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• goats: What would you call nuggets?
  They use one of Bryan’s favorite words in this comic. Awesome.

I’m not going to apologize for not blogging, because I’ve decided to stop feeling guilty about it. Lately it’s felt like a chore to write anything, and I don’t want my site to be something I feel obligated to work on. I think it’s better for my posts to be less frequent if I enjoy them more that way.

Now that my non-apology is out of the way, here are some things I’ve been up to recently:

• Redesigning Bryan’s site. It’s all raspberrylicious now. But you probably already knew that!

• Visiting Bostonia again and had a fabulous time with Jeremiah, Arthur, and RyanHarne.com. Highlight of the trip (apart from finally getting to meet Arthur): the crazy drunk guy that we saw twice on the T who told loud, disjointed stories about whatever crossed his mind, including the price of dry cleaning a shirt in the 1930s.

• Seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (while in Boston). I absolutely loved it and recommend that you stop whatever you’re doing and go see it now. Seriously, put down that highly educational textbook and go rot your brain. It’s worth it.

• Learning Ruby by reading Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. It’s by far the most bizarre, original, and enjoyable programming book I’ve ever read. There are cartoon foxes, aliens, elves, and, yes, chunky bacon. Ruby seems like a pretty cool language, so I’ll probably figure out some sort of project to write just so I can learn it.

• Trying to get over a sinus infection-ish thing. Ugh.

• Not going biking like I wanted to because of said sinus infection-ish thing. Double ugh.

• Being way too entertained by the phrase “chunky bacon.” But really, it’s pretty fun. Try it!

Chunky. Bacon.

♫ Gus Gus - David

• Tipperary Hill Traffic Light
  A green-on-top traffic light in Syracuse, NY. Crazy!
• On Being and Deliciousness, with Wil Shipley
  Fantastic interview with the Delicious Monster (makers of Delicious Library) co-founder.

• Prevent iTunes from seeing MP3 song files as videos
  A workaround for the iTunes 4.9 bug that sees some valid MP3s as QuickTime Movie Files.
• Mind May Affect Machines
  I think this is the real reason why car and computer problems don’t happen when a technician is trying to diagnose them. ;-)

• The Jesus Dance
  Exactly as awesome as it sounds.

• The Costco Challenge: An Alternative to Wal-Martization?
  Excellent article on the difference in the way the two companies treat their employees.

• Swatch Internet Time
  I never really understood what this crazy stuff meant before. There still doesn’t seem to be a point, but at least I get it now.

• DontClick.It
  Experience a button-free world. Experimental interfaces that don’t need mouse clicks.

Today I’ll be spending much of the day in the car driving to Pennsylvania (and back) for Tonya and Andrew’s wedding. She’s one of my best friends from college and it’s been a while since I got to see her, so I think the drive will be worth it. Just maybe!

It’s times like these that science really needs to get its shit together and invent transporters already. Come on, science!

I think today would be a good day to end every paragraph with an exclamation point!

So I’ll be on the road between 1 and 4:30 pm, then again later tonight, so call me if you want. It would make me happy!

♫ Sigur Rós - Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása

• Parabolic Heat Transference Case Mod
  Brilliant. And by brilliant I mean awesome. And by awesome I mean totally geeky.
• Pruned
  A blog “on landscape architecture and related fields.” They’ve got some cool links and articles.