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Red Hot
ByDerek
We had a street sale today. If we could have sold the answer to what this plant is, we might have actually made some money. 🙂 This plant is called a Red Hot Poker, Poker Plant, or Torch Lily. It’s pretty impressive and definitely stands out in the garden. Best yet, it’s a perennial, so…
The Upgrade Begins
ByDerek
I’ve begun exploring upgrading Punaro.com to work in conjunction with a blogging software. This site works off of a series of server side includes and a home grown content management system that I created for a project while I was still in college. While it was pretty neat-o in it’s day, that was almost 7…
Smooth sailing over the Skyway
ByDerek
100+ schools closed because of high winds. Surely the Skyway must have been closed, right? Nope. Sorry, folks. To be fair, it was closed for about an hour earlier in the week in one direction only because of a fender bender. That’s the first time this winter.
Next checkbox down
ByDerek
The radio this morning nailed it home. They were reporting on some survey of “young adults” and the upcoming election cycle. “The majority of 18-29 year olds feel they will have a significant impact on the next election.” That’s when I realized that as of yesterday, I was no longer part of that demographic. I…
Boulevarnalism
ByDerek
In what has to be one of the worst displays of hyperlocal “journalism” by Buffalo Rising ever, I present Route 5 @ 5. In an attempt to sway the opinion of what we can assume they thought was an audience of bobble-heads, they posted a photo of a moderate amount of traffic coming off the…
Many years ago I requested that a new key be added to every developer’s keyboard – the EXP, or “Execute Programmer” key – which would send 5,000 volts through any programmer needing to be removed from the world’s programming pool.
I think it would have saved many of us considerable grief in the long run.
BBD