Archive for November, 2006

Speaking of Teddy Ruxpin

Walking to lunch with a co-worker I told him, “Hey, I saw in Wired they have a new Teddy Ruxpin now, plays MP3s or something like that.” He replied:

There is something nice about putting a cassette tape in a stomach.

And the answer to everyones’ question:

Will the tapes for […]

Out of the Office Today, 4 feet of new snow at Baker.

We have DEEP SNOW CONDITIONS at the ski area today with 86 INCHES OF NEW SNOW IN THE PAST 4 DAYS and 132 inches of new snow in the week! http://www.mtbaker.us

Oh, I wish I could take a snow day.

Walmart versus Fred Meyer

I’ve been trying to convince my friend who moved to Seattle from New Mexico to give Fred Meyer a try over that Walmart beast… finally, he compared and contrasted.

Matt: fred meyers put the smack down on walmart Wes: Oh did it? Matt says: […]

Developing your mojo… a maven2 quote.

I have the the Better Builds with Maven book on my desk here opened to “Developing your first Mojo.” EVERYONE that has walked in has commented something clever regarding their mojo.

This afternoon this happened:

dev1: I wish I had developed my first mojo in college. […]

Sql Server is quite selecty!

I got this during chat completely unrelated to SQL Server.

Zebra Ultra says: i love microsoft’s sql server Zebra Ultra says: it is quite selecty zebra ultra

Yup, it’s one of those days.

Selenium Remote Control 0.9.0 Released

Selenium Remote Control 0.9.0 (November 14, 2006) 0.9.0 includes a bunch of new cool stuff, including frame support, multiWindow support (for testing apps that don’t like to run in a subframe), a Konqueror browser launcher, new cookie-management actions, and support for Firefox 2.0 and IE7. It also includes experimental support […]

Extreme Nature

My girlfriend and I took a trip up to Vancouver, BC last weekend and visited the Capilano Suspension Bridge where we found this awesome sign.

Yes, it was extreme.

Shiver my timbers!

Got an email today that had “Shiver me timbers!” in the subject line… got me wondering where that phrase originated… wikipedia saves the day!

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression “shiver my timbers” probably first appeared in a published work by Frederick Marryat called Jacob Faithful (1834). After an argument over grog, […]

Newsflash: Manatee’s not slow-witted!

Yup, that’s right, Manatee’s might not be as stupid as you think.

Researchers contend that if the plant-eating beasts seem slow-witted, it is because they faced no threats to their survival before the advent of boat propellers. “They’re not under any selection pressure to evolve the rapid-type behavior we’ve associated with […]

Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development

A friend over at Pivotal sent me a link to this Google Video: Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development.

This quote sets the tone for this awesome talk:

Everyone’s happy doing TDD… and everyone is getting the maximum benefit right? Bullshit.

Thanks go out to parkert for sending me this link.

Update: […]