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After a Monday night of drinking high-end sake and feasting on exquisitely delicious sushi with my high school buddy Josh, we hauled our sleepy behinds up to Napa for the kick-off of the week’s wine country adventures.
We spent pretty much all day Tuesday at Tres Sabores, getting a tour by way of working for the […]

To celebrate our launch and the start of vacation, I took my team-mates out to Melt for beer and tasty food, and a good time was had by all. Of course, then I had to go home and pack, and then didn’t sleep much that night (I never manage to sleep well before a […]

Fixing really esoteric and deeply buried, almost impossible bugs, the sorts of things that achieve near mythic proportions for their extreme rarity and ability to induce mass perplexion, is a rare and delicious treat. It brings such a sense of delicious righteousness once the cause of such an elegant problem is understood, and having […]

My recent vacation photos hiatus is in part due to spending last weekend being all responsible and grown-up and stuff–Laura, one of my nieces, came to visit us for the weekend. Note the use of the word “my,” a big step for me, as for most of the past seven years, the girls have […]

After far too much not-blogging, I think I’m hitting the point where the withdrawal is really starting to bug me, so I guess I’d better take care of that.
Work is fairly unmentionable; I pulled a few 12-hour days last week, which I should probably stop doing if I’m going to be the only one (as […]

Luckily, fortunately, thankfully, I’ve had a string of pretty good days lately.
Liz had to work for most of Saturday, so I used the time to knock a bunch of things off my to-do list, including a trip to the library to refresh my influx of new music, and a half-day of being able to work […]

PyCon is drawing to a close; our fellow sprinters trickle away to the airport or the highways in little groups of one and two. So it’s time to reflect briefly on the experience (or something). So, what have I learned this year? Let’s break it down, unordered-list style:

Speaking in front of a […]

Well! Another February 14 draws to a close, and (luckily, thankfully) it’s been a very, very good one thus far.
On the work front: we weathered the storm with aplomb, our site never faltering under the onslaught of the greetings industry’s biggest day, while our competitors dropped like flies. W00t! A side benefit […]

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Saw this at the grocery store today and had to document it for posterity: waffles you can connect like LEGO bricks! Truly, a concept both utterly brilliant and at the same time deeply frightening.
LEGO my Eggo!

Mood:amused
Music:Firefly soundtrack - “Cows/New Dress/My Crew”

Now that I’ve gotten caught up on my huge backlog of email, it’s time to close some tabs and share some links, because it’s more fun than doing anything productive. Submitted for your approval:
Chunk Norris Facts will teach you all sorts of interesting things about Chuck Norris; for example, “the chief export of Chuck […]