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TLDR

ben — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:12:34 GMT

endless block of 500 words confounds readers

The Modern Western

ben — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:31:34 GMT

As an adult, who can look back upon things and form patterns, etc., I am now appreciative of why Unforgiven won so many awards… without it, the remake of 3:10 to Yuma and the OMFGWTFBBQ so awesome Assassination of Jesse James would not have been made (or they would, and they wouldn’t have been such awesome hot sauce…). I suppose, on a certain level, you could lump No Country in there, but I think that’s in its own mentally deranged world. Now that this has happened, I want to see the remake of The Outlaw Josie Wales, or even better, movies of both Josie Wales books… because a) they were freakin’ awesome, and the books were much more aligned, thematically, with modern Westerns than with Westerns of our parents’ time. This isn’t to say that the spaghetti Westerns weren’t awesome… they were. I wouldn’t have visited the Gene Autry Museum of The West three times if I didn’t think so. I just want to see Josie Wales as dark a hero as the book made him out to be… carry on…

MC Frontalot - Final Boss

ben — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:15:18 GMT

Jamie tweeted this, i'm passing it along:

Badass

muhgcee — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:07:48 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/opinion/02brooks.html

that's helpful...

ben — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:12:11 GMT

and inscrutable... i love it:

Dear Facebook, I Give Up (as a developer)

elfie — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:07:06 GMT

You folks may or may not know that I've been running several Facebook apps for a couple years now. Nine Inch Nails (6,767 users) Marilyn Manson (3,686 users) Final Fantasy (1,896 users) The Smashing Pumpkins (856 users) (I've also got one for Pat Metheny created at the request of a former employer, but I no longer keep it up to date. 947 users) They're all actually running on the exact same code, but pulling different data based on which app the user is accessing. They're fairly simple. They let you check off items in your collection and/or your wishlist, which sends an update to your news feed and also lets you show off your collection or wishlist a couple different ways on your profile. They also provide news updates from google and other sources via Facebook Notifications. I think it's time to shut them all off.

One reason we should pay more local taxes...

ben — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:24:39 GMT

because we're teaching our children to eat terribly... and get fat and die young...

The depth is bad enough...

ben — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:17:48 GMT

but the wind is worse...

Clients From Hell

muhgcee — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:49:18 GMT

"Can we pay for the logo in installments, or even better can I pay you in Salad." Clients From Hell

so which was your favorite commercial?

ben — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:26:30 GMT

you can see them all at hulu... also, the game was really good too!

The Rare code post...

ben — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:22:04 GMT

so I know i don't do this often, but i had to write this up somewhere... I just started using VS 2010, and I'm having an issue with adding a project reference to a WCF Service project... it works fine when i reference the project in another Class Library, but when i add the reference to the project, it doesn't work... just simply does not let me add the "using" in my service class... i've tried a clean project, i've double checked my spelling... the intellisense even lets me add it, until i compile 1 time... so weird...

So about that Superbowl Party...

ben — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:40:54 GMT

I don't think anyone's coming, what with this snow and all... hehehe the difference between Baltimore & Rochester - Baltimore: OMG WTF, SNOWPOCALYPSE! 1 to 2 feet! we're all going to be stuck at home until March! Rochester: 2 feet? must be Thursday...

If you want the ads, without all that pesky football in the way...

ben — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:49:29 GMT

check out hulu's adzone where you can watch JUST the ads. Currently they have last year's up, but will (i'm assuming) put up the new ads as they come on...

The budget problem, simplified

ben — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:31:01 GMT

if you were looking for a common sense explanation of where we are economically, and what we need to do to fix it, you can look here... it's pretty impressive, and very logical...

is it new computer time again?

ben — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:25:57 GMT

so... if you read my Twitter/FB updates, skip to the next paragraph, for those of you not following life closely... my main desktop won't boot now - i'm getting the error "System Failed VGA Test", and from binging around (that's right...) it's it's looking like my motherboard is the culprit. i already have a broken DVD writer (and 1 still working), and an older AMD 64 (Toledo) chip... and 2 GB of DDR 500 ram... and here is what I originally had/have... i'm wondering which path i should go down for fixing this up?

Oh my, O'Keefe...

ben — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:05:24 GMT

this made my week... or at least brought it back to even, after the D&D story from yesterday...

Eat your brains

jmcd303 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:33:27 GMT

I may have found something to write an angry letter about

ben — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:24:42 GMT

Or at least a reason not to get sent to prison in Wisconsin (not that needed one mind you... i'm just saying... that's lame)

Drug Cat

typhoid — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:05:01 GMT

if i brought back a nightly/weekly radio show, who would tune in?

ben — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:18:21 GMT

I was thinking about loading up shoutcast on my home box again, and maybe broadcasting myself or Ann - she has amazing classic rock/pop/metal/hair selection, and says that the one reason not to be a DJ is that she can't do it in her pajamas... hehe would anyone be up for that?