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Weekend 1, Sunday
Arrived: 10:00 Departed: 12:00 (Reason: scheduled to work 14:00 to 22:00)
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Weekend 1, Saturday
Arrived: 10:05 Departed: 12:00 (Reason: scheduled to work 14:00 to 22:00)
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I’m naturally a bit of a statistics geek. The idea of collecting personal data points and data about the world I’m in appeals to me. With some assistance from data tracking tools like Daytum and Your Flowing Data, I intend to record data points related to the 2010 MDRF season. If I get some good data sets, I’d like to publish the results as a season recap infographic. So far, I’ve come up with the following points that I might track:
So now my question is: if you were going to record data points with a focus on renfaire, what would you record?
**** Notes ****
I will not necessarily spend my entire time at MDRF with my phone in hand, tweeting every last thing I see. I plan to keep an analog record for a lot of it, then transfer the information to the web later. Some people write a recap of each day after the fact. They write about what they did, what they ate, and notable things that happened. Collecting and logging data points is how I’d do that.
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I have a pair of dark gray knitted wool wrist warmers for sale. They feature mini-cable ribbing, reverse stockinette palms, and gusseted thumbs. They’ve not been worn aside from trying on. I made them for my husband, but they are too small for his big Ox hands. I’m asking $30 for them. I don’t currently have pictures, but will be able to post some tomorrow.
You need x number of y item to complete your ______ in the game you play on Facebook. The quickest way to get those items is to post a status update listing what you need. This tends to annoy people who don’t play. Here’s how to keep posting without angering the non-players:
1. Create a new list. Naming it after the game you play would seem the obvious choice.
2. Add to the list all of the people you know who play that game. If you’re not sure, I’m certain that no one will mind if you post ONE status polling for other players to identify themselves.
3. Whenever you post a status listing what you need, click on the “lock” icon under the posting bar and choose “Customize”. Choose “Specific People” from the first pull-down menu in the box that appears, then enter the name of your custom list into the field that appears. When you post your status update, only those on your custom list will be able to see it.
4. Testing your custom posting to make sure you did it correctly would not go amiss.
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Amazon is on a crusade to provide its customers with product packaging that is easy to open!
You can read about the project, including a short list of Amazon’s partners in the project here:
Packages You Won’t Need a Saw to Open
Via Mental Floss
Last year, I learned how to assemble simple hobby electronics kits. Following my recent frustration at the basement flooding problem we are having (the sump pump stops working, the sump overflows, and the ADT sensor never triggers), I went and looked for some solutions to the problem. What I came up with is an electronics mini-kit that senses the presence of water and sounds a horn alarm.
I recently came across the Botanicalls houseplant sensor, that posts twitter tweets when it senses the plant needs water and after the plant is watered, via an ethernet port on the sensor.
While surfing the web, I came across an article about setting up the same kind of notifier for a doorbell. If I had the know-how, I’d take that one step further and rig up a webcam to snap a picture when the doorbell event is triggered, so I could include a picture of the person(s) ringing the bell.
I’ve long wished that the house could inform me when there’s a problem. With a little learning and a little practice, I might just be able to enable it to do that!
Yesterday I rode the Mt. Sunapee ski lift with some friends, and brought my camera along to take pictures. It was a beautiful day: cloudy, but not too chilly. I got some fantastic pictures, and they are all posted in my Flickr Photostream. Click the below picture to see the rest!
Jacq and Rosie @ Salt Hill Pub
I changed my blog theme to match the season and installed a few new widgets. Most widgets are rather transparent, but I now have a plugin that automatically pings Twitter whenever I post (which then gets forwarded on to Facebook), a plugin that lets me include an avatar, if I can figure out how to select the image I want, and a plugin that suggests related posts below the post text. As an added bonus, here’s a featured photo for you, from the party I went to last night.
This weekend was Pirate Adventure Weekend at MDRF. Wet was the condition of the weekend. Bullets to follow…
* We arrived at the KOA on Friday in enough time to set up the tent in dry and sunlit conditions
* The pot-luck dinner was great. The chickens turned out very good and everything else was fantastic to boot.
* The rain that followed was not so fantastic. We discovered that our tent needs to be re-waterproofed, so there was lots of Chinese Water Torture courtesy of Mother Nature
* Saturday morning, we re-pitched the common fly, which had collapsed after the wet ground lost its grip on the stakes
* Saturday at MDRF was lots of rain, lots of mud, and lots of fun! So much fun, in fact, that I’ll have to come back and fill in how much fun it was once I remember 
* Saturday, after faire, we came back and I threw all the bedding into the dryers.
* Dinner was KFC (nomme, nomme), and then there was lots of reminiscing about previous Encampments. We (sort of) concluded that we need to keep a Crew memory book, just to remember the funny things that are said and done at these events.
* Sunday was more rain and more mud. There was a huge turnout at MDRF despite the rain and the mud. A few people engaged in mud-bathing, including two pre-school age girls who were covered head-to-toe in mud, and having a great time, to boot!
* Sunday night was a quiet campers-only evening, with everyone sitting around the campfire (there was no rain!) making smores and drinking ciders.
* We managed to kill a pie iron by leaving it in the fire a bit too long (it was aluminum, and all that’s left are two very sad headless metal sticks)
* We got home on Monday to a basement full of water. It seems that the sump pump stopped working, and the water alarm never alerted ADT.
* A bright spot at the end of a damp weekend was that Ms. Athena (the puppy) got straight “A”s on her Kennel Report Card – apparently she had a great time while she was there!
I have posted all of the pictures I took to my Flickr Photostream