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Fantastic Thrift Store – Hours

Fan-tastic Thrift Store Hours
Monday: 10am – 6pm
Tuesday: 10am – 6pm
Wednesday: 10am – 6pm
Thursday: 10am – 6pm
Friday: 10am – 6pm
Saturday: 10am – 6pm
Sunday: CLOSED

I thought I would call and post what they said since I I couldn’t find the store hours for Fantastic Thrift anywhere online.

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Roasted Winter Squash Recipe

Roasted Winter Squash

Roasted Winter Squash

Recipe:

  • Winter Squash, or really anything gourd-like.

The spread on top contains:

  • Some of the squash seeds
  • Sage
  • Something spicy, i used jalapeno, but you can use anything with kick, or don’t.
  • Cinnamon
  • Salt
  • Black Pepper
  • A little oil (olive)

Instruction:
Cut and place squash on cooking sheet, cut/grind up the remaining ingredients, add oil. rub on top.
Cover with tin-foil to prevent burning.
Cook for ~20 min.
Uncover and cook till golden brown/not burnt. (~10)

Bonus tip: throw in the rest of the seeds to cook them too.  They are a good snack.

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Free Webcam Security – Dorgem – WinSCP

This is how you setup a free home security webcam using dorgem and winscp.exe.

First Download:

Next Configure Dorgem:
Most people are going to want to use the “Web Server” option. This will setup a webserver with your webcam on it…. Pretty straight forward.

But, when I was looking this up, I couldn’t find anywhere that tells you how to use WinSCP. So here I go:

First Configure WinSCP

  • Open WinSCP
  • New
  • Type in all the correct info in session
  • Make sure you set a default folder under Environment->Directories->Remote Directory
  • Save… and remember the name of the session
  • Connect and make sure you set it to remember passwords and everything

Second Configure Dorgem:

  • Open Dorgem
  • Preview the source
  • Click “Store Settings”
    • Add
    • External Program
    • Name it something to remember
    • Check Enable
    • Command: “C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\winscp.exe” name_of@winscp_session.com /upload %s /defaults
    • OK
  • Click “Capture Now” to test it out.
  • You should now see a tmp file on the WinSCP server.
  • If you dont, then you might want to try changing the path to WinSCP in the command or double check the name of the stored WinSCP session in the command.
  • Then, you can enable motion detection under “options” on the main screen

Hope this helps some people!

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Micaela’s Family

Micaela's Family

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Me and Micaela at the Beach



Me and Micaela at the Beach, originally uploaded by danfolkes.

yeah.. we cool

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Small After Lunch Motorcycle Ride

Google Maps Link

This was a fun little motorcycle ride after my lunch break today.
Bon Air, VA

  • curves
  • hills
  • train tracks
  • not a ton of traffic
  • paved

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Reading some Rousseau

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Discourse on the Origins of Inequality

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Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz – Review

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If you like music, you will like The Age of Adz.

Review over.

Don’t just sit there and be baffled by my excellent review, go buy it!!!!!!!

Also, I created a YouTube Playlist.

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What is the Percentage of the World going to College?

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Disclaimer: I am not a statistician, I am merely interested. If you have any better numbers, let me know.

Students Enrolled (2007):
18 200 000

World Population:
1995: 5 713 073 000
2000: 6 115 367 000
Average(2007): 5 914 220 000

Percent of World Population Enrolled in College:
18 200 000 / 5 914 220 000 = 0.0030773288
or 0.308%

Sources:
http://howtoedu.org/college-facts/how-many-people-go-to-college-every-year/
http://esa.un.org/unpp/

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How to Find New Music

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Here are my sources: (in order of reliability)

  • Last.FM / Pandora Internet Radio – I suggest using Last.FM because it’s more social. You can see what others listen to. Here is my Last.FM
  • Spinner CD Listening Party or Aol – These are AWESOME. They are a good way to listen to full CD’s before they are released.
    A good way to expand your ears.
  • NPR MusicAll Songs ConsideredSong of the Day, Concerts, Interviews are an awesome source of new music information. Plus they are really cool and funny.
  • Metacritic – Takes a bit of searching, but a great place to see what is Acclaimed.
  • Best of …. Lists – It’s always good to hear what others liked last year. Chances are, you will like it too!
  • Billboard - I go here when I want to find pop music. It beats listening to top 40 radio.

