http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet going no where much too fast Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:40:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't even know why I bother pouring a glass of cool, refreshing Calpico from the jug into a glass.  The glass ends up completely empty by the time I get back to the couch/desk/wherever I was sitting. What I need is an IV bag on wheels like in hospitals that ... http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet/2010/01/06/calpico/ It's 2010.  Last year saw the rise of the phrase 'just sayin' and by golly I hereby propose it is high time we do away with it.  It's spreading and infecting our language, with no value!  It doesn't really mean anything. People are just throwing it around at the end ... http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet/2010/01/02/just-sayin/ So yeah, I ran the Atlanta 13.1 mile Half Marathon on Thanksgiving. My advice to anyone thinking of running something like this for the first time:  DON'T FREAKING DO IT I got a blood blister the size of Fulton County covering my entire left foot.  I did something to my hip while ... http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet/2009/12/01/atlanta-half-marathon/ A couple weeks ago I closed on a place in Plaza Midtown.  Yay for owning property, I suppose if this was the 1800's, now I'd finally be able to vote! Penthouse 20th floor of the building, 14' ceilings, granite/stainless/hardwoods, floor to ceiling windows, etc.  Only a few years old. I still really ... http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet/2009/11/30/guess-ill-stick-around-for-a-bit/ First win against a top 5 ranked team at Bobby Dodd since 1962.  Back in my day, though, we tore down *both* goal posts. http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet/2009/10/18/woohoo/ If you want to set a maximum number of selected items in an ActionScript TileList component, there isn't any straightforward way to do it built in.  Strangely. First, catch the itemClick event in your tile list. <mx:TileList id="foo" ... itemClick="checkMax(event)" /> Then in checkMax, the basic idea is to compare the current count ... http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet/2009/08/07/limiting-a-flex-tilelist-components-number-of-selected-items/ Dave and I went to Tokyo a few weeks ago.  It was really a lot of fun, I highly recommend everyone to go visit. It was basically the same plane flight that I took last year when I went to Shanghai.  Though this time I guess I was awake when we ... http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet/2009/08/03/tokyo/ I got the chance, finally, to run the Peachtree Road race this year for the first time.  I've wanted to do it for probably the last 10 years, but never managed to get my hands on an AJC newspaper and send in the registration. This year, they did registration online, so ... http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet/2009/07/13/peachtree-road-race-2009/ Time to pull the plug, folks.  This just isn't gonna work out anymore. http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet/2009/06/04/we-humans-have-gone-too-far-as-a-civilization/ This took me quite a while to google around and find this, so maybe it will help someone else out. Any time I take a picture with my digital camera and transfer it to my Mac, every app within OSX is reading the EXIF orientation information and automatically orientating portrait-style pictures.  ... http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet/2009/05/26/portrait-image-orientation-in-mac-os-x-and-how-to-fix-it/