Recursion and Cell Phones

Posted on September 30, 2006 by scott

Recursion is like having your cell phone forward to itself, then calling yourself. Got it? If you’re not a Comp Sci major, you’ve probably never heard of recursion. The simplest way to understand it is to look at some simple Visual Basic code that performs a factorial calculation. First, let’s take a look at how [...]

Peak Bagging and Resumes

Posted on September 29, 2006 by scott

A friend of mine called me on? a hobby I have? listed on ScottDriza.com. I list “Golf, Weight Lifting, Writing, Peak Bagging, Running” in that order. After reviewing that list, I realized it is not quite accurate. Instead, it should read: Lunchtime Driving Range Golfer Occassional Lifter of Weights Fledgling Writer Purchaser of Expensive Hiking/Mountain [...]

A Specfuckingtacular Coincidence

Posted on September 28, 2006 by scott

A quick blog on a crazy coincidence two years ago. My buddy,? Tom Wyatt are hiking around lake Tahoe. We come down early after nearly starting an enormous forest fire. Over the next 12 hours we lose hundreds of dollars taking the Oklahoma Sooners over Oregon despite the fact they are giving 27 points (OU [...]

jacasso.com, DOW Near Record

Posted on September 27, 2006 by scott

I woke up early today. Very Early. Like 3 a.m. early. I woke up either because I was excited at the prospect of the DOW breaking the Year 2000 all time high, or because my son was screaming, “BLANKEEZ ON!” at the top of his lungs. After tucking him back in, I was still wired. [...]

Events in C#, Jessica Simpson

Posted on September 27, 2006 by scott

I got another version of the “your blog sucks” email. This one can be summed up as, “talk about software development already!” This blog? relates to coding – no management technobabble, just some inapt references to Jessica Simpson. In the last few years I’ve adopted the last bastion of techno-snobbery: I’m indifferent to the language [...]

Wives are like Software Users

Posted on September 26, 2006 by scott

A recent situation caused me identify striking similarities between the two. Wives have EXPECTATIONS and when those are not met, they make DEMANDS. If those go unanswered they become IRATE. If they still do not get appeased, they will LEAVE in search of a better product. In my personal situation, the EXPECTATION was that the [...]

Ping, BackTrack, Gimme Some Slack Jack

Posted on September 26, 2006 by scott

A blogging friend of mine IM’ed and basically said, “Hey man, your blog sucks. You should kill yourself before you write another line. I can’t ping it or trackback or anything.” This particular guy is ‘mac guy’ AND a ‘cat guy’ but he does now how to say cool things like, “consolidate the blogosphere” (whatever [...]

Life Insurance, Motorcycles, and Barbed Wire

Posted on September 20, 2006 by scott

November 10, 2005: I get a large? life insurance policy cuz I’m doing the responsible thing per Suze Orman. December 25, 2005: My wife gets me the “MEXICO MOTOCROSS ADVENTURE” for Christmas (possibly encouraged by Suze Orman as well). Luckily, my brother (a motocross madman) comes down for the day. We’re in rural Mexico. We’ve [...]

FLOW (and a dude’s name you can’t pronounce)

Posted on September 17, 2006 by scott

I have the attention span of a shrew. Sometimes at night (when I’m tooling away on my laptop) my wife asks questions and inevitably gets mad at me. Wife: Are you gonna fix the air conditioning this weekend? Me: Yes Wife: Are you even listening to me? Me: Yes Wife: Are you going to drown [...]

Overseas Outsourcing; Long Distance Relations

Posted on September 15, 2006 by scott

Prior to getting married my wife and I had a very successful long distance relationship. I was working for Merrill Lynch in Chicago and she was finishing her Physical Therapy Masters in Dallas. We didn’t have a “plan” to handle the relationship, but basically it went like this: (1) call frequently to check in just [...]

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