Then, when you find music. Buy It For Cheap On Amazon (Current Bestsellers)!

Hit up the Comments:
Please let me know of your favorite source. I’ll update the post with recommendations!

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For anyone that has been snowed out of church. (Video)

This is the video our church (Redemption Hill) put out for our small groups to get together and watch last Sunday. So, instead of meeting as a big group, we met in small groups all over the city and watched and talked about this sermon.

I love my church.

Link to Video: http://redemptionhill.com/video-sunday-service-27/

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Site Stats

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My Combined News Pages

Here are some good news sources that I created:

Richmond, VA Farmers Market
Richmond, VA Programmers
New Good Music
Hubble News
Audio Newscasts

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View of My Sites Traffic

This is the view of this countries that visit this site. It’s cool to see all of the different people that find information useful to them on here.

CountryShare

Here are the top two most requested pages:
WokFi – Wifi Signal Strainer
Third Eye Blind – Jumper – Chords

Hooray for internet!

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Running with Grant

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Went on this little breezy run today. It was a very nice night.

I also got this sweet book from my friend Chris:
http://www.amazon.com/Concise-Guide-Self-Sufficiency-John-Seymour/dp/075662889X

And, im reading Adv of Huckleberry Finn. yayayaya.

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YouTube Comments – Something must be done!

Cracked.Com Charts

Cracked.Com Charts

There are so many completely idiotic comments on YouTube that it makes all comments and discussion pointless. Is there nothing that can be done? Someone must stop all of 12 year old boys!

Here is a funny article on Cracked.com that sums it up quite well:
http://www.cracked.com/funny-981-youtube/

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Screw You Rain and Cold

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I decided the best way to say “shut it” to the rain and cold was to run with winter gloves on. :-D

Ended up not needing them. The run was nice. 2 or 3 miles.

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Bright Eyes – Landlocked Blues

A nice song:

A good woman will pick you apart
a box full of suggestions for your possible heart
But you may be offended, and you may be afraid
but don’t walk away, don’t walk away

Lyrics

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At 9:45pm, this is a horrifying 2.1 mile run

Riverside Drive, 2.1 miles, 9:45pm, Dodging Cars, Afraid of Mugging.

Riverside Drive, 2.1 miles, 9:45pm, Dodging Cars, Afraid of Mugging.

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Started to work on a Simple Photo Slideshow.

It’s going to be a lot like:

http://www.evrium.com/store/fg2p_details.php

But much cheaper.

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Good Talk Radio Schedule – Richmond, VA

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Monday – Friday:
5 am-9 – Morning Edition – 88.9
8 am-9 – Democracy Now! – 97.3
9am-11pm – Various Talk Shows, Some local, some syndicated – 97.3
11 am-12 – Tell Me More – 97.3
2pm-4 – Talk of the Nation – 97.3
3pm-4 – Fresh Air with Terry Gross – 88.9
4pm-6 – All Things Considered – 88.9
6pm-7 – Marketplace – 88.9

UPDATE:  There has and will continue to be programming changes on these stations…. but lately I do this:

5am – 9am – Daily US and World News – 88.9
9am – 5pm – Insightful Syndicated & Local Talk Shows – 97.3
5pm – 6pm – Daily/World News – 88.9
6pm – 7pm – Marketplace (Money News) – 88.9
7pm – 5am – Jazz (88.9), Indie Music (97.3)

97.3 – WRIR – (Schedule) (Listen Online)  – Richmond Independent Radio
88.9 – WCVE – (Site) (Listen Online)  – ideastations

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Hubble Image RSS Feed

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I have used Google Reader to mash two image rss feeds together for Hubble.

