ben tucker’s virtual life. elsewhere: work, doings, incoming.Tumblr (3.0; @bentucker)http://stream.btucker.org/<p><a href="http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post/130383811/also-dont-take-the-intoxicated-results-to-be">brandtkurowski</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote>“Also, don’t take the intoxicated results to be acceptable just because they’re an improvement over the texting numbers. They only look better because the texting results are so horrendously bad.”</blockquote> <p>— <a href="http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/hot_lists/high_performance/features_classic_cars/texting_while_driving_how_dangerous_is_it_feature/(page)/1">Texting While Driving: How Dangerous is it? - Car And Driver</a>. Yup: texting while driving is <i>so</i> bad, it makes drunk driving look good in comparison. (And they’re not talking <i>just</i> about writing, they test <i>reading</i> texts too.)</p> </blockquote> <p>I emailed this link to a certain someone (who shall remain nameless) who of course received & read it while driving.</p>http://stream.btucker.org/post/130873269http://stream.btucker.org/post/130873269Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:17:08 -0400returning from a late night jaunt through the neighborhood on my new rollerblades. super fun!http://stream.btucker.org/post/130456750http://stream.btucker.org/post/130456750Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:35:44 -0400<a href="http://tenspeedfarm.com/farm_pickup.html">Ten Speed Farm: Weekly Pickup</a>: <p><a href="http://tenspeedfarm.com/farmer.html">Rebecca</a> @ <a href="http://tenspeedfarm.com">Ten Speed Farm</a> is doing a pretty cool thing this season.  You sign up for the mailing list, she sends out an email every Monday with the vegitables that are going to be available.  You reply to her with your order & then go pick it up on Wednesday.  No commitment, no minimums.  It’s a great system and I hope it’s sustainable.</p> <p>Here’s an example of what was available this week:</p> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">SALAD MIX - red & green lettuce, and baby greens like red kale, arugula, beet greens, mizuna…  you get the idea.  excellent-tasting, and it looks great, too. - $4.50/half-pound bag</blockquote> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">SPINACH - cannot be harvested fast enough!  spinach & strawberry salad?  spinach & cheddar omelette?  yum! - $4.50/ half-pound bag</blockquote> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">RADISHES - are still very, very handsome & tasty.  red, purple, white & pink all bunched together.  yeah. - $2.00/bunch</blockquote> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">ARUGULA - loves this weather as much as farmers do!  so tender & spicy.  (the arugula, that is.  not the weather or the farmers.)  so good. - $4.50/half-pound bag</blockquote> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">GARLIC SCAPES - are the flower-stem of hardneck garlic.  here for a limited time!  use just like garlic in recipes.  awesome. - $2.50/bunch</blockquote> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">SWISS CHARD - the rainbow-colored kind!  hooray!  limited quantities - order early if you want it. - $2.00/bunch</blockquote> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">EGGS - from the good folks at Fair Winds Farm, just down the road.  organic!  happy chickens! - $4.50/dozen</blockquote>http://stream.btucker.org/post/125917041http://stream.btucker.org/post/125917041Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:53:00 -0400Just returned from a wonderful ~9 mile paddle on the Connecticut River. Beautiful evening!http://stream.btucker.org/post/125565046http://stream.btucker.org/post/125565046Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:16:31 -0400<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/Z49UtQPNiottnel928kFx6bYo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>St. George, ME a couple weekends ago.http://stream.btucker.org/post/125290780http://stream.btucker.org/post/125290780Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:48:15 -0400make that <a href="http://www.allforgood.org">http://www.allforgood.org</a> (.org not .com)http://stream.btucker.org/post/124042367http://stream.btucker.org/post/124042367Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:53:25 -0400<a href="http://allforgood.com">http://allforgood.com</a> looks very cool! kinda like what we were trying to build in ‘05 with fichebowl: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rails_Day">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rails_Day</a>http://stream.btucker.org/post/124042371http://stream.btucker.org/post/124042371Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:53:25 -0400<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/Z49UtQPNioqv3bhx49Mx8ZCIo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><a href="http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2008/11/married/">Awesome wedding invite</a> (via reddit)http://stream.btucker.org/post/123989742http://stream.btucker.org/post/123989742Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:05:19 -0400Waiting for Dartmouth Commencement to begin. The crowd is in great spirits despite the rain! Congrats @<a href="http://twitter.com/annawchin">annawchin</a>!!http://stream.btucker.org/post/123400287http://stream.btucker.org/post/123400287Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:50:13 -0400The sun is trying VERY HARD to break through!http://stream.btucker.org/post/123400280http://stream.btucker.org/post/123400280Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:50:12 -0400I didn’t care enough to partake in the facebook username rush last night, so I pulled a flickr: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/btuckr">http://www.facebook.com/btuckr</a>http://stream.btucker.org/post/123207407http://stream.btucker.org/post/123207407Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:48:58 -0400<img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/Z49UtQPNioo4hjznZjF4GuhYo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>Dartmouth Green setup for tomorrow’s commencementhttp://stream.btucker.org/post/122964776http://stream.btucker.org/post/122964776Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:05:05 -0400Waiting for the Dartmouth Medical School “Class Day” to begin.http://stream.btucker.org/post/122889395http://stream.btucker.org/post/122889395Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:45:12 -0400I know AppArmor is probably really cool, but damn, I thought I was going crazy when mysql couldn’t write to a new datadir it ownedhttp://stream.btucker.org/post/122690628http://stream.btucker.org/post/122690628Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:18:57 -0400“Since its announcement yesterday, there’s been a lot of excited discussion of the feature, but in a dashes.com exclusive I can exclusively report this exclusive look at the future of the feature. We’ll also cover how the feature’s rollout will be covered by the technology trade press and the mainstream press.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.dashes.com/anil/2009/06/the-future-of-facebook-usernames.html">Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash</a> <i>So spot on it’s scary!</i></em>http://stream.btucker.org/post/121763076http://stream.btucker.org/post/121763076Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:52:23 -0400Back at work after a wonderful weekend with family in St. George, MEhttp://stream.btucker.org/post/120894192http://stream.btucker.org/post/120894192Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:00:04 -0400Google’s new Page Speed is damn impressive on first use. Quite the evolution on YSlow. <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/">http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/</a>http://stream.btucker.org/post/118538005http://stream.btucker.org/post/118538005Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:22:41 -0400wishing svn 1.4 could handle an svn 1.5 repo. oh well, guess this is why svnadmin dump/load exists…http://stream.btucker.org/post/118048966http://stream.btucker.org/post/118048966Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:05:43 -0400Exciting Big News: after 4+ years together, anna & I are officially engaged! The wedding will be when she’s done w/ med school in a ~5 yearshttp://stream.btucker.org/post/117700122http://stream.btucker.org/post/117700122Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:39:31 -0400“[E]very blog post will now have an author name associated with it.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Tuning-Up-WhiteHousegov/">Jesse Lee, Online Programs Director</a> <i>This is a great change & addresses my primary gripe with the White House blog to date.</i></em>http://stream.btucker.org/post/116417778http://stream.btucker.org/post/116417778Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:05:51 -0400