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Second Smoked Pork Shoulder
This past winter I smoked a pork shoulder for the first time. I learned some lessons, continued to work on getting better with my kettle, and decided it was time for pulled pork again. I cut the pork shoulder into roughly equal halves. I had three things I wanted to experiment with: Would it cook…
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Grilled Lamb Gyros
We were debating what to eat. There are a lot of dishes we like, but it’s easy to forget all of them when you’re constantly thinking of the half dozen foods your toddlers eat and the dozen or so foods your preschooler eats. Lamb was on sale at Costco, so I told the wife we…
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Bacon Cheeseburger
I’ve been perfecting my diner style hamburgers (aka quarterpounders) thanks to the tips from Amazingribs.com. But there’s a guy at work I talk to about grilling, BBQ, and smoking. He was telling me about his bacon cheeseburgers. I thought about how I tend not to like bacon cheeseburgers in restaurants. Usually either the bacon or…
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Stella the Builder
I was bringing some more concrete pads over to my BBQ area and Stella wanted to help.
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Current Projects
A Page to keep track of computer projects I’m working on and their status: Snap In Time – btrfs snapshots Status: Need to complete quarterly and yearly culling Related Blog Posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Scan All Analog Photos Status: Nearly complete, about 10 rolls of film left Scan All…
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Take that old man winter!
I’m not letting near-freezing weather stop me from eating awesome food. Pre-heating the BBQ for some ribs!
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My Software Code
I believe in open source and giving back to the community so here are my programs. You can visit my Github Profile page or browse by categories below. Atmel CPU Chips Cornell Projects During my undergrad at Cornell, I worked with Rich West to create software in C for the Atmel programmable CPU. We released…
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Memorial Day 2013
Memorial Day was pretty awesome this year. All three original Mesa Brothers were reunited for the first time since Christmas. It was my third major holiday celebration since Scarlett was born (in 2012 we only celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas), but it was the first one I hosted. Even with Danielle’s family only 3 hours away…
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Top 200 Photos: #162
When the Top 200 Photos started, my 200th most viewed photo had about 350 views. This one has 380, which is almost insane. After all – photo #162 is: Which is just another candid photo of Mai smiling – technically smirking. This time it was at the 4th of July BBQ
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Mid-Aug Photojojo Time Capsule
Found online here. Mostly involves my 365 project. But the first photo is from a BBQ with a bunch of our friends. That was an exciting day in both good and bad ways.
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A Sunday Afternoon Bike Ride
There were a few things we were excited about being able to do once we had a house – do laundry without sharing the machines, get away from noisy wall/ceiling neighbors, BBQ in our yard, and own bicycles. Being extremely clean, we were unable to own bikes at the apartment because we had nowhere to…
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Dina’s Tiki Party 2009
Last weekend I went to a graduation party Dina and Daniel organized to celebrate Dina, Ho, and Lauren’s graduation this year. It was a great BBQ event and I had a lot of fun. I only knew about 1/10th of all the people there, so I kept entertained mainly by ecording the events of the…
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The Continual Dumbing Down of American Politics
Yes, the race for the White House has hit new lows, even for this race. It appears that we haven’t learned from the past two races and it’s starting to scare me. Both in 2000 and 2004 one of the biggest reasons stated for George W Bush winning was that both Al Gore and John…
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Pardon this Tangent from Linux, Politics and Philosophy
When Ashley left comments on my AIM like “lies may be ok in your family, but mine,” and “Your family can be really hard on girlfriends,” Danielle asked me if I was goign to mount a response. I told her I would not. Although I disagreed with Ashley’s contentions, I told Danielle, “I feel that…