Monthly Archives: June 2008

Friday Open Thread

OK, I’ve got nothing at this point to entertain you with other than pubic wigs so I thought it might be time for an open thread. What’s on your mind? What are you doing this weekend? Any plans for the Fourth next weekend? It’s all good. Except merkins. If you’re doing anything with a merkin, …

June 27, 2008 – 8:11 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Open Thread | Comments (2)

Bad Band Names

So I’m listening to Soma this morning and I glance down at Winamp to find that the band I’m listening to is called Merkin Dream. Yup, I’m listening to music by a band who dreams about pubic wigs. Good times.

June 27, 2008 – 8:09 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

But My Method DOES Have An Implementation

Ran across a fun one this morning and thought I’d offer my findings up to the Google god in case others out there suffer from the same affliction. We’ve got all our interfaces in one assembly and all our WCF services that implement said interfaces in another assembly. I rolled out some changes this morning …

June 26, 2008 – 8:44 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Things I Don’t Need Protection For

Sometimes, I get down on myself because I don’t ever come up with good ideas for software projects. I feel like I should be able to come up with something that I could turn into a product that people might want to buy. I’m reasonably smart, I understand people at least 42% of the time …

June 25, 2008 – 8:18 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (2)

New Object Instantiation Goodness

I used to write code like this all the time (and used to is highly subjective and quite possibly includes a time frame as recent as 3 minutes ago): MyObject obj = new MyObject(); obj.SomeProperty = 1; obj.AnotherProperty = 2; obj.YupItsAnotherProperty = 3; return obj; With c# 3.0 (which on an unrelated note doesn’t particularly …

June 24, 2008 – 2:40 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming, Random | Comments (0)

Customer Service

Eric Lippert entertains us with his trip into “Horrible Customer Service Land” or what I like to call “the people who work at Dish Network.”

June 24, 2008 – 7:26 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Ayn Rand Has To Be Doing Grave Gainers

Lots of words have been written lately about oil and why it’s trading at $135+ a barrel and what Congress can do about it and blah blah blah. Of late, most of the blabbering has been about speculators and how they drive the cost of oil up artificially. Today, on Capitol Hill, one Michael Masters …

June 23, 2008 – 9:55 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics | Comments (2)

Sometimes My OCD Takes A Break

Is it a bad sign if you have 8.77 GB of data in your recycle bin?

June 23, 2008 – 3:58 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (3)

Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

Jeff Atwood recently wrote about the new var keyword in c# 3.0 and in essence came to the conclusion that you should use var a lot more than you are so that your code is more concise. Richard Dingwall shows why Jeff has missed the boat on this one. Jeff has written in the past …

June 22, 2008 – 5:16 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (2)

Friday Cat Blogging

Yup, I got nothing but cats around here. First, Grace shows what great taste she has as she checks for the last bottom of the bag french fry and finds that the promise of a McSkillet Burrito is fleeting and mostly false: And then we have Ms. Miracle proclaiming “If you beoytches won’t feed me …

June 20, 2008 – 7:25 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Pictures | Tagged | Comments (0)