Monthly Archives: May 2010

Tic Tacs Are Not for Snorting

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Used Tic Tac

Tic Tacs before and after extraction from my daughter's nose


Well, I am grateful and somewhat surprised that we are a week past the birth of our fourth child and I am just now writing my first post like this. Our middle two children (Benjamin is 5 and Rachel is 2) were riding quietly in the third row of our vehicle on the way home from the grocery store today, sharing some orange Tic Tacs our eldest had given Benjamin. Everything seemed to be going along swimmingly until we got home and unbuckled. I looked back, and in the shade of the car, it looked like Rachel had a bloody nose, but upon closer inspection, I realized the flow of liquid was orange.
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Guahan Bakery?

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Cinnamon Muffins

Tasty crumb topped cinnamon muffins


I seem to have discovered something that can be quite relaxing and a very nice change of pace from the rat race in which I find myself running every day. Baking is something I’ve always enjoyed, but recently, I’ve been really trying my hand at doing more than just pancakes and loaves of bread. While I’ve always tried to throw in the variety of a good yeast cinnamon roll from time to time, this past week has really been a fun one in the kitchen.
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Did I Really Read That Right?

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Prius Crop

This Prius had a rather interesting license plate


So, my wife and I decided to go out for a nice lunch to celebrate our anniversary today, and we were quite shocked by the license plate we observed outside our restaurant of choice. Yes, I know we are in Washington state and it sometimes seems as if every other car you pass is a hybrid, but that doesn’t give you the right to go flaunting what it allows you to do while driving, does it? I mean, seriously. I must admit, while this license plate would be enough to make my children chortle if seen on any car, the fact it was positioned on a Prius raised the level of intelligence a tad — well, at least that’s the line I used to try and convince my wife why I was laughing.
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Zen Coding – HTML Shorthand

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In one of the greatest discoveries of my web development career, I stumbled upon the Zen Coding Project the other day. This is an absolutely amazing project that allows for building robust and — more importantly — valid HTML markup with a fraction of the keystrokes. What’s more, this new method of writing the code uses CSS selectors for an extremely small learning curve. Rather than another language to learn, this little shorthand script is available as a plugin or macro for almost all major IDEs and text editors (Eclipse, NetBeans and even Notepad++ to name a few).
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