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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
9:36 am	Detroit, I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. Dumbasses. From my posting of 11/11/2005: Open letter to the voters of Detroit. Dear Detroit Voters, Congratulations on re-electing a racist, isolationist, party boy as mayor. "Diamond" Kwame Kilpatrick should serve you well into your continued decline, while stuffing the pockets of his family and friends. You don't need good relationships with the suburbs. Detroit can squeeze money from its own populace to fix its streets and pay for its police. Stand on your platform and call us white trash drug addicts. Continue to accuse us of intentionally hurting Detroit. Say that we're not patronizing Detroit because we're a bunch of racist control-freaks that want to run the City of Detroit from Oakland County -- the tail wagging the dog. Believe the garbage spewing from that lying hate monger. But we'll only remember that you, the residents, re-elected him. Don't come crying to us when you want money to have Cobo Hall renovated. Don't even think of asking for additional taxes and fees to pay for a downtown "rejuvination". If my beloved Red Wings weren't in Joe Louis Arena, I'd never have any reason to go to Detroit again. Sincerely, A suburban Detroit southeast Michigan resident.
Monday, December 31st, 2007
10:21 am	The NHL Media Office is run by the Marx Brothers (as sent earlier) Dear NHL Media, I'm from the Detroit area, 38, and have been a hockey fan as long as I can remember. Whether NHL teams (early 1980's with the Red Wings) and AHL/CHL teams (late 1970's with the Flint Generals). My wife is from the Buffalo area, 37, and a longtime fan of local teams and the Buffalo Sabres since she was a little girl. I've gotta tell you, you've really screwed us over for following hockey. First, you cut a television deal with Versus -- a no-name network with extraordinarily lousy coverage. Where it's available, we get to suffer through play-by-play from amateurs, and camera work/direction from guys that must be used to covering soccer. Maybe the NHL isn't big enough to warrant a deal with ESPN or another real network? This year my cable provider fails to pick up NHL Center Ice because, it seems, the NHL has insisted that they pick up the "Hockey Channel" as a prerequisite. Let's face it: you don't have that kind of clout, NHL. And as a result, my wife can't follow her Sabres who are not carried on any local station (we live in Detroit). I find out this year also that the NHL isn't being carried on Sirius. That's one of the reasons we BOUGHT Sirius last year -- hockey while on the road. And now, it's gone. We don't want to watch hockey on the Internet. Ever. I'm a computer programmer, my wife is a project manager for an internet video company. Every room in our house is completely wired for broadband. We should be the perfect audience for NHL coverage online. Watching online ties us to a laptop, the house (our WiFi range), and hockey can't be enjoyed while staring at the tiny, tiny screens and small speakers. And who wants to sit in the office to watch hockey? That's what my big comfy chair, couch and 53" TV are for. On the eve of your big media day (the Ice Bowl is tomorrow), please, write back and tell me how you're going to fix all of this. How NHL Media isn't going to be the butt of jokes and the subject of derision in our household.
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
10:15 pm	Long time, no see. I've been too busy with Calvin and Kay to really post anything in here. Most of my non-programming stuff, I hash out with her. My programming stuff? Booooring. Consider this a keep-alive posting.
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
9:12 am	Parents How do people live with their parents? Mine are nice enough and all, but having parents around is such a mood killer. Ugh. Back to the software mines...
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
10:13 am	I owe a few more sentences! Mom and dad are in town. No, wait, they're not, they've gone to my grandparents house till Friday. So the house is clean and we have it all to ourselves. On the downside, the old house hasn't sold yet. It looks like we'll have to drop the price a bit, repaint the upstairs, and replace doors up there to make it look nicer. Work has been kick-ass busy and unrelenting. It'd be nice to sit on my ass for a few weeks.
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
4:15 pm	Tonight's plans! Busy Busy Busy! I've got the balusters on one part of the deck, but they're not evenly spaced, so I'll have to do it again. Then, I'm cleaning out the flower beds surrounding the house. If I have any energy left, I'll pull the grass out of the flower beds along the fence.
