Overrated sucky team pool!

Posted on September 24, 2005 by David Terrell

Morons who make a living writing about the NFL have claimed before the season that certain teams will make the playoffs. I think none of them will.

  • Ravens
  • Packers
  • Vikings
  • Cowboys
  • Seahawks

If you want to play along at home, it’s easy. Tell me which of those teams you think will not make the playoffs. One point for each team you correctly pick. -1 point for each team you pick that goes. 2 points for each team you pick to go to the playoffs, -2 points for each team you pick to go to the playoffs and they miss.

Tiebreakers: first, tell me which team you think will have the worst record of the 5. Second, tell me the combined losses of those 5 teams.

Try to post your entries before noon sunday so you don’t have an unfair advantage!

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m4 quoting

Posted on September 21, 2005 by David Terrell

m4 quoting examples:

define(A,1)dnl
define(B,A)dnl
define(`A',2)dnl
B should be 1
define(`B',`A')dnl
A should be 2
B should be 2
define(`B',``A'')dnl
B should be `A'

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Jury Duty

Posted on September 16, 2005 by David Terrell

Off to go get picked for a jury … or not. Gotta bring a book or 4.

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War On Tape?

Posted on September 14, 2005 by David Terrell

Is that like a book on tape?

Terror Leader in Iraq Declares War on Tape

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Katrina and Busing

Posted on September 13, 2005 by David Terrell

Flooded New Orleans Buses

Look familiar? By now you’ve probably seen this image on the news, the daily show and convservative websites. To many people, it proves that mayor Nagin was incompetant, for not using these buses to evacuate people from the city.

Here’s what Nagin had to say on Meet the Press:

Sure, here was lots of buses out there. But guess what? You can’t find drivers that would stay behind with a Category 5 hurricane, you know, pending down on New Orleans.

The second point is that during the evacuation the highways were all running both sides out of town (technical term, “contra-flow”). The buses might have been able to ferry about 10,000 people out of town with appropriate drivers, but they couldn’t come back. More than 30k people were stranded at the Superdome, 25k at the Convention Center, and more around town.

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Katrina, Again

Posted on September 8, 2005 by David Terrell

Nobody was raped and killed in the Superdome bathrooms.

Nobody was shooting at helicopters.

There weren’t race riots in Baton Rouge.

But these rumors probably killed people by guiding them away from shelter.

Also, it wasn’t just a rumor that there were thousands of people at the Convention Center waiting for rescue, and that the head of FEMA didn’t find out until Thursday what FOX was reporting live on the air on Tuesday.

I mean, if you can’t count on white house apparatchiks to watch FOX News Channel, what can you count on?

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2008

Posted on September 8, 2005 by David Terrell

Lots of people have been talking about how Katrina affects various people’s candidacies for 2008 presidential nominees and the general election.

In my view, this is relatively crass considering there are still bodies floating in the muck. However, I have a feeling John McCain might run into a few problems if he tries again…

McCain and Bush Let Each Other Eat Cake

(original URL)

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NOLA

Posted on September 1, 2005 by David Terrell

What can I say. You can donate to the Red Cross here or directly at RedCross.org.

Not much to say on the politics of it other than maybe actually funding the levee repairs earmarked after flooding in 1995 might have helped, might not. Better to err on the side of caution, I guess, but it’s too late now. If I didn’t have a baby at home I’d be driving to LA or MS right now to help people dig out and get safe.

Update: Welcome to September, National Preparedness Month

Update 2: From The Houston Chronicle via ThinkProgress

[In early 2001] the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the potential damage to New Orleans as among the three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country. The other two? A massive earthquake in San Francisco, and, almost prophetically, a terrorist attack on New York City.

For the love of god, if you still live in San Francisco, GET OUT NOW.

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MFC: Create a resource-based default frame view

Posted on August 25, 2005 by David Terrell

CMyFrame is a CFrameWnd created with class wizard
CMyView is a CFormView created with the class wizard

I want CMyFrame to always incorporate CMyView as the view. Make sure MyFrame.cpp includes MyView.h


bool CMyFrame::LoadFrame(..., CCreateContext* pContext)
{
 CCreateContext ctxt;
 if (pContext == 0)
 {
  ctxt.m_pNewViewClass = RUNTIME_CLASS(CMyView);
  pContext = &ctxt;
 }
 if (CFrameWnd::LoadFrame... (the rest is created by the wizard)
}

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MFC warning

Posted on August 25, 2005 by David Terrell

I might as well warn you know, I’m going to be blogging lots of frustrating things about MFC in this space for a while.

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