The new St. Vincent album is out at the end of the month, and I’m loving what she’s released so far. This one’s been on repeat in my head for a couple days now:

While fiddling with this here site, I found that YouTube embeds don’t always play super-well with responsive layouts. This StackExchange thread has a nice solution. In the stylesheet:

.videowrapper {
    float: none;
    clear: both;
    width: 100%;
    position: relative;
    padding-bottom: 56.25%;
    padding-top: 25px;
    height: 0;
}

.videowrapper iframe {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

And within a responsive element on the page:

<div class="videowrapper">
  <iframe src="funvideo"></iframe>
</div>

And now you can spend five minutes resizing your window over and over.

NC Literary Festival 2014 Lineup
The author lineup for April’s North Carolina Literary Festival is fantastic. Karen Joy Fowler, Junot Diaz, Peter Straub, and many, many more. I’ll be going if at all possible; anyone near the Triangle should give it a look.

Hello Ruby by Linda Liukas
A Kickstarter for a lovely-looking children’s book that teaches the basics of Ruby programming, from a co-founder of Rails Girls. Seems warm and playful and genuinely kid-oriented, which is really cool to see.

Horrifying Business Cliches We’re All Tired and Terrified of Hearing

“Let’s make sure that our bases will touch. I will touch your base to my base.”

“Together, we will all circle back. The circle will be mandatory, and it will never end.”

“You are the Thought Leader; you must lead our thoughts.”

Now you must bear the key takeaway. We have taken the key away and entrusted it to you. We only hope we will not Regret Our Investment.

The old reading tree at Weaver:

I finally got a chance to visit a bunch of my Triangle people and places last weekend, and didn’t quite realize how relieved I would be to find everything where I left it. New produce section at Weaver, PTA Thrift Store finished, but the folks in the bookstores still knew me to say hi.

Some places don’t take long to feel like they’ve moved on without you. But the Triangle is still home, and still feels like it.

I’ve made this for years but never gotten around to measuring or writing down the ingredients. UNTIL NOW. Here’s what I used last time – it came out pretty well and made enough for two.

• 1lb ground buffalo
• 2 strips thick-cut bacon
• 2 heads of garlic
• ¼ large sweet onion
• 14.5 oz crushed tomato
• ?? tomato paste (lost track)
• 7 oz black beans
• 2 teaspoons chili garlic sauce
• Salt, pepper, paprika, chili powder, cayenne pepper to taste

I roasted the garlic (like this) and cooked both buffalo and bacon for a minute or two on stovetop. Put it all in the pot, mixed with diced onions and tomatoes and beans and a little tomato paste, let it simmer on low for an hour and a half or so. Then added seasoning and a little more tomato paste, let it go for another hourish. Usually I let it sit for longer; in the past, it’s come out best when I’ve used a crockpot.

This isn’t quite a final draft, and I’ll probably come back and fiddle with it when I make the chili again. But in the meantime: buffalo and bacon and weapons-grade concentrations of garlic.