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
9:40 pm	Science, Carpentry, and yardwork. With the imminent arrival of my parents next week, Kay and I are scrambling to get things ready....well I am, Kay's on a company road trip for a couple of days. Weeding and construction till 8:30 each night is really exhausting. And RIP Mr. Wizard, you were always entertaining and your science was spot on.
Monday, June 11th, 2007
11:30 am	Weekend in Haiku Form Fisher Price People,, In laws, Arts and Crafts with a Kazoo Serenade
Friday, June 8th, 2007
9:28 am	Sarah, Travel, and Bush Of course all of the conservative pundits and politicos are abandoning Bush: in 2004 they couldn't nominate anyone else, and in 2006 they had to look unified for the election; now that there are other possibilities on the horizon (than Kerry and Gore) of course they're jumping ship. Kay mentioned Sarah Silverman's dissing of Paris Hilton; this could be another nail in the coffin of my theory that there are no funny female stand up comics. This weekend we're going to Buffalo to meet Kay's brother's fiance so there won't be any updates until Monday or so.
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
11:59 pm	Wii, Deck, and Work Work's still going like crazy: when I get home every night, I'm pretty much exhausted from a whole day of being dragged off in separate directions. The deck railing made some progress today as Calvin and I managed to put up the posts. And tonight we break out Mario Party 8 and see if Nintendo actually managed to make a decent (non-sports) multiplayer game for the Wii.
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
8:47 pm	Porches, Rails, and Rolls. The second floor deck was replaced last week and so I'm building a railing around it (note to self, send the builder a check). Calvin received an Honor Roll certificate in today's award ceremony; I didn't attend because he didn't know he was getting anything and it didn't seem like a big parent thing. The new storage bench I built for the front porch -- that Kay painted and cushioned -- is a big hit and we expect the parental units to spend a lot of time out there this summer.
Monday, June 4th, 2007
9:33 am	Three Per Day Living with Kay, setting up a new household, etc... I really haven't had time or inclination to write. So I'm going to try an experiment to get myself back on track. I'm going to write three sentences per day here for the rest of the month. (Well not today, of course, since this is kind of a meta-posting about posting.) At the end of the month, I'll see where I wind up.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
9:19 pm	Godwin's Law and XML Today in #perl some n00b was hounding the channel for programming advice. Finally, he started spewing XML solutions at us. Disclaimer: XML is great for stuff. XML works for a lot of things. I use it every day. XML is the Godwin's Law of programming discussions. Once you bring it up, you have lost our attention and any future points you bring up are wasted. The conversation is at an end, and it can only go downhill from there. The Real Programmers amongst you know exactly what I mean.
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
9:15 am	Public Service Announcement. I sent this to the various e-mail lists I'm on for volleyball announcements. About twice a week I get another Urban Legend in my e-mail box, and it's getting a bit tiresome. Reprinted here for your education: Keep in mind, Internet warnings are almost always hoaxes. Whether it's: "Perfume abductions", "Glade Plug-In fires" or my personal favorite "Mr. Rogers was a Navy Seal sniper in Vietnam" 99.44% of what's on the Internet is pure, slick, high-octane crap. A scary e-mail can usually be debunked with a quick search at Snopes.com, who've been doing this thing online since the early 1990's. Perfume Abductions? (Search "perfume") http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/perfume.asp Glade Plug-In fires? (Search "Glade") http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/glade.asp Mr. Rogers, a bloodthirsty killer? (Search "Mister Rogers") http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mrrogers.asp Urban legends are a cruel, cruel thing. ---- This has been a Public Service announcement from someone who's been reading this stuff online since before your kids were born.
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
11:55 am	Hockey on Versus I humbly beseech the gods of hockey to smite Versus. No replays. Controversial call? Forget it. You'll never see it. The inane jargon is enough to drive any fan batty. Since when have those clear things around the rink been called "windows"? As the game goes into overtime, it's commented that "Buffalo and Ottawa have played close games all season. This one might be decided by a single goal! Well no shit.
