Poulan Pro Trimmer SM135: Winding Line

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Danny ran out of cutting line with the trimmer. This was the first time we ran out since I bought the trimmer last year. It was not obvious how to wind the double-spool of line. Having no idea where the manual was, I quickly found it on www.poulan.com. The secret is to cut two lengths of 12.5 feet line, insert them in the anchor holes, and wind them at the same time. Each is locked in opposing threader notches that temporarily hold the line in place while the spool is replaced.

Link to manual.

Hair Color

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Kathy and Danny got their U.S. Passports earlier in the year for their Jamaica trip. While you are supposed to be able to just use your birth certificate and a driver’s license, the Jamaica customs agents had told me last year to go ahead and get a passport.

I went ahead and applied for one Saturday to use on our Windjammer cruise. I got to the part of the application that says: “Hair Color.” I wanted to put “straw”, but I wasn’t sure that was legal. I stepped outside where Kathy was working in the yard. “What color hair do I have? The passport application wants to know.”

“I guess you should put gray,” she said. So I did. That’s a first.

Apple’s Machines

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No, not Macintoshes or iPods. Newsweek has an article about Fiona Apple’s new album, Extraordinary Machines. Apparently it was made in 2003, but Sony did not think the experimental music was commercially viable and decided not to release it.

Someone started leaking songs out recently, and now the entire album is available all over the internet. There is speculation it may have been Fiona herself because she has something of an anti-music industry sentiment because of some bad experiences with her first two albums.

Took about 3 minutes to find the entire album. I’m enjoying listening to it as I type. It’s also in the Mac5 music library… if you know about that. 🙂

Tips On Uploading Photos

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Elise writes great tips on her blog, Learning Movable Type. Here are two lessons on uploading photos. The first explains the basics. The second explains how to have text wrap around photos.

Learning Movable Type: Uploading Images and Photos

I use the align=left or align=right she describes first in this article. I also add a “border=2” so that the thumbnail looks clickable.

Learning Movable Type: Text Wrap

QuickTopic

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QuickTopic.com lets you set up a discussion area on the web. Instead of a bunch of people replying to one another with ever growing e-mail threads, you could set up a QuickTopic and get everyone to comment. I could see using QuickTopic to support a group project in school, business, or church. We use comments this way on blogs, but you don’t always want to use your blog for group discussions.

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