I Hate Linuxhttp://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/atom.aspxCommunity Server2009-05-29T13:50:02ZI love hate mailhttp://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2010/12/14/i-love-hate-mail.aspx2010-12-14T08:05:01Z2010-12-14T08:05:01ZBetween work, work and more work, my time for blogging, let alone side projects has been limited... but as I sit back in a hotel room in Webster, SD in between stakeouts near a local farm field as part of the 2010 muzzleloader season (white tail deer is the target), I was... entertained this morning by the following piece of hate mail: Subject: There are so many ways to be a loser From: Sam Handel [schmandel@gmail.com] Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:40 AM Thanks for personally embracing so many...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2010/12/14/i-love-hate-mail.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=32099" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxRed Eye Podcast!http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2010/04/21/red-eye-podcast.aspx2010-04-21T21:33:03Z2010-04-21T21:33:03ZAdmittedly this blog has been silent for too long. Work you love can do that. Tonight I had to break the silence with grand news... the Fox News hit show Red Eye with Greg Gutfield ... now has a podcast! Unfortunately they only advertize it as being available through iTunes and this link ... luckily any serious podcast fan will have a copy of iTunes installed only to extract the actual RSS URL for those who do not have an iPhone/Pod/Pad or similar listening device. I present... the raw URL: http...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2010/04/21/red-eye-podcast.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=32100" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxPredicamenthttp://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/10/05/predicament.aspx2009-10-05T20:23:02Z2009-10-05T20:23:02ZDespite being raised in the Democratic People's Republic of Minnesota and disliking almost everything about it... I still find myself listening to Garage Logic (one of the few redeeming products/exports (aside from scotch tape))... I still tend to root for the Vikings and Twins as I've not found new teams to root for. While working on some coding this evening I've had the Vikings vs Packers game on and honestly in a predicament... do I root for the hated Packers... or for the 'hometown'...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/10/05/predicament.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=32101" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxOne more reason to distrust Jay Insleehttp://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/10/05/one-more-reason-to-distrust-jay-inslee.aspx2009-10-05T14:40:04Z2009-10-05T14:40:04ZToday I received what amounted to a bulk email from my congressmen Jay Inslee which attempted to answer a question I wrote down at one of the town hall meetings back in August ... unfortunately his office conveniently ignored my question and opted instead to address one that is tangentially related. That's not the problem. I hit Reply in Outlook, typed a response, clicked send... and got a nice little bounce back a moment later which said: Please do not respond to this message. This is an auto...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/10/05/one-more-reason-to-distrust-jay-inslee.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=32106" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxSee ya in Rio!http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/10/02/see-ya-in-rio.aspx2009-10-02T14:59:00Z2009-10-02T14:59:00ZGiven the recent failure of President Obama to secure the 2016 Summer Olympics for his home town of Chicago and the growing realization that the President is not as competent as people once thought , a fter seeing this image on the New York Times website , only one thing could be done with it:...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/10/02/see-ya-in-rio.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=32110" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxI knew I heard it before...http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/09/23/i-knew-i-heard-it-before.aspx2009-09-23T23:04:02Z2009-09-23T23:04:02ZFor the second time this evening I saw the following commercial: Both times the tone was very similar to something I'd read several times before... then I remembered the quote: "The John Galt Plan," Wesley Mouch was saying, "will reconcile all conflicts. It will protect the property of the rich and give a greater share to the poor. It will cut down the burden of your taxes and provide you with more government benefits. It will lower prices and raise wages. It will give more freedom...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/09/23/i-knew-i-heard-it-before.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=34329" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxMost moronic bumper sticker EVER!http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/09/11/most-moronic-bumper-sticker-ever.aspx2009-09-11T20:23:02Z2009-09-11T20:23:02ZA few years back Channel 9 had a video about "sensecam" , a device that one could wear from their neck and which would take periodic pictures of your day so as to augment your memory of what you saw/encountered through the day. I want the same thing.. but in a high-resolution form, and for my car as last weekend I saw three things that were not only shocking, but almost unbelievable, especially considering I was not able to take photos of any. The first... while driving through Bellevue...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/09/11/most-moronic-bumper-sticker-ever.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=20556" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspx"Speaking truth to power"?http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/09/09/quot-speaking-truth-to-power-quot.aspx2009-09-09T19:47:05Z2009-09-09T19:47:05ZA few weeks back I wrote about my cowardly and disingenuous Congressman Jay Inslee and his lie of omission that illegal aliens would not be covered under the current health 'insurance' reform being considered in congress. While I certainly can sympathize with the President and having his Congressional Address momentarily interrupted by a heckler... when one is going to go out of their way to call someone a liar while not being honest themselves... even then civility has it's limits, even...