Archive for December, 2006

Santa Barbara

Kenny and I snuck away from the family for two days to go taste wines and be tourists in Santa Barbara. I hadn’t spent much time there since a trip with the girls for Spring Break during my senior year of college.
To summarize:

Santa Barbara wineries: recommended, especially for the scenery. We really liked Bridlewood. Not […]

Highway 405 Will Take You

The 6ths have a song that goes
Highway 405 will take you
From the Boom-Boom Room
To Interstate 5 which goes right to
The San Diego Zoo…
Kenny and I had this song stuck in our heads all day during our trip to the San Diego Zoo with my brother. I hadn’t been to the zoo since I was a […]

Moo moo moo moo moo, moo moo, moo moo!

Anjali sent me a link to this wiki, which has rewritten lyrics to all of your favorite Xmas carols. All about beef.
Here’s an excerpt from one of my favorites:

Bessie the bovine
was a jolly happy calf
With a spotted hide and pointy horns,
and a loud moo for a laugh.
Bessie the bovine is a fairy tale they say
She […]

WPF/E First CTP

This morning, the WPF/E team shipped their first CTP! You can now download the plugin for Windows and Mac. Check out the WPF/E MSDN Developer Center to get started and Channel 9 WPF/E Playground for samples. The following blogs have more info:

Joe Stegman (WPF/E lead PM)
Mike Harsh (WPF/E PM)
Somasegar (DevDiv VP; Soma also announces the release of Expression Web)

Congrats to […]

Open Book Scrabble

Speaking of extreme geekiness, last night as an experiment Kenny and I played a game of “open book” Scrabble. We played a two-player game, but with our tile racks open, and used TEA, the word builder, and the Scrabble dictionary to see just how high we would score in Scrabble if we knew every acceptable Scrabble word […]

November

This past November was the wettest month that Seattle has seen in at least 115 years, with a staggering 15.59 inches of precipitation. That is more than Los Angeles typically gets in a year.
This week was also the first time that I’ve heard Kenny speak in very positive terms about the idea of moving to […]