Monthly Archives: May 2009

Configuring IUnityContainer

I’m using the IUni­ty­Con­tainer from the Com­pos­ite Appli­ca­tion Guid­ance in my cur­rent Sil­verlight project for Depen­dency Injec­tion and this morn­ing, I came across some­thing that I couldn’t find doc­u­mented any­where. Ini­tially, all my reg­is­tered depen­den­cies were being cre­ated using other depen­den­cies that I had reg­is­tered with the con­tainer. For exam­ple, I had the Cus­tomerOrder­Ser­vice below …

May 28, 2009 – 11:16 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

The Gap Between Taste and Ability

I recently ran across this video of Ira Glass talk­ing about the huge gap that exists between your taste in cre­ative endeav­ors and your abil­ity to cre­ate. I’ve always implic­itly known this gap existed but this is the first time I’ve heard or seen it vocal­ized so clearly. I think most cre­ative peo­ple strug­gle with …

May 26, 2009 – 9:44 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (2)

A Timely Tradition

This week­end is Memo­r­ial Day Week­end and for the past three years, we have hosted what we refer to as “The Meat­fest” at our house in early cel­e­bra­tion of Memo­r­ial Day. This year will be no dif­fer­ent except that the peo­ple on our guest list have mostly all agreed to drive to our house out …

May 22, 2009 – 1:28 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Green Shoots Are Sometimes Weeds

As any gar­dener will tell you, healthy lawns hardly ever have weeds in them. This is because when a lawn is healthy, it is lush and thick and weeds don’t have a chance to grow. Weeds only show up in a lawn when there is some­thing wrong with the under­ly­ing soil or lawn. If the …

May 21, 2009 – 8:54 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Things To Do About Town

If you’re in the DFW Metro­plex and want to lis­ten to some good live music this Thurs­day, head out to Tolbert’s Restau­rant to hear The Vin­tage Vibes do two sets of 50s jump, jazz blues music. They are a great band and this opin­ion is in no way influ­enced by the fact that I am …

May 19, 2009 – 1:08 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

The New Design

A cou­ple of weeks ago, the 10,000th vis­i­tor found their way here to The Exper­i­ment. I’ve been con­sid­er­ing how to mark this momen­tous occa­sion (even though those vis­its aren’t par­tic­u­larly reli­able and cer­tainly, my sit­ting at home hit­ting F5 try­ing to drive up my visit count doesn’t help. Not that I would ever do that). …

May 15, 2009 – 9:07 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (1)

Breaking Up The Team

What would hap­pen if mid­way through the the NFL sea­son last year, the Pitts­burgh Steel­ers, stand­ing at 6 and 2 and lead­ing the AFC North, had decided that their foot­ball sea­son was over and dis­banded the team? Or what if they decided to move Big Ben to the train­ing squad because he was a prime …

May 14, 2009 – 9:05 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (3)

Just In Case

If you’re ever think­ing about vol­un­teer­ing to be Tased for what­ever odd rea­son you have cooked up, real­ize that you will prob­a­bly sound like this when it happens.

May 14, 2009 – 12:55 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Recession Sing-A-Long

Take a West Side Story revival, com­bine it with the worst reces­sion since the Great Depres­sion and you get hilarity.

May 13, 2009 – 4:03 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

The Nibroc Trilogy

If you’re in the DFW area, you should take time this week­end and go see the first play in the Nibroc Tril­ogy cur­rently being per­formed in the The­ater Too space at The­ater Three. The tril­ogy is being put on there over the next few weeks. It tells the story of a young cou­ple who meet …

May 13, 2009 – 8:00 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Culture | Tagged , | Comments (0)