The C# Team makes my New Year
This wasn’t the best New Year I’ve ever had. First, I got sick. I brought it on myself, as Tuesday evening for giggles, I did my best Rob Halford/Sebastian Bach/Geoff Tate 80’s hair metal impersonation (for those of you not in the know, they’re the lead singers for Judas Priest, Skid Row, and Queensryche, respectively), and screamed a bit too loud for a bit too long, and ran myself hoarse.
So, I was holed up at home for 3 days with the flu. And missed out on some truly monumental New Year’s parties.
Then, my Michigan Wolverines get housed in the Rose Bowl by USC, 28-14. Hey, give it to the Trojans, they came to play, and beat us fair and square. They ARE the national champs in my book.
So, I was bummed.
Then I had to come into work and do not one, but two live newscasts with half a voice and a fever, which suffice it to say isn’t the easiest thing to do.
So, I wasn’t 100%, which for my job, is really mandated.
But when leaving work, I found a cool package from Microsoft, from the C# Team. I got some sweet gear for an article I’m doing on what new improvements there are as far as color coding within Visual Studio .NET. This immediately brightened my spirits. So, I rocked the new C# cap I got (not one of those cheapo one-size-fits-all deals, this is quality stuff). I wore it around and all my musician friends think it’s a musical reference, and for the miniscule amount of people out here who recognize that’s it’s a programming language, they got it, too. Al the normalfolk just think it’s a nice brand.
(On another note: has anyone seen that other brand of clothing - they make shirts and hats – that looks like a C#, but is more like a backwards lower-cased “n”? Those are cool, too.).
Man, I’ve been turning the Web upside down trying to look for one of those classic “C# is Cool” shirts that were given out at the 2001 PDC (“Cool” being the code name for the C# language spec before it was officially named).
Thanks Scott for brightening my day!