Benson's Blag

That is a big dammed river.

Oct 31st

That is a big dammed river.

Oct 31st

Enjoying a nice afternoon stroll on the PNNL campus in Richland, WA, a place of unsurpassed beauty.

Oct 31st

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Oct 30th

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Oct 30th

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Oct 30th

103008_10121.jpg: Wtf?

Oct 30th

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Oct 30th

Gas got cheap while I wasn’t looking.

Oct 30th

103008_09261.jpg: Wind turbines!

Oct 30th

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Oct 30th

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Oct 30th

Woot is selling a 16 GB thumb drive. I remember when 1 GB was a lot of space in a DESKTOP...

Oct 30th

So you wonder what your part is

Oct 29th

It’s not enough to bash in heads, you’ve got to bash in minds!

Oct 29th

Cause you’re homeless and depressed

Oct 29th

Sweet new chair! Hooray!

Oct 29th

But home is where the heart is

Oct 29th

So your real home’s in your chest

Oct 29th

http://tinyurl.com/6fh7an

Oct 29th

-I feel like I’m a lot more productive when I am not using an IDE.

Oct 29th

http://tinyurl.com/6fy3w4

Oct 29th

-There’s something stupid about feeling superior to NASA because you’ve never crashed a...

Oct 29th

My monkey gets lonely, sometimes. @jonathancoulton, thanks for keeping me amused at work.

Oct 29th

http://tinyurl.com/55c9xu

Oct 29th

Integration ftw?

Oct 29th

We do what we must because we can.

Oct 29th

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Oct 27th

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Oct 27th

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Oct 26th

I love trac.

Oct 25th

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Oct 24th

-Code reuse is good, even if it takes 3 times as long. Right? I’ll just keep telling myself...

Oct 23rd

The javap program is fun and useful for understanding Groovy innards.

Oct 23rd

Flogging Molly ftw.

Oct 23rd

-Looks like a woot off.

Oct 23rd

Debugging crazy old school java code.

Oct 23rd

http://despair.com/elitism.html

Oct 23rd

http://despair.com/ir.html

Oct 23rd

http://despair.com/madness.html

Oct 23rd

http://despair.com/pretension.html

Oct 23rd

http://despair.com/planning.html

Oct 23rd

http://despair.com/sanity.html

Oct 23rd

http://despair.com/ambition.html

Oct 23rd

http://despair.com/challenges.html

Oct 23rd

-Woo, getting shot in the arm! Cheap flu shots at work today. Actually really painless. I was...

Oct 23rd

-Some people put disclaimers at the bottom of all email saying “If this wasn’t meant for...

Oct 22nd

My version of Cadence to Arms is crappy. :-(

Oct 22nd

It turns out I’ve been giving people the wrong apartment number. If I’ve given you my...

Oct 22nd

Stopped by the apple store. New hardware is easily as hot as it looks online.

Oct 22nd

I know how hard it is to put food on your family.

Oct 22nd

I think excessive terminology is a direct result of excessive OOPing.

Oct 22nd

Getting a company credit card. Fun stuff. Once I get it, I can travel to Richland, WA on business!...

Oct 22nd

[due to popular demand] Photos of the apartment are in my photostream here:...

Oct 22nd

Andrew is totally beatboxing in the version of Bandit on The Senates Live at Solstice album. I didnt...

Oct 22nd

Posted photos of the apt on flickr.

Oct 21st

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Oct 21st

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Oct 21st

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Oct 21st

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Oct 21st

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Oct 21st

-Yesterday I found an alarm clock that uses your ipod as a sound source in a box in the...

Oct 21st

Wooo, trying to integrate Groovy with Maven.

Oct 21st

This must be Monday. I never could get the hang of Mondays.

Oct 20th

Enjoy the tatango party everybody. I’m off to ballard market to find foodstuffs.

Oct 18th

Wow, in groovy you can use regular expressions as cases in a switch statement.

Oct 18th

-And it just keeps getting better and better. I just got my real person badge!

Oct 17th

Life rocks.

Oct 17th

-Getting a badge around here is an exercise in persistence and chasing down bureaucracy.

Oct 16th

W00t, now it won’t let me post messages that are too long.

