March 10th, 2010
The weekend before last, we went up to Chicago to celebrate our friend Brent’s 40th birthday. I should insert some sort of “holy shit, we’re getting old” type of observation here, but the fact is, 40 doesn’t really seem all that old any more. Besides, I’m only 38.
Our coming to town was a surprise for the birthday boy, and we went early to the restaurant where their family had dinner reservations. Mrs. theskinnyonbenny and I sat at the bar, which was unfortunately located right in the line of sight as one walked in the door. I jokingly suggested a code word — Rosebud — for when I saw their car in the parking lot, at which time we were to hit the floor and slide on our bellies around the back side of the bar.
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February 23rd, 2010
Suppose you’re a song, and you live on my ipod. And suppose you’re the type of song that would like to be as highly rated as you can be. In other words, you’re an over achiever of the mp3 community. How do you get that coveted 5-star rating?
If you ever give me cill bumps, that will get you there. If you’ve been in the rotation for 25 years and I’m still not tired of you, you have a pretty good chance too.
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February 19th, 2010
One more Mardi Gras note about my kid, if you can bear it. He was on the local news Tuesday, featured right at the beginning of the story. I’m linking it in formatted for two players, hoping that your browser will at least be able to pick up one of them. If not, this direct play link might work.
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February 18th, 2010
When I left for work today, Vanya was in the den, still in his pajamas, watching a Batman cartoon. When I came by the house at lunchtime, the same episode of Batman was blaring, the volume through the stereo turned up to full blast. I could hear the noisy action from the driveway as I got out of the car. I may never know how the same episode got turned on hours later or how the volume got cranked to the max.
Batman is still the rage in our house. Before the Muses parade on Friday, my sister and I took the little kids to get some grub at a po-boy shop. While we were seated, another guy came through with his face all painted for Mardi Gras. Vanya stared at him a long time, and when he came over, Vanya asked very seriously, “Are you the Joker?”
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February 10th, 2010
You can read the boxscore for yourself, and you’ve seen about the TV ratings already. Here are some stats that you’ll only see on theskinny.
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February 5th, 2010
Two weekends ago, when we went down for the NFC Championship game, Mrs. theskinnyonbenny and I were eating oysters and drinking our lunchtime cocktails at a restaurant called Bourbon House. It happened to be the next shop down from the place where our dear friend Stacie had her rehearsal dinner, and my view out the window happened to be a place where the ladies dance in an exotic style. Penthouse Club, I believe it might have been called.
This reminded me of a story I had forgotten. Our friends from Boston — Josh and Lisa — newlyweds themselves — arrived to Stacie’s rehearsal dinner a little bit early. Not finding anyone there yet, they decided to go grab a drink somewhere close, and Lisa suggested the place right across the street.
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February 2nd, 2010
I just received this invite to a lunch today. The emphasis in the message is mine.
From: ______________
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 9:04
Subject: BRAG Lunch today
The BRAG Lunch is a monthly, informal round-table lunch
for developers within the Greater Baton Rouge area. It is FREE and open to
developers of all skill levels.
______________ will be starting us out talking on the
Liskov Substitution Principle and we’ll see where we go from there. Should
be yet another great meeting. If you would like to come, please use the
eventbrite link below to register so that we can get a rough estimate of the
space needed.
We hope to see you there!
Liskov Substitution Principle?
Let’s go to Wikipedia:
In object-oriented programming, the Liskov substitution principle (LSP) is a particular definition of a subtyping relation, called (strong) behavioral subtyping, that was initially introduced by Barbara Liskov in a 1987 conference keynote address entitled Data abstraction and hierarchy. It is a semantic rather than merely syntactic relation because it intends to guarantee semantic interoperability of types in a hierarchy, object types in particular.
Well, I hope I would be able to hang in the “we’ll see where we go from there” part of the conversation, because I don’t see myself elaborating on the nuances of Liskov.
Unfortunately, I have something that I have to do at lunch today. But hey, it’s nice to be invited.
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January 28th, 2010
Greg Oden has issued a statement about the nude pictures of him that have been released in the public sector.
I want to apologize to everybody, Portland, fans, the organization. It was very embarrassing. It was something that happened over a year-and-a-half ago. It was taken and sent over a year-and-a-half ago. I’m very sorry and I’m definitely embarrassed for my family and everybody around me.
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