"For those who never have tasted it, Hungarian sausage is like god ran out of socks one day and decided to ejaculate into a hog's intestines instead. It is awesome."
From the comments to this video over @ fazed.net.
Every once in awhile we see some good news about politics in this country that gives heart to us in the non-insanity-based-community.
Of course, if you'd ask me I'd tell you that Congress is doing a shit job right now. How much time is being wasted fucking around on Iraq rater than trying to come up with solutions? How much time and money are they going to waste investigating the political firing of political employees who serve under the discretion of the executive branch? How much pandering are they doing to the fringe of their parties? The world is smoldering, and they are cooking smores. And, WORST OF ALL, they are forcing me to defend the Bush administration. What a bunch of fucking assholes.
Anyhow, I'm glad Congress is getting at least as much shit as Bush has. They deserve a lot more.
Slightly weaboo; Pixie should liek this.
UPDATE
Schoolgirl-only version for the pervs:
Apparently, she goes by "Strong Machine 2", and is the daughter of another japanese pop and lock guy named-appropriately enough-"Strong Machine 1". Folks, it ain't easy bein' this cheezy.
Yay!
Okay, it may seem a little out of left field, but I just got back from spin class, where I found out that 60$ worth of gear from Dick's Sports (don't laugh) can keep your ass from hurting.
Now, you wouldn't normaly think that anything you get from Dicks would prevent your ass from hurting, but believe me. It can be accomplished. A lovely 20$ gel bike seat cover and a pair of 40$ XX bike shorts (I'm not fat, I'm big boned) did wonders for my special place.
Since class, I've had two smokes and eaten a steak.
On other fronts, posting is still slow due to the release I'm working on. I'm stacking up tons of material for programming posts, if I ever get around to them. Stuff about sql queries, adapting the singleton pattern to ASP.NET applications, shit like that.
And, one last thing, I'm proud to see my photoshop up on Ace's blarg again. If you haven't seen it, its a shoop I wooped on Andrew Sullivan's blarg's header's picture's. Here it is (fair use, etc):
The guy is a nutbag, and I have it on good authority that he's also a f-4-g. Not that there's anything wrong with that; I have a secret Man Crush on Ace. Wait, did I just type that out, specifically linking to a definition of Man Crush at UrbanDictionary?
Anyhow, wish me luck on the project. We've had about four or five slips at the end here. Its a relatively minor release, so we only lost about a month and a half. But shit like this isn't going to swing for the projects we're working on for the next year or two.
ULTRA GAY UPDATE! As if this post wasn't queer enough... The artist who drew the origina pic for Andy's blarg is Terry Colon, who's art is regularly featured on Suck.com. The irony is almost as plentiful as goldy or bronzy.
As a self-proclaimed lazy programmer, this one struck a chord with me:
"Take a good look at what you want to do, and try to come up with the long-term lazy way, not the short-term lazy way."
Larry Wall, creator of Perl. Via the best programming blarg out there, Coding Horror.
Don't blame me, a Marine told it to me...
- You're on a vehicle going at a constant speed
- To your right is a fire engine traveling at the same speed as you
- To the left, there is a sharp dropoff of about 2 feet
- 3 feet beyond the dropoff is a metal fence
- Immediately infront of you is a galloping horse
- Immediately behind you is a galloping zebra
- The vehicle you are on is controlled by an ex-con with a drug habit
How do you escape this dangerous situation?
"Political correctness [is the] proposition that it is possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
If anybody can give me the author of that quote, I'd appreciate it. A cursory google found lots of the quote but no attribution.
Recently read a post about "why" MS will never make .NET cross platform. While the post didn't have much in the way of "why", it was chock full of "oh, come on, pleeeze!"
I can't fault the guy on that. Any time MS spends making .NET cross platform makes me a more valuable programmer. Why wouldn't I want Microsoft to throw heaps of cash into it?
You can always expect that the comments section of any post about cross-platforming .NET will be chock full of FUD and people who can't tell the difference between a S and $. Well, except for my blarg; nobody ever posts here. Reading the blarg's comments is like reading comments from a political or religious discussion. Lots of unbridled idealism mixed with damnation and hellfire. You know, like what causes people to kidnap and behead teenage schoolgirls in less civilized places in the world. Reading through the comments you can find quite a number of these "douchebags" (or as I like to refer to them as--Internet Tough Guys™).
The author seemed to put too much emphasis on MS driving people to its products as why they are not putting more effort into making the .NET platform cross-platform. I don't think that is legit. The reasons why .NET will never be ported to Linux (and to a much lesser extent to the Mac platform) are threefold:
First, the market just isn't there. According to Market Share, there are less people running all flavors of Linux than Windows 98. Now, this is just desktop users, not servers, and the numbers are gathered from web access of around 40k different websites (I don't think /. is one of them, btw). Still, as a rough number, the number of linux desktops is less than 1% of the total collected in the survey. If MS is looking to port .NET to platforms that small, then they might as well port the damn thing to the PSP, which has about 1/3rd of Linux' share.
Second, exactly which fork do you code to? One of the great things about OSS is the ease of taking a code base in a fresh new direction when it might have grown stagnant and become obscelete. Find enough like minded people and fork yourself a brave new world. The result is that there are a shitload of "flavors" of the Linux operating system currently in development. I started counting them at DistroWatch but got bored after I hit 30. They are all different in some way, which means that supporting every one of them would be impossible. MS would have to pick the greatest common denominator (or a few of them) and code to it. And how would updates get distributed? The Linux world doesn't have a single package management system; according to Wikipedia, there are at least eight systems, the best known being RedHat's RPM. Having used RPM, I can tell you it sucks ass. I am, of course, a lazy shit and didn't want to spend five hours in man trying to figure out all the ins and outs of it. So not only would MS have to code a port to Linux (and try its best to be cross-flavor compatible), but they would also have to create an update service specifically for the Linux port. Cha ching!
Third, and last, who the hell would use it? Linux is the home of OSS fanboys and Unix Beards. They hate MS with a passion and would never lock themselves into a Microsoft product. They're not exactly crazy to do so, either. Seeing how small the Linux market share is, MS has no financial gain from spending time and effort on the platform. Who's to say that, after five years of lackluster performance, MS won't drop support for a Linux port of .NET? MS is a privately held company, responsible to its shareholders. If a particular product isn't holding up its end, it would be irresponsible for MS to keep shoveling cash into it. And to top it all off, MS doesn't exactly have a good track record for its cross-platform products. Without developers with a desire to use the platform, the thing is flat out dead in the water.
Face facts--the only way a port makes sense is if it is developed by and for the OSS community itself. The project must have intrinsic value; it must not solely exist as a "port" of a microsoft product. If MS were to disappear tomorrow (God might actually listen to the nerds at /.), the project must be able to continue and serve a need in the Linux community. It has to offer more to the Linux developer than just the ability to run programs originally written for Microsoft. Only the OSS community can do this and be successful. Much respect to my Mono brothas.
I swear to fucking God... I have to go through another iteration of developing against this piece of bullshit program written in fucking vb6 I will get fired. They'll have to fire me after I go batshit crazy and burn down my cubicle.
I can't see how its gone as far as it has. If it wasn't for the fact we are in the process of a complete redesign I'd be looking for another job. Christ.
