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Clogged Drains, New Pipes

Posted by stuporglue on May 8, 2010 in Projects, Something Interesting

Once upon a time we had a tub drain which was missing the hair trap. The tub was very finicky. Some days it would drain quickly, other days it would take 30 minutes to drain after the boys took a bath. One day (today) someone (not me) pooped in the tub…and the tub wouldn’t drain at all. Luckily, someone (me) had just gotten a drain snake from his Grandpa. Several large globs of hair came out, so I put the snake back in. This time, it got stuck. I twisted, I tugged, I twisted it the other way. It wouldn’t…Read the Rest

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The Fridley Farmer : Blueberry and Lingonberry Ground Prep

Posted by stuporglue on Apr 11, 2010 in Fridley Farmer, Projects

Blueberries have long been my favorite berries. When I was a boy, I would go to Bluff View Park in Bessemer, Michigan. If you hiked to the top of the bluff, then skirted around the edges of the bare rock you would find loads of wild blueberries. They were small but so sweet and tasty. It made the climb and the occasional bee encounter worth it. The Problem Once I started researching blueberries to find out what kind to grow I found out that they won’t do well if they don’t have acidic soil. They will grow poorly, have yellow…Read the Rest

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Fridley Farmer : First Sprouts!

Posted by stuporglue on Apr 9, 2010 in Fridley Farmer, Projects

The first sprouts of the year are here! At least the lettuce, cauliflower and broccoli have sprouted. I don’t see any tomatoes, peppers or eggplants yet. Outside the apple trees are putting out leaves too.

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The Fridley Farmer : UMN Extension Website

Posted by stuporglue on Apr 9, 2010 in Fridley Farmer, Projects

If you are a Minnesota Gardener, you owe it to yourself to visit the University of Minnesota’s Extension website. They have almost everything you need to know about growing anything in Minnesota. For example, did you know you can grow kiwi in Minnesota? It’s true! They look different from the ones you buy in stores, but they supposedly taste similar. I grew up in Northern Michigan, the UP. We had a nice family garden at our home for many years. Our dirt was good enough that we rarely used fertilizer. Our harvests were modest, but delicious. Unless my mom did…Read the Rest

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How to dissassemble and Clean a Hohner Super 64 Chromonica

Posted by stuporglue on Apr 7, 2010 in Projects, Something Interesting

The Hohner Super 64 Chromonica is a nice chromatic harmonica. I inherited one from a dear relative. A dear old relative who could really croon, but whose slobber and old food bits I don’t care to inhale or smell while playing. So I set about learning how to clean it. Some instructions recommended soaking in water, mineral oil, bees wax, or other materials. Really there weren’t very thorough instructions. Still, the slobber wasn’t going away, so I got started. It turns out that cleaning the harmonica is really easy if you’re willing to take it all apart. If you’re looking…Read the Rest

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Fridley Farmer : First Planting and building a light stand

Posted by stuporglue on Apr 6, 2010 in Fridley Farmer, Projects

There’s a lot going on in the garden still. We finished loading 8 cubic yards of dirt into our garden areas, I’m building a rabbit proof fence, we need to acidify the blueberry patch so they’ll grow, and we planted some seeds last night. Also, we are having a baby today. With the last average frost date a mere 6 weeks off and with this year being exceptionally warm, we planted our Broccoli, Cauliflower, Eggplant, Peppers, Lettuce and some tomatoes last night. Tomatoes shouldn’t really be planted for another three weeks, but I’m hoping that the weather will continue to…Read the Rest

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The Fridley Farmer : Landscaping Rocks are the Bane of My Existence

Posted by stuporglue on Apr 5, 2010 in Fridley Farmer, Projects

I am quite sure that landscaping rocks have a purpose somewhere. Somewhere where there is no water (Arizona!). Somewhere where there is no love (Walmart parking lots!). Somewhere where plants can’t grow (Mars!). Landscaping rocks in a Minnesota yard though don’t have a purpose. I’m not talking about good looking boulders or stone fences. I’m talking about the pea gravel to baseball sized chunks of pumice, quarts, dirty gravel and other ugly rocks. See, who wants to look at this? Even if it was spread out along both sides of your driveway it still wouldn’t look good (trust me!). My…Read the Rest

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Segmenting Drupal Users By Role in Google Analytics

Posted by stuporglue on Mar 26, 2010 in Programming, Projects

We use Google Analytics and Drupal at work. We have been tracking our website usage for quite a while now, but we had no idea what percentage of our visitors were staff. We have 13 main locations, so IP filtering could’ve gotten us most of the way, but staff members do work from home and on the road quite a bit too. In the end I decided that the best route would be to use Google Analytics _setCustomVar funcitons to record the data we wanted. Staff members at work have the role “staff”, so that’s what I wanted to select…Read the Rest

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The Fridley Farmer : Fridley Community Gardens

Posted by stuporglue on Mar 25, 2010 in Fridley Farmer, Projects

I just found out that Fridley has garden plots available for rent. If you’re in Fridley they’re just $28/year, and the till them for you! They also include easy water access, trash bins and porta-pottys. Garden plots are available to request starting two days ago (March 23) and I assume till they run out. http://www.ci.fridley.mn.us/community-gardens From description on the community gardens page, looks like this is the place.

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Recieve E-mail and Save Attachments with a PHP script

Posted by stuporglue on Mar 24, 2010 in Programming, Projects

Here’s something fun! If you can tell your server to send e-mail to a script, you can send e-mails to PHP. Once you are processing the e-mail with PHP you can save attachments, automatically respond to the e-mail, save it to a database, make a webpage from it…really whatever you want! Here’s a script I am currently using. My brother is on a mission for our Church, in Peru for two years and has near weekly e-mail access but can’t do much more than e-mail. He wanted a way to easily send photos to the server via e-mail; this script…Read the Rest

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