Best things in the world

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FreakAngels, an episodic webcomic by Warren Ellis and artist Paul Duffield. It's free to read online. It's stupidly high-quality. It's in print on Amazon.com. If you like good graphic novels you owe it to yourself to read this, and the archives are now deep enough that you can sit down for a few hours and get up to speed.
The 960.gs grid system. I'm fine with code and I can think in grids, but working out all the krunky stuff to make a complex layout work in IE, Firefox, and the rest? That feels like pain. The 960 grid sacrifices some semantics and locks you into a static layout, but it means you can work fast and focus on results. I'm hooked.
Magic Hat. I've never seen it around before, but they've got it freakin' everywhere here in Providence. Yum.
$99 iPhones. I guess that's the last of my excuses, once August rolls around and the end of my Sprint plan comes up.
The MIT Museum. @mettamatt and I saw robots and sculptures and old hand-wired LISP machines, and it was crazy. I want to be a mechanical engineer when I grow up, and I have a new and profound respect for electrical engineers, the tribe my dad comes from. They had to make their 64K of RAM out of a washing machine full of copper wire, and they liked it.
The glorious and gorgeous Catherine. I love traveling and hanging out with the Lullabots and the rest of the Drupal world, but coming home and seeing her after a week on the road is a wonderful thing. Hooray for home!

I got to visit the Magic Hat

Submitted by Jessica (not verified) on June 14, 2009 - 12:47pm.

I got to visit the Magic Hat brewery when I was in Burlington, VT, for a wedding. I'd never seen it in Chicago before, but lately the Binny's at Clark & Halsted has started carrying a few different varieties. There are Binny's all over the suburbs - you could check whether anyplace near you carries Magic Hat, if you're hooked & wanting more!

Koolaid

Submitted by Jeff O'Hara (not verified) on June 14, 2009 - 2:38pm.

So your going to finally drink the iPhone cool aid :) $99 bucks is atttractive until you see the monthly bill, lol. My wife's got one, but it's worth it. I'm rocking an N95 currently, mostly because it has tethering, there's an app called joikuspot that turns the N95 and other nokia smartphones into a wifi access point. The 960.gs is very cool, saw it a while ago but this was a fresh reminder. BTW, jenny & I should have you and Catherine over sometime in the near future, i think Jenny and Catherine would get a long well.

ahem

Submitted by Catherine (not verified) on June 14, 2009 - 4:06pm.

the cats! You forgots the cats.

Never developed a taste for

Submitted by Ryan (not verified) on June 15, 2009 - 11:44pm.

Never developed a taste for Magic Hat, though I've only tried #9. Not sure where your beer tastes roam, but if you've ever had Dogfish Head (decent ale) they're using Drupal / Ubercart to sell their swag. : )