ScottGu can't go high enough! This is old news (at least two days now), but Scott Guthrie is now corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Platform at Microsoft. I couldn't be happier for Scott and for .NET. As Roger Jennings says (via a Julie Lerman post), "Other developer-oriented groups would do well to clone Guthrie's approach to marketing their platforms." As I've said here before, ScottGu is my hero, so I would love to see him rule Microsoft someday.
Latenight billable supercedes latenight blogable. My blogging has really dropped off recently because I've been doing billable work during my latenight geek sessions instead. I love my projects and the satisfaction of making my clients happy, but I don't like to see my post frequency drop either.
I should subscribe to Fake Steve Jobs. Rush Limbaugh writes of his deep Mac affections, but he's having unresolved problems with the latest Leopard release. Limbaugh then asks if a personal plea to Steve Jobs would help, to which one of his people says Jobs would probably tell him to endorse Windows instead. Fake Steve Jobs says, "Actually that's not true. That's not my response at all. What I said, in fact, when Rush called me, was this: Siooma, you fat reactionary asshole."
Superunknown by Soundgarden. I don't know how I missed this 1994 album from Soundgarden, but I'm making up for lost time, having listened to it at least 20 times since downloading it from Amazon. On the subject of music, I love this cover of Neil Young's Old Man by Lizz Wright.
Racquetball humor. I go to the health club almost every day, and while I don't socialize much while I'm there I do enjoy listening to the racquetball players talk among themselves. "Bob can't make it today," a guy says to his buddy, "he told me he's getting an MVJ award." "MVJ award?" the other guys says. "What's that?" "He said he's going to his Synagogue to receive a Most Valuable Jew award." Two other guys were preparing to hit the court earlier this week and the one guy says, "It looks like we're playing with Action Figure today." "Action Figure?" his partner asks. "You mean Bill? Why do you call him that?" "Because of all of the fucking padding the guy wears." That killed me.