When I’m having fun with the Sells brothers, I like to tell them that I don’t have two boys, but rather one boy and one redundant backup in case one of them needs “erasing.” I have never told which of them is which, however, ’cuz I like to tortune them (hey! I paid for ’em!)

I would if Chris J. Sells in Beaverton, OR or Chris D. Sells in Dallas, TX is the redundant one…

According to the The Gematriculator, sellsbrothers.com is 50% evil. Nothing about “genius” is mentioned…

[via Ryan Farley]

Rory does it again. : )

I did remember the rest of the cow branding story from last night's Portland Nerd Dinner: -I'm embarrassed to admit that it was I who paid the cowboy $2 to eat the newly harvested cow testicle -A few months later, Cal sent me a copy of the Klamath Falls Herald and News featuring a visit from "Visiting Windows Expert Chris Sells" (or some such) shaking Cal's hand. I don't think it was the cow testicle incident that got me in the paper, but I try not too think about it too much BTW, if you're on the fence about the Portland Nerd Dinners and you have trouble with conversations involving cow testicles, mafia hits or how to defraud the phone company, you might want to stay home for the next one...

The black cube for “Chris Sells (Likeness)” caused me to laugh 'til I snorted. : )

I *love* the idea that militant usability experts are scraping terribly designed web sites to present the information in a more pleasant way. Can't you just see Alan Cooper in a beret? : )

As much as I love the site, I've only made two contributions to CodeProject.com. Reading the comments about one (".NET Delegates: A C# Bedtime Story") made me nostalgic for the other, “A clickable button”...

Eric Sink claims to be the ”.NET Redneck,” complete with cardboard cutout:

Shawn Morrissey [shawnmor @ microsoft.com]
Taken at Gnomedex
July 15th, 2003