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A brief history of food: Early man: “So hungry…. *chomp*” Not-so-early man: “I wonder what that tastes like…” A brief history of cuisine: “What would make that taste better?”

Honestly, I kind-of like Borders (and Barnes and Noble), and they’re the only ones with a zero BS customer loyalty signup process. “Do you have a card?” “No.” “Would you like one? I just need your e-mail address.” “Ok it’s _____ " “Here you go.” The end. No paperwork. No forms. Thirty seconds. But, that’s the only thing they’ve gotten right in a long time. Today they sent me an email announcing that “You could win the new American Girl doll”.

We rode the Trans-Massachusetts-Trail yesterday. A series of dirt roads starting at the border of Connecticut and Massachusetts and working its way north to route 2 where it meets up with the start of the Puppy Dog Trail, which winds its way north all the way to the Canadian border (we’ll be doing that one shortly). Near the end of the trip we stopped for a break in the woods to address the “call of nature” and grab a snack.

Yesterday I watched an 800 pounds of chrome, fiberglass, metal, and plastic spinning through the air. Sunlight reflected in movie-like highlights off of the long chromed pipes. The Harley did things other Harleys have only ever dreamed of… in their nightmares. I saw the whole thing, from start to finish. Dachary only saw the grand finale of flying metal, but her brain came to the obvious conclusion: “That’s a cruiser [spinning through the air].

On this past weekend’s test run we encountered an unexpected problem. It took us nearly two hours to break camp each morning which left us no time to relax, or have a nibble, between waking and hitting the road. On my last big trip it wasn’t like this at all. Yes, it took me nearly two hours between when I woke and when I hit the road, but that included a shower, a nibble, and lounging around reading a book.

We took a test run this weekend; seeing how the gear works for the big trip in December. It was only three days, but now I’m back, out of the shower, and about to start my morning routine. And, the truth is I feel a bit overwhelmed at the prospect. So much…. internet. So much data. So much news. And so little of it actually matters. I’ve already falling back into the mindset of being on the road.

Tabs vs. spaces It’s a big back-and-forth between developers, with lots of us swearing by the use of spaces, but I’m here to explain to you why everyone who uses spaces instead of tabs for indentation is not only wrong but seriously inconsiderate of their fellow developer. First though, we must consider what a tab is and what a space character is. A tab is a typographical element specifically designed for the indentation of text to various levels.

Every week I, and millions of developers like me, have to put together a status report for our bosses, letting them know what we’ve been up to for the previous week. Like most of the developers I’ve encountered I’m always a little unsure of what *exactly* I was working on, and typically I just open up git to see what commits I made, and try to remember any non-code stuff I’ve Thinking it was silly to keep wading through everyone’s commits for the past week to see what I worked on I’ve put it all together in a script (in Ruby) called git status-report, which you can grab from github here.

I love my DODOcase. Money very well spent1. Throw an iPad in it and it just looks like a big Moleskine (love that look) instead of some techy $500+ block of “steal me”. Plus, it’s about the only case out there that I feel is actually worth the $50 they all seem to cost. But, there’s one problem: nowhere to store any papers. I had to go to City Hall the other day and needed to bring some papers with me.

I was listening to Ray Mailman’s I Didn’t Know the other day and realized it’d make a great Mind Map. So, this morning I grabbed MindNode for the iPad, put on some headphones, and whipped this out. Future Edit: The song is from his Sideways album. It’s kind-of hard to find as he seems to have disappeared from the Internet in 2014, but here’s a link to it on YouTube Music.