Links as of August 19, 2016:

• Alaskan
• Anchor Steam
• Ballast Point
• Bells
• Brooklyn
• Dogfish Head
• Firestone
• Founders
• Fulton
• Green Flash
• Karl Strauss
• Left Hand Brewing
• Lost Coast
• New Glarus
• Odell
• Oskar Blues
• Stone
• Sweetwater
• Summit
• Troegs
• Yuengling

Dave McAlinden - "If I Was Your God"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZhkZoG4vOs

Kevin Yang - "How to Love Your Introvert"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfh_mRA5B6A

Will Evans - "The Prestige"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TXfWTww7_0

Guante - “Ten Responses to the Phrase ‘Man Up’ “
http://buttonpoetry.tumblr.com/post/67779004983/guante-ten-responses-to-the-phrase-man-up

Neil Hilborn - “OCD” (Rustbelt 2013)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vnKZ4pdSU-s

Sy Stokes - “The Black Bruins”
http://buttonpoetry.tumblr.com/post/66519136871

Neil Hilborn - “The Future” (NPS 2013)
http://buttonpoetry.tumblr.com/post/66323917419

Renee Schminkey - “Pine City”
http://buttonpoetry.tumblr.com/post/66048205508

Amir Safi - “Brown Boy. White House.” (NPS 2013)
http://buttonpoetry.tumblr.com/post/65483866137

Michael Lee - “Anvils” (TGS 2013)
http://buttonpoetry.tumblr.com/post/65387767077

Adam Falkner - "The Whitest Thing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1EZXmV5nWA&feature=youtube_gdata

Mike Rosen - “When God Happens”
http://buttonpoetry.tumblr.com/post/60935815166

J.G. - “Guilty as Trained” (NPS 2013)
http://nps2013.tumblr.com/post/60100056055

Taylor Mali - "What Teachers Make"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0xuFnP5N2uA

Background

I first read about Soylent a month into my treck on the Appalachian Trail. I was hiking fourteen hours a day, eating 4000-6000 calories a day, minimizing travel weight, and trying hard not break the bank. If there was ever a time to appreciate pure nutrtional utility optimized for cost then that was it.

Soylent is food simplified. After quite a bit research, the Soylent team arrived at this reverse engineered food recipe. Everything your body needs in its most basic form.

Optimizing meals for cost and utility was something I had already begun to do over the years but with nowhere near the precision and certainly not to the extent Soylent has. As the falls semester ramps up I decided to give it a go.

Goals

I lost a lot of weight over the five months on the trail as well as pretty much all functional upper body strength. To counter that I would like to create a varient with a high calorie count, a lot of protein, and that meets the standard strength training micro/macro nutrient profile.

Recipe

Soylent is open source. They have released the recipe online and even host a DIY community site for others to share their own tweaked recipes, comment on other recipes, and discover new ingredients.

After looking through existing recipes, reading reviews, and comparing prices I arrived at Zete Chow. The main components for calories and protein are also the primary ingredients for protein and mass gainer supplements - worst case I hate the meal replacement, salvage the whey concentrate and maltodextrin, and manufacture my own workout shakes.

Purchase

I sourced as many of the ingredients as I could from Amazon. While I might have been able to track them down for less, the convenience of Amazon Prime free shipping offset the potential cost difference.

Amazon didn't have everything though. The fifty pound each I bought of maltodextrin and whey protein concentrate came from a bakery supply source. A few things I decided to source locally as well.

Everything is in the mail so all that's left for now is to wait. Part II will cover mixing and storage.

I didn't encounter Git until the end of high school and it wasn't until a few years later that I actually understood how to use it properly. One of the biggest things I missed was the power of .gitignore. This lead to many wayward bin/ and gen/ commits and unnecessarily large repositories.

Fast forward to the present predicament: bulk cleaning of past commits.

1. Add the .gitignore file you should have way back when.
   Github .gitignore Collection
   Base OS .gitignore Sample

<li>
	Apply the new <code>.gitignore</code> rules to all commits:<br />
    
    <pre>git filter-branch --force --index-filter \

'git ls-files -ci --exclude-from=/path/to/repository/.gitignore -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached'
--prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
If Git does not allow you to use the .gitignore file from within the repository then you will need to copy it into a different directory, update the path in the sample, and re-run it.

See Reference section below for details on the above code sample


<li>
	Overwrite remote repository:<br />
    <code>git push origin --force --all</code>
</li>

<li>[<i>Optional</i>] Add Git alias to apply <code>.gitignore</code> changes in the future<br />
Open Git configuration file <code>vi ~/.gitconfig</code><br />
If the <code>alias</code> section does not exist, you will need to add it.
<pre>[alias]
    apply-gitignore = !git ls-files -ci --exclude-standard -z | xargs -0r git rm --cached</pre>
Save your changes

Reference:
Github Help: Purging a File from Repository History
stackoverflow: Applying .gitignore to Committed Files

First piece of writing I've ever published.

Make the most of this last weekend
A toast to what was, and as we keep telling ourselves,
To what will be, but we both know these fluted glasses are plastic
And the champagne burns like cheap spirit as I force it down,
no longer the same bargain it was in high school
I wonder how you stomach it so easily

Leftover feelings thick like leftover gravy
Thanksgiving stuffing for an empty heart
Celebrate gluttony on this hollow holiday
Somehow never enough to fill this failing organ
Each pump propelling the cracks ever closer to the surface
A testament to modern engineering it has held this long

It’s not the first time we’ve walked these fields
No flowers now, just a thin film of winter wheat
But my, have the roots spread deep beneath us
Gone too are the groves. Leafless, only two trees remain
Gaunt silhouettes cast by an ugly mess of limbs and stumps
The feelings born of this place now dormant as well

Looking out at the river, we sit just far enough away
The spring air was warm and full of beginnings our first time here
Fitting, isn’t it, that today its bite is sharp
Whipping up whitecaps, while the surface remains calm as a mirror
The tumult before us a reflection of the unspoken words between us
In a matter of days ice will suffocate not just the river we face

Sunday arrives; not a day if rest, but a day to put to rest
As I pack my things this time through
I leave my corner room even emptier than before
Thirty months of memories torn down faster than I thought possible
Dumped into a cardboard box, sealed, and buried with no eulogy
To be forgotten until age has safely yellowed all that’s inside