Dell's website server prices are just stupidly expensive. priced 1U out at $3,640 for what I built for $1300.

how much of Deadwood was based on the real old west? http://tinyurl.com/acyy8

Warning: this video contains nothing but lots of awesome swearing. http://tinyurl.com/qx3nt

whenever anyone mentions Deadwood, I mentally add, "c***sucker".

last tweet was for directed at those who have visited my home and wondered aloud why I have an enormous, blood-spattered S in the corner.

Dear Next Person Who Opens a Pluralization 'Bug', I will personally come to your house and bludgeon you to death with a giant S

new bug: "You (...) 1 new comments <- incorrect plural!" RAGE METER +10

I am convinced that people who willingly use Opera hate a) themselves and b) the web, or perhaps it's just c) have lost their damn minds

I am ashamed to admit that I'm excited about the new GI Joe movie http://tinyurl.com/br857a

Josh Stodola makes a great point: why don't long installs let me play Tetris instead of showing stock photos of happy customers? Seriously!

Dear Cat: You Are Doing It Wrong. http://tinyurl.com/a7wx2t

ec2 is definitely cool and flexible, but not really a very good deal IMO: http://is.gd/hWWT

It's always sunny on the intarwebs.

nice rack.. MOUNTED PCS, I MEAN http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/11/19/verarirack2.jpg

currently looking at this poll chart of voltage vs speed. 1.4v seems high but.. http://tinyurl.com/b4d46u

I'm in the mood to overclock something today

behold the heartbreaking tragedy that is First World Problems: http://hashtags.org/tag/firstworldproblems

"None of this was in Lord of the Rings, Dungeons & Dragons, or Ladyhawke with Matthew Broderick." http://is.gd/hTK9

A-Team set for remake in 2010 with Ridley Scott and Stephen J. Cannell attached http://www.variety.com/VR1117999155.html

Bill Hicks on Letterman, Finally http://tinyurl.com/djgmak

NB: if your "bugfix" creates more bugs, it's not really a fix, in the strictest sense..

UPS took the servers away. I miss them, somehow. I think I have post-partum depression.

ahh, finally got it working. SUDO MAKE ME A F**KING SANDWICH!!!

sigh. can't get 1024x768 going in VirtualBox/Ubuntu after 30 minutes of messing around. so painful. http://is.gd/3Y9I

ooh, VirtualBox is nice. thanks for the tip. I just really dislike VMWare's "spray n' pray" driver install approach. http://virtualbox.org/

ugh, Ubuntu still barely works in Virtual PC 2007. I know, VMWare is better, but I hate the way VMWare takes a dump all over your system

"the girls would turn the color of the avocado when he drove down their street in his el dorado" http://tinyurl.com/5uqaxc

a little Left4Dead humor, for those that have played it http://tinyurl.com/dz64wr

@tefion on stack overflow, we program using prison rules http://tinyurl.com/3387dt

lol, we ddos'ed ourselves with weird javascript keypress event bug today. Hilarious! :P

basically, it's like this: JOINS ARE EXPENSIVE. Period. Really, really expensive. I'm not kidding.

we have to do a massive database refactoring on Stack Overflow, and the scope of it makes my face, and other various extremities, hurt

gravatar is seriously jacked up tonight

checkbox-with-label is freaking impossible to render consistently across browsers. WTF? http://is.gd/hMoE

WIll Arnett (GOB) on the Sopranos http://tinyurl.com/aestmt

creepy when I'm working on SO, searching for something, and the #1 hit is.. SO. very creepy. I have the willies! henskin! goosebumps!

@cinnabarsweets @betsyphd reminded me I can schedule a pre-paid UPS pickup.. good thing I have a smarter half, eh ? :)

packed up our servers to ship. I am not sure my mummy-like programmer body can take schlepping the heavy 2U box to UPS.

UC Berkeley StarCraft class. Not a joke. http://tinyurl.com/amrdnp

funny how adding voltage increases memory reliability. Voltage: It makes your ones one-ier and your zeroes zero-ier!

If you think about it, empty memory is simply wasted cache. The ideal mind-reading OS would keep memory utilized at 99% all the time.

(whenever I say "vista" mentally substitute "windows7" so the knee-jerk loathing doesn't kick in *too* fast)

I mention Prime95 because I'm running it ("lots of mem" test) to make sure the new memory is ~stable. Unit testing your hardware FTW

there's a new version of Prime95 that automatically handles multicore torture tests: http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

Yee-haw, just joined the 8GB memory club on my desktop. At $100, can you afford *not* to? I hereby declare 8GB the new 4GB.

stackoverflow podcast is slightly delayed becase Joel was on a European Vacation http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089670/

"Eight year olds, Dude." http://tinyurl.com/bba49n

if Satan created a programming language, it would surely be case sensitive

"Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read today's newspaper." http://is.gd/h6ao

not being able to render views to strings (without nasty hacks) is a big PITA with ASP.NET MVC.

