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The Wheel of Time – Reflections on 14 Books

Leave a Comment / Essays, Reviews / colin.catlin

Ages come and go… reading Robert Jordan’s fourteen books of the Wheel of Time, at not quite four and a half million words. My overall evaluation is that I liked it well enough to consider it time well spent reading. The entire series is very ambitious in its scope, which brings with it both pros […]

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Water Water Everywhere

Leave a Comment / Farm / colin.catlin

Spring rain finally came. Almost four inches of it in a day. Let me show you why erosion control is import here. The gravel driveway didn’t erode anywhere, despite the enormous amount of rain. You know what that is? That is the sweet taste of victory. Pond, upper rain garden, and the catch basins are

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Thoughts on Pouring Concrete

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Concrete is a strange thing. Magic rock goo. You will be unsurprised to learn that I used the concrete to build another dam. This one is much smaller, about a foot and a half high, and five feet long, with the purpose of slowing water descending the trough into the ravine, and catching some in

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The Great Dam

Leave a Comment / Farm, Native Prairie, Projects / colin.catlin

My largest and grandest outdoor project to date, I give you: a dam! Now, first, let’s be clear. This is a check dam. So not Hoover Dam, but something smaller meant for water to go over. The general purpose is to slow the water. In low water flow, water will pool behind and gradually be

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The Value of all that Jelly

Leave a Comment / Cooking / colin.catlin

Taking fresh fruit and turning it into jelly takes rather a long time. Is it worth the time? Yes, I believe so since I generally enjoy the process and the end product. But this time around I was curious what the value of the time was, financially. Comparative Cost of Store-Bought Jelly 1 cup of

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Willow Bark Tea

Leave a Comment / Cooking, Experiments, Farm / colin.catlin

Willow bark is definitely the most common herbal medicine in any fiction book. No doubt that is because the very common real drug aspirin is directly related to it, so we all feel comfortable prescribing it. Which of course means I need to try it. It is really quite simple. Strip the inner bark from

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Busy Around the Farm

Leave a Comment / Farm, General Garden / colin.catlin

We are in the perfect time of year for work outdoors: cool enough to not get very sweaty, no bugs, minimal vegetation in the way, yet still surprisingly dry. Firstly, I would like to share with you just how wonderfully the rain garden I built at the top of the new trail is doing: My

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Building a Trail, Deep into the Ravine

Leave a Comment / Farm, Native Prairie / colin.catlin

I want to build a check dam bridge thingy. In order to do so, I need to get our little Kubota excavator and tractor into the ravine in the right spot. I also need to get into the ravine for some other erosion management beneath a big trough that carries all the runoff water from

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Inventing My Own Algorithm – Motif Simulation

2 Comments / Machine Learning / colin.catlin

As part of my time series forecasting package, I have invented my own algorithm. Which sounds really cool, but in reality isn’t that special. The reason it isn’t that special is it is just a combination of existing ideas applied together to this specific domain. On the positive side, the method isn’t really that difficult

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Chicken Coop Entrance Upgrades

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It looks like I will be stuck at the farm for several months, as I expect my job starting will be postponed for quite a while, and finding a different one impossible in the receding economy. Which makes this the perfect opportunity to dig into the massive wishlist/backlog of projects I have here for the

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