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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | Posted in Pictures | Tagged | Comments (0)