The Rodeo » Uncategorized http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog Because illogic is a lifestyle choice. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:08:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Real Programming http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2012/02/real-programming/ http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2012/02/real-programming/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:08:50 +0000 RodeoClown http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/?p=570 Four hours.
One word.
Bug defeated.

That’s real programming!

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RodeoClown: is it ok to laugh?

]]> http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2011/03/waves-of-meat/feed/ 1 A Glass Ceiling? http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2011/02/a-glass-ceiling/ http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2011/02/a-glass-ceiling/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:54:30 +0000 RodeoClown http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/?p=561 Why do clouds have a flat bottom?
Are they sitting on top of something?

RodeoClown: cloudy

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I think that’s a first.

RodeoClown: might try and claim sunscreen on tax this year

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2004 – The year of Matthias.
2005 – The year of death.
2006 – The year of Jesse.
2007 – The year of other people’s problems.
2008 – The year of Aravis.
2009 – The year of surviving.
2010 – The year of pets.
2011 – The year of…

RodeoClown: one more year

]]> http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2011/01/2011-the-year-of/feed/ 2 John Jenkins, I Have Your Classmates.com Account Right Here… http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2009/07/john-jenkins-i-have-your-classmates-com-account-right-here/ http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2009/07/john-jenkins-i-have-your-classmates-com-account-right-here/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:31:38 +0000 RodeoClown http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/?p=483 I’m not sure why, but your account details landed square in my inbox, password and all*. If you want them back, let me know. Otherwise I’ll just assume your identity, send disturbing pictures to your old Pelham High school buddies, get access to your credit card and go on a spending spree, living your life for you until a US government agency shoots me in the back, then dumps me in a maximum security prison where I’ll spend the rest of my days making humourous licence plates and avoiding large, lonely men archive the email and do nothing at all.

RodeoClown: wouldn’t do that. Would he?

* Oh, and I checked, the email/password combo works, the account is legit.

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One of the new controllers stopped working, so I rang Nintendo about getting it fixed, and while I was on the phone, I asked if I could get some replacement straps for the old controllers.

Today I got a pack in the mail, and they had sent me 4 of the rubbery jackets that go over the controllers to stop people smashing other people and their stuff with them. I’ve already got 4 though, so if anybody with a wii needs a couple of covers, let me know.

RodeoClown: appreciates the thought…

]]> http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2009/07/wii-jackets/feed/ 2 Want to Buy Guitar Hero for Wii Real Cheap? http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2009/06/want-to-buy-guitar-hero-for-wii-real-cheap/ http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2009/06/want-to-buy-guitar-hero-for-wii-real-cheap/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:43:47 +0000 RodeoClown http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/?p=473

If you do, I’m selling a copy on eBay.
It’s just the game (no guitars) and it is in perfect condition (it’s still sealed).
Bidding starts at $25.

RodeoClown: public service announcement

]]> http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2009/06/want-to-buy-guitar-hero-for-wii-real-cheap/feed/ 7 Meeting People on the Internet and in Real Life http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2009/06/not-completely-unlike-a-group-man-date/ http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2009/06/not-completely-unlike-a-group-man-date/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:17:08 +0000 RodeoClown http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/?p=466 On Wednesday I walked to Wynyard Park to meet up with an unknown number of  people I didn’t know for lunch.

Of the millions of people who could have shown up, 6 of us did, and we went to Starbucks, as it looked much warmer in there than it was in Wynyard Park. Anti-clockwise from the wall there was: Justin, dvm, CraigS, Michael Canaris, RodeoClown and Luke.

As Andrew (dvm) said: “…it turned out to be just a normal conversation between six people”. In fact, it was almost entirely unlike a group blind man-date, with the exception being that there was a group of men who turned up unaware of who else would be there. Actually, put like that, it does indeed sounds quite a bit like that. Hmmm.

It was nice to put some faces to names, and to be surprised by who turned up (Luke had posted over at Justin’s blog that he would try and get there, but Andrew was there first, and both Justin and I both mistook him for Luke, which (having now met both of them), is kinda wierd as Andrew is not exactly tall or British, and Luke is kinda not small, blonde, or a criminal lawyer.

Meeting people from the internet is fantastic (assuming you don’t hang out in seedy places online), I highly recommend it! In fact, we are having a family we met on the internet over for dinner next week.

RodeoClown: loves meeting new people (and even people who aren’t new at all, but just ones I haven’t met before).

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I Ian, in the presence of God,
take you Jennifer to be my wife;
to have and to hold
from this day forward,
for better for worse,
for richer for poorer,
in sickness and in health,
to love and to cherish
as long as we both shall live.

This is my solemn vow and promise.

—

Jennifer, with this ring I wed you;
With all that I am and all that I have
I honour you;
In the name of God. Amen.

RodeoClown: doesn’t promise much.

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