Chicago from 96 Stories
Spongebob. Really?
Of the various things I’ve seen in Chicago, this is one of the sadder things.
Spongebob Squarepants is a painful piece of our American culture, as hard as it is to put that in the same sentence as “culture”.
The Beginning of Route 66
The Month of Blogging
For the month of April, fellow Automattician Justin Shreve challenged the company to make a point to publish some blog post every day of the month, seven days a week.
The challenge was extremely hard, frankly. Some posts, like this one, were posted simply to follow the letter of the rule, not the spirit. Life gets in the way: there was a WordCamp, a big Jetpack security release, a surgery, a car accident, travel for weddings, travel for work. It isn’t easy nor trivial to have interesting content every day with no downtime.
I often found myself with an idea I wanted to flesh out more but posted prematurely, in one sense, because I wanted to keep up with the challenge. I’ll write more about this, but limited time tonight. (Vanessa was in a car accident today—everyone is okay, except for the car—so my schedule ran out on me.
If you didn’t keep up, here’s what I posted this month:
- April 1st: Thomas Merton Was Wrong on the Daddyblog (kraft.wordpress.com)
- April 2nd:
- Put Down the Phone (Daddyblog)
- Change Related Posts Headline in Jetpack (kraft.im)
- April 3rd: What The Bleep Is In My Coffee (Daddyblog)
- April 4th: The Rule of Law: Seatbelts (Daddyblog)
- April 5th: What Great Food! (kraft.im photoblog)
- April 6th: Beat The Simpsons Game (kraft.im photoblog)
- April 7th: Project Directors (Daddyblog)
- April 8th: Catalina is doing fine (kraft.im)
- April 9th: Fine Print and the Difference of Insurance (Daddyblog)
- April 10th: Help Test The Next Version of Akismet (kraft.im)
- April 11th: Kraft & Kraft Cheese: Friends Forever (kraft.im)
- April 12th: National Grilled Cheese Day (kraft.im photoblog)
- April 13th: Airport to Neighborhood (kraft.im photoblog)
- April 14th: Water and Establishing The Workspace (kraft.im)
- April 15th: Bike Ride (kraft.im photoblog)
- April 16th: WordPress 3.9 Download Now! (kraft.im)
- April 17th: The Little Things (Daddyblog)
- April 18th: The Oddest Bug (everything from here on on kraft.im)
- April 19th: Texas Fight (photoblog)
- April 20th: Yes, Nestle (photoblog)
- April 21st: Skate Route (photoblog)
- April 22nd: WordCamp Austin Tickets
- April 23rd: Blazin’ Fast Internet
- April 24th: BBQ & the Love of WordPress
- April 25th: Contributors in Action (photoblog)
- April 26th:
- April 27th:
- April 28th: WCATX Done. (photoblog)
- April 29th: Burrito != Sandwich
- April 30th: The Month of Blogging (this post!
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Thanks everyone for reading along. I’ll keep it up, though maybe not daily. I’d like to be of interest to more people than my wife (that’s a stretch) and my mom!
Burrito != Sandwich
In what may well be the best legal opinion I’ve read this week—after all, I read so many—a Superior Court in Massachusetts has ruled that a burrito is not a sandwich.
Nor is a taco or a quesadilla.
A civil action involving a couple of restaurants and a mall came down to the definition of sandwich, as there was a clause in the lease indicating that another “sandwich” shop could not open in the shopping center that was being cited against a Mexican restaurant.
The judge, displaying wisdom beyond his years, found that
the term sandwich [does not] include burritos, tacos, and quesadillas.
[...] as dictated by common sense, this court finds that the term “sandwich” is not commonly understood to include burritos, tacos, and quesadillas, which are typically made with a single tortilla and stuffed with a choice of filling of meat, rice, and beans.
To read the entire ruling, from 2006, read it over at Courthouse News.