How the heck is Chipotle in 33 states and Canada but there's none here in New Mexico?

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

I have never gotten real confirmation on this, but the stock answer is that every time your client calls a WebMethod, the entire page has to be cycled (i.e. run through Page_Init, Page_Load, etc). I'm not entirely sure I believe that explanation, since WebMethods have to be static and can't be buggered about touching page variables (which are all instanced, of course) but that is what all of the people I work with tell me.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

I don't eat hot sauce but on my recent trip to the ESRI DevSummit conference in Palm Springs, one of the members of our group took us out to a little place that had several unusual bottles. The only two I can remember off the top of my head were Wet Fart and Spank My Ass and Call Me Sally.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

I just picked up an XL for my new 18.4" Acer and it fits very nicely. Having the two shoulder straps (since it's a backpack-type case) is monumentally easier on your back than the single shoulder strap that normal courier-type bags give you.

That or got an LCD TV instead of a monitor... I whipped up a WPF demo for my boss last year to display on his 50" LCD TV that had the same resolution. I ended up having to work on it from home because I have a personal widescreen laptop (1440 x 900) while my work monitor only goes up to 1280 x 1024 and kept cutting off the edges of the app.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

I'm about 1/3 of the way done with a utility for writing. I started it as a little outline database for short stories in an attempt to branch out from C# into Java and the more I put into it, the more I realized I wanted it to do. It's mostly spaghetti at this point and I'm planning to go back and rewrite it but maybe I'll do it in IronPython or Python/WxWidgets this time.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

At least you've never eaten a worm.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

The company that owns the Mono project (and is now owned by Novell) is called Ximian. All of Ximian's projects are vaguely named after monkeys (Mono is Spanish for monkey, their CORBA library is called Bonobo, and their Linux mail client is Evolution).

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

Because in the Star Wars universe nobody developed image transmissions beyond NTSC. Hell, there isn't even any paper![^]

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

Actually it was the massive amount of counterfeiting that triggered the creation of the Secret Service, which is why they've been part of the Treasury Department up until they got absorbed by Homeland Security a few years ago. They weren't commissioned to protect the President until McKinley was assassinated about 40 years later.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

I am defending the supposition because crazy people are crazy, regardless of whether they have guns or play violent video games or are into bondage porn. I don't think crazy people should have loaded AK47s in their house. But by the same token, I don't think people should be denied ownership of certain items just because loonies use them to kill people. I'm all for keeping weapons out of the hands of the insane, the foolish, and the dangerous, just as I am ok with cops arresting drunks, people blitzed out of their heads with drugs, or just plain sleepy people out for a drive in their car. That doesn't mean I support banning cars from the road wholesale. And you're right, I did use the wrong "do". Serves me right for sleeping in this morning instead of getting up an hour early, what with the time change and all. PS. This is getting into Soapbox territory so no more replies from me on this subject. (For the record, I don't usually wander into the Soapbox, so I guess that means I'm done.)

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

I just tried Lala and it looks pretty cool. Cheaper than iTunes and Amazon.

Did you actually read that article that Josh linked to, or did you just skim the part where he shot the 12 year old? The guy very much was a paranoid idiot, and he likely would have knifed or battered trick-or-treaters to death with a baseball bat. The AK47 was incidental - he probably would have made due with whatever weapon came to hand if he didn't have a gun in the house.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

There's a nice little plugin to Visual Studio called CopySourceAsHTML[^] you might want to look into. It replicates, in HTML tags (and optionally RTF if you're pasting into Word), the exact layout you see in your IDE without any other formatting.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

Which is why I don't like pomegranate.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

Maybe it's a New Mexico thing? I do it the same way, fork in the right hand with no knife, or knife in the right hand/fork in the left hand. Maybe it's one of those silly things we made up just to piss off the Brits (like driving on the right side of the road)?

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

Mine was yesterday morning. I should receive my tinfoil armband in the mail by Monday.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

Brownies are usually very dense, essentially like cake that doesn't rise. Since yours specifically said "cake", I assume it was a cake made up to taste like a brownie, i.e. a chocolate sponge with icing.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

Well, if you are in Australia, your up is actually our down, and vice versa.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer

It would be nice if this worked in VB.NET... Unfortunately the VB ternary operator (IIF) has a nasty habit of evaluating both the true and false statements instead of short-circuiting directly to one option or the other like a logical language does.

Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer