Monthly Archives: March 2009

Some Day My Dreams Will Match Reality

On Parking

March 31, 2009 – 1:28 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor | Comments (0)

ASP.Net MVC Training Kit Released

Microsoft has released a training kit for their ASP.Net MVC framework which you can read about here and get here.

March 31, 2009 – 8:48 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (0)

Vegas Baby

Things will most likely be quiet around The Experiment this weekend as I and 4 friends are headed to Vegas for the weekend. The occasion is the late celebration of a birthday and it promises to be a good one. Posting will resume on the flip side unless I get bored in Vegas.

March 27, 2009 – 3:41 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

I’ll Ajax The Crap Out Of Your Site

I have no idea if this guy is for real or not but I want to work with him just to watch him “pull your data asynchronously from every orifice of your server.” That is the sweetest solicitation for a job I’ve ever seen I think. And I say that having seen 2 or 3 …

March 26, 2009 – 6:37 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, Programming | Comments (3)

Doing Something Productive

I just sent the following to my Representative in the US House in response to HR 875 – the Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2009 which I wrote about here. I lifted a large portion of the letter with permission from TennZen and tailored the message somewhat to Congressman Hall, my representative. Feel free …

March 25, 2009 – 8:14 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Our Idiot Representatives

We are living in what can lightly be described as trying times and our Senators think it is of utmost importance to hold hearings on the Bowl Championship Series. We are represented by buffoons and self-serving ego maniacs, creatures who must insert themselves into every conversation in a vain attempt to yell louder than their …

March 25, 2009 – 7:33 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Sports | Tagged , | Comments (0)

How Progressive Are You

Inquiring minds want to know. I scored 151 out of 400. That makes me conservative which I think is the opposite of progressive. Ah well. Post your score to the comments so we can all have fun.

March 25, 2009 – 1:15 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (8)

Rain Barrel Update

Well we had a little storm roll through Wylie this morning and there is good news and bad news. The good news is that 3/10ths of an inch of rain translated into about 40ish gallons of rainwater in the collection system. That tells me we don’t have nearly enough collection capacity but for now, I’m …

March 24, 2009 – 7:09 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Weekend Project

For the past two weekends, we’ve been working on a rain barrel project after seeing an article in the Dallas Morning News about them. When we first moved to our house, we bought a trash can and stuck it under a rain spout which was ok for awhile but was decidedly low tech and eventually …

March 22, 2009 – 8:39 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Tagged , | Comments (7)

ASP.Net MVC 1.0 Released

It’s ALIVE! This is a success for Microsoft and the ASP.Net MVC team. The software is solid, does what it is supposed to and doesn’t get in the way of the developer. It makes it easy to test, it’s extensible and it makes writing web pages fun. I wrote a website back in November using …

March 19, 2009 – 8:11 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (0)