Comments for Radio Bantik http://www.idolhands.com/blog Radio Bantik is an alpha-geek blog covering topics in Mac OS X, software and web development including Ruby on Rails, Java, Cocoa, and WebObjects, corporate survival, LEGO robotics, and other stuff important in the life of a technologist. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:33:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on Warning: Science in Progress by Tami http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/05/20/warning-science-in-progress/#comment-21 Tami Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:00:10 +0000 http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/05/20/warning-science-in-progress/#comment-21 Cool-but-eccentric? Is that what we're calling it now? I don't think that's exactly what they were called back in the day;). Luckily we all grew up and homeschooling gained some respectability. The boys go to private school (which we also had a field day making fun of back then if you remember - those Tidewater people...lol) AND they homeschool a little to fill in the gaps. Of course, my mom does the homeschooling stuff with them - after all, you can take the teacher out of the school, but you can't take the school out of the teacher. She lives for that kind of stuff. Guess you just don't really realize the importance of education until you're responsible for someone else's! Cool-but-eccentric? Is that what we’re calling it now? I don’t think that’s exactly what they were called back in the day;). Luckily we all grew up and homeschooling gained some respectability. The boys go to private school (which we also had a field day making fun of back then if you remember - those Tidewater people…lol) AND they homeschool a little to fill in the gaps. Of course, my mom does the homeschooling stuff with them - after all, you can take the teacher out of the school, but you can’t take the school out of the teacher. She lives for that kind of stuff. Guess you just don’t really realize the importance of education until you’re responsible for someone else’s!

]]> Comment on The 48 Hour Application Challenge by Melvin Ram http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/05/20/the-48-hour-application-challenge/#comment-19 Melvin Ram Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:02:49 +0000 http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/05/20/the-48-hour-application-challenge/#comment-19 How about a status update? How about a status update?

]]> Comment on Self-Employed Boy Genius by Corey http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/01/30/self-employed-boy-genius/#comment-13 Corey Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:04:09 +0000 http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/01/30/self-employed-boy-genius/#comment-13 Um, this doesn't mean that you want to shoot me, does it, Jon? Seriously, thanks for the kind words. Your taking the plunge and that mad week at MacWorld was a great inspiration to me. I still owe you a nice dinner... Um, this doesn’t mean that you want to shoot me, does it, Jon?

Seriously, thanks for the kind words. Your taking the plunge and that mad week at MacWorld was a great inspiration to me. I still owe you a nice dinner…

]]> Comment on Self-Employed Boy Genius by jonm http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/01/30/self-employed-boy-genius/#comment-12 jonm Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:58:29 +0000 http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/01/30/self-employed-boy-genius/#comment-12 Congratulations, Corey. When I was a kid, every once in awhile a dog would get into our henhouse and kill some chickens. I learned at a very tender age that once a dog gets a taste for chickens, you will never be able to keep them out of the henhouse. The only thing that could be done was to "euthenize" the dog (with a shotgun). In a similar kind of way, once you get a taste for setting your own hours and getting paid according to how hard you work (or not), you will never be able to go back. You may be forced to temporarily because of circumstances, but you will count the minutes until you don't have to anymore. I wish you the very best of luck and success. You deserve it. Jon Congratulations, Corey. When I was a kid, every once in awhile a dog would get into our henhouse and kill some chickens. I learned at a very tender age that once a dog gets a taste for chickens, you will never be able to keep them out of the henhouse. The only thing that could be done was to “euthenize” the dog (with a shotgun).

In a similar kind of way, once you get a taste for setting your own hours and getting paid according to how hard you work (or not), you will never be able to go back. You may be forced to temporarily because of circumstances, but you will count the minutes until you don’t have to anymore.

I wish you the very best of luck and success. You deserve it.

Jon

]]> Comment on Cute… by Kenward http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/02/25/cute/#comment-9 Kenward Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:59:40 +0000 http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/02/25/cute/#comment-9 But plus 73 million points if you looked up in the sky after you read that. But plus 73 million points if you looked up in the sky after you read that.

]]> Comment on Using Faker to Pre-Populate a Dev Database by cdmwebs http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/02/04/using-faker-to-pre-populate-a-dev-database/#comment-3 cdmwebs Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:08:11 +0000 http://www.idolhands.com/blog/2008/02/04/using-faker-to-pre-populate-a-dev-database/#comment-3 Nice! I wrote one a lot like this <a href="http://26webs.com/blog/2008/02/02/a-rake-task-for-faker/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Nice! I wrote one a lot like this here.

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