recently doing

hello sacramento! cookies for breakfast!
enjoying vancouver's excellent bike routes.
@bensheldon I'd say you should try these salted brownies before making your final judgment: http://tinyurl.com/5etruv

scrap pad

font making

web app for making truetype fonts via kottke.

weird

Platypus...
  1. are venomous.
  2. nurse their young through their abdominal skin(?)

bike repair book

I'm looking for a good bicycle repair book: one that talks about tools, has a ton of diagrams (preferably hand drawn), and plenty of description and best practices. Today I came across a book called "Fix Your Bicycle", by Eric Jorgensen and Joe Bergman, put out by Clymer Publications between 1972 and 1979. It is full of diagrams and photos, from photos describing how to patch tires to technical illustrations of exploded bottom brackets. It also describes bicycle tools and how to use them. In short: I want it. I'm trolling Amazon's used sellers for it this very moment (there are several misspellings, for example).

Also looking good: Anybody's Bike Book, by Tom Cuthbertson (kb has a 1979 edition).

MEC backpacks

uh, backpack shopping alert. sorry.

MEC is a Canadian outdoor gear company that is a little bit like a slimmer, hipper LLBean with all the flannel-fireside-lifestyle crap trimmed away. They have a very good backpack selection, too. As a simple, minimalist overnight pack or travel bag, I liked the 30 liter Brio Crag daypack. Also the tiny Pika daypack is almost exactly like the tiny simple bag I inherited (translation: appropriated) from my mother, exactly right for casual hikes.

apples

kb pointed me to this fantastic Atlantic article about an apple collector and curator. Linked in the article is the Fedco Seeds tree catalog, which has tons of info about cultivating trees as well as descriptions of varieties for sale.

blog

Hello, 2008

In December I started working as a web developer at the Chicago Technology Cooperative. We do a lot of work with Drupal, and most of our clients are nonprofits. I recently attended Drupalcon Boston and with two of my coworkers presented a session on Drupal as a GIS/Mapping Platform.

about

This site is an aggregation of things I do on the web. I've also kept a blog while I was learning Drupal, collaborated with my friend Ben on Panlexicon and Pantextual, and, during my year as an Americorps VISTA, I worked on the website of the California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH), CCRH's California Inclusionary Housing Policy Search, and the website of the CTC VISTA Project.

I'm using MagpieRSS to aggregate my blogs' RSS feeds on this page.

You can get in touch with me by sending email to .