Rants
When I'm opening a door, how far behind me does someone have to be before I am not obligated to hold the door open for them? Two, four, ten, twelve steps? Honestly, this sort of thing causes me a lot of anxiety. Because inevitably, due to my bad judgement, I'll hold the door when someone is too far away and they will then feel compelled to run to get to the door as they don't want to be seen as taking advantage of my kindness. And I didn't want that, I just wanted to be nice and hold the door...
The Melbourne (Florida) International Airport is not exactly the prime example of a bustling, thriving airport. Of all the times I've been there, I've never seen more than one or two people in the airport bar. And when I say "the" airport bar, I mean the one and only that there is. Last Tuesday, however, there were about 10 people in the bar. I found a spot at the bar and sat down. About two bar stools to my right, there were two guys sitting and discussing politics. One was older and wearing a wedding ring, the younger, who also...
I always feel bad when I use the half-height, little kids urinal in the bathroom and some little kid comes in. When I look over my shoulder at him he is invariably fidgeting nervously, holding his crotch, crossing his legs and, of course, giving me the look of death that says something like "Look, tall dude, there's a perfectly good normal height urinal right next to you. Why aren't you using that one - you're tall enough, I'm not!" (We'll ignore the fact that the short one had been the only one available when I went into the bathroom.)
While...
I get so tired of the phrases in pop culture. Some of the really annoying ones are below. And yes, while I've probably used them all at least hundreds of times I've finally realized how annoying it is when others use them, so I'm going to do my best to stop. Now, that's not a New Year's resolution - it just so happens to fall around this time of year.
"Oh no you didn't"
"Here it comes...wait for it..." - I think I've seen this one written more than spoken.
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I've had something happen twice now, on two computers (both running Vista) when installing iTunes 7.7. The installer runs just fine and when it's done, it tells me "Your software is up-to-date." The problem? My task bar has completely disappeared. First time it happened (at home this weekend), I thought Vista had just crapped out. After the same thing happened on my PC at work, I realized that the common denominator between when it happened at home the other day and at work today was the fact that I was updating iTunes using the Apple Software Update.
At home I solved...
I'm currently working on an application originally written in classic ASP for a customer. Several thoughts come to mind:
WhoTF would start building an app in 2007 in classic ASP instead of ASP.NET?
Classic ASP sucks. Everything is a kluge...I've had to manually write all sorts of AJAX crap, things that should take 10 minutes take 2 hours, my business logic is intertwined with the interface (I'm using classic ASP classes, but what a fake substitute for a real OO language) and performance is slow.
The previous developers on this thing...
My wife, who is an amazingly smart woman, called me the other day as she was driving to pick up my step-daughter from volleyball practice. She had the radio on and "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette was playing. She called me to tell me that she realized that the events in the song aren't actually irony, but they are just plain old misfortune.
Here's the definition of irony. Looking at some of the lyrics:
"A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break"
There's no irony - it's just misfortune. There's no "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence...
Since Sheryl Crow thinks we should only use one square of toilet paper for conservation purposes as well as use a "dining sleeve" instead of a napkin, I have a suggestion for her:
She can eat her used toilet paper. It's natural recycling! And as creepy skinny as she is, it'll probably be filling, too! And, if she's still hungry, I'm sure there are fans that'd be more than happy to send theirs to her as well.
Think it'll work?
I have 5,162 songs in iTunes. In the span of 20 songs, "shuffle" has picked 3 Bryan Adams songs (of 14 total):
"Cuts Like A Knife"
"This Time"
"Straight from the Heart"
And I have the "Smart Shuffle" set to "less likely".
Random, my ass.
Me, my stepdaughter and one of her friends took one of our dogs (the beagle) to the dog park today. Our local dog park has a "large dog" side and a "small dog" side.
First, Hamlet thinks he is a big dog. Also, being a beagle, our dog likes to get down on his front paws, raise his hindquarters and bark at other dogs. Then he likes to "dive bomb" them by running up and nudging them. It's his way of getting them to play with him.
So, first we go to the small dog side. There's one lady in there...
I am constantly appalled at people's lack of manners!
I was recently on a flight from Phoenix, AZ to Orlando, FL. I was on Southwest Airlines, got to the airport early, and managed to get myself a nice exit row seat. After takeoff, I hear noise behind me. Sounds like a movie...yep, it was. Someone was watching a movie on their portable DVD player and not using headphones. I turned around and asked them nicely if they could turn it down. Apparently, they could, but it was difficult, painful and quite the bother - at least if the expression on their face...
Last night, my wife and I saw Billy Joel in Phoenix. Neither of us had seen him live before, and man, it was an awesome show!
We were talking about how much his voice sounds like it does on his
CDs, what an amazing piano player he really is, and how sad it is that
so many artists today are just crappy musicians and singers. The
crap we get sold as "talent" is amazing.
As an example, how does someone like Ashlee Simpson get to make a
record? All I can think of is her Orange Bowl performance of a
few years ago and how she got...