About 16 years ago, I gave guitar lessons at a small music shop in Painesville, OH. In the midst of a slow sales month, the shop manager gave me a used guitar off the wall instead of the money he owed me. Being a Rock Star in my spare time, I saw this as a [...]

It’s Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S., and that can only mean one thing: it’s time to start homebrewing again. The temperature’s right for fermenting and there’s no better weather for hanging out in the backyard, drinking a beer, and watching 6 gallons of amber liquid boil for an hour or so. Of course, that leaves [...]

Some chicken, some beer, 13 years, and some kids who are now clearly smarter than you were at the same age: Don’t ask me why I have a bag of ballpark peanuts in my kitchen …

These are taken directly from Major League Baseball’s official 2011 season statistics.  2011 Cleveland Indians   2011 Boston Red Sox   Payroll $48,339,167 $160,257,476  Wins 80 90  Cost per win $604,239.59 $1,780,638.62  Playoff revenue  $0 $0  Likeability 7/10 3/10  FAIL rating 7/10 11/10

If I had a Twitter account, I would have fumbled this out with a smartphone after 4 rum and cokes. But I don’t have either, so I’ll fumble it out on an antique comfort-curve keyboard and a PC weighing roughly as much as a tractor engine. After 4 rum and cokes: The crash of an [...]

So you have a bunch of FLAC files for whatever reason, but if you’re like me, it’s because you are an audiophile and prefer a lossless codec for files you play on your high-end stereo equipment. However, FLAC files are huge, which can make them impractical for small personal music players with limited storage. This [...]

That’s how it sounds. And it’s my first new guitar in over 16 years. It’s an American Standard Telecaster — they’ve gone back to the brass bridge, but no palm-shredding ashtray bullshit. There were roughly 26 of these in the Guitar Center, Boston location and I asked to play every damned one. The same song. [...]

I really dig the idea of NuGet packages being produced and published by an automated CI build system. While we’ve all been doing CI for years, standardized packaging and distribution options in .NET for large and complex project trees are still fairly few in number. For the most part, build systems spit out .DLLs and [...]

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