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Comment on How to Convert an Old Shed to a Chicken Coop in 45,732 Easy Steps (Part Four) by nonny mouse

nonny mouse — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:54:50 +0000

WHAT? Where’s the rest of this story? The bobcats, the electric fence, the finished coop??? Man, I haven’t felt so cheated since the final episode of ‘Lost’…

Comment on How to Convert an Old Shed to a Chicken Coop in 45,732 Easy Steps (Part Two) by nonny mouse

nonny mouse — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:47:09 +0000

I think I’m love – I want to marry Greg and bear his hyperactive crazy babies…! LOL

Comment on affordable floors by laura

laura — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:10:39 +0000

I will send you email. :)

Comment on affordable floors by Paul Andrew Sgroi

Paul Andrew Sgroi — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:43:33 +0000

Dear Laura,

I am a 1989 graduate of the CMU architecture program, and like you, I started CMU in 1984. I realize that you wrote this piece in 2004, but I wanted to let you know that I have attempted repeatedly to access The Affordable Floors music over the many years. Sadly, their web store presence seems to be shutdown now. I continue to saturate my mind with the alternative wave music from the 80′s that includes New Order, OMD, Echo and the Bunnymen, Gene Loves Jezebel, Prefab Sprout, China Crisis, The Ocean Blue, The Wild Swans, among many others. In the event that you are interested in sharing, trading, or selling your fortunate find, I would be happy to discuss this further.

Best to you in 2013,

Paul Andrew Sgroi

Comment on In Which Laura Discovers Internet-Based Home Automation by David Peacock

David Peacock — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 03:48:00 +0000

All I can say is one word – Nest.

Comment on they’re heeeeeere by Chuck Karish

Chuck Karish — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:22:22 +0000

One of our friends once encountered a tree on Skyline Boulevard that had escaped the twine with which it had been bound. It was spinning and it would probably have taken his motorcycle down even if he hadn’t fixated on it.

Comment on Fruit of Mystery by Georg

Georg — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:16:08 +0000

They are what we call Mostbirnen (juice pears) in Switzerland.
Check Google or german Wikipedia for Mostbirnen and translate.
They have a high content of tannic agents in their pulp but their juice is sweet once the residual pulp has settled.
They are also immune against fruit flies and mildew.
Their juice is traditionally mixed with apple juice and consumed fresh or as cider.

Comment on Fruit of Mystery by Richard Glyn

Richard Glyn — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:01:38 +0000

They look exactly like the pears in our garden, which are also small and hard. We only ever cook them. We’ve tried all ways to get them to ripen but they are more likely to start rotting if left too long. Cook and enjoy.

On a separate subject: I am just starting to study Java and have been reading a book I picked up some years ago “Java 1.1 in 21 Days”. I realise it’s far from state of the art but I find it well-written. Is there any chance you have a copy of the example code you could let me have as the original link is broken. Thanks in advance.

Comment on Fruit of Mystery by Chuck Karish

Chuck Karish — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:28:09 +0000

Quinces aren’t exceptionally tart and don’t have thick skin. Maybe you’re thinking of kumquats, which have bitter skin and tart flesh. These aren’t either quinces or kumquats.

Comment on Fruit of Mystery by Don Crowder AKA @eldergeek

Don Crowder AKA @eldergeek — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:39:24 +0000

Very tart fruit usually makes excellent jelly.

Comment on plagued by Vie

Vie — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:40:59 +0000

Awesome story about the crickets. One is bothering me right now but I can tune it out

Comment on The Best Stuff I Read in 2011 by Deirdre

Deirdre — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 03:21:44 +0000

I did a similar post in January—and it took too long:) Just wanted to say I enjoyed yours. Found your blog after googling for a Dear Sugar article and am excited to add Skippy Dies to my Good Reads to read list.

Comment on The Curious Incident of the Chickens In the Night-Time by Danica

Danica — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:40:35 +0000

Hello! So, I live in Mill Valley (up on Mount Tam) and have lost 3 chickens to predation this summer. Two early in the summer after I had become way to careless with locking my hens up at night. They seemed to be “safe”…the entrance to their coop is inside a run with 6′ fencing around it, and then, one day, after I found feathers of one chicken and half of another, it wasn’t “safe” anymore. So locking them up at night, every night became my new religion. This past week, we took a family vacation, house boating on Lake Shasta and my mom offered to take care of my hens and my dog while we were gone. Anyway, I came home to one less chicken. While I tried to figure out what had gotten in and how I heard my hens start yelling out in their yard. It was a sunny afternoon, maybe 4:30. When I walked outside to see what the fuss was about. I could not believe what I saw. A large bobcat right outside their run watching them so intently that it did not even notice me until I yelled at it. I think I said something lame like “Hey, get out of here!” In hindsight I wish I had waited to see how it was accessing my hens but I guess that might have ended with me having to rescue my hens from the bobcat’s attack. I’ve left my girls locked up today, they have a smaller more secure run attached to their coop that they can use for some exercise. But I am going to have to completely rethink their larger run. So far I’ve been lucky I guess. I have a juvenile red tail hawk that spends a good part of every day hanging out just watching my chickens but I think he’s too small to take them, either that or he’s praying on the many other birds and bunnies that come to share my chickens food and water. There are also mountain lions, owls, racoons… well I’m sure you have all the same critters in your area. It’s basically every single predator you can imagine other than bears and minks. I’m going to add a roof or fencing over the top of their larger run and I guess I’ll electrify the fence. Sigh. It’ll be a chicken Taj Mahal in my backyard when I’m done. Ha! I enjoyed reading your post. I definitely need to come up with a plan that does not involve me yelling lame threats at this bobcat if it comes around again.

Comment on hacked, the followup by Brad

Brad — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:21:33 +0000

Thanks for posting in such detail about these intrusions. Thanks to this post, I was able to easily find and remove the infected files from my site. Same exact thing, down to the HTTP request. I can only hope the original attack vector was indeed TimThumb, which I did have tucked away in an unused theme, but never thought about. Now of course I realize that it doesn’t need to be active to be dangerous. Duh.

Comment on hacked, again! by a

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:37:06 +0000

lol
I was trying to get to here from some archive on alt.goth. Saw your bad news. That’s sad, and you’re not alone. Lots of wordpresses did get hacked.
Turns out, lady, your good pieces have been saved by the Internet Time Machine. http://web.archive.org/web/20090226091242/http://blog.lauralemay.com/archives/2007/07/im_in_ur_goth_macro.html

:-)