Science, tech and other stuff. Getting started with Firebase, by building a persistent chat client. Middot; Leave a comment. For a recent project at Hack Reactor. To power the database and back end of our AngularJS web application. Firebase was proved to be amazingly easy to setup. Their 5 minute quick start. Sold me on the utility of this service.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. A song cycle about love, death, and whiskey. A camera breaks and four friends drink in an interwoven tale spanning seven centuries, with a murderous sister, a treehouse astronomer, a bear, a subway, and the ghost of Thelonious Monk. A CD of the album, with cover art by Margaret Ashford-Trotter and a chipboard card case designed by Brittain Ashford.

Max Fisher at The Washington Post ran a blog post. Last week featuring a world map of racial tolerance based on data from the World Values Survey.

Sunday, August 25, 2013. This is the second time I have travelled out to Vashon Island for a shorter amount of riding than I had originally planned. But like last time, I had a lot of fun. The first time I went out there was in 2009. The interesting part about the trip this year is that with the exception of a small detour to a boat ramp area, we rode the same stretches of road. 2009 on the ferry to Fauntleroy. 2009 photo by Kirsten Lauzon. Including one of me taking a picture.