Just had a funny IM conversation with one of my co-workers:

Him: A bug in how you edit .resx files in Visual Studio left this as the description of what the “Push Field Info” command is supposed to do: “ream field iterators so they can build a appropriate outputs”.

Me: reaming field iterators? sounds like unsafe code to me…

Him: Definitely needs some kinda wrapper around it.

Me: at the very least the field iterators need to sanitize their inputs first.

Him: Ugh.  I’m going to try not to think about that one.

Engineers definitely have it when it comes to office humor…

I got twitter.com/ethergeek.  I’m no longer ethertwit!

I have no pity for liberals anymore.  They just don’t listen.  We told them that Obama couldn’t live up to his grand promises of “change” (which, as we know now, means, come help a “brother” get elected) and they ignored us.  We told them that funding has to come from somewhere, and you all collectively told us that Obama was just going to “find” it without taxing us.  There’s just no point in arguing with you waterheads anymore.

So I picked up my girlfriend for lunch today, and she shoves this piece of paper into my hand about the law that Obambi has finally gotten passed that is going to jack up tobacco prices anywhere from 133 percent (for single packs) to a whopping 2200 percent (that’s not a typo; that’s twenty two hundred percent) for loose tobacco for rolling your own cigarettes.  This wouldn’t normally piss me off…her and I can both plainly see that just buying up a year or so supply of tobacco before the deadline for the new tax hits makes this a monetarily moot point.  This will blow over and get appealed in time; there’s too many large corporations (PM, RJR, etc) and collectives of small businesses whose revenues are threatened to let this continue even the four years it will take to get a republican who knows what the fuck he’s doing back in office.

Where it gets bad is where the money is going.  It’s going to expand the coverage of children eligible for state-subsidized health care.  These children are primarily the products of women who cannot afford contraception (the poor, the crackheads, pick your poison), are too stupid to use it (catholics, primarily Mexican ones), or who realize that they can pollute the cities with as many of their filthy, tick-ridden rats as they want and the government will happily pick up the bill (liberals) because dead people in the streets is unacceptable as long as rich people can be convinced that keeping their own money is heartless and selfish.

If he wanted to fund cancer research with the money, that’s one thing — let smokers foot the bill for the cancer they’ll eventually get from it; but just using vices as another revenue stream for the government is horribly improper.  They turn around and say things like “for every 10 percent increase in the cost of cigarettes, teen smoking goes down by 7 percent” as justification.  You know what, BO?  If you make cars 20 times the cost, I’ll bet there will be fewer fata; car accidents.  Shithead.  And I didn’t have to go to an Ivy League school to figure that out.

I’m not even going to get into how Obama pulled a 180 on his campaign promises of no tax increases not even a month into his term.

So I got my eyes checked at Nationwide on Wednesday.  The exam cost $100 (I only paid $65 because of insurance, but that’s not the point) and they wanted $431 for my glasses and somewhere near $50/box for my contacts.

Out of curiosity (and a little rage) I checked out Costco.  $80 for an eye exam (for contacts) and…get ready for this…$190 for glasses, and $40/box for my contacts.

Gotta be fucking kidding me, Nationwide.

I’ve just been incredibly busy.  I actually update my twitter with senseless junk more often than I post here, though.

I can’t believe I wasted the 30 minutes I did watching this crap.  Fuck.

RIP Maxtor 250GB IDE disk I got from CompUSA for 50 bucks way back when.  You are, and always shall be, a cheap piece of shit.

Time to RAID-1 a cheap pair of SATA disks for my router’s storage :/

When I bought my 9500ix, I could not use VMWare fusion on my macbook pro to connect to my detector to update it, change settings, etc.  Well, here’s the solution…

Just add the following line to your .vmx file for the virtual machine you have the Escort Detector Tools installed on:

usb.generic.allowHID = “TRUE”

The reason this is needed, is because VMWare sees the need to protect users from themselves.  By default, a virtual machine will not allow you to connect a Human Interface Device (HID) from the usb bus.  The reason being, is that they figure that you’ll attach your HID keyboard and mouse accidentally and have no way to return control to the host operating system.

Well, there you have it.

Finally, O.J. is in the slammer where he belongs.

Fifteen year minimum sentence for a double murder and armed robbery.  Looks like he got off easy.

So I’ve had this detector for awhile now…and I love it.  It’s probably saved me from a couple tickets already (mind you, when I have a detector I drive much more aggressively, and faster) and now that it’s been automatically remembering false alarms for awhile, it doesn’t make a peep (unless there’s a cop, of course) on my 40 minute drive to/from work.  I really don’t have to do anything with it: there’s no button pushing to remember when there’s a false alarm (it uses the GPS and a log of some sort internally to decide what’s a fixed-location false alarm) and the configuration can be done by the software used to send the speedcam location updates to the detector, so I don’t need to fool around with complicated buttons.

The only downside I found is that VMWare Fusion doesn’t recognize the detector — I had to set up a windows laptop to update my detector.  I may have a solution to this by tweaking the VMWare vmx file, so I’ll post and link that here when I figure it out.

Update: I got it to work in VMWare fusion.  See my post here.