There are some things it is OK to be ignorant of. Like when I was at the doctor’s office yesterday, waiting, and wondering to myself why there’s a pamphlet entitled ‘Cotton’ in the same rack as the STD and Drugs pamphlets. It was a long wait, so I picked one up. Turns out it’s about heroin. Unbeknownst to me, there’s an important part of the junkie’s kit called ‘a cotton’, which can be a vector for disease if reused. I think I’m OK with not being hip enough to have known that before.
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OK to be ignorant
Friday, May 18th, 2012New TenD
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012Ever since King Kong, I’ve had a soft spot for Jack Black, and his work on the cartoon episodes of King Fu Panda have only improved my opinion of him. Now he’s back with Kyle Gass, and a new Tenacious D album,
I like it so far. A good mix of rock and comedy, quickly witted yet still full of authentic growling guitars.
Freaky Failure
Monday, May 14th, 2012One of the lights at my place died yesterday, but in a way I’ve never seen an incandescent light fail. When I turned the light on, it started to flash rapidly, 1-3 times per second, for about 5 seconds, and then went completely dark. If the other light on the same circuit hadn’t stayed rock-steady through the experience, I would have assumed failing wiring in the lightswitch.
MySQL unexpected improvement of the day
Friday, April 13th, 2012I’m working on flattening my old blog, having made a local copy of the DB on a machine at home, to work on my export program in private. I’m doing a lot of poking around in mysql, querying the DB’s structure, because I haven’t touched it in so long, I forget all the details, though the original vision is still clear in my mind.
Anywho, my big discovery of the day is that mysql’s shell-editor supports tab completion for columns, tables, indexes, etc. Seems like that might be useful over time, as I learn to remember it is there.
Nerd vs ?
Sunday, April 8th, 2012On my way to kayaking yesterday, I walk past two little boys playing in the park, arguing, “I wanna be the nerd”, “No, I wanna be the nerd”. Assuming they were playing a neo-traditional version of polar opposites (cowboys and indians, cops and robbers), I wonder what they didn’t want to be. Google offers geek, dork, jock, hipster, and bully.
A song about Seattle?
Friday, April 6th, 2012I can’t tell if United States of Electronica’s Vamos A La Playa is ‘set’ in Seattle, or if it’s just wishful-familiarity. They sing about
Alki
Golden Gardens
Madison Park
and
Lighthouse Beach
Is there another city that has all four of those features?
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012I’d seen the hype, but wasn’t planning on getting around to reading it any time soon, until a friend put it on their top-10 of the year list. Ready Player One
Retro-WTF
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012I have more than once, in the last week alone, noticed kids that probably weren’t even born yet when the album came out, wearing ‘home-made’ jean-jacket and cut-out t-shirt ‘patch’ combos of the iconic Guns N Roses – Appetite For Destruction
I’m guessing they must be selling them at whatever hot-topic-alike the metal kids go to these days. The question is, do they actually like the music, or just the fashion?
“I’ll whack you, and your Bently too…”
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just For You [Explicit]
I know and love the album that Jim Nabors does as Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
. I wonder what other in-character albums are out there. I don’t really count the ones by the Simpson’s, since they actually do singing numbers in the show, it really isn’t surprising for them to do completely new songs, like Do The Bartman.
How interesting
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012I was getting ready to make a snarky comment, once I’d verified everyone had survived without injury, about hoping that the storm that hit Branson had wiped out my gazebo enemy from high school, but it turns out the school has ‘recently’ moved from Branson, to outside of Kansas City.
I wonder who is using the facility in Branson now; is it part of one of their other ‘ministries’, or did they sell it off?