Out of boredom I decided to pull the Arduino out of its box and start playing with it again. It's much easier to get up and running sitting up on a desk instead of on the ground, next to the fireplace. Plus Fedora even has the Arduino IDE in its repository now.
What should I make?

I took a cue from a vegan mom blog and Made this Japanese curry with (e:terry). Except I left the apple, syrup and ketchup out, added more curry spices, and didn't spend any time pickling. delicious with some pan fried tofu, cabbage, and an apple on the side.

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The biggest murder of crows I've ever seen. Hundreds if not thousands between Elmwood and Main around Ferry.

I was so freaked out walking underneath them - mostly because of the shit. (e:paul) kept stomping on the ground, the crows would flock in the sky and it would sound like it was raining with all the droppings.

I wonder why there are so many this year. I feel like if they decided to gang up, they could probably take over the city.

Not fiber like celery fiber but fiber optic.

Erie County is doing a survey of internet speeds right now at

Take it and show them how pathetic Buffalo's speeds, are especially if you're with the extortion that is Time Warner!

Personally I'd love a municipal or county owned fiber network but I doubt they're build that out. I'd definitely take something like the private Greenlight networks in Rochester. 100/20Mbps for only $50, less than we're paying Time Warner for a third of the speed.

The past week or so when I have the time, I've been going through the source of (e:strip) and cleaning it up.

So far I've:

• Moved a lot of the concatted PHP views into more HTML-y templates
• Cleaned up some of the registration process and updated the confirmation process
• Removed dead code
• Given a controller to most of the views

I still want to pull out all of the inline styles and refactor the CSS into something useable, maybe with flexbox.

I also want to try out multimedia websockets for the Talkbox. And maybe add Schema.org descriptions for users and posts, so we can get structured data to crawlers.

Not that anyone is really posting - but there's something satisfying about cleaning up retro code. It's almost Zen, seeing how much code you can condense into the simplest few lines.