McClaren Racing

Oh, you know…writing software for F1 racers!

I was so exhausted yesterday, I don’t remember much…I think I may have proposed marriage to several people (all hopefully women).

To any of those, my apologies, I’m already taken, and I’m semi-conscious today. But, the morning is still young.

Other titles consider:

- Oh Haiiiiiil, no!
- What the Hail?
- Hail for certain.

* * *

At 3 o’clock this morning, I awoke from a dream where I was apologizing to my dead Uncle Chester for ragging on him my entire life, only to hear what sounded like large pigeons (possibly pelicans…I’m not sure) pounding against my roof. Looking outside, we quickly determined a few things.

- No pigeons.
- There was lightning
- Our windows were all open.
- My Beamer was sitting outside.

I believe in some strange way one of those pigeons…

JarvoSpeaks - Mar 5, 2007

I believe in some strange way one of those pigeons may have been your departed Uncle Chester, returned in spirt form just to say, “It’s all right, young Harold, I understand, we all go through these things. However, just to even things up I pooped on your beamer.”

“[Because I talk so much] I need to put in 12 to 15 hours per day just to get in 8 hours of work”

Yikes.

W H O are you getting these from?! :-)

Jeff Roberts - Mar 2, 2007

W H O are you getting these from?! :-)

Various people…sometimes, they just s… HarryC - Mar 3, 2007

:-)

Various people…sometimes, they just stick in my mind.

Okay, at this point in my life, there’s only one show I watch religiously: Grey’s Anatomy.

The last two episodes have caused me physical pain. You see, the main characters, the swooping eagles of the show–Merideth, Derek, Christina, and Burke–mean nothing to me. They’re interesting in a surreal sort of way.

There are two characters I DO care about–Izzie and George. They seem very real to me…they’re best friends and confidants, and they’re flawed. They don’t soar quite as high as the rest, but they do have a depth of emotion that is the anchor of this show – when George’s dad died, I had to consider what my own response will be to my father’s passing. When Izzie lost Denny, the man for whom she threw away her career, I had to examine just what I would do if my own beloved were dying and there was precious little I could do about it.

“Assuming I can get this to work”

Two powerpoint presentations for my Managers to present.

Kill me now.

[Scene. Interior. A Conference room with a conference table shaped like a badly-imagined Star Trek insignia contains folks awaiting an early morning call. A dark-skinned Indian fellow, running the meeting sits across from a dark-skinned Brazilian man with curly hair. The Brazilian man’s humor is less infectious than he’d like to believe.]

Brazilian guy: I love languages. I know how to say ‘good morning’ 25 languages.

Indian guy: That’s nice

That I understood this post or that I understood within 3 seconds that it could be better written as:

BOOL IsIpAddressZero( LONG lIpAddress )  
{  
      return  !lIpAddress;  
}  

300

Tagline for the movie posters:
This has to be the best movie involving half-naked [gay] men I’ve seen all year.

Okay, I’m a history buff, and I’ve reviewed Other works about Thermopylae before. In many ways the Pressfield book (and, I’m assuming, Frank Miller’s graphic novels) were better interpretations of Thermopylae, but the movie was interesting.

Some advisories:

- Yes, it’s that gory. It’s about a battle waged hand-to-hand over three days, and it gives you precious little time to forget that. It doesn’t exactly glorify battle, but it does remind us that modern warfare is much more antiseptic than its ancient forebear.

Oh, to be a fly on THAT wall. Unless, of course, …

Jeff Roberts - Mar 5, 2007

Oh, to be a fly on THAT wall. Unless, of course, I’m the empty shell.

Duke’s OUT of the tournament

George finally hit that

I had a snappy comeback. For once. Felt good.

Car rumps, that is :-)

Nissan is famous for screwing-up the back-end of every car they make, producing bulbous, unattractive forms that destroy the tidy lines of the car. Seems to me they’re always trying to add ‘visual excitement’ (a Pontiac term!) to the cars.

Well, I LOVE the new Altima.

The back end had a muscular look, very reminiscent of a G35, skyline, or a 350z. Pictures really don’t do it justice: The curve from the C pillar is organic, down through the tail lights. It reminds me of the way Ferrari finishes-off its great GT cars like the 456GT.

But have you checked out the gluteus on the Maxima…

Jeff Roberts - Mar 3, 2007

But have you checked out the gluteus on the Maximas? :-)

one word: minivan.

Snow Crash

Consumed this book this weekend, and it was a great mind-F***, similar to the first time you watch “The Matrix”.

Where to begin? The central character, Hiro Protagonist (You have to admire a man with the stones to call his protagonist Mr. Protagonist!), lives in a dystopian future overrun by corporations, in which the world is split in two–Reality is, well, the real world, and the Metaverse is the hipper virtual world where everyone has avatars and can interact via being ‘Goggled-in’.

My blog is worth $2,822.70.
How much is your blog worth?

jjetsam.wordpress.com: $2,258.16

jeffingtown.bl… Jeff Roberts - Mar 6, 2007

jjetsam.wordpress.com: $2,258.16
jeffingtown.blogspot.com: $6,209.94

Article

Understand, I don’t like Spring all that much. For a ’lightweight’ framework, it’s awfully heavy on the stuff you need to ship to have an ‘app’ (or at least, it seems that way to me). Still, this guy’s critiques are just…weak!

Thoughts:

On Configuration

“Setter injection is bad”. Yeah, it’s bad. It allows you to create objects in an invalid state, and causes all sorts of runtime state checking of what (often) is an immutable or stateless Object. Still, all recent versions of Spring have allowed us to use constructor injection.