Here is the HTML page for it:
https://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F15478232717259537591%2Flabel%2FHubble

Here is the RSS Feed:
http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F15478232717259537591%2Flabel%2FHubble

Based off of:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newscenter_rss.php
and
http://www.spacetelescope.org/rss/feed.xml

Enjoy space nerds.

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Started Using Git SCM For my Darkness is Spreading

So, I setup my own Git repo tonight. This is the exact order of my evening:

First,
I watched Linus Torvald rip all the other SCM’s a new one here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Then I watched,
Emerging Tech Talk #24 – Learning Git, Part 1 – Introduction to Version
Emerging Tech Talk #25 – Learning Git, Part Two – Getting started with
24: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLLkJ2rngk0
25: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDJOb2wGLjY&NR=1

Then, I went to http://github.com/ and setup my own public git repository.
(you can make it private, if you pay. but who would want to do that? viva la open source!)

Then I setup a clone of my Darkness is Spreading Game (dis-game):
Public Clone URL: git://github.com/danfolkes/dis-game.git
Github Home Page: http://github.com/danfolkes/dis-game/tree/master

I want to thank github for making things so awesome and easy to setup. They seem to really know a lot about helping n00bs.

Taken from their homepage:

Not only is Git the new hotness, it’s a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software.

GitHub is the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in that collaboration: fork projects, send pull requests, monitor development, all with ease.

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The Best iPhone Gin Rummy Card Game

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gin rummy iphone ipod touch game itunes apple

I have found this great new Gin Rummy App on the Apple ITunes Store for the iPhone or iPod Touch.

It has really good graphics and has some really good game functions. In the next few versions, it might even have multiplayer.

Link to the App on ITMS:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=304497413&mt=8

Made by: http://neuroticnerd.com/blog/

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Darkness is Spreading – Backstory – Game – How to Play

BACK STORY

In the year 2920, the Golden Age of Psionics is unlocking worlds of
possibilities for humankind. The psionically gifted are recruited at
a young age to participate in the Planetary Defense Force’s psi-ops
program, where their talents are honed through
cybernetically-interactive mind games. These games can reprogram the
trainees’ subconscious minds for optimal psionic output, all in
parallel with the conscious effort toward solving the puzzle.

DARKNESS IS SPREADING
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CoreLaborate – Document Elaboration on the Core Formats

Document Elaboration on the Core Formats

Document Elaboration on the Core Formats

A site I created so that collaborating on Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, SVG files would be easier. All of those binary formats that are complicated to share and elaborate on.

I hope this is helpful to many people. Especially in the Open Source world.

Supports: PSD,AI,PDF,XCF,SVG.

Thanks,
Daniel Folkes

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Third Eye Blind – Jumper – Chords Lyrics – Best – Notas

This is a hybrid of:
http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/t/third_eye_blind/jumper-crd.shtml
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/t/third_eye_blind/jumper_ver2_crd.htm

Hope you enjoy.

E A D G B E
Fmaj7 – X 3 3 2 1 0
C – X 3 2 0 1 0
G – 3 2 0 0 3 3
Am - X 0 2 2 1 0
D9sus2 - X 5 4 0 3 0

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Whitehart – Minimal Firefox Theme, Great

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Whitehart is a very good theme.

I have been using it for a while and I thought I would let you know.

It’s the type of theme that really simplifies what Firefox shows you. It looks like someone went through the default theme and removed the color and made things a tad smaller.

I recommend it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/364

/Daniel

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Wiki Based Directory of Online Free TV Shows

I really wanted to make a exhaustive list of TV shows that networks like NBC, ABC, CBS, Comedy Central and more have listed for free on their website.

Some of these shows have full catalogs and some have just the current season or clips.

I would love to have people contribute and add to the listing.

I have it hosted here on Zoho. It’s basically an open source version of Google docs plus tons of other features.

http://freetvshowsus.wiki.zoho.com/

Thanks,
Enjoy

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B is a Hard Chord

B Chord Guitar

I just started to learn guitar. This chord as well as all of the others that require one finger to hold down more than one string is the bane of my guitar existance.

http://www.8notes.com/guitar_chord_chart/B.asp

Must…have…stronger…fingers….

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