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Deco pine o' mine

fireoyster — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:28:02 -0800

What is this plant? I got it at Home Depot just after Christmas in 2007. It looks exactly like the plant in this Black Friday ad from 2007, down to the presents and the Santa-on-a-stick that's now sitting on my desk at work somewhere. Unfortunately, I can't find a common or scientific name and the plant info card that came with it is long gone. Searching for just "deco pine" gets a lot of art deco links, and a picture of a Norfolk pine that doesn't look quite right.

I just recently repotted the plant out of the original container (same as the one in the ad link) and that got me inspired to learn some more about it.

Help get my wife's e-mail to the Gmail lifeboat!

escabeche — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:00:52 -0800

Escabechette has years of old e-mail stored on an old school account that's soon going to close. We want to move all this e-mail to her gmail account. Apparently this is now easy because "GMail supports IMAP." But I haven't succeeded in finding instructions (on AskMeFi or elsewhere) which are suitable for someone, like me, who doesn't know what the word "IMAP" means. Is this really easy? And can you explain to this naif how to do it? More relevant data:

* Her school e-mail client is pine -- I think this means her mail is stored in "mbox" format.
* Our access to the school account is via ssh, so whatever I would do there would have to be on the command line. This makes it hard for me to see how I could use programs like GML (which does say it supports pine.) Alternatively, if there is some giant file somewhere in her account which contains all the mail, I could scp it to my Mac and work locally, if that's helpful.
* Ideally, the transfer would preserve dates and times, the folders in which the back e-mail is stored, and so on.

We don't need no water...

mezzanayne — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:17:19 -0800

Is it safe to burn untreated pine which was stained ~10 years ago? We are tearing down our deck, which was built about 10 years ago with untreated pine and has been stained with an oil-based stain. We'd like to burn the torn-off wood. Most of the stain has now worn off but the burn site is in the garden area and we fear contamination of our veggies.

Should we burn the decking or attempt to Freecycle the stuff instead?

Pine and gmail together at last

31d1 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:31:50 -0800

Maybe you can help me figure out my incredibly interesting gmail IMAP vs Pine problem. According to gmail, the only non-label folder you want to really map to a special IMAP folder is the Drafts folder. If you are still with me ... Basically, pine always thinks I have a postponed-message. I am not sure if this happened as soon as I set the folder, or if it didn't happen until I saved a draft and then removed it. The details are:

I set my postponed messages folder to:
postponed-folder={imap.gmail.com/user=username@gmail/ssl/novalidate-cert}[Gmail]/Drafts

When I go to compose a new message, I am always prompted to continue my postponed composition (which no longer exists). If I answer yes, I receive the following errors:


[>Empty folder!  No messages really postponed!<]

[>Internal folder cannot be deleted. (Failure)<]

[Can't delete
{gmail-imap.l.google.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert/user="username@gmail.com"}[Gmail]/Drafts]

I can then continue, and cancel the message without error, however the next time I go to compose a message I am asked if I want to continue the postponed-message

Googing for the error messages has people saying to remove the ~/mail/postponed-msgs file, however, my postponed-msgs is mapped to [Gmail]/Drafts

If I map the postponed-msgs to another folder, like just Drafts, which creates a label in gmail ([Imap]/Drafts), I can get it to complain of an empty folder, but canceling the message works, and I am no longer prompted to continue it.

I'm not really sure at this point if I'm broken, if gmail is broken, if I broke gmail, if it's a pine thing, or an Imap thing, therefore I humbly request advice.

Did I manage to stick a file on gmail that I can't delete? Did I fail at pine config 101? Is it a faux-pas to admit to using pine in the first place?

Trying to figure out what to do with pine forest landscaping

chef_boyardee — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:01:36 -0800

I'm trying to figure out what to do about landscaping in a pine forest location. The problem is the soil is sandy and nothing has grown there. We have a cabin out on the edge of a pine forest. There is almost no undergrowth. The ground is pretty much carpeted with old needles, and the ground is pure sand. It seems what's happened is a cycle: the pine trees put down a carpet of needles which doesn't decompose much, and which has prevented underbrush/grass from growing and adding any organics to the soil, so it remains chronically sandy.

First and foremost, I'm going to have to rake up the old needles since they're tinderbox-dry and are fuel for a fire to consume our cabin. But if I rake it up, I'll just expose barren sand. I doubt anything will grow in it, and furthermore since it's on a slight slope I'm worrying about erosion problems.

1) Is there anything I can do with this sandy ground? Or should I start with a truckload of loamy dirt?

2) What might be some common gardening center type plants that will do really well in sandy soil? (hardiness zone 8, 40" of rain a year).

I'm not sure where I'm taking this question, but the pine needles have to go.

Tricks and tips for using IMAP mail?

esperluette — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:17:27 -0800

I've just switched to IMAP after (literally) fifteen years of pop mail. What are some tips, warnings, and best practices? I use Eudora for the Mac at home, Thunderbird on my PC when I travel, and pine when I'm out and about and want a tiny quick way to check email ... I'm having trouble getting my pine and Thunderbird clients to see the folders I set up with Eudora. And I'm not sure how best to structure my folders so that I don't waste space on stuff I don't need, or energy finding what I do!

How do you get pine tree sap out of a dog's hair?

invisible ink — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:38:59 -0800

My Old English sheepdog Max likes to sit under a pine tree in my backyard, and thus he often gets sticky pine needle sap stuck in his fur. Is there any way to easily get this stuff out, preferably involving natural ingredients? (mi+) I've tried soap and water, but that only does the trick after lots of washing, which needless to say, Max is not too fond of. I've also tried cutting the chunks of fur out that get matted together from the sap, but if it's on a spot that's sensitive and hard-to-reach (i.e. around his ears, eyes, etc.) I prefer not having to resort to scissors.

Thanks in advance to everyone:-)