Despite the removal of eight trees and arborvitae in the last two years, my childhood home’s yard is filled with shade. Thus, we have lots of hosta, which my mom had picked up quite a number of varieties of, and is now quite attached to. But, with my parents retiring and moving fully to the […]
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I have just finished my first reading of Beowulf. It wasn’t an easy read, even in translation Reading Beowulf was inevitable for me. First brought to my attention in detail by Professor Nicholson in my late Latin class on Bede, it has since been on the periphery of my Early Medieval studies, trips to Denmark,
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For all three people in the world who are really interested (myself and my parents), the Catlin farm’s newly-established weather/sensor database is difficult to understand just by glancing at the 40 columns of numbers. So I made a dashboard in which to look at, in particular, the trifecta of agriculture: rain, temp, and sun for
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It’s been a year and a half since this computer broke, and it’s been a tedious, intermittent road to recovery. When it was first broken, the screen stopped displaying any information. The computer only worked, occasionally, on an external monitor in safe mode. I suspected a graphics card issue, with the Nvidia driver reporting no
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When I learned most of what I know about cuttings, it was in Hort 1001: Plant Propogation in a university greenhouse. In addition to being the nicest place on campus in the middle of winter, it was also a perfectly maintained facility. Alas, now I am on my own, and must make my own systems.
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You know I love to bake. Especially a nice crunchy graphics card! Nom nom. I was not sure if my graphics card was broken in such a way that baking would help, yet I’ve heard it often does, so I gave it 8 minutes at 385 F to see. The purpose of it is to
Over a year ago, my ASUS G75VW crashed, only working on an external monitor in safe mode. Since then, I’ve been trying to fix it, but in the process, I managed to make it much worse. Now I’m stuck with a motherboard that will turn on, but won’t connect to any monitors. No monitors, no
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I own one of the best gaming laptops you can buy. I have owned it for a year and played less than 10 hours of games on it. Ah well, such is life. But while I currently use the GPU power to run neural nets, it used to be I did play games. Indeed, I
A Civilized Life: An Essay on Growing Up Playing Civilization Read More »
While cleaning to move, an old PS3Eye – a webcam for the PS3, was found. Turns out this little device has a 640*480 camera and 4-microphone array that have made it popular for DIY’ers for making motion trackers, virtual Alexa-style assitants, and so on with Raspberry Pi’s. It’s pretty much plug and play. I’ve got
Just one more piece to the Pi… Read More »
It can be difficult, as an absentee farmer, to really have a good idea of what is going on with everything that is being managed. Now true, my parents are about to retire and stay at the farm full-time, but I won’t be doing so myself any time soon. There’s also just something weird about
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