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Someone had far too much free time.

Karen — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:39:44 -0400

Pumpkin would love that...the mouse would already be torn open so she wouldn't have to do any work (unlike the other toy mice that she already destroyed...cats have lots of time on their paws)

Someone had far too much free time.

Dave — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:51:57 -0400

I'd start here, but it looks like they don't have patterns available [yet].

Maybe you could contact them?

Keith and the Girl on Palin's debate performance

Dave — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:42:55 -0400

I think reducing them to "Git-R-Done" actually increases her answers' clarity and comprehensibility.

Keith and the Girl on Palin's debate performance

Steve Casburn — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:16:50 -0400

The sad thing is that most of Palin's answers to substantive questions can be boiled down to "Git-R-Done" without losing any nuance or detail in the process.

I'm now banking with Wells Fargo

Becky — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:48:20 -0400

6 years with them when I lived in Minnesota, and overall, no complaints.

Someone had far too much free time.

Becky — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:42:56 -0400

So, where can I get the pattern???

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Dave — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:45:37 -0400

Hmm... just looked it up, and yeah, that seems vaguely annoying. In .NET 2.0 and later, you can set the static Boolean value Control.CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls to false and then access the controls in any thread-unsafe manner you like (or implement your own, simpler thread safety scheme).

For simple tasks, another option is to use a BackgroundWorker thread and the various update callbacks. I would probably take the first option and implement my own (simpler) thread safety, but then I'm pretty good with multithreading. Alternately, I wonder if you couldn't subclass the control to override the methods you want to use and do the InvokeRequired stuff automatically under the hood?

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M1EK — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:31:49 -0400

The whole "is invoke required?" nonsense - as well as the older solution with delegate syntax (clutters up my source code with a bunch of syntactical crap that's really irrelevant - all I want to do is say "run this thing on the UI thread").

L'Embarras des Richesses

Dave — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:05:09 -0400

Eh. We got two more tries to put 'em away.

L'Embarras des Richesses

Craig — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:57:20 -0400

Sadly, our bullpen gave it up eventually and our bats stopped showing up consistently after around the 6th.

And the winner is...

Dave — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:07:09 -0400

Thank you for that - was some nice funny to break up my work day.

And the winner is...

Craig — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:54:47 -0400

I'm now banking with Wells Fargo

Dave — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:16:56 -0400

Thanks for the warning. I'll be vigilant about fees as the bank changes over.

I'm now banking with Wells Fargo

dw — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:23:20 -0400

When we were bailing out of WaMu before they failed, we considered Wells along with two other banks here in Seattle. We called our friends at Wells, and they all said the same thing:

Their fees are ridiculously high, even compared to other large banks out here that are considered retail-unfriendly.

Most of these fees only come into play if you do things like overdraw, but they're much higher than WaMu or BoA.

OTOH, Wells isn't going anywhere. They avoided Alt-A and subprime, and most of their mortgage loans in the West avoided the nightmare areas (Central Valley, LA suburbs, Las Vegas). They're way at the back of the line for banks that could fail.

We ultimately went with a local credit union. We just liked them better.

And the winner is...

Dave — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:58:13 -0400

I do agree with you 100% on your first point - you can't be seen as a maverick of folksy just by telling people you're a maverick and folksy. I think she tried a little too hard to be that "hockey mom" persona and it seemed forced.

Sort of an aside...

Craig — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:11:39 -0400

Agreed. I thought it was a moving moment and that she barely acknowledged it (I think she did a little later) didn't help her in my eyes. I thought he looked really presidential and stoic most of the debate till that moment and it was nice to see him in a moment of weakness, as I think it showed him as more than just a suit.

And the winner is...

Craig — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:09:38 -0400

I thought Biden was the clear-cut winner to most unless they're already Republican or leaning that way anyway, in which case Palin was the winner because she didn't ask for a lifeline or drool on herself. I have to be honest, though, she sounded like a parrot with her "McCain's a maverick" bit and "I'm a hockey mom" schtick. Ok...we get it. You want people to know you're a folksy, everyday mom. She was faaar too generic on her answers and didn't really say much of substance, just said the same talking points she's said the past 2 weeks (just more understandably). She was ok, but Biden really hit a home run in attacking McCain's claims of being a maverick and on his voting, as well as showing a lot of foreign policy experience. His moment of talking about his wife and son, though, was really poignant and moving and showed him as a real person, much more than her with her heavy hockey mom schtick.

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Dave — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:46:03 -0400

Interesting. I've actually been doing some minor UI stuff using multiple threads, and haven't had a problem yet. But I'm sure you've had more experience than I have. What sort of stuff was problematic for you?

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M1EK — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:07:19 -0400

I couldn't disagree more about C#. Try doing UI programming on more than one thread before talking about how easy it is - their threading model is a disaster, as is the syntactical sugar of delegates that's supposed to be better and easier than anonymous inner classes but fails miserably at both.

The real reason McCain suspended his campaign.

Craig — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:39:25 -0400

Wow...Clueless doesn't begin to describe it.