It amuses me greatly to name this bitty Raspberry Pi system after a spaceship the size of a small city. This one, however, isn't captained by Andy Umberger, even though he is a friend of a friend. I've deployed Dortmunder in the "wiring closet", running headless and hopefully trouble-free for a long, long time. Dortmunder deployed
Continue reading...Fresh Pi, Have a Taste
Here's a shot of the screen: The screen is running from my newest linux-based computational device, which you can see at the lower left of the picture above. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, yet, but at $35 plus shipping, I'm sure I can find a cost-appropriate use... I got in on one of the first few batches manufactured, placing my order last February, I think. It arrived today, a few weeks ahead of original schedule. They're supposed to be opening up ordering again in a few days (whenever "mid-July" is, in marketing-speak), at this Newark/Element14…
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