the simple things

Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 10:44AM

By Eric Richardson

It's funny, now that I've got support for Markdown syntax, the thing I'm most excited about is now I'll actually have my paragraphs wrapped in p tags instead of via my ugly excuse for turning line breaks into
tags. The simple things...

Kathy and I just picked her parents up at Union Station. They rode the train out here from Chicago, a trip that started Wednesday. They enjoyed it. After dropping their luggage in the car we walked across to Olvera St and ate at La Golondrina Cafe. I had carne asada tacos and enjoyed them.

It's way too nice to be inside, but that's where I am. You can't have everything, I guess.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

2005
It'll Never Be Done
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Write Write Right
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2004
on the go
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2001
(Friday) North Muskegon 13, Ravenna 6
After starting off slow, we opened up on Ravenna and kept it from really being a contest. I went 2-4 with several RBIs, two of which came on a check swing...
1999
blues brothers
you know you've always been dying to find the full text transcript of the blues brothers. I dare you to memorize it.
eThreads fun
I did a lot of work on eThreads today, trying to get it ready for Gospelcom to use. It's really coming along well. I'm impressed (and I wrote...