Friday is jeans day around the office today. There's lots of left over brats and hamburgers from our Wednesday cook out, so lunch is taken care of.

I'll be consumed with a GO Show this weekend, so I may not post again 'til Sunday night, when everyone is back in their stalls.

Have you noticed that gas stations are advertising something to the effect of "No alcohol in our gasoline." And then they charge more for the gas?

I've noticed significantly better gas mileage after I switched to "no alcohol" gasoline (about 10% better in my Matrix.) My co-worker cannot tell the difference in his Durango.

Did you know the difference in price between no alcohol gas and gas with alcohol is made up for when you pay your income taxes? Your income taxes are subsidizing the difference.

Why are gasoline taxes so high and road repair so poor? Aren't gasoline taxes supposed to be used to pay for road repair?

Porting statistical analysis code from native C++ to C++/CLI or C# is more complicated than it appears at first glance.

C# does not implement static variables in functions. This makes handling recursive function calls a little iffy (possible, but iffy).

Some native code developers use static variables when they are not necessary.

If you are porting managed code from native C++ to C++/CLI, you really need to understand the difference between ^ and % when declaring calling parameters in a function.

My little pinky is now a "mallet" finger, after a bowling accident. (Yes, I said a bowling accident.) It didn't heal correctly after five weeks in a stack splint. (Pictures to follow later.)

If you have a mallet finger, you need to be careful when using a table saw. My pinky finger isn't where my nerves are telling me it is when holding a board.

I looks like Ike is going to pass us by. However, we had a guller washer last night. It rained so hard, the water from the downspouts looked like a fire hydrant and been opened up, and the gutters filled up and overflowed. Some of the roads in NW Oklahoma are closed due to flooding.