Monthly Archives: February 2011

Kind of a feast for dinner

Hillary says it felt like Thanksgiving, but it was just a Sunday evening dinner before the kids went back to school after a week off (whew). So we ended up with a lot on our plates, including delicious BBQ sauce Leila made (from a Bittman recipe) over tofu, seitan (!!) and roast chicken. Garlicky kale, [...]

Back in the Code Again

It’s good to get back in touch with what got me into this business in the first place. This time the recipe includes these ingredients: Groovy Grails jQuery Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk, RDS and S3 JetBrains IDEA 10 Groovy just continues to satisfy me as a language more than any other these days. And more than [...]

Un-Triathlon

I love to bike. I discovered that I love to swim. This winter I’m discovering that I love to run. It’s ironic on lots of levels because those always struck me as such unappealing, boring activities. But I found moving meditation in each, fantastic satisfaction, relaxation, conditioning and a boundless appetite. Running a triathlon isn’t [...]