New car pics

Since the dealership was kind enough to provide the pics, i figure i can give them the free advertisement.

the dodge is dead, long live the mitsubishi

and by dead i mean blown radiator and axles with rust all over my driveway... pics up later.

I Like to Learn the Hard Way

Advanced functionality isn't always the best choice. Just because you can include certain features doesn't mean that you should. Even when users request an update, such requests have to weighed against how that change will affect the rest of the program. When you fix one thing, you usually break another.

Whose idea was it to make C# case sensitive?

No, seriously.  Even with IntelliSense (which frankly makes me feel quite useless) I have a hard time remembering to not type "radius" when I declared the variable as "Radius".  And what does it matter anyway?  I miss the automatic formatting of VBA.  Maybe I should try VB.Net.  Although I have a feeling that I would be bored to tears for the entire course.  Which begs another question: how difficult should a programmers first language be.  I'm sure that know BASIC made SQL scripting a breeze for me.  (But that was also a result of being able to think through problems logically.)  I'm also sure that if I had learned C along time ago, C#, Javascript, etc... would all be a breeze for me.  And I would probably be earning 2x to 3x my current salary.

For my first trick

I really want to try my hand at building a database application. I've got all the moving parts, I just need to figure out how to a) design the proper objects and b) tie the who thing together logically. Although, I may just choose function over form and ignore the fact that all I've got is a bunch of little boxes popping up all over the screen.

And a new semester begins

Had I been a smart child, I would have learned C when I was younger. But no, there were pointers and I didn't like them. So now I am faced with OOP long past the time my bran wants anything new. (Ignore the previous post.)

Website Design

It's always interesting when you get a bunch of people in a room together. A familar adage comes to mind: you can please some of the people some of the time, but you can please all of the people all of the time. It's a good thing that I like to learn new things.

An open letter

Dear Parents, Stop telling your kids they are special.  It doesn't improve their self-esteem.  It makes them worthless as human beings.  They feel they just have to show up and do nothing more.  They think they are owed, that they don't have to earn anything.  They are wrong.  They are annoying. P.S. To the asshole who nearly took my car out because you too busy worrying about gifts to notice that you had pulled out into oncoming traffic: Merry Fucking Giftmas.

Every American Household will have a wii

if only someone would sell me one. an no, i am not paying 600 for it.  do you know what tax on that is?

The best part of an imaginary boyfriend is the presents

i think i'm getting jewelry this year for giftmas.