You've reached the internet home of Chris Sells, who has a long history as a contributing member of the Windows developer community. He enjoys long walks on the beach and various computer technologies.
Saturday, Jun 5, 2004, 11:13 AM in Fun
I Knew I Had "Circus Freak" In My Blood!
Sellsville...
The old Sells Mansion...
The Sells Brothers's love of elephants...
All this and more in an article from The Short North Gazette in Columbus, Ohio.
Thursday, Jun 3, 2004, 11:39 PM in Fun
This Is The Problem With Fame In The IT Industry
The problem with fame in the IT industry is that when someone dreams about me, it's a dude. : )
Tuesday, Jun 1, 2004, 4:22 AM in Fun
Finally, A Use For Orkut!
Here. So far, it's provided the information required for two of my Orkut friends to wish me a happy birthday. Other than that, I haven't found a use for the site, however...
Friday, May 28, 2004, 5:46 PM in Fun
Apparently .NET Is About Developer Love
Don Box always used to say that COM Is Love, although I'm pretty sure he'd agreed that we've long since given up COM for a new trophy technology .NET which, apparently, is about developer love. One guy spent 17 years doing COBOL. I think he needs our love most of all...
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 5:06 PM in Fun
Can The Movie Be As Good As This Trailer?
I get to read all of Eric Sink's pieces before we publish them, so I got to follow the link to the trailer for Commedian before you guys did (although the movie's been out for 2 years, so you had a bit of a lead...). While I like Jerry Seinfield and I've placed this movie next on my NetFlix queue, I can't believe that it'll live up to the trailer.
Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 4:12 PM in Fun
6x The MSDN Fun at Tonight's Portland Nerd Dinner
I just talked to the 2 cars filled with 5 members of the MSDN Content Strategy team on a road trip down to the Portland Nerd Dinner, tonight (5/18/04) at 6:30pm in the Washington Square Mall food court. Also, make sure not to buy your dinner 'til the MSDNers are here with their corp. credit cards and can pay for your crappy mall food. : )
Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 12:01 AM in Fun
Google's #1 Sells
As my friend Steve puts it, according to Google, I'm "even more famous than the act of selling itself." : )
Saturday, May 15, 2004, 8:44 AM in Fun
Lies, Hypocrisy and the 'Friends' Theme Song
As much as I love the Friends show for it's portrayal of unconditional love (as a geek, people loving me no matter what I do is appealing), I have to admit that it works best on a backdrop of few money worries (Monica's apartment is worth $6000/month?!? No wonder I don't live in NYC...). NPR's Mike Pesca opens up my eyes to the lies and hypocrisies (hyprocrisi? [see? geek!]) in the Friends theme song and is hilarious about it.
Wednesday, May 5, 2004, 9:49 AM in Fun
Sells Brothers T-Shirts confer special powers
I got this email from Brian Jepson, one of my favorite DevCon speakers (he ran his PowerPoint slides by clicking on his cell phone!), and I just had to share it:
"My stepson got a 99 on his driving test today--I think the blue Sells Brothers t-shirt that he's so fond of (the one I got at the XML SellsCon that he immediately swiped from me) gave him that extra boost of skillz and confidence..."
The conference t-shirt should also help him on his SATs and with his college entrance essay, but the downside is that it repels women. Sorry! : )
Monday, May 3, 2004, 11:34 PM in Fun
"Just think Chris Sells on my TV set!"
I think David meant this as a good thing, but it sounded scary to me... : )
Thursday, Apr 29, 2004, 10:16 AM in Fun
Rory Sells His Ex's Wedding Dress
Here. At least, if this isn't Rory, it sure reads like Rory... : )
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 11:58 AM in Fun
I Shall Wear My Grammar Godhood With Humility
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!
brought to you by Quizilla
[ed: I took out all the links in this post because apparently there are links on this site that dump adware on your machine and some of my readers have been bitten. My apologies. If you must go to the site, here's the link, but on your head be it: http://quizilla.com/users/BaalObsidian/quizzes/How%20grammatically%20sound%20are%20you?/]
Sunday, Apr 18, 2004, 3:38 PM in Fun
Chris's Friends on the Web
If you're looking for my wife, Melissa, her email address is msells@sellsbrothers.com. Her email is pretty reliable now, so send her some! It makes her so happy...
My brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Joel and Beth Howie are online again. Drop them a line.
Another friend of mine since grade school, Pete Clark, is just coming off his hiatus recovering from a dot-bomb and spending time with his new child. He is now the principle in pclark.net Consulting, LLC.
If you live in Portland, OR and you'd like to get together for breakfast with a group of "congenial nerds," check out the Nerd Breakfast Home Page. I like to get there myself when I'm not traveling (or sleeping in : ).
This just in! Matt Pietrek's wife took this pic of (left to right), Don Box, me and Matt Pietrek. Sorry about the lack of a smile. I was having a lot of fun hanging out at Matt's house that day, but can never manage to smile for the camera. BTW, ask me to tell you how all of us spent hours debugging a screensaver that day...
Friday, Mar 19, 2004, 8:30 PM in Fun
Today I Met A Lady Named "Friend"
Tracey Friend is an MS recruiter and she called to talk to me about some stuff I'm working on that could attract some fresh meat (and she also told me some stuff that sent shivers up my spine, but that's another story : ).
Tracey was very friendly, just like all of the MS recruiters that I've met. In fact, MS recruiters are getting so friendly, that now HR is blogging. What's next? Giving away the source? : )
Sunday, Mar 7, 2004, 8:26 AM in Fun
I Agree: This *Is* Brilliant
I'm constantly amazed at man's (and woman's) ability to solve problems. Truly.