Jonathan Merchant

The Terror: A Novel

jonathan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:18:32 +0000

It’s been a while since I cracked open an actual book. I mean don’t get me wrong I love reading, but I just find time, or the lack there of the problem. I got this book for my birthday a couple of months ago and just never got around to reading it. Then before Independence Day [...]

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2nd Admendment stands - but at what cost?

jonathan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:42:31 +0000

So the Supreme Court ruled that the gun ban in Washington DC was unconstitutional. That is great, but…aside from the tight majority (5 to 4), there seemed to be a lot of things left open, or down right closed. I’m glad they defined it as individuals rights, that we as a person have the right to [...]

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Where’s your garden at?

jonathan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:00:45 +0000

This summer has been rather wet and cold. But that’s been a good thing I think. It’s kept that horrid sun from baking our garden and kept us from having to use a ton of water to keep our garden growing. In fact I don’t think we’ve had to really water it more then I [...]

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Saturday Recap (June 6th) - The shevles you can sleep on

jonathan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:00:24 +0000

With the rising price of everything these days, we decided we’d have one last project for the summer. Of course this is aside from any maintenance projects or garden projects that may need attention down the road. It’s a set of shelves for the garage because, like everyone else in the world we have too much [...]

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What to do with diesel and boiled linseed oil?

jonathan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:37:18 +0000

So as we all saw last weekend, we got our pad poured and finished. Now we need to seal it. Have you been to Lowes lately? Concrete sealer is like $23 bucks a gallon! Luckily my father in law came to the rescue again, suggesting a home made method of sealing the driveway. It’s comes out [...]

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Finally Finished - the concrete that almost wasn’t

jonathan — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:56:31 +0000

Yes, I’m behind - way behind. I really didn’t want to post anything till we got that stupid driveway finished. Then I got busy in other projects and never got around to dumping the camera. But here we are, a post to conclude the concrete project! The weather had been pretty wet all week, with the [...]

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Is that a spare computer?

jonathan — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:10:02 +0000

After my last harddrive purchase I explained to my wife how much space I would have (note to self, don’t do that again), she asked “Does that mean you have enough room for the kids games, so we can get rid of their computer?”. Of course I answer too quick for my own good “Oh yeah [...]

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Simple javascript mouseover tooltip

jonathan — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:59:18 +0000

So I wanted something simple, easy that could handle the information that explains what these options mean. There’s so many way to handle this, and some are more powerful (see if you can find the rickroll), and other aren’t, using the title=”" attribute in a link. The one I’ve done is closer to the simple, [...]

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It’s framed - almost

jonathan — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:11:13 +0000

It’s Saturday again (well as I sit and write this it’s past Saturday), and what did we find ourselves doing? That’s right, if you’re any sort of regular here - you know it’s just another work day (I’ll fight liking it till I die I think). This Satuday, I was tasked with framing in the cement [...]

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Who wins - Sylvester Stallone vs David Carradine

jonathan — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:52:58 +0000

It seems like a simple question right? Well go rent a copy of Death Race 2000 and find out. In this corner wearing pink shorts, with a slightly stroked out left side weighing in at a hefty 13 stones (sounds cool huh, I don’t really know his weight, but 13 stones comes out to be like [...]

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