señor taco’s travels

I’ve been learning on my own time how to develop applications for Mac OS X. I actually tried to pick it up a couple of years ago, but I think I was just not in the right mind set to pick up the knowledge I needed. My work situation wasn’t ideal and deep down the last thing I really wanted to do was come home and work on a computer more.

Now I’ve switched jobs and I’m much happier with work and I think it’s bled over into the after work hours. I’m actually picking up the lessons¹ really well and the great part is I’m completing the non-instructional challenges at the end of the chapters with out any problems.

I’ll post more bits and bobs as I come across them. This is pretty exciting because I now fully understand the power of Cocoa and its frameworks.

1. I’m using Aaron Hillegass’ Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X.↩

I use MarsEdit to post to this blog and to an internal blog at work. I love it even though I haven’t been posting a lot lately. It really gets out of my way and lets me do what I need to do. Today Daniel Jalkut released a new version of MarsEdit, 2.1.

Of the new features these two are what makes MarsEdit so great:

• Enhanced Tags Support
• Save Drafts To Server

Thanks for the hard work Daniel, I can’t wait to use MarsEdit more now.

(Via Red Sweater Blog.)

There we are, the first real week of training done. After being off my bike since around Thanksgiving (I think, but whatever it is it was enough to make me pudgy) I got back on and did three real days of riding. Total milage was 54 miles. There was a fourth day of 30 miles, but I did it at such a leisurely pace I don’t feel like counting it. Next week I will return to the gym as well to mix up my training.

There are 550 miles to ride in June and I’ll be ready for them.

For those that are curious I’ll be sending out my fund raising information next week.

I am an unabashed fan of peanut butter. You can just ask my mom. Best food for a snack? Peanut butter. Best food to have stranded on a dessert island? Peanut butter. Best oil to use in frying foods? Peanut oil. See, even not in butter form the peanut is awesome! But I digress, for this is a post to point you to another titled The Best Peanut Butter in the World:

I love peanut butter. But more importantly for the statement you are about to read here, I know peanut butter. I know peanut butter the way Da Vinci knew fluid mechanics, the way Einstein knew physics, the way Grand Master Flash knows a turntable, the way Tom Brady knows how to perfectly balance throwing touchdowns and humping supermodels. I have eaten it. I have coddled it. I inhaled. What can I say? That’s how I spread.

Now I have to go and find this “Parkers Family Farms Peanut Butter” of which he speaks.

Last night at about midnight I had not one, but three calls from the same guy dialing the wrong number. This of course is not new to me, every so often I’ll get a call on my cell phone that’s a person asking for the SFPD. I’m apparently one digit off from the warrants desk. This has generally led me to not answer numbers that don’t pop up in the caller ID or that I don’t recognize. So last night I happened to answer because of the late hour and the number seemed like it was recognizable. For all I knew it was a friend that got into an accident driving home and needed help. The guy was looking for the SFPD. He was adamant that he had the correct number but I assured him he didn’t. I understand people wanting to take care of warrants, but at midnight I doubt the offices are open. I only hope he’s not as belligerent to a police officer as he was to me, maybe that’s how he got the warrant in the first place.