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Smoothies are great: going Paleo

Colin and I recently decided to start eating Paleo-style again. We did it a few years ago for about 6 months, and really liked it. We felt better, had more energy, and enjoyed some really delicious food. That was back when we were in California, when the produce was much more affordable and readily available [...]

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My new adventure: learning Ruby

I’m learning Ruby so that I can build awesome apps that do cool things, and then break them. I’m leaving my current job next month to start an intensive training program. By the end of the summer, I’ll be working full time as a Ruby developer. Pretty cool, eh? In case you don’t know what [...]

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Revisiting knitting with color

In case my recent flurry of hat knitting didn’t give it away, I’ve become a bit obsessed with working color into my knitting. I’ve never been big on color work, whether it be fair isle, intarsia, or simple stripes. The end result usually never matches up with what I was hoping for, and it’s a [...]

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Questions people ask me: how did you learn to knit?

Starting with this post, I’m going to put up the occasional Q&A style article featuring questions you all send to me. I get asked a lot of questions, ranging from simple (when did you start knitting?) to complex (what’s your favorite yarn?). I usually answer these questions with comment replies, or in whichever venue they [...]

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