Shutting down an impersonator on Twitter

Posted by Ryan Jerz 10 days ago. Permalink | Shortlink | Tweet it!

As some of you may already be aware, somebody recently started up a Twitter account using my name, picture, and a slight variation of my username to throw insults around at various local personalities. My initial reaction was one of surprise. While I have a pretty good idea who the genius behind it was, I never thought the account would catch on—which it didn’t. See, my relevance left the building as soon as everyone else realized that they could do what I do (hint to social media salespeople—you’re not nearly as smart as you tell people you are).

I was going to let it go, as it was little more than a minor annoyance. But the thought occurred to me that I could learn something from...

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Using CSS to create a mobile-friendly site in Textpattern

Posted by Ryan Jerz 19 days ago. Permalink | Shortlink | Tweet it!

I looked for months for an easy way to make this happen. I originally tried to do it through a separate section in Textpattern, but I don’t know enough about PHP to make the sections match up, so doing it that way would require me to post everything twice—not an option. I searched every once in a while for a plugin similar to the Wordpress Mobile Plugin Pack but never found anything. Finally, about a month or so ago, I came across what might be the simplest possible solution imaginable.

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Winemaking - Step 2

Posted by Ryan Jerz 19 days ago. Permalink | Shortlink | Tweet it!

Today I moved my wine from the primary fermenter to the secondary fermenter. Here is more information:

So again, I am in need of bottles over the next month or so. If...

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The Mysterious Envelope

Posted by Ryan Jerz 30 days ago. Permalink | Shortlink | Tweet it!


The EnvelopeThe Mysterious Envelope: This mysterious envelope appeared at my post office box with markings from Germany. Photo by Ryan Jerz

I received this envelope in the mail today, or sometime in the past several weeks. I had not been to my mailbox in a while, but knew that due to tax season rolling around, I had better get there. I found a key the post office puts in there when you have a package to pick up from one of the lockers. It felt like a spy movie. I went to the locker, opened it, and found the envelope.

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My first winemaking kit

Posted by Ryan Jerz 33 days ago. Permalink | Shortlink | Tweet it!

So after a long time of making beer, I have gone with the wine. Follow along as I attempt to make stuff that tastes good.

(Firefox or Safari recommended. Internet Exlplorer not only won’t work, bit I will make no attempt to fix that.)

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