Jeff Epler's blog

Dresden Photos


City of Dresden including the Hausmannsturm and Hofkirche	(M) (L)

What was supposed to be the final week of our journey was spent in Dresden, visiting Ingrid's relatives. The weather was not as nice as the rest of our trip, but we enjoyed seeing everyone and exploring both familiar and new places. We also had some great meals, and had better luck finding vegetarian food on this visit that in the past.

Jeff's Barcelona Botanical Garden Photos


Tiny cluster of flowers	(M) (L)

I separated these Barcelona Botanical Garden photos from the rest because I took so many photos there.

Jeff's Barcelona 2010 photos


Montserrat	(M) (L)

These are some of the photos I took on the Barcelona part of our vacation back in March.

Apfelwein Success


A glass of Apfelwein with sparkling water	(M) (L)

At the start of the month I embarked on a project to make Frankfurt-style apfelwein. Today Chris and I bottled the stuff, then sampled it at dinner with Bill and AJ.

Photos from Marburg


One of many camellias at the New Botanic Garden in Marburg.	(M) (L)

We spent a day visiting Marburg, near Frankfurt, which is a wonderful town with lots of neat old architecture and a fantastic botanic garden.

Frankfurt Palmengarten


Colorful orchid.	(M) (L)

The Frankfurt Palmengarten on our first visit in early April. It was the last day of their annual orchid show, so we took lots of photos. I can't identify most of them, but they're still enjoyable to look at.

Photos from the Barcelona Botanic Garden and nearby


Bugloss from the Canary Islands (Echium callithrysum)	(M) (L)

These are photos from our sixth day of visiting Barcelona when we went to the Montjuic area, and explored the many gardens there. We spent most of our time at the Barcelona Botanic Garden, which was huge and full of amazing plants, especially the Australia and Canary Island sections, which we explored throughly.

hostmot2-firmware 0.6 released

The main improvement since 0.5 is a new experimental xml format for describing bit files. There are no functional changes in the firmwares since 0.5. Packages for Ubuntu Hardy are on the linuxcnc.org package server. The files attached to this page may be useful to people using other OS distributions.

Making Cider


Mixing the cider ingredients	(M) (L)

Inspired by a recent metafilter thread I've decide to try to make apfelwein (frankfurter apple cider). The post linked to a massive forum thread on it, which has been distilled (ha!) down into a wiki page. Like it says, there's simply nothing like apfelwein available in the US, which is unfortunate since I like the stuff so well. I'm particularly missing it now, having just returned from three weeks in Germany.

Today, in honor of national homebrew day, I put on my first batch of cider. Hopefully the odors of fermentation won't be too strong for us to handle. Unless something goes wrong, I just have 4 weeks of waiting before the recipe's ready. Watch this space for more details around June 1, and wish me luck at my new hobby!

All my Europe 2010 photos

All the photos I took on the trip

I took 2090 images on my DSLR on my recent trip to Europe. I know that's a lot, but I really want to put them all online.