It’s as if Alprazolam was developed for me, specifically. And for that, I’m thankful.
What are you currently reading? Me? I read books like I attack my dinner plate: a taste from this dish, a bite from another. Bit-by-bit I work my way through the meal. As such, I’m never really reading only ONE thing. That said, there never seems to be enough time for reading. For that, I blame Walker.
I cannot stop myself. I MUST build these lists. Call it habit, call it time wasted, call it closure. Whatever it is, it’s fun. I use these lists like a photograph taken to remind me of what once was and what I can no longer recall.
6. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
5. Beirut – The Rip Tide
4. The Strokes - Angles
3. Grouplove - Never Trust A Happy Song
2. The Black Keys – El Camino
1. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Honorable mentions:
Real Estate – Days
M83 – Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation
The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
Bonus bests of 2011:
The David Mayfield Parade opening for The Avett Brothers on 11/18 at the Riverside in Milwaukee.
Modern Family & Win Win & Rango & The Tree of Life’s universe sequence…
I have this hypothesis I’ve been working on for the last five years or so. It’s subject: the coloration between the level of my New Years Eve drunkenness to the following year’s overall enjoyability.
It’s been pretty consistent thus far. The years where I’ve partied hard on the eve have been fun and exciting. Years where I have remained restrained have them, themselves, seemed restrained and less fruitful.
Last New Year’s Eve found us in bed before midnight for the first time in my adulthood. I set the alarm on my phone to wake us at midnight for a kiss and to say we hadn’t missed it. It worked. We didn’t miss it, we kissed, and slipped gently back into slumber.
For me, this year has been like any other Saturday morning for a partier where you decided to stay in on Friday night. Sure, it was productive. You got everything on your list accomplished and you feel pretty good about it. Alas, it also wasn’t as much fun – overall – as if you’d simply gone out for a little while, been good about it, returned home at a decent hour and, say…accomplished 50% of your Saturday task list.
We shall see where Next Year’s Eve takes things. I’m not really drinking now, so it looks like it’ll be another year of production and muted flamboyance. Not sure if that bothers me though. Sure beats getting plastered and beginning the weekend…and year…filled with regret.
Flickr is AWESOME. Piles and piles of amazing art…a never-ending jackpot of all things visual. Amazing landscapes, great moments in history, adorable families snapshots….and beautiful models.
Here are a couple of my favorites:
#4 – Guilia
Such a seemingly COOL model captured wonderfully by a talented photographer.
#3 – Imogen
WOW.
#2 – Sarah
Bein family certainly helps Sarah make the list…(she’s around a lot, so I get to photograph her often)…but that’s not the only reason; she’s also very pretty and puts up with my shit pretty damn well.
#1 – Elizabeth
best.model.ever. My muse. My love. My wife. My life.
There’s really nothing very *rad* about the thing, is there? ComboBox-Binding can be VERY frustrating. Here’s hoping some poor soul out there finds this in his or her time of need.
Here’s one utilizing a virtual stackPanel to improve performance with large datasets. It also sets the width to avoid the ugly resizing that occurs when the control recalculates its size on the fly. For items that fall off the drop down’s map: a handy tool-tip.
This guy was tricky because you can’t simultaneously use an ItemTemplate (necessary for the tooltip) and the SelectedValuePath property (necessary to display your value).
ENJOY!
-Ryan
<DataTemplate x:Name="ownersComboBoxItemTemplate">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=CompanyName}">
<ToolTipService.ToolTip>
<ToolTip Content="{Binding Path=CompanyName}" />
</ToolTipService.ToolTip>
</TextBlock>
</DataTemplate>
<telerik:RadComboBox x:Name="OwnerComboBox" ItemsSource="{Binding Owners}"
SelectedValue="{Binding SelectedOwner, Mode=TwoWay, ValidatesOnDataErrors=True, ValidatesOnExceptions=True}"
telerik:TextSearch.TextPath="CompanyName"
EmptyText="Select an owner..."
Style="{StaticResource RadComboBoxStyle}"
ItemTemplate="{StaticResource ownersComboBoxItemTemplate}"
ClearSelectionButtonContent="-- No Selection --"
ClearSelectionButtonVisibility="Visible">
<telerik:RadComboBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<VirtualizingStackPanel Width="300" MaxWidth="300" ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</telerik:RadComboBox.ItemsPanel>
</telerik:RadComboBox>