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/09/09/quot-speaking-truth-to-power-quot.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=20557" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxSeattle area oddities – the homelesshttp://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/09/05/seattle-area-oddities-the-homeless.aspx2009-09-05T20:33:02Z2009-09-05T20:33:02ZSince moving out to Redmond last year I’ve encountered countless oddities that were quite different than what I’d come to know in South Dakota and Minnesota... a few weeks back I finally put words to something that I'd not been able to quite explain... the homeless and other beggars here are not of the sort I've seen in past. Despite being raised Catholic (and still technically caucusing with them for cultural and family reasons)... I am not a God fearing man... the same it seems can be said...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/09/05/seattle-area-oddities-the-homeless.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=20558" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspx"Wild" Bill Janklow Sues Dell?!?!?http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/09/03/quot-wild-quot-bill-janklow-sues-dell.aspx2009-09-03T21:19:04Z2009-09-03T21:19:04ZI've got another political post in the queue... but I had to post this first after hearing about it while chatting with tdaxp on the phone this afternoon while waiting for the ferry. Former South Dakota Governor, Congressmen (at large) and convicted manslaughter(-er?) Bill Janklow has recently decided to sue Dell over some tech support issues . While I voted against him every chance I could (granted only once)... watching the following video I am reminded of part of why I voted against him when...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/09/03/quot-wild-quot-bill-janklow-sues-dell.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=20559" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxPhotos from the Jay Inslee town hall (8/30/2009)http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/08/31/photos-from-the-jay-inslee-town-hall-8-30-2009.aspx2009-08-31T10:53:00Z2009-08-31T10:53:00ZDo note the box sitting on top of the garbage next to the bench on the left... we'll come back to that later: Planned Parenthood was there as well... complete with pink shirts (shame it's not my color): Hand outs about the bill, unfortunately they aren't the most accurate given they to make the false claim that illegal's will not be covered under the plan : Those with questions were asked to write their name and city on a peice on a card and put it into one of 3 boxes... Agree, Undecided...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/08/31/photos-from-the-jay-inslee-town-hall-8-30-2009.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=34436" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxAre Seattle drivers that bad? Apparently so...http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/07/17/are-seattle-drivers-that-bad-apparently-so.aspx2009-07-18T01:56:03Z2009-07-18T01:56:03Z...as are the pilots who fly here it seems. If you aren’t familiar with the Seattle area... it’s best to start with a map: While the city of Seattle is on the left side of the map, the ‘East side’ (Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, etc) rests on the right, separating them is Lake Washington over which run a pair of relatively narrow highways (I-90 & SR-520). Every summer the city of Seattle has it’s summer fair known as Seafair , part of which often involves an air show over Lake Washington. This...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/07/17/are-seattle-drivers-that-bad-apparently-so.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=18648" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxIt better not happen again...http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/07/10/it-better-not-happen-again.aspx2009-07-10T21:19:03Z2009-07-10T21:19:03ZOn Wednesday night as I sat in my living room watching some Torchwood I heard someone fumble with my apartment’s door. Being puzzled I got up to see what was going on and was met by a person with a grocery bag in tow who opened the door, looked around for a moment, saw me and said “oops, wrong apartment.” That night I lay awake in bed with some some work related design bits preventing sleep... at one point I got out of bed, walked into my second bedroom to grab my Zune when I heard some rustling...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/07/10/it-better-not-happen-again.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=18649" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxAn unfortunate contrasthttp://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/06/06/an-unfortunate-contrast.aspx2009-06-06T10:20:03Z2009-06-06T10:20:03ZWhat does the Google home page show today? That's right on this the 65th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy Google honors.. Tetris: For comparison... Bing:   CNN: Fox News: MSNBC: Shameful Google, shameful....(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/06/06/an-unfortunate-contrast.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=15966" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspxWhen beta software attackshttp://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/05/29/when-beta-software-attacks.aspx2009-05-29T20:50:02Z2009-05-29T20:50:02ZOne of the (many) interesting parts about working at Microsoft is the opportunity to see, use, test and give feedback on early versions of a wide variety of products... it all depends on what your interests are and the openness of other teams. This evening while working with a beta service something rather… strange happened, so strange that it was flat out wrong and shouldn’t have happened, ever. What’d I do? I emailed the Program Manager who is my contact for the product explaining the issue, expressing...(<a href="http://codeprairie.net/blogs/brendangrant/archive/2009/05/29/when-beta-software-attacks.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://codeprairie.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=15215" width="1" height="1">Anonymoushttp://codeprairie.net/members/Anonymous.aspx