Part of owning a house means yardwork and landscaping, which I’m sure everybody by now knows I just love (*cough*). This weekend it was planting tulip bulbs in the ground, which should look pretty good come spring. Unless, of course, they don’t survive. Since we bought a new house, on recently developed land, a good… Continue reading Bulbs
Month: October 2004
The Brew Site
I’m launching a new blog. Okay, well, a new blog on an old site—a site I’ve been “working on” for, like, four years now: The Brew Site. My original goal for The Brew Site, when I “launched” back in 2000, was a comprehensive, be-all end-all directory/portal/guide to beer and brewing-related stuff online. Kind of like… Continue reading The Brew Site
PHP code rant
This is a mini-rant on PHP that can be safely avoided by non geek types. This post over on PHP Everywhere caught my attention, vis-a-vis programming semantics and practice. Basically, inside a switch statement, someone placed the default block before the case blocks and was surprised when that default condition executed, and the “expected” case… Continue reading PHP code rant
Hawaii
Just watching the new show “Hawaii” this evening (taped since I was out last night), and I was just thinking how cool it would be if the show did a crossover with “Magnum, P.I.” There’s a couple of memes you probably never thought I’d hit you with.
Bloggers this evening
We had a blogger get-together at the Cascade Lakes Brewery again this evening, it was a lot of fun and more of us showed up. I’m tired so there’ll be a more detailed post later, but here’s a short version: Simone brought Swiss chocolate. Dane wants a video game based on smashing Coke cans with… Continue reading Bloggers this evening
Lodging
On our trip to San Diego we stayed in several hotels while on the road, and with my brother and his wife while there. Here’s some thoughts on where to stay—or not stay—if you find yourself on the same or similar trip. Avoid, at all costs, the Best Value Inn just off the freeway in… Continue reading Lodging
Mt. St. Helens
Of course, the notable news around here while we were away is that Mt. St. Helens started getting active again. Neat. What’s more interesting to me, though, is that at the same time, while we were in California, there were a series of earthquakes near Parkfield, one of which hit 6.0 on the Richter scale.… Continue reading Mt. St. Helens
Back to it
Yes, we’re back from our vacation to SoCal. Actually, we got back yesterday and today was back to work and routine, but I just wasn’t quite ready to “return” to the blog, as it were. It was a good trip, but tiring. San Diego is a neat city, but in general I wouldn’t want to… Continue reading Back to it