http://blog.sublogic.com This, for instance, is under 'H' for 'Toy' Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:28:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/10/cha-cha-ching/ I saw this pic on Fail Blog and knew it looked familiar :)  Good old Concord, NC! http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/07/ive-been-there/ http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/07/64-cents-here-64-cents-there/ ok, the subject's overstating it, of course, but I get some people that wonder why I'm in favor of electric vehicles (which thankfully is no longer putting me in the minority it once did).  It's really just a simple matter of decoupling producers of energy from consumers. How many ... http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/07/electricity-the-universal-medium/ As of now (5:23pm on my watch), Sarah was born 3 years, 3 months, 3 days, 3 hours, and 3 minutes ago. http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/06/3-3-3-3-3-3-3/ Seriously, who writes like this?  I'm expecting "rue the day" to show up next, in true Kent fashion. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/us/politics/19watch.html The amount of scrutiny the two spouses face is not commensurate — Mrs. Obama has endured far more virulent attacks by her critics — but it is somehow symmetrical. http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/06/look-at-my-vocabulary/ I got a question from a co-worker about the easiest way in PowerShell to count the number of instances of a substring in a given string. If you read FSJ you've probably read about how Walt MossGoatberg is infamous for posting with a ridiculous use of first-person pronouns.  I ... http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/06/will-jeff-ever-post-an-entry-without-bold/ Seen via reddit, but there's some great quotes from this 8-year-old article about the campaigning Texas governor. http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/062800wh-bush.html Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality ... ... http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/06/hilarious-what-a-difference-8-years-makes/ I gave my father-in-law a linksys router we weren't using any more.  Unfortunately, since I (still, unfortunately) use my Linux box for my dhcp server, this meant that it didn't Just Work because once he hooked it up, his computer couldn't dhcp an address from the router. To get ... http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/06/windows-set-a-static-ip-until-next-boot/ I've only been making around $3/mo off the adsense ads on the blog, the lowest by far of my channels, so I switched back to a theme I actually like - basically no ads, but much easier for me to read :) Of course, those of you reading this ... http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/06/new-blog-theme/ My parents had their 39th anniversary a couple of days ago.  Right on time, Pearls Before Swine releases a great anniversary card! Now it likely makes more sense why marriage (and IMHO the things that go along with it) kill off genius so well! http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/06/slick-anniversary-card/   This isn't nearly the worst of it, either.  Can I voluntarily have my mail (that isn't from a person in my contacts list / whitelist) placed in an escrow?  I'm fine with that.  If after 2 hours, with the rest of the mail that came in, it doesn't look ... http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/05/gmail-still-letting-through-obvious-spam/ Another question I get fairly often through email, so here's the blog post for it. It's hard to find a definitive source, at least online, but the consensus appears to be 100 calories == 1 Activity Point from http://www.weightwatchers.com/community/ Yes, 100 calories = 1 AP from ... http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/05/how-many-calories-1-weight-watcher-activity-point/ http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/04/33-more-evil-than-the-beast/ I went shopping at wal-mart tonight after the kids went down. http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/04/random-spreadsheet/ So yesterday, after having our dryer die for the third time (this time, it's Really Dead) we ordered a new washer and dryer off sears.com after shopping around at a bunch of sites.  One of the main reasons was their Appliances site said (and at the moment, still says): ... http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/04/was-sears-in-the-wrong-here/ (when it's an area) I get a few questions per week regarding weight watchers points stuff.  Some of them I don't know and couldn't easily find on google ("how many points do I add to each day if I'm pregnant?", to which my answer was "First ask your doctor ... http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/04/when-is-a-point-not-a-point/ A potential place to use an extension method cropped up in our team this week, and I gave feedback that I'd like to avoid it (for this case) because in this scenario, it enabled something that just felt wrong to me - working instance methods off null instances.  Remember, ... http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/04/extensionmethods-flavorful-syntactic-sugar/ GET / HTTP/1.1Host: froogle.google.com   HTTP/1.1 301 Moved PermanentlyLocation: http://www.google.com/products http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/03/things-that-make-me-sad/ Yummy, delicious, yet oh-so-messy cupcake http://blog.sublogic.com/2008/03/nomnomnom/