Skip to content

Tag Archives: barbecue

2011

01-Jan-12

A bunch of stuff happened in 2011. I quit graduate school I traveled a bit: WordCamp Phoenix, API Workshop at MITH, Jamaica, NC barbecue roadtrip, THATCamp I co-taught a class about WordPress in the graphic design program at Queens College I proved myself the 76th best crossword solver in the universe I taught an intro [...]

Filed in etc | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1) »

Eating barbecue is a good way to spend a vacation

22-Jun-11

I enjoy eating barbecue. And, through a cosmic blessing of fate that I daren’t question, my wife enjoys eating barbecue as much as I do. Our favorite barbecue is of the North Carolina variety. So when a family friend was getting married in Chapel Hill a few weeks ago, we decided to make a vacation [...]

Filed in etc | Also tagged , | Comments (1) »

Looking back at 2010

31-Dec-10

2010 was a wild year for me, one that I’ll look back on as a turning point in my professional and personal life. For that reason I thought I might take stock of the past year. (Here’s 2009′s post.) If you are one of those snobs who think that year-end retrospectives are schlocky, feel free [...]

Filed in etc | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (5) »

Honeymoon barbecue, part 2: the East

25-Jun-10

This post is the second of a two-part series about the barbecue my new wife and I ate on our honeymoon. For more explanation and more porky pix, see part 1: “The West”. JUNE 14: Hudson’s Smokehouse, Columbia, SC We’d just finished a stint in Eastern Tennessee, where we’d enjoyed some bodacious relaxation but no [...]

Filed in etc | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (8) »

Honeymoon barbecue, part 1: the West

20-Jun-10

I got married a few weeks ago: Afterwards I went on a honeymoon with my lovely bride through the southeastern US. Unlike a North Carolina vacation we took a few years ago, the focus of this trip was not barbecue. That said, we still had quite a few good barbecue meals. (I mean, it’d be [...]

Filed in etc | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (6) »