Oh man, what a day. I attended quite a few talks, grabbed a lot of swag, and entered a few contests. I ended up buying the Arduino Starter Kit from MAKE so I can do some awesome embedded Ruby like I saw at FOSCON. It looks really fun – I can’t wait to try it [...]

Today, I got the craving for some beer again. I drove down to Corridor Fine Wines and picked up 49 beers (singles, of course).

If I ever end up in Ireland, I think I will have to try a Guinness. This Article explains how to avoid any embarrassment and what to look out for. Also, there was a really cool picture of a nuke going off today:

So, after reviewing over 50 beers on BeerAdvocate, I’ve come to the conclusion that them not having an RSS or Atom feed of my most recent reviews available is stupid. So, I decided to make my own by scraping their HTML today. I started off by pumping some random code into irb that included Hpricot [...]

So I decided that I should take Kelsey to Corridor Fine Wines to have a look around, and to find some of the wines she’s liked before. I also wanted to visit the beer section. We left after 2 hours $180 poorer. Here are some pictures of the spoils: This should make for a fun [...]

Yuengling is very common over here on the East Coast. It is apparently the oldest major brew in America, which is awesome. I like it quite a bit for a normal drinkable beer, but it is slightly too watery for my taste. 8/10