Chewing Tobacco & Corporate America

I am fully aware that America (and the world in general) has determined that Tobacco, in all forms, is an evil, insidious, disease ridden addiction that is likely the root cause of all the problems we have today; and that if we do not create laws that forcibly prevents people from growing it and/or engaging in the use of it we will only destine ourselves to greater evils still. But, I reckon I’m well on the other side of peer pressure, and I’m just not that concerned with what America (and the world in general) has determined. I have chewed tobacco, I chew tobacco, and I will continue to chew...

Abby’s 5th Birthday!

2010 Crawfish Boil

Reckon it is about that time of the year again, and we are down right excited to be kicking off the Crawfish Boil this spring! WHEN: 20 March 2010 – 3:00pm Eastern Time WHERE: Bubba’s House WHY: Seriously? I mean really? WHAT CAN I BRING: A chair, if ye don’t want to sit on the ground. Ye favorite drink, if ye don’t like water or tea. Something else to share, if yer that type of person. (Cigars for the Chef’s will never be turned down!) HOW: We need ya to RSVP by Sunday the 14th with a headcount of who will be arriving and eating crawfish. Turns out we will have ‘em shipped in from...

Photos – Old Ones

A few weeks back, someone made a comment a comment about desiring to see some pictures of Tracey and I back in the day. It turns out that only a few days later, yet another person made the same comment, and then another. I’m sure that there is some sort of internet conspiracy thing going on. However, today my mother-in-law showed up for a visit, and brought with her a number of just those photos. As we sat around the table, it dawned on me that this was precisely the sort of stuff those people had been asking for, and I do have this cool scanner sitting here, so why not go ahead and throw some...

The Art of Scalability

Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise I recently received my copy of the book, and the kids think it is utterly awesome to find my name on the copyright page as a Technical Reviewer. For what it is worth, I think it is pretty cool tool! I spent a lot of my free time last summer reviewing the roughly 550 page draft on a chapter by chapter basis, and ultimately I feel like I helped Mr. Abbot and Fisher deliver a relatively solid treaty on the subject matter. I would suggest that the title is quite apropos  in that they focus the majority of their...

Home Entertainment

As many of you are aware, we don’t have any sort of Cable, Satellite, or Public Broadcast Television in the house. We do have an XBox 360, hooked up to an Epson MovieMate 50 Projector, pointed at a wall in the living room, which gives us about a ten foot wide viewing high definition surface to play video games on, watch DVD’s, and even stream shows from Netflix, my desktop Media Center, and other Microsoft affiliates. We also make great use of HULU and EZTV; and typically watch those shows on individual laptops or as a family around my 32” monitor in the office. We love the projector which...

Bubba’s Update

What Is This!? Many of you know precisely what this is! I'm finally attempting to get back into the habit . For those who I took the liberty of adding to the list, there was a time when I sent out regular mailings on various topics that I found interesting. Approximately eighteen months ago, I decided to attempt to move you all from email to the Social Web.I failed miserably! Well, I mostly failed - some number of people have engaged on Twitter , subscribed to RSS Feeds , connected via Facebook , and/or various other forms of communication. However, the majority of people didn't.Not only did the attempt...

Jay Leno Quote

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance? – Jay Leno

Communication Systems and Technologies

Dear Rob Hines: We invite you to submit a paper/abstract in the area of "Communication Systems and Technologies" included in The 14th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2010 (http://www.2010iiisconferences.org/wmsci) to be held on June 29-July 2, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The deadlines are the following: Papers/Abstracts Submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals: February 10th, 2010 Authors Notifications: March 4th, 2010 Camera-ready, full papers: May 26th, 2010 You can also submit your abstract-paper to another area or any of the following conjoined...

Temporal Loops

if - it creates a condition, precedes a conditional statement; however, the master can do far more with an if statement. Some Project Manager says, "Hey! We need a blafgartfee document! Bubba, could you get that done for us?" To which Bubba responds, "I got no idea what that looks like. If you send me an example or a template, I'll get it done." See, the creation of a condition ... "you must send me an example or template" before Bubba will do anything. Three weeks later, some some Project Managers says, "Hey, I have you down to provide the blafgartfee document by EOD today. How is it going?" Bubba,...