JR: New downtown Toledo development project planned by taxpayer-owned Mud Hens baseball team - Will this quasi-taxpayer-supported (government) entity cannibalize local business? The projects "sounds" good, but microscopic inspection is required. It could be another taxpayer boondoggle, Detroitification project. Unfortunately, no objective in... more>> 2 min read
- Aug 24, 2013 - #toledo #politics #business #sports #media #moronism #blog_jr

JR: Interesting reads from 10-plus years ago at theobvious.com - Open Question: What would you do with RSS Stories and Tools A MetaFilter Proposal September 11, 2001 The Next Usenet The way I see it, we already have about half of the solution implemented. First, there seems to be an almost endless suppl... more>> 19 min read
- Aug 23, 2013 - #history #web #programming #rss #forums #design #blog_jr

JR: Object Oriented Journalism - Redefining or restructuring the news story paradigm. Some of these stories refer to news startup which began in 2011 or 2012. https://twitter.com/CircaNews mediates the relationship between various stories to each other (whether stories are linke... more>> 10 min read
- Aug 22, 2013

JR: Knitting scarf number two - Finished knitting this scarf. It's 3 inches wide. 42 inches long. I used number 9 needles. 12 stitches per row. all knit stitch Small, but sufficient. Can still wrap it around my neck two and a half times if necessary. Good for walking the dog, ... more>>
- Sep 22, 2013 - #yarn #knitting #blog_jr

JR: Resolved - Fix display of extended ascii characters when editing in splitscreen mode - resolved on 21aug2013: commented out a line of code that encoded entities. I'm still confused about the differences between how client-side JavaScript and basic CGI processing handle extended ASCII characters. It's mainly concerned with double and si... more>>
- Aug 21, 2013 - #resolved #junco

JR: A young author's views about young people - Entertaining read. Aug 19, 2013 - Forbes - Millions Of Millenials Live At Home And Support The Policies That Keep Them There written by Maura Pennington A writer in Washington, D.C., I am a contributor for Ricochet and have had writing featured by... more>> 4 min read
- Oct 09, 2013 - #politics #business

JR: Ideas for future media - Good info in this August 2013 article: Justin Smith, the new CEO of Bloomberg Media Group, is emerging as one of the trailblazers. His track record at The Economist, The Week and, most recently, The Atlantic suggests a willingness to embrace new ... more>> 2 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #media #web #design #blog_jr

JR: Story ideas and other tips for authors - August 2013 https://medium.com/editors-picks/60ad7174718d "Joshua is also one half of Epic Magazine, a new publishing start-up that is collaborating with Medium. We asked him about his writing." From Joshua: A lot of the distribution platforms ... more>> 1 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #writing #author #gtd #howto #blogging #blog_jr

JR: Junco - Code - splitscreen.css - /* splitscreen.css - September 30, 2013 Much of the CSS is adaptated from the CSS used in the Textile live preview editor found at: */ html { overflow: hidden; height: 100%; } body { font-family: "Open Sans", Aria... more>> 5 min read
- Sep 30, 2013

JR: Splitscreen.js - var MINI = require('minified'); var $ = MINI.$, $$ = MINI.$$, EE = MINI.EE; $(function() { $('#moveButton').on('click', function() { $('#text_preview').animate({$$fade: 0}, 500); // fade out $('#tx_input').animate({$$fade: 1}, 5... more>> 1 min read
- Aug 19, 2013

JR: Resolved - Enhance the split screen posting mode - Completed on 20Aug2013 change the way preview works - done allow for editing existing posts - done when saving a post, allow for continue editing and saving - done Change preview and save actions Existing Actions split screen - typing on th... more>> 1 min read
- Aug 21, 2013 - #resolved #junco

JR: Stories to read later for 2013 - Or read again. #readlater Dec 31 "I am an artist and tech is my medium" https://medium.com/tech-talk/ba02b6d2da4c Dec 20 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6941384 Dec 18 Bedrock: a modern WordPress stack -- https://github.... more>> 6 min read
- Mar 01, 2014 - #readlater #art #artist #blogging

JR: Homemade Ricotta Cheese - The following ingredients and procedure were used in the Oct 12, 2013 version. Ingredients: half gallon (2 quarts) natural milk - Calder Dairy - we buy it at the Phoenix Earth Food Co-op. 4 tablespoons whipping cream - Calder Dairy 1.5 teaspoons ... more>> 1 min read
- Oct 12, 2013 - #food #recipe #cheese #home #blog_jr

JR: Sori Sushi - 5236 Monroe St, Toledo, OH 43623 (419) 720-7674 Full menu - pdf file of images It's one of our favorite restaurants. Small place. I prefer to sit at the bar/counter so that we can watch Kenny prepare the food. Good show. Sori helps wait on the cus... more>> 1 min read
- Nov 19, 2013 - #food #restaurant #sushi #blog_jr

JR: Facebook mobile lessons that may apply to media - August 2013 ijnet.org story Lessons for news organizations from Facebooks mobile success The social networking behemoth's mobile conversion should be a wake-up call for media companies and news organizations, mobile expert Cory Bergman wrote in a r... more>> 2 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #media #mobile #design #blog_jr