- Beer: Garrick‘s drinking his Roggen Brett (with Brettanomyces) and Lakefront Brewery Wisconsinite, Jamie‘s enjoying a Fulton Sweet Child of Vine
- Dallas Oktoberfest Kubb Tournament (also see the Kubbchucks at 2012 Dallas Oktoberfest Kubb Tournament writeup)
- Planet Kubb Sites
- Stapp King
- Molkky
- Comments on Dallas sets
- Jamie went to Iceland
Month: October 2012
Friday, 12 October 2012
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
How To Create Default Posts or Pages in a WordPress Network Site
Add this to your default theme’s functions.php
function grv_create_default_pages() {
// Create New Default Page
$args = array(
'name' => 'new-default-page',
'post_type' => 'page',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'showposts' => 1,
'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$default_page = array(
'name' => 'new default page',
'post_title' => 'NEW DEFAULT POST TITLE',
'post_content' => 'lorem ipsum dolor',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_author' => 1,
'post_type' => 'page'
);
// Insert the New Page into the database
$new_page_exists = get_posts($args);
if ( empty($new_page_exists) ) {
$new_page = wp_insert_post( $new_page );
// Uncomment if you've a custom template that should be applied to the default page
// update_post_meta($new_page, '_wp_page_template', 'custom-tempate-page.php');
}
// Wanna add some default links? Here you go.
$linkdata = array(
'link_name' => 'Garrick van Buren',
'link_url' => 'http://garrickvanburen.com'
);
$link_id = wp_insert_link( $linkdata );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'grv_create_default_pages' );
everything’s unbroken
Rations
Damn straight.
On a related note – I haven’t applied any of Apple’s updates to any of the MacBooks in the house for at least the last 6 months, likely longer. This increased continuity has made MacOS feel more invisible to me than ever.
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
12-18 Months
Monday, 8 October 2012
16 years later – revisiting my very first Amazon purchase
Over lunch today, I dusted off my very first Amazon.com purchase:
Television at a Crossroads by Stefan Marzano et. al.
Television at a Crossroads, published in 1993 (nearly 20 years ago), is a huge enveloping book documenting Philips Design’s exploration of what television will be like in the future.
From television as “tele-lesson” delivery, as ambient information device (like a lamp or clock), as social entertainment device. Much of the exploration depict things we take for granted in 2012 – not from the television – but our banal internet experience.
While the specifics are as quaint and naïve as flying cars the underlying thinking holds up quite nicely. Oh sure – we’re not playing chess through our televisions – but we are playing games with players on the other side of some screen somewhere. Our guitar lessons may not be delivered over a device called a TV – but it’s still the ‘tube.
Marzano and team correctly predicted our lives would be increasingly filled with digital video displays large, small, and everywhere in-between.
Paging through TaaC, I’m reminded of two things:
- we can only describe the future with our current vocabulary and our vocabulary is continually evolving.
- despite their ultimate manifestation, the projected solutions and scenarios are realized.
Sunday, 7 October 2012
can you say this about your work?
Thursday, 4 October 2012
The Road to BJCP Certification
A year and a half ago when I started formulating my own beer recipes – my friend Chris asked me if I had looked into hopville.com. Since then, Hopville has helped me understand and target the bounds of beer styles. By the numbers. But not by the ingredients. Even in the latest iteration Hopville warns of that discrepancy.
To get a better understanding of style-appropriate ingredients and tasting profiles – I declared one of my 2013 goals is to be BJCP certified.
This week, I start the process – an 11 week course leading to the BJCP exam.