Here's the chain of events as it unfolded. First, I decided that my existing HTPC was taking up too much floor space, so I should get a desktop/mini form factor case to put it in. I ended up getting an Antec NSK2480 which is pretty great other than the included PSU not having enough SATA power connectors (luckily all of my devices are okay with IDE ( Read more... )

Steve recommended I try Rummikub. By all accounts it's a fun game, but the official website seems to take absolute delight it making it as difficult as humanly possible to actually play a fucking game.

Here, I'll try now. Let's see what happens.

1. I click the "Play Now - Click to enter a random game room with available seat" button
   
2. I get dropped in ( Read more... )

Haven't made a public post since August. Terrible. The constant stress of producing 140-character messages on Twitter and reasonable-length different posts on Facebook pretty much saps all my writing energy, but I really like Twitter's format. The length restriction really does force you to think about what you're writing and optimize for what you ( Read more... )

I cannot believe I didn't find a bingo on this board. ?DEINOS with a free R. Granted I only had 90 seconds to do it, but still, FAIL.

I was out for a walk to cool off and ran in to a raccoon. It went something like this ( Read more... )

I hate Jeff Atwood. Seriously. I know sometimes people say things like "I hate Joel Spolsky" or "I hate cancer", but I really mean it. Case in point, in his latest blog post, he puts forth a No-Hire rule: If the worst code you've seen recently isn't your own, No Hire ( Read more... )

Early in this game, I was faced with this unlikable setup. Tied on points and time, I was seriously contemplated just swapping all 7 tiles and hoping for an I7 bingo, but ended up finding a decent 27-point play that also was also a good rack balancer. Ended up winning this by one point, 317-316. What's your best play here?

This is pretty freaky. I was looking at the pictures thinking "Hey that looks just like some buildings we drove past every day in Shanghai ( Read more... )

A while ago I said you could " blindly return your own assembly" in the AssemblyResolve event of your AppDomain to resolve issues with deserializers not finding your dynamically-loaded assembly. Do not do this. If you did do this, go back and fix your code right now ( Read more... )

True Blood is one of the better shows I've seen in a while (props to Netflix's recommendation engine for guessing 4.4 stars). I finished up Season 1 over the weekend on a bit of a binge. The writers have mastered the cliffhanger + awesome cold open combo that makes it impossible to stop watching once you've started. It says a lot that I'm willing ( Read more... )