Yes, Ze Frank is on my Twitter \”met\” list
I've just started following Ze Frank on Twitter. I've added him to my "met" list (remember my Twitter lists?) and some have asked why. Well, because he and I met in 2007…
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Cozy Corner Cafe in Carbondale, PA
Had breakfast here yesterday. It was pretty good but I wouldn't add Cozy Corner Cafe to my favorite places within 2 hours of my home list. It would do in a pinch,…
French Toast recipe
I made French Toast using this French Toast recipe on Simply Recipes (even with the optional Triple Sec). It was delicious. I recommend.
Installing Ruby and RubyGems (including Rails and mySQL) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
In case you've been living under a rock (where in the world did that phrase originate?) you probably know about Dan Benjamin's extremely simple, yet incredibly useful and valuable, step-by-step tutorial for…
Open a file from Terminal with Coda
If you're like me, you love Coda. Well, you may find the need to open a file, or set of files, from Terminal in Coda. Gregory Tomlinson has created a bash script…
RSS to Twitter using PHP
Update January 19, 2010: This script is now available on GitHub. Go forth and fork. Today I noticed that my now ancient PHP script to update Twitter automatically using PHP/cron needed to…
Played a game of Risk
This was my first game of Risk ever. What a perfect day for playing a game!
Google DNS, privacy, and you
Google launched its public DNS offering yesterday. Immediate reactions were "ooo, aaahhh, sweeet!" because we all know Google will nail the technology aspects of an fast, open DNS. Immediately following those reactions,…
Homemade chocolate chip cookies
I won't lie. I made these from one of those "add butter and water" bags but still, I made them at home. Hence, homemade. Mmm.
Bad Tiger, good Tiger
Remember what I said about leaving Tiger Woods alone? Remember why I said to leave him alone? In case you don't, here's an excerpt. "He is keeping personal matters personal and he…
Random 60: When was the last time you wore a suit?
[viddler id-5fbc8f85 h-280 w-420] Random 60: When was the last time you wore a suit? I'm wearing a suit. Are you? If not, when was the last time you wore one? Simple…
The bare necessities
Shopping list Milk Eggs Inexpensive wines from all over the world Bread Cheez-Its
An interview with Terry Gross from 1998
Terry Gross, by far my favorite radio personality to whom I listen religiously, was interviewed in 1998 on Mothers Who Think for Salon Magazine by Lori Leibovich. I love these few bits….
Leave Tiger Woods and all other celebrities alone
George Vecsey "reporting" for the New York Times has a terrible piece about Tiger Woods' not being very forthcoming about an accident he recently had right outside his own home. Vecsey goes…
Random 60: How do you heat your home?
[viddler id-c82761e0 h-280 w-420] Random 60: How do you heat your home? What type of heat do you use? It seems the possibilities are endless. Wood stove, fireplace, propane, natural gas, electric,…
Twitter theme designer
The folks at Colour Lovers (we'll excuse the U for now) have put together a really great Twitter theme designer that somehow saves directly back into your Twitter profile. I didn't realize…
Field Notes, colors
A lovely video recapping a year of Field Notes Brand note books. I've been holding off picking up Field Notes note books for far too long. Today I'll be counting the change…
Pie Guy, a free web game for iPhone
Pie Guy is a fun game for your iPhone that is free, is installed via the Web (it is a fancy Web page), works offline, and is actually a lot of fun…
Cooking with cast iron
This morning is when our new apartment started to feel like home.
@elizard painting our new TV stand
We're repurposing our wine rack into our new TV stand for the new apartment. By we, of course, I mean Eliza is doing all of the work and I'm taking photos of…
A celebratory snack
Fred Wilson commented on my blog. I'm celebrating a bit.
Fine dining
Sometimes Eliza and I like to treat ourselves.
How the H1N1 vaccine is made
As sort of a follow-up to my How much money is being made on the H1N1 virus? post the other day, Jason Kottke gives what I think is the most readable explanation…
Instapaper is the drugs man, the drugs!!
In mid-September I wrote that I was going to give Instapaper a whirl. And for a day or two I did but it didn't stick. Turns out I was doing it wrong….
Plantae
The antique store
Need a few things for the new crib.
The story of my avatar
I'm sort of following Fred Wilson's lead here (simply because he did it first) but I've been thinking about explaining my somewhat odd avatar for a while. The story of Fred's avatar…
Twitter’s URL shortening technique makes copy/paste difficult
Twitter, by default, uses Bit.ly to shorten URLs for use with SMS, the API, etc. But on its Web site Twitter shows you the original URL (or at least part of it)…
Wrap text around an image with jQSlickWrap
Neat jQuery plugin that makes it dead simple to wrap text around an image. The key point here is that it will actually wrap the text around the contents of the image,…
A loaf of bread
Very much looking forward to baking bread again this winter.