Author: jrwren

http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html — Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s
Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments

Someone studied my coworkers 🙂

… cept for you Mike.

          ok, maybe it isn’t dangerous, but being behind the wheel of the RX7 makes me want to drive far more aggressively than I would normally drive.  It was a fun drive to work today.

So tired.  So far this week I’m 8hrs behind on sleep, assuming I need(and I do) 8hrs of sleep per night.  So Friday I think I’ll be sleeping ALL DAMN DAY!!!

Missing my CD Player in the car already.  I’ve been listening to DotNotRocks (www.franklins.net) in the car for at least a month now.  I’ve been catching up on back episodes, and I find a drive from Shelby Twp to Milan, and from Milan to work has me missing the nerdiness of the show.

Thinking about a new car.  I’m thinking something lame and cheap.  I found a 2004 Malibu with low miles on the cheap, I think I’ll call at noon-time.  The RX7 doesn’t have heat, and its 6″ ground clearance and real wheel drive doesn’t have me looking forward to the winter.  As for the stupid VW… anyone want to buy a VW Golf on the cheap???  heh, I’ll probably give it away for the tax writeoff, maybe that will make up for my lack of tuition tax relief this year.

Have a lovely day.

This is not a joke… but it is funny.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/tools/admatic.mspx

I watched 28 days later last night.

What a horrible movie.  It was a non-zombie movie.  It was not worth watching.

As far as zombie movies go, this one was a better one.  It was still a zombie movie.  They never used the word zombie.  It was still a zombie movie.

Did I mention it was not good?

Woke at 5am.  Leave at 5:50am.  Arrive home at 7:30pm.  <- my life

http://weblogs.asp.net/jaybaz_ms/archive/2004/06/16/157682.aspx

This example shows some interesting notification behaviour. Maybe it could be used to implement a generic cached property type. The getter could control first time population of properties(private members), and even check for invalidations.

meh. No templates C# commonplace yet 🙁

I went to the Great Lakes Dot Net Users Group meeting last night – www.migang.org.

It was a special event. It was the .NET Mobility Roadshow. It was interesting I supposed. Basically it showed me how easy it is to develop applications for mobile devices that are based on wince. Microsoft has some cool stuff. But I am not a toy boy, so I will probably never have such a device. Or if I do get such a device it will be more than a couple of years from now, and the development platform will have changed enough that there is no point in me looking at it right now.

The room was full of 70 people, the far majority were middle aged men. There were very few young people, and very few women. I don’t understand the demographics. We did recieve a cool package, including a tee shirt. Best thing in the package is probably the O’Reilly .NET Compact Framework Pocket Guide. I probably won’t use it much, but it is an O’Reilly pocket guide.

Yesterday, I woke at 5am, left for work at 5:50am, got home at 10pm. Bedded at 11pm. ugh. Long day.

awesome awesome

http://www.starterupsteve.com/swf/posting.html

Ya know what I just realized while pasting this. It sure would be cool if LJ respected BB tags.

so I thought I’d say hi. Not much going on. The usual. Work, Wife, Friends. Unfortunatly in that order. I try to give more to Wife.

been diving into .NET. VS.NET 2k3 is awesome. So is mono & monodevelop. I’ve been messing with both. I’m working on an NNTP Application class. My thought now is that it could be the M part of a number of possible MVC applications. All my test cases currently have the VC parts combined of couse 🙂

Last night was pretty cool. I was napping when Janice called to invite me to Leopolds. After waking up and leaving I arive to find out… NO STOUT… tender says some shit about how they are a so and so distiller and they don’t do any some and suches so they don’t have Stout. What a load of malarchy.

Lots of talk, too much estrogen (only dude, 4 fems)… and only a single beer (24oz) and I was ready to roll, so we rolled, the fems were hungry. After much aimless wandering we ended up at Bambino’s or some such mexican joint on 4th street. Damn good grub. Then we loitered the streets of ann arbor for at least an hour before we decided we could use another drink. Blind pig had cover, and a stop at grizzlebies(or whatever the name is) lead us to Firefly.

Damn, what a pleasant surprise. Greeted with a “nah, you don’t have to pay the cover” and “turn of your cell phones, they are recording”, we enter to a wonderful sounding traditional jazz trio. Now I am not a jazz head, I simply enjoy live music and this was exceptionally nice. We caught about 6 songs. 4 of ’em had a vocalist. The ol’ lady was pretty good. When they closed with Route’66 all I could think of was depeche mode. I’m bad.

Ah, the funny part of the night was walking main street in aa. The sound side of downtown there is a pair of restaurants. Walking by one of them I noticed a couple had just received a pair of beautiful orange lobsters. The mahem had begun. Next time… I’m going to steal the lobsters off their plates and run. After 3 steps I will turn around, place the lobster in my left hand into my mouth for holding, because I’ll be stealing the melted butter off the womans plate as well. I don’t want the mans butter. Then I’ll be RUNNING!!! Oh can you imagine the thoughts going through their heads as the lobster theif runs away! So much fun!

At some point during the 4th Jazz song, I realized the most fun part of the lobster mehem event! LOBSTER MAGNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Anyone recall this super fun flash movie? *sigh* I chuckled while I thought of the lobster magnet. My posse of 3 fems were none the wiser.

Telling the Iowa visitors where to drink beer was funny. I said Leopold was six blocks “thata-way”. They said “six blocks?” like it was a lifetime trek of sorts. What a bunch of lazy fucks. I mean I know towns in Iowa are small, but christ, I would think they have towns larger than six blocks!

Ferie dearest, was it loe soothfast or a façade;
A serenade siren’d to lure – Zounds! not to court me?
A menad, yet the sweetest colleen –
Certes didst thou me unveil meekly life pristine.

Lorelei,
A poet of tragedies, scribe I lauds to Death,
Yet who the hell was I to dare?
Lorelei,
Canst thou not see thou to me needful art?
Canst thou not see the loss of loe painful is?

Dedally didst thou perform the tragic pasquinade,
For all years a damndest and driegh’d accolade –
Caus’d for all eyes mazed to behold a mêlee;
In the midst did I swainly cast thee my bouquet:
The one and sole faggot that feedeth the fire,
Bellow’d bidingly by my heart’s quailing quire.

Lorelei,
A poet of tragedies, scribe I lauds to Death,
Yet who the hell was I to dare?
Lorelei,
Canst thou not see thou to me needful art?
Canst thou not see the loss of loe painful is?

Perchance author I thee this ikon’d apologue for aught,
Doth the wecht burthen thee?, then bethink thine afterthought:
‘Tween Aether and ‘Nether art thou the peerless phoenix –
Prithee, darlingmost! – court me rather than the peevish prolix.