I'd like to thank everyone who came by Question House the other night and helped make it one of our most successful parties ever. Particularly those of you who took our silly theme and ran with it ( Read more... )

I get a lot of random questions in my job, mostly from people I don't know who have somehow heard that I'm the guy to ask when you have a random question. (The fact that I generally answer them probably contributes to this reputation.) Often these questions are deeply technical, but every now and then there's a question that can be answered by ( Read more... )

Leeeah is correct. Pulse is a bad, bad movie and if you know me then you know that I know a thing or two about bad movies.  This was not a so-bad-it's-good horror movie like Evil Dead or Reform School Girls, this was a tedious waste of time like Mother's Day or Virgin Among The Living Dead.

The most distressing thing though was how uneven it was. There ( Read more... )

When you're talking with a new father and he says that his wife pumped out 16 fluid ounces of milk the night before, "Wow!" is appropriate, as is "My goodness!"

"Holy cow!" is not appropriate.

Leeeah and Kety have finally browbeat me into getting a LiveJournal account. Sheesh!

Do not confuse Eric_Lippert with EricLippert. The former is me. The latter is an account that someone else has set up to syndicate my technical blog onto LJ.