And then there's Batting Stance Guy, which is the best use of the web that I've seen lately. This guy posts videos of himself imitating the batting stances of MLB players. He is right on with all of them, and it's sometimes hilarious. I'm also really impressed with design of his web site. It's simple, eye pleasing, and user friendly.

Speaking of baseball, the Houston Astros are at .500 on the season as of yesterday! They still have almost no chance of making the playoffs, but at least the season isn't a complete disaster.

1. You have to exercise more than you think. [I have to do what!?]
2. A half-hour walk doesn’t equal a brownie. [Doh!]

See the rest here.

It's 98 degrees in Gresham right now.

My contracting job is almost up, and we banged out this web site in 6 weeks: http://www.xrankcelebrity5.com/. There's a good chance that I will stay and work full time for this company (Avenue A | Razorfish).

Bren is having her wedding dress altered today, or something like that. I'm staying inside the air-conditioned house.

We just finished watching "The Wire" seasons 1-4, and now we're watching "Dexter". The Wire was great, and so is Dexter so far.

I installed a plugin for Windows Media Center to watch Netflix Watch Now movies via the WMC interface. It's nice.

The Astros are awful. They will be playing the BoSox again today. The Kansas City Royals are doing as well as the 'Stros.

Purity

Starbucks will stop referring to their smalls as talls.
Your recycling will sort itself and magically appear by the curb.
Charlie Brown will finally kick that football.
Your cell phone won't work in your car, at the movies, or while you're ahead of me in line for coffee.
People will have more picnics in the park.

When Obama wins

Q. How did the programmer die in the shower?
A. He read the shampoo bottle instructions: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

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Programming is like sex:
One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

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All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.

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A computer science student is studying under a tree and another pulls up on a flashy new bike. The first student asks, "Where'd you get that?"

The student on the bike replies, "While I was studying outside, a beautiful girl pulled up on her bike. She took off all her clothes and said, 'You can have anything you want'."

The first student responds, "Good choice! Her clothes probably wouldn't have fit you."

Today's biggest buzzword in the industry is “software as a service”. I propose that we toss that idea, and instead standardize on “software as a mullet”. The new approach will focus on having fun during the software lifecycle, while producing business approved results. This will be followed by books such as:

Mullet Oriented Architecture (MOA)
Mullets in the Enterprise
Mullet-oriented Design: A Practical Approach

1. Loves To Code (I do)
2. Gets Things Done (I mostly do)
3. Continuously Refactors Code (I do)
4. Uses Design Patterns (I sometimes do)
5. Writes Tests (I rarely do...)
6. Leverages Existing Code (I do)
7. Focuses on Usability (I do)
8. Writes Maintainable Code (I do)
9. Can Code in Any Language (I can)
10. Knows Basic Computer Science (I do)

My favorite embedded device developer, Marcin Juszkiewicz, claimed that he was moving from Poland to London for work. He said that with his new job, he could spend more time in the office and less time taking care of his child. Sounded reasonable to me. He was kidding.

I'm still not clear about this one, but seeing as it was tagged on delicious as "aprilfools", I'm guessing it wasn't real. Too bad, because I was hyped about it. Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer Debut

Probably the most unbelievable prank that I fell for was Virgle, the joint venture between Google and Virgin to send humans to Mars. Hey, you never know what Google is capable of...

And that's everything I'm willing to fess up to. Until next year.