Monthly Archives: March 2008

Blue Kittens

Do you sometimes find yourself feeling like Woody Allen? Yeah, me neither.

March 29, 2008 – 6:57 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

I Really DON’T Need All That Information

So some of you will remember that I made some Lenten commitments and here’s the point where I update you since I know you’ve been anxiously awaiting all my amazing self-discovery. Right. Anyway, I do feel like jotting down a little bit about the experience. We’ll start with the success first. For 40 days and …

March 26, 2008 – 8:59 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Epiphany | Comments (1)

Further Proof I Lack Self-Control

So much for the hiatus. Frequently when you’re working in a team environment using Visual Studio in general and Visual Studio 2008 for this specific example, you’ll start to get an error dialog when you open the solution file that says “Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read”. This isn’t …

March 25, 2008 – 7:35 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Non-Hiatus Hiatus

I’m toying with the idea of just blogging over at Blowing Sunshine Up Your Asparagus for a little while. There’s a ton of things to write about in the early spring here in Texas and my writing on this blog has been, well, caustic lately. I’m looking to return to a little more measured consideration …

March 25, 2008 – 7:07 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

The Saga Continues

Running tests requires a checkout too. Sweet Mother, Mary of Unintended Consequences.

March 20, 2008 – 9:00 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Confusing Causation With Correlation The Completely Unrelated

Let’s say you’re reasonably mechanically inclined and you decide that you’re going to start changing your own oil in your car instead of taking it down to the Kwiky Lube for their $50 special. So you go to Wal-mart, buy all the necessary items such as oil, filter, ramps, pan for the old oil and …

March 20, 2008 – 6:49 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (1)

You Can Tell It’s A Bubble By The Idiots

I’m gonna give you a quote I just read on Money.com. You just let it sink in for a minute (emphasis mine): “At $2 a share, you might as well just let them go bankrupt,” said Fred J. Wallace, a Houston retiree who owns 1,500 Bear Stearns shares, which he bought last month. Wallace, 62 …

March 17, 2008 – 5:24 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Money | Comments (2)

Writing In Molasses

Events in scotch-land have come to a grinding halt of late, deserved rants on TFS notwithstanding. I haven’t been doing much writing for public consumption lately for a variety of reasons, most of which include some level of laziness and alcohol intake. I’ve had the TFS rant jumping around in my head for a little …

March 13, 2008 – 9:08 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (3)

TFS

I’ve been working closely with Microsoft Team Foundation Server on the project I’m currently on and one thing that I’ve come to really appreciate about it is how much it sucks. It’s truly remarkable the level of suckitude that ships with TFS and every day that goes by just increases my awestruckedness at its suckiness. …

March 13, 2008 – 7:21 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (1)

The Caucus

So yesterday was primary and caucus day here in Texas. As far back as I can remember, the primaries never were particularly important in Texas because the candidates had all pretty much been chosen by the time we had ours but this year was different, at least for the Democrats. Because that wimp Fred Thompson …

March 5, 2008 – 9:18 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)