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Running the Seattle Rock'n'Roll Marathon, June 27, 2009
TJ and I ran the Seattle Marathon and Paul ran the Half Marathon. It was very painful event for me for a number of reasons!
1) I lost to TJ -
2) My knee killed - had to run the last 15 miles in horrible pain.
The results can be viewed at: http://results.active.com/pages/searchform.jsp?rsID=80443 http://results.active.com/pages/oneResult.jsp?pID=62122226&rsID=80443 I finished with a 4:16:48 which means my average pace was a 9:48. It took me a half hour to run/walk the last 2 miles.
| Distance | MAR |
| Clock Time | 4:19:47 |
| Chip Time | 4:16:48 |
| Overall Place | 1962 / 5647 |
| Gender Place | 1218 / 2572 |
| Division Place | 202 / 390 |
| Age Grade | 48.6% |
| Pace | 9:48 |
| Ttlrace | 5069000 |
| Ttldiv | 390 |
| Ttlsex | 2572 |
| 5 Km | 27:41 |
| 10 Km | 55:07 |
| 9 Mi | 1:19:34 |
| Half Way | 2:01:32 |
| 30 Km | 2:54:04 |
| 24 Mile | 3:48:25 |
Here are some photos from the event:
SQL Replace and Previewing your Changes
select replace(<column_name>,'original_string','new_string') from <table_name> where <column_name> like ‘%the string you want to replace%’
update <table_name> set <column_name> = replace(<column_name>,'original_string','new_string') where <column_name> like ‘%the string you want to replace%’
Swappable Flex Skins
Juan Sanches at scalenine.com has posted some sweet Flex skins that look like OSX, iTunes, Windows XP, or Vista…Even cooler you can swap them at runtime.
FXT - Flex Templating
http://www.onflex.org/ted/2006/08/fxt-flex-templating.php
Flex Templating provides rich client side website templating using MVC (Model-View-Controller). FXT solves a host of problems for using Flex and Flash Player for website development.
Flex (MXML) is almost as easy as HTML for certain tasks.[…]
Slideroll - Flash Slideshow
Get Going with FlexUnit
I just downloaded and installed FlexUnit. It’s great for running unit tests in Flex and AS3. It’s very similar to JUnit and comes with a graphical test runner client, which is written in Flex.
There a great tutorial on Darron Schall’s weblog…
Create a Vista Windows Media Center Installer
I just erased my previous post which was primarily referencing the MS SDK docs…it’s WAY out of date, and after i went through it, i found that really the only way to go is to use Wix. Wix can either be used on the command line (more mature codebase), or as a plugin for Visual Studio 2005 (easier to use).[…]
Flex Devnet and IFBIN
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/
There are a bunch of new tutorials and articles up on Devnet for Flex. Check out the Advanced user interface section.
Also, a bunch of sample Flash and Flex code up for grabs at IFBIN. […]
Why did the chicken cross the road?
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won’t realize that he must first deal with the problem on “THIS” side of the road before it does after the problem on the “OTHER SIDE” of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by not taking on his “CURRENT” problems before adding “NEW” problems.
OPRAH: Well I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I’m going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
GEORGE W BUSH: We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to now if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
DONALD RUMSFELD: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
ANDERSON COOPER/CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chickens intentions. I am for it now, and will remain against it.
JUDGE JUDY: That chicken crossed the road because he’s GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the jobs of decent, hardworking Americans.
MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer’s Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I’ve not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain. Alone.
JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can’t you people see the plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the “other side”. That’s why they call it the “other side”. Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like “the other side”. That chicken should not be free to cross the road. It’s as plain and simple as that!
GRANDPA: In my day we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
BARBARA WALTERS: Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.
JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together - in peace.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2005, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. Internet explorer is an integral part of eChicken. The Platform is much more stable and will never cra…#@&&( C\ .reboot.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?
AL GORE: I invented the chicken!
COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?[…]
New Office Words
I thought these were pretty funny….considering we can all relate to a good number of these!
- BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible
- SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
- CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles
- SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream, only to get screwed and die in the end.
- ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
- PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on.
- MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.
- SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
- STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
- SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
- XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
- IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The J-Lo and Ben wedding (or not) was a prime example - Michael Jackson, another.
- PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
- ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
- 404: Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested document could not be located.
- GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.
- OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake)
- WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
- CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.[…]