Oct 16th

-This is a test to see how my improved CLI is working.

Oct 16th

I don’t understand why people put so much bloody whitespace in their code. You don’t...

Oct 16th

Suppose you’re writing some sort of an “interface” in Java. Try to design it as...

Oct 16th

Workin’. Get to leave at 2 today.

Oct 16th

Delicious banana bread for breakfast.

Oct 16th

I don’t understand why people put so much bloody whitespace in their code. If you want a blank...

Oct 16th

Thanks for the congratulations and well-wishes. :-)

Oct 16th

So happy to have the apartment search be over, to have a fantastic place, to have it in Ballard, and...

Oct 16th

1521 NW 54th Street — It’s in Ballard.

Oct 16th

Signing a lease and getting keys. w00t.

Oct 16th

In case it wasn’t clear, all did not go well. But I’m looking at another place tonight.

Oct 16th

Lease signed, have keys. Fuck yeah.

Oct 16th

I want a place to live, damnit.

Oct 16th

In case it wasnt clear, all did not go well. But I\m looking at another place tonight.

Oct 16th

Looked at a really cool apartment last night. If all goes perfectly, I may be moving in this...

Oct 15th

Activerecord’s transaction syntax is hot.

Oct 15th

I like groovy’s ‘as’ operator for casting. It makes the code elegant and clear.

Oct 15th

The mighty mouse’s right click is occasionally made of fail.

Oct 15th

Stackoverflow.com is actually pretty useful.

Oct 15th

Fluorescent lighting is worse than no lighting, so here I am coding away in a dark cave.

Oct 14th

Tab delimited files ftw. Solves the whole CSV parsing problem easily. Besides, I’ll be using a...

Oct 14th

Java frameworks remind me of this XKCD: http://xkcd.com/483/ — They make up as many new words...

Oct 14th

The crappy spare chair in my office is more comfortable than my chair, so I stole it. Kind of sad,...

Oct 14th

Listening to music at work makes me a whole lot more productive.

Oct 14th

Woot.

Oct 14th

I wonder if I escape them in my shell if “quotes” work?

Oct 14th

And it is! I wonder if quotes work?

Oct 14th

I’d like to test and see if my escaping action is working properly.

Oct 14th

Oh, it’s just because I’m doing it wrong.

Oct 14th

Adiums buddy list searching is the best Ive seen in any client.

Oct 14th

Well, its looking like the single quotes are geting lost *sometimes*, and Im kind of upset about it.

Oct 14th

It’s surprisingly difficult to write a regex to parse out CSV’s optional quotation...

Oct 14th

Sore throat ftl.

Oct 14th

Can’t stop listening to The Senate.

Oct 14th

Thanks to \@jnunemaker for the twitter library I’m using. CLI FTW.

Oct 14th

I took too long to get Phillip’s address and they rented it to someone else. :-(

Oct 13th

Really hoping my rental application is well liked. About to go fax it at kinkos.

Oct 13th

The

Oct 10th

Java

Oct 10th

Reuben on dark rye ftw. Also, lol @ scruffy.

Oct 10th

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Oct 9th

I think the song ‘Life in a Tenement Square’ by Flogging Molly is actually the tune from...

Oct 9th

Flurry of craigslist housing related emails. There’s one place in Freemont I’m going to...

Oct 9th

When they say ‘Joe Sixpack’ are they implying the average american drinks a lot of...

Oct 9th

I think my new iPod Nano is actually smaller (in volume) than my muvo. With 16 times as much space,...

Oct 9th

The UI on the iPod has improved a lot since my old clunky 20 GB HD based one.

Oct 8th

‘Go Into’ in Eclipse just made me a lot more accepting of their crazy package explorer....

Oct 8th

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Oct 5th

Matt Damon on Sarah Palin’s fitness for office: http://tinyurl.com/5oco97

Oct 5th

Retweeting: @jephjacques ALASKA != THE REST OF THE WORLD YOU TWIT

Oct 5th

I was sad Palin didn’t fall on her face more, but I like Biden more than I did before.

Oct 5th

Got to start doing things that are more like real work today. Tomorrow should be even more real.

Oct 2nd