A few weeks ago, Ballmer was giving a talk somewhere and got a bit chewed out from a mother about her daughter (?) who had begged her to switch to Vista, only to switch back shortly thereafter. He told her something along the lines of, “Your daughter saw a lot of value!”, to which the lady replied, “She’s thirteen.”
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007Wag the Dog
Saturday, October 6th, 2007If you haven’t seen it, go out and rent the movie Wag the Dog. My favorite quote from this movie happens right after a few of the characters survive a plane crash. One character finds a small portable TV, on which less-than-agreeable news is playing. In anger, she tosses the TV to the ground, breaking it.
Robert DeNiro: Leave it alone, will ya? What did the TV ever do to you?
Lady: It destroyed the electoral process.
the problem of oversimplification
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Before you read, go watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ.
The car accident story
Monday, September 10th, 2007free prescription drugs! so what?
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007If you haven’t seen it, Publix just announced that they will be giving away seven (7) common oral antibiotics (I admit, the first time I read this as oral contraceptives, since you don’t usually see “antibiotics” qualified with “oral”). So why don’t I care? I remember the last time I accompanied a friend to pick up a prescription for 2 weeks of one of the common antibiotics. The sum total of her bill was…drum roll please…
$0.50.
That’s right. Publix will now give you about 50 cents off your pharmacy bill. Woo-fuckin-hoo.
LINQ’s query syntax was created to make me angry
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Before you big C# fellaters out there get all pissed off, let me start by saying how cool some of the new C# features are. For those of you who aren’t tuned in to the Microsoft Kool-Aid bandwagon, C# is becoming, well, more Lispy (by which I mean is getting language features that will let it sit at the Adult Table next Thanksgiving). Features that C#, along with some other languages (Java, I’m looking at you, you red-headed stepchild of programming languages), have been needing.
code complete redux + RAII
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007As I looked back over past posts, I realized that I’ve never (at least to my memory) written an article explaining RAII. I’ve done it in person quite a few times, to the various classes that I have TAed or graded, but I haven’t written it down. So, here’s an attempt at it.
Protected: selling culture vs. selling crap
Saturday, July 14th, 2007steve mcconnell made us all dumber
Monday, July 9th, 2007I was randomly flipping through Code Complete today (on a slight whim of masochism), and read a whopping 2 pages before I came upon YASI (Yet Another Stupid Idea), for which this book is famous for (famous among people who prefer to think when they code, rather than crapping code out their, well, you know.)
common sense will be the end of us all
Monday, July 9th, 2007I stayed home sick today (seems I caught a bit of a stomach bug), so I decided to pass some of the time watching silly Google/YouTube videos. One of the videos I came upon (while looking for videos of any of the bridges in Seattle that have sunk over the years), was this video. The title of the video is “Creationist Kent Hovind Reveals The Truth About Dinosaurs And Evolution!”