Let's get sorta unique

Behold, I have released a new gem.  Meet SUID- the sorta unique ID.

Reset with the best of them

One of my favorite designers, Chris Boone, has released his own, hand-tuned cross-browser reset stylesheets to the world. Check out the blog post, or just go directly to his GitHub for the files.

End of civilization in three, two, ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32641476/ns/us_news-life/

If society doesn’t spontaneously combust within the next 24 hours, I’ll take it that the “defense of marriage” crowd was just wrong, and get on with my life.

Somehow, I'm incredulous...

Parsley:~/work/people_places_things(master)$ rake specs
(in /Users/dburkes/work/people_places_things)
.......................................................................

Finished in 0.0708490000000001 seconds

71 examples, 0 failures

Rake now has timing resolution down to 10E-16 seconds? Uh huh…

Farmer Brown gets down

Continuing my food geek day, I lunched at farmerbrown’s today.  After 29 years in the South, I think I know me something about some fried chicken.  So, naturally, I went into this rather skeptically.

What a pleasant surprise! The fried chicken was just that- a piece of chicken, battered, and fried.  No frou-frou dusting of single-origin free range asparagus zest.  No attempt to “better it up”.

Just great, delicate flour-and-buttermilk dipped chicken.  Best I’ve had in ages, outside of my momma’s or a relative’s kitchen, that’s for sure.  And the grape soda added an extra touch of nostalgia that made the whole thing very satisfying.

These days I find myself more drawn to foods outside my ancestral comfort zone, but, when the mood strikes, I’ll definitely check out farmer brown again.