Monthly Archives: April 2009

Richardson Tea Party

I went to the Richard­son Tea Party yes­ter­day and it was pretty inter­est­ing. The crowd looked like it was around 700 or so which is pretty good for a lunch day protest rally. We weren’t cen­tered in one place like in other tea par­ties around the coun­try. Most every­one was walk­ing around the park wav­ing …

April 16, 2009 – 6:42 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Tagged , | Comments (8)

Tax Day Tea Party Protests

If you’ve been read­ing any­thing about pol­i­tics lately, you’ve surely seen at least cur­sory cov­er­age of local tea par­ties around the coun­try where peo­ple are com­ing together to protest the unbe­liev­able spend­ing that the fed­eral gov­ern­ment is doing in an attempt to get us out of the eco­nomic mess we’re in. These peo­ple are start­ing …

April 14, 2009 – 10:04 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues, Politics | Tagged | Comments (1)

Solving Life’s Hard Problems

Hank Williams once wrote a song about ear can­dles while he was on break in the bath­room of the Ryman doing cocaine off a hooker’s ass. He decided it wouldn’t sell though and tossed it out. Turns out he was wrong. I’m think­ing about buy­ing a cou­ple just for the great pic­ture it would produce.

April 14, 2009 – 9:34 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Solving Your Procrastination Problem

Are you a pro­cras­ti­na­tor? This blog can really help. I know it helped me write this blog post that I was putting off.

April 14, 2009 – 8:54 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor | Tagged | Comments (1)

Leading Spam Title Of The Week

It’s early in the week but this one is an early favorite to win this week’s “Most ridicu­lous yet mem­o­rable spam title”. “Get your organ­ism filled with needed Mag­ne­sium oxide.” I just don’t think I want my organ­ism (or any organ­ism really) filled with a “short term laxative”.

April 13, 2009 – 8:10 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Getting It All Wrong

Because the inter­net is such a big place, occa­sion­ally you will read some­thing that is so pro­foundly wrong that at first you are sure it’s par­ody and only later, does it come clear that the author is in fact earnestly try­ing to argue for some­thing based on a fun­da­men­tal mis­un­der­stand­ing of how the world works …

April 13, 2009 – 7:13 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Wireshark Rocks

I love Wire­shark. It’s a net­work pro­to­col ana­lyzer that has saved me count­less hours over the last year or so in debug­ging seri­al­iza­tion and HTTP issues on a vari­ety of projects. Today’s suc­cess story comes cour­tesy of Sil­verlight, WCF and the haz­ards of leav­ing slashes off the end of a URL. I’m work­ing on a project …

April 10, 2009 – 9:44 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means

Somali Pirates vow to take on US Mil­i­tary might if attacked. Ahem. 4 guys with AK-47s in a lifeboat with no fuel 300 miles off the coast of Africa are going to take on the US Navy? Really? For some rea­son, I’m pretty sure I know how this is going to turn out. This is …

April 10, 2009 – 7:36 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs | Comments (0)

Adverse Effects

Work­ers in Paris are pissed again about sup­pos­edly ter­ri­ble work­ing con­di­tions. I was just over there last Sep­tem­ber and work­ing con­di­tions really didn’t seem that bad to me. We went to the Eif­fel Tower and as best I can tell, there weren’t a lot of rocket sci­en­tists nec­es­sary to make things work around that place. …

April 10, 2009 – 7:13 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Finally, A Real Use For Twitter

The Tweet­ing Cat Door Meet­ing at the col­li­sion of Need Street and Use­less Tech­nol­ogy Avenue. Genius.

April 9, 2009 – 6:32 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (2)