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"No, there was no against-ment in that!" Nothing can express exactly how much I love you. I am thankful every single day that you are a part of my life. ^--this is you

Spend 5 minutes fooling around with the virtual Mr. T. It's well worth it.

Seriously, what in the blue hell is this? Is it comedy? Worse, was it meant to be serious? Are the speech impediments real? Did someone actually write a plot? Batman: Defenders of the Night Highlights: Batman is nearly beaten by a hood with a stick. The Riddler hits Robin in the head with his cane and then hits Batman in the nuts, all before caw'ing like a crow for no apparent reason. Defenders of the Night was so good it warranted this sequel: Batman: Dark Betrayals Highlights: Bruce calls Alfred from a car that isn't moving. Commissioner Gordon works in a bedroom that has laundry all over the floor. Robin sells cocaine and then steals a dog. The criminals continue to take Batman seriously despite the fact that he's clearly wearing pyjamas. You owe it to yourself to watch these both all the way. It will blow your mind.

Seriously, what in the blue hell is this? Is it comedy? Worse, was it meant to be serious? Are the speech impediments real? Did someone actually write a plot? Batman: Defenders of the Night Highlights: Batman is nearly beaten by a hood with a stick. The Riddler hits Robin in the head with his cane and then hits Batman in the nuts, all before caw'ing like a crow for no apparent reason. Defenders of the Night was so good it warranted this sequel: Batman: Dark Betrayals Highlights: Bruce calls Alfred from a car that isn't moving. Commissioner Gordon works in a bedroom that has laundry all over the floor. Robin sells cocaine and then steals a dog. The criminals continue to take Batman seriously despite the fact that he's clearly wearing pyjamas. You owe it to yourself to watch these both all the way. It will blow your mind.

This weekend's interesting experiment: make Giner Ale from scratch. It sounds very complex and everyone has asked how to do it. There are directions floating around online, but let me provide some gently tweaked guidelines. Read on for the details.

It's been 4 ½ years since I've seen my favorite band, Phish, play. In the decade prior, I had seen then about 30 times in concert, across two continents, 4 countries, at least 6 states, almost 200 different songs. Today, for whatever random reason, I was thinking what I might write, if I were seeing them again today and was asked to write the setlist: Set 1: Carini Had a Lumpy Head, Vultures, The Mango Song, Ghost, Roggae, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Ginseng Sullivan, Water in the Sky Set 2: Buried Alive > AC/DC Bag, Pebbles and Marbles, Peaches En Regalia, Dogs Stole Things, TMWSIY > Avenu Malkenu > TMWSIY, NICU, The Lizards, Dog Log, Slave to the Traffic Light Enc: Glide, The Sloth Yes, the sets are a little long, but this is what I'd like to see... today.

I posted a random question on OSNews this weekend, What's you favorite movie?. It got quite a few comments. Although I listed two, I want to, for the record, make a more comprehensive list here. Read on for the meat of it.

Great blog entry over at EW about The Decemberists at Coachella. Unfortunately for the reviewer, it was an abbreviated set, but nonetheless, they got to see both the extraordinary epic "The Island" and the hilariously fun "The Mariner's Revenge." Read the review of The Decemberists at Coachella over at EW.com.

We have a new web-based client portal application we are going to use for my company extranet. However, because it was originally designed to be a hosted application, there are several variables involved in all areas that don't apply to us, since we host it ourselves. When using said portal, every URL looks something like: domain.com/login.aspx?QS=jasbndfiaubnfoaeuifwoeifbwfe The only difference is that the "QS" GET variable is even longer. I made the request of our developers to get rid of this query string for the login page, and the login page only. This is what that code looks like in PHP, inserted at line 1. if(!$_GET['QS']) { $_GET['QS'] = 'jasbndfiaubnfoaeuifwoeifbwfe'; } That's it. One line of code. In ASP.net, this cost me 3 hours of developer time. THREE hours. Then I asked our old developers to make a change to their code. It was doing a check in login if they are customers from the new app or the old one. If they are old, it processes the login. If it'they are new, it gives them an error message. So I said, instead of giving them the error, let's redirect them to /new-directory/login.aspx?email=[base64_encoded email]&password=[base64_encoded password]. This is that code in PHP:...