September 2009 – youfailed.us

Party like it’s 1999 (LAN party that is!)

Yesterday I checked the status of my House Party application for the Windows 7 Launch Party I was hyping up with several friends and was *sorely* disappointed to see a red dot and something about how it wasn’t going to happen and how there were lot of applicants and they were sorry blah blah blah. I had been thinking about my funny retort and how MS dropped the ball once again! I was going to use the following key phrases:

LAN Party
Carne Asada (thin sliced marinated beef for the people not from AZ)
XBOX 360 Halo with 4 players! I have 4 controllers already.
Try to convince a friend to bring his flat screen and XBox 360 for 8 player action!
At least 3 of my computers set up with Windows 7 (for demos and maybe we can play Halo or some other game with the XBox people) and a few others set up for some AoE action late in the night!
I already have a Kegerator with Kiltlifter and it’s more than 50% full!

It was going to be an epic post! But then look what happened:

ActiveApplicant

I’m an “Active Applicant”! Don’t let me down Microsoft!

Sheldon

P.S. I know MS has no control over getting me a party invite but I’m going to blame them anyway if I don’t get in.

LoseIt with Diet Coke

My sister and I are both using LoseIt for the iPhone to track our calories. You tell it what you eat, it tells you how many calories you have left. We’ve decided to spot-check each other to stay honest, and I found this exchange particularly amusing.

A humorous exchange w/ my sister about dieting.

Blocking is broken in Google Chat on Gmail

Gmail changed my life and I have no right to complain . . . but this is driving me crazy!

I try to block people (using the chat interface there on the left) and it doesn’t work . . . they still show up and can see I’m online and then when I go back to check they are not blocked. Plus, people that have more than one email address show up on the chat list several times I guess once for every email address. That’s annoying but I can deal with it.

It all happened around the time that Google Contacts came out (even before the cool, easy to remember URL). I wish I could submit a bug report or something.

UPDATE: I just tried to block again to verify it wasn’t working and now it looks like it *IS* working. We’ll see though. Now I just need to figure out who is blocked and who isn’t.

Sheldon

Email and programming

Jim and I occasionally talk about programming by email where I’ll ask a question or describe a situation and he’ll tell me I’m wrong. And sometimes he’ll email me asking about some old programming language and I’ll rattle off some stuff and he’ll gleam enough to remember the right answer. It works great because later on when he needs help with his sprinkler system or some problem with his toilet or a ceiling fan I’m right there with the magic fix!

Anyway, today I had a question about “constraints” in c# and his answer was awesome! So I told him we should post it to stackoverflow.com but that we should reformat the question so it doesn’t look like I’m a dumb ass.

Jim proposed that he post my question and that I post his answer . . . so that’s what we did. I hope my boy Jeff doesn’t get mad and take it down! I need the rep Jeff!

I wish I could post the original email because it’s pretty funny but I’d have to cut though the inside jokes that are funny to us but probably offensive to outsiders. I’m sure Google will make it public and search-able someday!

Sheldon

P.S. No, I don’t know Jeff Atwood (used full name so that his ego search will find this) but he replied to my email once so now we are best friends.