Friends

I have two great friends in Denmark.

Freso - Precision King

Freso is the king of precision. He has helped me out a lot in being more precise in the work I do on open source projects.

The King of Denmark

And Morten is the King of Denmark - a very cool gentleman who you have to hear to truly understand. He has a unique sense of style that melds together aspects of various modern worlds but all mixed with rock and roll. Not unlike the King of Rock (Run D.M.C.? Aerosmith?) Morten is the King of Denmark.

This past weekend I spent a bit of time helping a good friend set up a new site: Silly Ditties For Kiddies.

Sara Gallegos - Teacher, Musician, Entreprenuer

Sara and I worked together almost 10 years ago. While the jobs have long ended, our friendship has remained. She decided to leave the technology consulting field and become a teacher. She also started playing music again (having played flute in high school) and incorporated singing and music into her classroom. She created her own songs to help teach the various concepts in the classroom and it seemed to really help her students learn the concepts.

Silly Ditties for Kiddies - CDs available now

After a few years of using these songs in the classroom and building a big group of well polished songs, Sara sat down with some professional musicians (and friends who aspire to be professional musicians) and recorded the best songs she has for her students. She is now selling them on her website.

About The E-Commerce System: Ubercart and Drupal

Sara and I spent a few hours working together on a weekend morning and built the whole site. We used Ubercart which is built on the Open Source platform Drupal which is the system I use for work. It was really fun to build a simple site like this for a friend when I spend most of my time working on big sites for people far away (not that those aren't fun too...but...variety is nice).

We like Swedish pancakes, we like sweet potatos. Why not put them together?

Sweet Potato Pancakes in 3 Easy Steps

Step 1: make mashed sweet potatos.

Step 2: begin to make swedish pancakes but reduce the recipe by a little bit of flour and instead use the leftovers from your mashed sweet potatoes.

Step 3: EAT IT AND BE HAPPY!

This is a pretty simple recipe:

• 1 sweet potato
• 1/2 tablespoon butter
• Dash of cinnamon (to taste)
• Dash of curry (to taste)
• Dash of salt

Peel and cube the sweet potato and then boil the sweet potato for 20 minutes, or until tender. Drain away the water, add butter and potato to a mixing bowl and smash and blend as you would regular mashed potatoes. This serves as a side dish for 2 to 3 people.

You want to have some leftovers so you can make some sweet potato pancakes.

So, I'm officiating a ceremony and we get to be creative. I know what christian/catholic weddings are like. I don't know Jewish ones, much, but I've seen them in movies...? I wanted to research weddings in general to get some ideas of some universal elements and fun things that we shouldn't miss.

Here's the stuff that's been helpful to me so far:

a short Hindu wedding
Red Hot Curry's guide to Hindu weddings

Some wedding scripts from a unitarian universalist celebrant

I recently re-launched a little side project called Colorado Health Community. The initial goal is to just better highlight some articles about complementary medicine from some practitioners that I know in the area. Eventually I will add back in the directory of service providers and a calendar of events, but this is all for now.

Also, I had the logo done by my good friend Anita at A Cuppa Creative and I'm really happy with it. Thanks, Anita.

Ah, it's that time again. Time to plan for summer concerts. A quick review of all the craptastic concert calendar sites shows me too many artists coming to town this summer. Who should I see?

• ColoradoInfo.com which is pretty disorganized...but seems decent.
• Westwords Concert Search which is just plain overwhelming
• DenverPost.com Summer Concert Calendar
• Boulder Daily Camera less complete, easier to digest, not Boulder focused (odd, that last bit)
• Denver Botanic Gardens Concerts which are, at least somewhat, already sold out!
• KBCO Concert List which should be awesome but, is kind of hard to navigate. What's up with the website, guys, 3 clicks to get to the concert list?