I can't stop thinking about Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist http://www.freddypharkas.com/

"Software developers truly believe, in their heart of hearts, that they are typical users." http://is.gd/hwkb

there's gonna be a fight -- a YouTube Comment Fight! http://tinyurl.com/ahtr23

"There are some things that just can't be unit tested." big JQuery 1.3.1 regression http://is.gd/hvXC

stackoverflow.com silent feature launch -- try /users/recent/{uid} for your uid

it may come to blows over curly brace indentation choices. What do you think this is, Java? I KEEL YOU

let's have a child, we'll name her Minnie Pearl, just you and me Punk Rock Girl

@johnsheehan also, I'd rather push a Ford than drive a Chevy <insert Calvin peeing on Chevy logo here> http://is.gd/huRS

@johnsheehan we have a lot of if..then..else in our views, which is CRAZY painful when rendered tag soup stylee

@johnsheehan I don't care for code-behind-less views.. leads to massive tag soup on view pages. Need wrapper functions.

".. that have revealed [Jon Skeet] to be the Chuck Norris of Stack Overflow.." so awesome

got our first Mac advertiser. Even their ads are prettier. Shiny.. must.. touch..

Dear Christopher Cross: is a double neck guitar *really* necessary for "Sailing"? http://tinyurl.com/56vuty

harry eng the master bottle filler http://tinyurl.com/7dapju

amusing ads http://tinyurl.com/ddu2aw

"he allegedly became so enraged by another patron's version of [Dio's] "Holy Diver" that he assaulted the singer" http://is.gd/hu4q

just sent out a long distance code review dedication to @superdalgas http://tinyurl.com/b3uyup

"Why do software developers inflict on themselves the torture of ORM layers?" http://is.gd/htPh

expanded facial hair types http://tinyurl.com/cv8yc4

oh, and the last time I had a serious FF problem, it wasn't my add-ons, it was an actual FF bug. So with all due respect: suck it.

I love complaining about Chrome probs because nobody can immediately squeal "it's your add-ons causing the problem!". So sick of that in FF.

JQuery: so useful, it should just ship with the whole damn *web*.

"I'm a duck hunter, but I don't consider Frank a duck. I just consider him a .. friend." http://is.gd/hejC

goatee saver -- goatee shaving protection. NOT a parody, surprisingly. http://tinyurl.com/co7mnx

new stackoverflow.com question bounty feature just deployed http://is.gd/hmFH

jwz's twitter is full of hilarious win. Start at last page and move forward http://twitter.com/jwz/status/790024704

twitter: it's like facebook, but without all the extra stupid bullshit that gets in the way

"Tonight I finally know what it is to be steamcrunk." http://twitter.com/jwz/status/1146293686

wrt previous image, zoom out

paging Dr. Freud, photo division http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/9021/1207314221606bn5.jpg

I just want to be held. Is that so wrong?

"Unit testing is a great way to pay a bunch of engineers to be bored out of their minds and find not much of anything." (c)2005 Wil Shipley

I have mixed feelings about a voting system where the comment "I'm gay for Bill Murray!" gets 6 upvotes. Ok, now it's 7 upvotes.

what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding? a lot of things, actually. http://tinyurl.com/5n5hq4

oh noes! someone destabilized the runtime!!1! http://is.gd/hkPu

@hkelement I was profoundly disturbed when previous IE8 betas broke codinghorror.com, an incredibly simple/basic layout. Not any more.

Good news: IE8 RC1 is not breaking our websites. Bad news: almost 1/2 the speed of Firefox 3.0.5 in SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks.

I like that "checking your computer for malicious software" is one of the steps in IE8 setup. Evidence of Win32 ecosystem insanity.

IE8 release candidate! "Please let this one not suck, please let this one not suck, please let this one not suck.."

wow, the 401k result statements I'm getting are hilariously bad. Good thing I didn't put much of my money in THAT nonsense!

Wrath of Khan: The Opera http://tinyurl.com/b49r9s

Tonight, we divide by zero! http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjepson/3151222824/

@katofawesome that's where you're wrong! Cheney is dead! Just not on the *outside*.

Dick Cheney is rolling over in his grave/crypt right about now: http://tinyurl.com/b7qc6q

Cure + Lolcats = LOlsome. http://rathergood.com/lolcats

rt @jarrod_dixon Funky Town on old computer equipment http://tinyurl.com/68nx2b

for one thing, I selected "email as PDF" and Quickbooks is in a hung state for the last 5 minutes. Desktop apps, such a waste of my time.

using QuickBooks makes me want to stab myself in the face. so much.

seeing some really weird disk performance pauses during giant disk ops with write-back caching enabled on IBM (Adaptec) ServeRAID 8k.

one more example: 111ms, 177ms, 261ms. (3.5 GHz, 2.5 GHz, 1.86 GHz) SQL server cpu speed = more important than I've been told it is.