Monthly Archives: September 2008

Wylie Pizza Hut Customer Service

Is abysmal. Like ter­ri­ble bad. Like as in last time we had deliv­ery, the man­ager had to bring it, kind of bad. That is all.

September 30, 2008 – 6:53 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Sarah Palin Likes Guns and Moose

Which accord­ing to one Alcee Hast­ings, Demo­c­ra­tic Con­gress­man from Florida, means she hates Jews and Blacks. Ahem. Ahem again because hell, what in God’s tar­na­tion do you say to that? I quote: “If Sarah Palin isn’t enough of a rea­son for you to get over what­ever your prob­lem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well …

September 26, 2008 – 2:15 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Tagged , | Comments (0)

One Time Setup For WCF and Virtual Directories On Vista

This is mostly for my own ref­er­ence but maybe some­one will run across it and it will keep them from hav­ing to rein­stall IIS like I just had to. Step 1: Fol­low steps 1–5 here pay­ing spe­cific atten­tion to the link in step 2. In step 5, I only did port 80 since I’m not inter­ested …

September 26, 2008 – 10:45 am | By Scooter | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Root Causes

I’ve been read­ing a lot of arti­cles lately related to the bailout specif­i­cally and our crappy econ­omy in gen­eral. More and more, a nefar­i­ous lit­tle meme is show­ing up and it’s start­ing to drive me insane. Tim at The Mess That Greenspan Made has been harp­ing on it as well. It’s usu­ally sub­tle, placed 7 …

September 26, 2008 – 8:23 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

The Bailout (the short version)

Via The Mess That Greenspan Made

September 24, 2008 – 8:26 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics, Random | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Test Driven Development As Science

If TDD is sci­ence, does that make water­fall religion?

September 8, 2008 – 7:38 am | By Scooter | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Crossfit Update

So I’ve been doing Cross­fit for 2 weeks now and I can safely say that while my body hates it, my mind loves it. It’s bru­tally hard phys­i­cally at times and it really empha­sizes a breadth of train­ing ver­sus spe­cial­iza­tion. I’m look­ing for­ward to each day’s work­out in a way I haven’t in quite awhile. …

September 7, 2008 – 9:39 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Exercise | Tagged , | Comments (0)

How To Write Sensational Headlines 101

Here are the facts: Based on two recent stud­ies, sea lev­els will rise between 27 inches and 6.6 feet by the end of the cen­tury. Which one of the fol­low­ing head­lines do you think is writ­ten by a scream­ing alarmist eco-terrorist and which one is writ­ten by a level headed edi­tor? Sea Level Rise May …

September 5, 2008 – 6:01 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Science | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Seen and Heard

Seen for sale in the deli down­stairs: Cougar Energy — No Calo­ries. No Carbs. No Sugar. Just Cocaine. Guar­an­teed to make you roar. Energy for women OK, I made that cocaine part up. But rest of it is for real, yo. Who comes up with this stuff? Cougar Energy? Seri­ously? And on related, more inter­est­ing note, …

September 5, 2008 – 1:07 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (1)

Hold Yer Horses, Northern Exposure

Not com­pletely safe for work (you’ll hear the word “fuck” once or twice) but worth wait­ing to get home to watch.

September 3, 2008 – 6:43 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics, Random | Tagged , , | Comments (0)