Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

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Marvel’s Luke Cage series on Netflix has some great music, with many artists actually performing in the show. I had to pause season 2 episode 4 to look up the blues player, who is 19-year-old Christone “Kingfish” Ingram from Clarksdale, Mississippi. Here are the two songs from the show.

I Put a Spell on You

The Thrill is Gone

Unfortunately there were only four hits on iTunes and he may have only been playing the guitar in the other two. Here’s a full performance I was able to find. This guy can really play the guiter and has a cool voice.

Link Dump – 2018/07/31

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Circuit Breaker Install

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My brother had asked me to help him upgrade some wiring for his shop, because he only had one 15 amp circuit powering the entire shop. Running his planer along with a shop vac would trip the breaker. I’d never installed a circuit breaker, but I was up for the challenge. This weekend I finally got some time to make a trip down.

For the new circuit we decided to use a 20 amp breaker in case he gets a machine that requires more juice. We (Mostly him, because crawling around in the hot attic was all on him.) ran 12/2 Romex wire through the attic and across the porch roof. Then we did a bunch of outlet rewiring to swap two 15 amp outlets with 20 amp ones connected to our new circuit. We also added a new 15 amp outlet from this circuit on the outside of the shop where they could plug in their patio string lights.

We saved the scary part of installing the new breaker for last, which might have actually been the easiest part of the job. The inside of that box is still extremely dangerous when MAIN is turned off, so I just had to be careful not to touch the wrong things (or die). After closing up the box and flipping the switches everything worked as planned!

2018 Maker Faire Detroit

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Yesterday I went to Maker Faire Detroit again with my brother, since we had such a good time last year. Unfortunately we were both very disappointed because it was almost exactly the same as last year. Same vendors, same makers, same companies, same activities. Everyone’s booths were even in almost the identical locations as last year. Guess we won’t be going back next year. 😦

PHP: Display Country Flag Emoji From ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 Country Codes

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A couple of weeks ago I wanted to display emoji country flags from 2 letter country codes. I couldn’t find PHP examples anywhere. Character encodings confuse me, but after looking at some JavaScript examples and other PHP encoding info I was able to get something working.

$country_code = 'US'; // Uppercase
echo mb_convert_encoding( '&#' . ( 127397 + ord( $country_code[0] ) ) . ';', 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES');
echo mb_convert_encoding( '&#' . ( 127397 + ord( $country_code[1] ) ) . ';', 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES');

For U this prints out 🇺 and for S it prints out 🇸. When those two characters are side by side they get displayed as 🇺🇸.

If you have an improvement or this helps you out, leave a comment.

Golf Course Nutrition

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I like to walk the course when I golf, which ends up being around 6 miles at the Sawmill. It can get exhausting, especially on the really hot days. One thing I’ve been doing this year is packing a small cooler so I can eat throughout the round and I don’t run out of water.

In previous years I’d often get headaches after golf rounds, probably from the sun and dehydration. The headaches have pretty much been eliminated and I haven’t felt my energy fading over the last 3-4 holes like in previous years. Probably has something to do with my improved scoring this summer too.