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)
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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.

Tried the new Sightglass coffee cart today (7th btwn. Folsom and Howard). Same cart as used to be at Four Barrel’s back door on Caledonia last year. In fact Justin, who pulled shots on Caledonia, is working the cart at Sightglass.  They are using beans sourced from Verve in Capitola. Quality is high, although the beans seemed just slightly over-roasted for my taste (but not offensively so). Biggest drawback in my mind is that the place is too clean- they completely miss out on the hipster sleaze factor that made Four Barrel on Caledonia so charming. Although I do admit I saw a man taking a crap on the sidewalk only half a block a way, so, they are trying, at least. Worth a return trip, definitely.

Tried the new Sightglass coffee cart today (7th btwn. Folsom and Howard). Same cart as used to be at Four Barrel’s back door on Caledonia last year. In fact Justin, who pulled shots on Caledonia, is working the cart at Sightglass.  They are using beans sourced from Verve in Capitola.

Quality is high, although the beans seemed just slightly over-roasted for my taste (but not offensively so).

Biggest drawback in my mind is that the place is too clean- they completely miss out on the hipster sleaze factor that made Four Barrel on Caledonia so charming.

Although I do admit I saw a man taking a crap on the sidewalk only half a block a way, so, they are trying, at least.

Worth a return trip, definitely.

New beginnings

With the death of Lingr and Rejaw, I was forced to relocate my blog, because it was hosted on one of Lingr’s servers.  So here I am again, world- lost as ever.