This is an entertaining read: Fulfillment—A short story by Miracle Jones. The “Jeff Bezos looks like” bit was particularly funny…because it is more or less true.
[1] http://miraclejones.blogspot.com/2013/11/fulfillment.html?
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Turkey turkey turkey
Five minutes to carving this beautiful bird.
Big ‘n’ boozy
Beer, Tasting notes
At 11.3% ABV, the Rochefort 10 is pretty up front about what you’ll find inside. Once you get past the high intensity alcohol nose you’re rewarded with an incredible cherry/fig flavor floating in the middle of a malt fog. Despite this I think I like the Rochefort 8 better.
Yep
Slap shot
All bad. You do that, you go to the box, you know. Two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know.
In a movie full of great dialog, this may be the most overlooked quote of all.
Oldie but goodie
Another from the archives:
Too Much Joy – King of Beers [1]. There was a time that this song made it on to any single mix tape I would make, regardless of the intended audience. I liked it that much.
B E Aggressive
Not even sure why…but this was stuck in my head when I woke up this morning:
Mockity mock moq
Getting a rare chance to do some serious refactoring and have committed to doing it “right” with TDD. To that end I’ve been introduced to my new friend Moq [1]—a lazy-evaluating object mocking framework.
Abstract your objects to interfaces and then create a new Mock object with the interface as its type… and Bob’s your uncle! From here you can stub out your interface object to return whatever values are useful for you when contriving unit tests. All the not-useful stuff? Just let it go since lazy evaluation means the mocked object won’t give a damn so long as you don’t invoke them.
The amount of time saved going this route? ALL OF THE TIMES! Enough I can skip out briefly to tell you all about this goodness and still have developed an OptionsManager framework that is fully covered by unit tests.
See, I do love my job sometimes.
What have you done for beer today?
Awesome story ripped from Metafilter [1]. WWII vet learns his gesture has been immortalized in a Belgian town. Makes me smile.
…except for the latrine helmet thing. Maybe didn’t need that detail.
[1] http://www.metafilter.com/134178/That-time-a-beer-wasnt-just-a-beer
Wastebin
Yet another half a day spent chasing down issues for folks who are using version control. Notice I said ‘using’ not ‘using with a single shred of logic or forethought for what these actions might bring.’ Hence the venting.