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)