Monday, May 7th, 2007
4:31 pm	Using Robocopy to sync files between systems. This has been asked in a few places, not adaquately answered. As long as you're only doing the changes on one side or the other at any one time this seems to work just fine: robocopy c:\myLaptopDevArea t:\theServerDevArea *.js /XO /NJH /NJS /V robocopy t:\theServerDevArea c:\myLaptopDevArea *.js /XO /NJH /NJS /V So if I'm working on Javascript stuff at work, and want to take it home, I just run this. Bingo, bango, my laptop's all up to date. I get back to work, sync up again just fine. Of course, this is also possible with xcopy, but not with as many cool switches or gizmos.
8:26 am	Opus Reviews Spider-Man 3 Bad acting, Bad effects. Bad everything. This bad film simply oozed rottenness from every bad scene. Simply bad beyond all infinite dimensions of possible badness. Well, maybe not that bad, but Lord, it wasn't good. Every movie franchise has a film that's unwatchably bad. For Trek fans, it's Star Trek V: The Final Fontier; for Indiana Jones fans that'd be the Temple of Doom; and for Police Academy fans, numbers 2-6. The Spider-Man series now has that film.
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
9:57 am	Not posting I know I haven't been posting here lately. I've just been too busy, with spring coming up and all. I have lots of honey-do projects to do around the house: * Build a porch * Build a storage bench * Keep up with two houses worth of yardwork Work's been going like gangbustes lately. I've got side-projects, and those side-projects have side projects of their own. The regular work is piled up all over the place. And those free few minutes here and there? Spent with Calvin and Kay. On top of that, staying up to watch as much of the Red Wings as I can is going to take it's toll eventually. I'm pooped.
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
9:45 am	Brownian Motion On Sunday, Calvin and I awoke to the smell of fresh brownies cooling downstairs. Mmm... Yummy. Kay had gotten up early and baked some. Later over dinner a discussion arose as to why that smell traveled so far, how smell works, and wended it's way all the way upstairs so quickly. We talked about the molecules of scent and how they travel in air. And that even in still air they travel because of the random push of atoms in moving air. At absolute zero, nothing moves. At higher temperatures atoms move faster and faster. Larger molecules (scent) trapped in surroundings of smaller ones (air) get bumped around in a seemingly random walk around 3 dimensional space. There's a name for this motion: Brownian Motion. Thus ended the science lesson. Tip your waitress, and try the veal. Thank you.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
9:03 am	Viva Las Vegas This week Kay is in Las Vegas for a convention. Since we really haven't taken a trip together lately (just the two of us) and since her company was subsidizing the hotel and travel, I decided to tag along for the weekend. The post title is no accident. That era was the last time our hotel (the Sahara) was renovated or updated. As Joe, our Sunday cabbie, put it, "The Sahara? It's a dive." But it worked well enough for us. I could go on, but I won't. Despite some drama (lost luggage, long lines, abandoned in the burbs by a cabbie, dirty rooms) we had a pretty good time. On Saturday we walked the strip a bit, saw lions at the MGM grand... and on the way out bought tickets for a Sunday night showing. (more in a bit). Saturday night was Penn & Teller at the Rio. Good show, and they're exactly what they seem to be on TV and Showtime. Penn is loud, his bits are very physical and showy, uses big props, and he talks a lot. Teller's silent, of course, and sweet and his bits are very subtle -- lots of misdirection, slight of hand, and are charming. Of course, at the end, they're both weilding firearms at each other. Some magic was revealed and psychics were taken to task. Afterwards, Kay got pictures and autographs with both Penn and Teller. NIfty. Sunday's featured attraction was a 10pm burleqsue show at the newly opened Crazy Horse Theater at the MGM Grand Hotel. Whle the show itself was okay -- I mean, c'mon, naked attractive women onstage -- and a lot of it was terribly clever, the real attraction was the guest star: Dita Von Teese. Hubba hubba. Her act was by far the best of the lot. The attractive woman sitting next to Kristen agreed: the billing was all about Dita, and had the show had more Dita it would have been much better. But to watch her take a bubble bath was nearly worth the price of admission.... Afterwards, I grabbed my bags from the bell desk, jumped in a cab and caught a red-eye back to Detroit. Kay will be back after the conference, later this week.