clocking in

There, there - you didn't think I'd leave you hanging without a bit of year-end list action, did you now?

Here we go:

2011 Top 10 Tings (since lists of random things seem to be in vogue these days)

1. Celebrating NYE on East Coast time

Parenting is all about tricking the mind into believing insane things.

 

2. Kolaveri Di

Translation: "Why This Murderour Rage, Girl?"

 

3. Google Plus

even if I am one of the only 6 people using it.

 

4. Spotify

 

5. Food Trucks

 

6. Folding laundry while watching sports

or is it Watching sports while folding laundry? Either way - I've discovered the most effective use of my Sundays.

 

7. The importance of the chamois patch, as it pertains to bicycling.

 

8. Megan Rapinoe to Abby Wambach

 

9. Reconnecting

Managed to reconnect with a lot of old peeps this year. Feeling warm and fuzzy just thinking about it.

 

10. Words With Friends

More exciting than Scrabble; better FB and mobile apps.

The question is

Should I switch to Tumblr? All the cool kids are doing it.

Things I don't really get

• Golf
• IPA
• Fugazi
  
• The second amendment
• Aquatic pets (i.e. fish)
  

shiny and new

Just got a new macbook pro. I am loving the speed - 8GB RAM, quadcore, Solid State Disk. And silent. As in - "Real G's move in silence; Just like lasagna".

Anyway here is what I'm putting on there over the base install (It already comes with MS Office, Firefox, Thunderbird and Parallels).

GUI Applications
* Chrome
* TextMate
* Cocoa Emacs
* ITerm
* Dropbox
* Seashore

CLI Stuff
* Homebrew
* RVM + ruby 1.9.2
* git
* node.js

Python Stuff
* pip
* Django
* virtualenv
* yolk