UPDATE:

Whiplash is literally a pain in the neck, but seems to be getting a little better.

The car is not totalled, though my theory that the differential was wrecked was correct. A new rear panel, trunk latch, bumper, rear axle and differential are being installed now and will be ready Friday.  Woo hoo!

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This has been a fabulous ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, July 15th, is the tenth anniversary of my first day as a full-time employee at Microsoft, which makes yesterday the tenth anniversary of my moving to Seattle.

My community of friends and family in Kitchener/Waterloo always make me feel incredibly welcome and loved when I come back. The cottage on Lake Huron is a special kind of home where ( Read more... )

I sold my boat, "Black Dress Day", yesterday. Every time I've told people this, the reaction has been:

WHAT??!?! Where is the real Eric?  What have you done with him?

Simmer down.

Yes, I sold my boat. She's now the property of a charming Canadian fellow from Vancouver Island.

Why? You loved that boat!

I did, and I'm sure I'll miss her. But there were ( Read more... )

There I was, minding my own business, web-stalking, when I accidentally and not on purpose found this document from 1992:

http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hollywood_booga.html

Would any of the "IMSA Four" care to comment as to what the heck this is?

With tens of thousands of employees at Microsoft, many of whom have first name Eric last name something starts with L, I get a fair amount of misdirected mail. For example:

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From: Gloria
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:49 AM
To: Eric Lippert

can you review this for accuracy, please? This is an addition to the ( Read more... )

Why is it that radio station DJs are always saying things like "We're playing a long set of classic rock hits -- back to back ( Read more... )

Snopes today has an interesting article about a persistent urban myth that human blondes are gradually going extinct. However they do not actually go into any of the scientific and mathematical arguments that show why this is extremely unlikely. Two mechanisms are proposed in the myths - that blondes are going extinct because blondeness is ( Read more... )

Last night I attended the second night of the Seattle Improv Festival, which is five days of performances and workshops for improv performers. As is often the case with improv, it was a little hit-or-miss. But undoubtedly the highlight of the evening was my old friend Jamey, who had quite the adventure ( Read more... )

This has been a very theory-intensive day.  So far I have:

• Explained the proxy-stub design pattern to Leah.
  
• Explained to a user why
  interface I { }
  class K where T : I, P> { }
  class A { }
  class B : I { }
  class M : K { }
  
  does not compile.  (Clearly B cannot be used as T in K in the last line.  Why? B is an I, but T is constrained to implement I,A ( Read more... )

I hate when this happens ( Read more... )