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.

craziest tulip bouquet ever

bought some flowers for my wife last week and i think i left too much stem for the vase. they've been striking crazy poses all week.