Ted Carnahan

Jennifer was in the break room at work today when VH1 was showing “I love the 90s” for the year 1990. Apparently there was a show that ran for 11 episodes in 1990 called “Cop Rock.” This show fused a gritty television drama about police work with campy original musical scores to create the hideous love child of Cannibal: The Musical and Cops. (Another site describes it as “part ‘Real Stories of the Highway Patrol’ and part Broadway musical.”) It sounded too good to be true - at first I couldn’t believe that something this awful had actually been made, let alone broadcast.

Without further ado, I give you “Let’s Be Careful Out There.”

Dwell on this: Someone paid money to make this. Someone thought this was a good idea. Just let that sink in. There. That’s better.

Mothers be cryin’, man. Life in the hood really isn’t no piece of pie, is it?

If anyone can find me video of the purported scene where the courtroom jury turns into a Gospel choir singing “He’s Guilty!” I will give them $5.

Nate and I dreamed up this list this morning:

Different programming languages’ approaches to “Do the simplest thing that could possibly work.“

perl: Do the simplest thing that no one can read.

C: Do the simplest thing that could possibly compile.

java: Just extend SimpleNamingSchemeWithAllNounsNameContainer.

C#: Do it in Java, only don’t suck as badly doing it.

python: Do it the only way that you can possibly write it.

COBOL: Do the simplest thing that no one alive today can maintain.

lua: Let’s take our application and embed Lua in it, then write an interpreter for a new domain-specific language in Lua and write our new feature in *that* language. Simple!

Got any others? Feel free to add them here!

My friend and co-worker Nate drew me a picture today with the Mouse Gestures extension for Firefox. He says that when I talk, this picture shows what it’s like for him.

For what it’s worth, I don’t wear glasses anymore, and I don’t have a receding hair line - at least not yet. But who am I to question his artistic creativity?

This evening, a major milestone was reached in the life of my Ford Taurus:

Our odometer just rolled over to 2¹⁶ = 65536 miles. Rolling over to 1000 0000 0000 0000 (base 2) miles is much more exciting than reaching a mere 100,000 (base 10) miles.

“I have a comment. In my code. That says ‘Uh oh.’ And I don’t know why.”

Ooof. Jennifer just looked up our duplex on Google Maps. We live in one of these “little boxes, all the same.”

We live in… that one!

We just got back from our 5-day cruise on the Carnival Holiday. One of the highlights for me was when the cruise director, Steve Cassel, read his list of stupid questions that cruise directors get asked. I must add my own foible to the mix:

After dinner on the final sea day, I saw two people walking down the stairs wearing heavy winter coats. I said, “Hmm… they must be getting off the ship early!” Then I realized that they weren’t wearing wetsuits.

Who says that Microsoft doesn’t have a sense of humor? Well, pretty much everyone - but apparently they are wrong. Enter Ms. Dewey, the strangest search engine to date. This is the first and only search engine that I have actually watched, as opposed to used. In the past five minutes, I have been heckled, treated to disco dance moves, and been ‘lasso’d’ by this megalomaniacal woman.

Beyond the eye-candy factor, this is just a wrapper around Windows Live Search - and a pretty useless one at that - so this has got to be proof that Microsoft does in fact have a sense of humor!

Cory Foy happened upon what is, quite possibly the coolest toy ever. It’s too bad he didn’t buy it for Anabelle - just imagine the fun! “Oh no! The nasty wormies are attacking the mail server! Ahhhh!”

Plus, because it’s for ages 3+, it’s fun for the whole family… especially for those of us who have computer science degrees… nevermind.