If you spend your lunch hour going on

7 December 2009

about how you’re over your ex, and he’s a dick, and blah blah blah – you’re not over him.

His new girl is an idiot, too; she’s five years younger than he is! Can’t she see he’s a loser? So, uh, Bill the 38 year old loser who drives a Honda and works as a hairdresser in Lynnwood – she isn’t over you, even though it’s been a couple years.

You should poke her on Facebook.


17 HMR and Remington 597 recall

7 December 2009

If you own a semi-auto 17HMR weapon, there is a recall for Remington ammo; furthermore, Remington is recalling and issuing coupons for 597 rifles chambered in 17HMR. They are dangerous and should not be shot.

Apparently, 17HMR ammo was not designed for semi-auto use and can go off prematurely in the process of chambering. I assume this warning applies to all semi-auto 17HMR weapons.


System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings is obsolete

4 December 2009

Upgrading an old project to VS2005 (ugh), I ran into this compile warning:

System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings’ is obsolete: ‘This method is obsolete, it has been replaced by System.Configuration!System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings’

To fix this, do three things. One, add a reference to System.Configuration to your project. Right click on references, add, .Net, pick System.Configuration. There is a bug here; it will show up in the list of references as System.configuration.

Next step: Add a Using System.Configuration; to your file.

Last step: Update the references from ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings to ConfigurationManager.AppSettings and you’re gtg.

Hopefully we’ll upgrade to VS2008 sometime in 2010.


Buy some Papa John’s next week

3 December 2009

Google DNS

3 December 2009

Sprint hands over GPS data.

1 December 2009

Sometimes the stupid finds you

1 December 2009

Because all kids are looking for a $150 bottle of beer

1 December 2009

A pro-beer (or at least, not anti-beer) article includes this quote:

The maker of Samuel Adams beer has released an updated version of its biennial beer Utopias – now the highest alcohol content beer on the market. At 27 percent alcohol by volume and $150 a bottle, the limited release of the brandy-colored Utopias comes as more brewers take advantage of improvements in science to boost potency and enhance taste.

They turn to MADD for balance:

Chuck Hurley, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said the group in general doesn’t have a problem with extreme brands of beer like Utopias. However, he hopes the beverage’s higher alcohol content is properly labeled and that it isn’t marketed to minors.


Shoes, applied liberally

30 November 2009

The victim was faster than the suspect and began liberally applying his shoe to the would-be robber

Robbery foiled by shoe-wielding victim


You are doing it incorrectly.

30 November 2009

It used to be you could find an AR15 gunsmith by asking how many pipe wrenches they own; if it was more than zero, you kept looking. Here we have a case where an angle grinder was used to remove a forearm.