IMO, Justified is brilliant ( just got a Peabody ) This season's story arc has included a remarkable performance by Margo Martindale as Mags Bennett, the matriarch of a Kentucky crime family

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Roush-Review-Hackers-1031510.aspx?rss=breakingnews&partnerid=imdb&profileid=01

Tuesday night she had everyone up to her place for a "whoop-de-doo".

I suppose I have an affection for this show and these people because in some ways they are my people ( though over on the West Virginia side of the border ) "My people came to this mountain when George Washington was President. We've got our own ways, our own life"

It's very very good stuff.

>I was recording it for a while and then realized I had recorded a number of episodes without watching any of them. I just am not in the habit of watching TV shows, although I am assured there are some very good ones. The TV is a fancy one and about all I watch on it are DVDs and sports, and not really so much of those.
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>Maybe I will give "Justified" another shot when it hits DVD. The TV series I do watch tend to be that way, watched in bunches on DVD. And I know two of the characters on Justified were on other shows I liked (Timothy Olyphant from "Deadwood" and Walton Goggins from "The Shield").
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>>Charles yells backhoe and the client give him a plastic trowel.
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>>Are you a Justified watcher. I watched the pilot "Fire in the Hole" last night and we couldn't decide wether it was good or bad.
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>>>I think most of us feel that way. Unfortunately we don't always have that luxury given timeframes and budgets.
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>>>>Of course I'm the kind of guy who looks at a kludgy app and yells "Backhoe !" <bg>
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>>>>>I agree. My conference sessions this year are all about making the right decisions and how we can do things correctly. One presentation is called "Software Gardening". It starts out by discussing that software development is not like construction, but more like gardening. Code needs to be nurtured, pruned, replanted, and sometimes composted. I've seen statistics that the average application is rewritten every four versions. And it's mainly because the care and nurturing of the code wasn't there.
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>>>>>>That's why I tend to favor rewrites over fixits if the app I'm supposed to fix is fundamentally flawed - or was just never really designed but was just cobbled together. When I did a lot of VFP rescue work, I ran into resistance until I demonstrated that with a framework in place and a revisiting of requirements it was often cheaper and definitely yielded a better result to just do it right.
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>>>>>>Sometimes the old app - or code - isn't bad so much as the design is inappropriate and is something one will just have to keep fighting if you don't take a step back and fix it. A bad code module can be refactored, but a bad data design is forever <s>