the daisies' last stand

daisy season is coming to its end and the flowers decided to get a little freaky

american standard, can you identify me?

i think i need a new cartridge for this shower fixture. it was installed in 2006 (yes, i have hard water), can you identify the model # of the cartridge that i need?

the few remaining live daisies

 

 

JPod by Douglas Coupland
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

An odd flow for a book (at times) but it really works. The pages with odd typography and the inclusion of the spam e-mail created an internet-esque stream of consciousness.

Coupland's appearance in the book is an interesting device. I was totally surprised when he showed up, but I it was foreshadowed a little.

The end? Eh... maybe not the greatest, but there were a ton of great hooks throughout the book, e.g., the team's little competitions. He also took characters who do some pretty outrageous things and showed you their human side. There are many shades of grey, even the douchey Steve has a soul.

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postprocessing fun with some of my recent photos.

traffic jam at the office

TP protip

when the TP starts lookin' cardboardy, it's empty. replace it.

garden-fresh strawberries with lunch, today

already getting strawberries from the garden.

hidden treasures around the yard

jeeze, there's all sorts of beautiful stuff tucked in the nooks and crannies of this yard!

thanks to my beautiful wife for her gardening prowess!

great day at the office

berries in waiting

went up to weed the garden and, WOW, we have strawberries growing.

flowery apparition

we have some fuschia hanging on our porch. it looks a little ghostly under the porch light...

no sh*t, jared

tonight's dinner

awesome dinner near malibu, tonight. very fresh fish!

rare sunbeam across my evening dishwashing

springonabike

crisp, sunny spring morning
positive vibe untouched by the call of the mourning dove.
turn the pedals;
locomotion turns to...
fleeting, disposable poetic thoughts.
escaping and being traffic,
dodging shadows, and
turning pedals;
a solar-and-caffeine-powered ride
arrives at its destination.

for you iphone users, this is what a spare battery looks like

pitching tents at minnebar

2 shadows, one rolling, one standing

track standing, that is... not so easy to get a phone out, unlock it, go to camera and snap a pic--all while doing a trackstand, mind you!

shadows and glyphs

what's up with the heads on the bike-lane glyphs on como, bear 280. must you wear a beret to ride in the lane? or is that the chefs-only lane?

starting to ride like i'm in training

well, i still had time to snap a picture

another weekend in the books...

after killing it indoors, yesterday, getting the bows tied up on carboy, i spent most of today cutting boxelder and buckthorn out of a lilac hedge. kept a fire going all day and burned up a bunch of sticks that recent windstorms had knocked out of our trees. a perfect day for yardwork...

last year's tassels

the grasses are still tall and mighty from last year's growth. it's time to cut them back and see what they'll do this year.

eggs and tabasco

eggs and tabasco should be sold in the same aisle. an egg is just not an egg without tabasco.

Carboy 0.1.2 is out in the wild

After learning a bunch about Homebrew for mac, I decided to do a talk at ruby.mn on the subject. As I was working up to sharing what I'd learned about writing Homebrew formulae, I decided, "hey, there's a pattern to this that I should just wrap up in code instead of just write about it..."

Thus, carboy was born. Homebrew is in reference to home brewing of beer and a carboy is an important part of any homebrewer's toolkit. Here's a library that, if included in your rakefile, gives you some valuable build functionality for creating installs for homebrew. I have released preliminary versions of it to github and rubygems.org

https://github.com/bikeonastick/carboy

https://rubygems.org/gems/carboy

For information on how to use it, read the simple steps 1-10 in the README for carboy on github. Step 0 is assumed, but if you need it, you need it. There's also an example included within carboy called my-tools. Look at that for more info.

I'll be speaking at ruby.mn about carboy on Monday 26 March 2012. Well... I was pretty vague when I signed up to speak, which was before I made the jump from telling folks what I learned about developing for homebrew to writing carboy. Oh well...

One last thing for those of you interested in writing your own Homebrew formulae. Here were some good resources:

• https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/_pages
• https://github.com/adamv/homebrew-cookbook

today's awesome parking spot

more awesome perks for the new job. when the bike's clean, i can park right by my desk!

sweet new bartape

ready to do THIS commute!

family vacation

a few minutes before we sent the kids off for a day-long lesson at ski school and we went out in search of some fun runs.

finally, some snow

almost to breckenridge and finally seeing snow on the mountains!

a dry hopped barleywine

from avery brewing in colorado...  (preparing for my trip to breckenridge)

as close as you get to cubicle in this place

a new employee starts monday and we're uncrating (some of) his new office stuff.

these minneapolis bikeracks were made for my bike!

these are perfectly sized for a krypto evolution mini and my bike. gottaloveit...

shiny, new drivetrain

antiseize is your friend

especially when it's drivetrain swapout time of year on the foulweather commuter bike.

snowy, warm, and sunny commute

warm enough to pull a glove off to take a few in-flight photos.