Beer Theories

   *Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed.
    Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the
   brewery and all of their hopes and dreams.  If I didn't drink this
   beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered.
    I think, "It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come
   true than be selfish and worry about my liver." *

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   Babe Ruth* *

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   "I feel sorry for people who don't drink.  When they wake up in the
   morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." *

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   Lyndon B. Johnson** *

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   "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

   Paul Hornung *

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   **"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case.  Coincidence?  I think not."

   H. L. Mencken*

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   *"When we drink, we get drunk.  When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
    When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.  When we commit no sin, we
   go to heaven.  So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!"

   George Bernard Shaw*

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   "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

   Benjamin Franklin *

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   "Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind
   is beer.  Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention,
   but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."

   Dave Barry*

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   BEER: HELPING UGLY PEOPLE HAVE SEX SINCE 3000 B.C.!

   W. C. Fields*

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   **Remember "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.

   Professor Irwin Corey*

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   **To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support Group.  Salvation in
   a can!

   Leo Durocher*

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   One night at Cheers, Cliff Calvin explained the" **Buffalo** Theory"
   to his buddy Norm: **
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   "Well ya see, Norm, it's like this.  A herd of buffalo can only move
   as fast as the slowest buffalo.  And when the herd is hunted, it is
   the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This
   natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the
   general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the
   regular kill ing of the weakest members!  In much the same way, the
   human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells.
    Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells.  But
   naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.  In
   this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain
   cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine!  That's
   why you always feel smarter after a few beers."*

Top Ten Tips to become a Rock Star Programmer

On Digg they had this article about the top ten tips to become a Rock Star Programmer:

Here are some of the tips I liked or related the most to me and what I should work towards.

#7 Go back and enhance your old code

Not that it is sound from an economical point of view but because you learn oodles of things reading you own crap, which old code always is. Code gets rotten after a couple of years, it really does, since you evolve. If you can't find bad things in your old code you either already are a rock star programmer, or maybe more probable, hasn't evolved much lately.

This is good advice and something I never do.  I am of the mindset if it ain't broke don't fix it.  But then like he says it'll never evolve.

#9 Don't ask people for advice

Learn how to get that answer yourself instead, it is way more useful. Finding out how to get information about something is a value in itself and may pay you back more than the solution to the problem in the first place. Ask only if you must or if the question in itself is more a discussion and you are actually spreading information. Of course you shouldn't take this too literally, but I see lots of people asking pointless questions they could have found out faster by ten seconds of googling.

I am so guilty of this.  I am always going to my co-workers for questions.  Mostly though it's because I don't know what to search for.  But if I would follow this tip:

#6 Read books

You might be good at what you do, but knowing only that, whatever it may be, is seldom enough to really shine. Knowing enough about more fields than the field you are about to shine in is golden. Take for instance a GUI coder that knows nothing about databases. He might be almost useless since he can't interact with the guy doing the backing store, and so on. It takes as much effort to be 90% good in five fields than to be 99% good one one.

Maybe I would know more about what I need to know.

Anyways there are some good tips in the article...some common sense tips and others that should make you reevaluate yourself.

Windows Vista slips to January 2007

Microsoft Press:

Microsoft is on track to complete the product this year, with business availability in November 2006 and broad consumer availability in January 2007.

This is dissappointing.  Work late guys and make the deadline for pete's sake.

French pushing free choice of music downloads

Reuters:

The French parliament is set to vote early this week on a new law that would allow consumers to legally circumvent existing software that protects copyrighted material.

This could be bad news for Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corp., which have for the most part locked consumers into their own downloading systems with proprietary anti-piracy software.

Analysts say that the French are on to something that the rest of the world has yet to figure out: It needs to set rules for this new market now or risk one or two U.S. companies taking control of online access to music, video and TV.

Paul Thurrott originally blogged about this.  I have to agree this is the way to go.  Being locked in isn't very consumer friendly.

More on the Presidents Visit to Rochester Yesterday

Actual quote in an MSNBC article:

For their father, the President had a message. “He says your sons, he said your son that passed away your son now, he says that are doing he says this is not going to go in vain and that to me was just…I was like... I didn't know what to say” John Pernaselli explained.

J-Mac meets the President

So the President meet J-Mac today at the airport today.  With the restrictions on the residence of Rochester because of the presidents visit...I think this meeting was probably the only thing that was worth while for him to come to Rochester for.

You remember J-Mac right?

A co-worker of mine told me today that there is movie in the works to tell this story.

St Patty's Day Parade

Yesterday Rochester held their St. Patty's day parade and we went down there.

Sherry and Travis served up an irish breakfast.
We went to the parade
Then went for a drink at The Old Toad (English/Irish bar)

After taking a nap we went to go bowling then our for another drink at this place called Boogey's. 

Needless to say I am pretty beat and don't really feel all that great today. 

Anyways I started a Flickr Group of our pictures of yesterday.

Quick links for the hump day

Just a couple quick links to start off the day.

• 30Boxes sets up e-mail and SMS reminders...this was the feature that allowed me to uninstall Sunfire.
• Our CEO at BrandLogic, Hampton Bridwell has his second article, The Keys to Revitalizing a Mature Brand,  published on Chief Marketer.
• CNNSI has an excerpt from a book exposing Barry Bonds for the cheat that he is.
• Pictures of Google's Facilities, it's amazing people get anything done over there.
• Of course what kind of blog would I be if I didn't link to the latest Origami minitablet pics from CeBit.
  

OK time to start blogging again

I took the week off blogging well because I saw my stats exploded for the autistic basketball kid post.  I wanted to respect the kids story and leave it as the top post for a while.

Well I think that was long enough and I am going to start blogging again.