Monthly Archives: February 2009

The World Is A Safer Place Today

The City of Dal­las con­ducted a gun buy­back and 147 hard­ened crim­i­nals turned in their guns. Hard­ened crim­i­nals like Gary Reed who exchanged his guns because he was tired of killing peo­ple “of his Chris­t­ian faith.” His church had been ask­ing him to do more so he turned his guns in. Though it looks to …

February 28, 2009 – 6:13 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Second Amendment | Tagged | Comments (3)

Rich Eisen Runs The 40

For those of you already going through NFL with­drawal, some high com­edy as Rich Eisen runs the 40 at the combine.

February 27, 2009 – 11:52 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Sports | Tagged , | Comments (0)

More Programmer Porn

Yum. Pro­gram­mer par­adise indeed. One of the down­falls of being a con­sul­tant is never hav­ing a set up like that.

February 27, 2009 – 11:18 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

On Writing

Some­times this writ­ing thing doesn’t come par­tic­u­larly easy. Lots of times I’ll feel this almost painful ache to write some­thing but noth­ing comes out. I’ll wait while you make con­sti­pa­tion jokes. Done? Great. But seri­ously, the inner cre­ative voice always is in some sort of minor skir­mish with the inner critic and while the great …

February 22, 2009 – 10:35 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (6)

Build What You Love

Whether it’s in soft­ware, sports, music, art, lit­er­a­ture, what­ever. Build what you love. Noth­ing says it bet­ter than that. Via Reg Braithwaite

February 21, 2009 – 11:56 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Epiphany | Comments (2)

Does Anyone Read These Things?

Just won­der­ing.

February 20, 2009 – 6:31 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Humor, Random | Comments (3)

A New Tax Deduction

Quote of the Week Now that those of us who have been mak­ing steady, on-time pay­ments on our mort­gages for years will be pay­ing off oth­ers’ mort­gages through our taxes, can we claim a tax-deduction for our neigh­bors’ mort­gage inter­est too? Love it. Peo­ple are angry over this and they are only get­ting angrier. This is not …

February 20, 2009 – 12:33 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics, National Issues | Tagged | Comments (1)

Maybe America Will Be OK After All

There are some rea­son­ably seri­ous rum­blings about peo­ple get­ting sick of our new Pres­i­dent spend­ing all their money. And some of the rum­blings are get­ting loud. If a mod­ern day Boston Tea Party hap­pened to get orga­nized in Chicago, I’d be on the first plane to Chicago I could find. Here’s hop­ing we still have …

February 19, 2009 – 11:46 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics, National Issues | Tagged | Comments (0)

Advice We Don’t Need

There’s noth­ing like hav­ing the Euro­peans tell us how to han­dle our hous­ing cri­sis. “But as the hous­ing bub­ble deflates, it also drags inno­cent vic­tims into a wave of fore­clo­sures” they crow! Please. What inno­cent vic­tims are being dragged into a wave of fore­clo­sures? Either you can afford the house you live in or you …

February 19, 2009 – 5:03 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics, National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (0)

When A Billion Isn’t Big Anymore

Not so long ago, a bil­lion dol­lars was a lot of money. Now? Not so much. This morn­ing, news on the wire says Obama is set­ting aside $75 bil­lion to slow fore­clo­sures. First of all, where did that $75 bil­lion come from that he’s set­ting aside? Oh yeah: “com­mit­ting $75 bil­lion of tax­payer money to …

February 18, 2009 – 11:10 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics, National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (0)