Happy Birthday!

Touché :)

My personal favorite comes from the SerialPort.Close()[^] method:

The best practice for any application is to wait for some amount of time after calling the Close method before attempting to call the Open method, as the port may not be closed instantly.

What is "some amount of time" because this has been a huge pain in my arse for way too long.

I re-purchased 4 from Steam not too long ago and had a great time - I was, sadly as it turns out, prepping for the current release. Running it in window'd mode seems to work best. As far as the new one goes, it's not that bad IF (and that's a big if) you get to play.

I've not had the chance yet, but I really want to. My first car was an 1986 Z-28 and then I had a 2000 Z-28. Both sucked in the rain, but it was totally worth it. Based on your recommendation, I might have to go and rent one soon :D

It actually does look really slick, but then again, I have been a Camaro fan for a long, long time.

Well, he just got grounded, so I guess I can kiss that award good-bye. Kids! :)

What would my soon to be 7 year old son do if I pulled up in the Camaro Hot Wheels Edition[^]? I'm thinking Father of the Year for life, or until he's a teen ager, which ever comes first :) .

So, I just ran across this while looking at the news, but apparently Disney is in the process of buying Lucasfilms. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Disney Buying Lucasfilms for $4.05 billion.[^]

I agree. It hasn't been too bad. I upgraded my machine at home the Saturday after the RTM released on MSDN and I really like it. There has been a little bit of a learning curve, but for the most part it's not nearly as bad as the press has made it out to be. Mrs. Wife likes it too and now she wants a Surface for school.

Nothing like a little Alice's Restaurant to make your day go by :)

Have my 5

Reminds me of something Jeff Foxworthy[^] said.

:thumbsup:

It is much appreciated; thanks for the jokes and keep 'em coming.

Certainly made my day brighter.

Repo Man[^] also made heavy use of the white cans with black lettering. I always got a kick out of seeing Emilio eating a can of "Food" and drinking "Beer".

So I know I've seen some posts about Skyrim here and then there's always bacon, but what if you combined the two. Would you get BACONBORN? According to this[^] that's exactly what you get. Kind of creepy and cool at the same time.

Ray Bradbury

I've had to do a bit of work printing to serial printers and instead of sending the string value to the COM port, you might want to use something along the lines of System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(string) for TxFrame and then append the CR (0x0D) LF (0x0A) to the byte array. It seemed to work for me.