• Penzeys Spices in Menlo yesterday was great, bought some pure almond extract and made a simple syrup with it for my morning latte, yum #
• tinkering with processing.js, very powerful and pretty amazing http://bit.ly/17iZ35 #

This past week I’ve had the opportunity to really dig in and give processing.js a work out. For those not familiar with the technology, processing.js is a JavaScript library based on the Java based processing library available for download at http://dev.processing.org/. Processing.js uses the HTML5 Canvas element to draw shapes and designs while using a [...]

chew on that regex for a while, it hurts #
regex = /(?-mix:"[^"]+"|'[^']+')|((?:[^\s,\|'"]|(?-mix:(?-mix:\{\%).*?(?-mix:\%\})|(?-mix:\{\{).*?(?-mix:\}\}?)))|(?-mix:"[^"]+"|'[^']+'))+/ #

delicious egg custard at Golden Gate Bakery in Chinatown #sf #
2 days after getting a land line and I already have telemarketers calling me, this is totally ridiculous #
#stupidinventions leaf blowers #
hacking some C libraries on os x, apparently malloc.h is deprecated or there is some magic i'm not aware to get at it #
just [...]

fun finding people I know on the software craftsmanship manifesto http://bit.ly/dtTMXt #
16/100 best companies in Fortune magazine were California based companies and out of those 11 were tech based companies (of course) #
@mattokeefe looks awesome but the registration is steep, I'm totally interested in the NoSQL, no Join, no RDBMS talk in reply to mattokeefe [...]

Our stuff arrived today! Do we really have this much stuff? Good grief #
Ate at Refuge last night the beers and cheeses are indeed top notch, lamb burger was especially good #

http://twitpic.com/10m9za – Afternoon at Half Moon and Pescadero #
@mattpulley Good luck on the polar plunge! in reply to mattpulley #
Today I become a Californian – home sweet home #
super stoked about starting @ #cafepress, I might have to take my enthusiasm down a notch and reduce my caffeine intake not to scare anyone #
my car [...]

"sledding" down a ski hill with my friends was epic, wish we had a radar gun to get the MPH, my tailbone is a bit sore but totally worth it #
por supuesto, estoy aprendiendo español #
descontrol es mi programa favorito español! #
really wanting Paxton & Whitfield Stilton cheese but shipping to the US [...]

@aslak_hellesoy your blog is throwing 502's in reply to aslak_hellesoy #
finally started to publish my gems to gemcutter, jruby-quartz is available now http://bit.ly/7NGO5Z #
finished the rails 2.3.5 upgrade for more notes and gotchas http://bit.ly/7FdX5L #
Rails 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 upgrade gotchas: update your rspec and rspec-rails gems to 1.3.x #
Rails 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 upgrade gotchas: [...]

Rails upgrade notes:
1.) Rails now has seeding functionality and along with it comes a new task, db:seed. If you use the seed_fu gem be aware that your db:seed call that worked with the gem is now executing the Rails version of db:seed. You will need to call rake db:seed_fu to get the gem version to [...]