So, one of my coworkers and I periodically attempt to converse in Spanish, via IM. I found this particular exchange rather amusing, when piped through babelfish.
Archives for September, 2006
Thursday Photo: “My Little Aberration”
That would be a Michael Jackson doll with a My Little Pony head on it. The ascot is key. (it’s resting on a piece of sculpture from Ten Thousand Villages. Pony is from Meijer. Michael Jackson is from Ebay. (Just in case you want to build your own.))
Punk Abe (Wednesday Photo)
If you look closely, Abe has just a little rock in him, what with the mohawk and all. It looks much more impressive in person. Not pictured: he’s throwing devil horns below the rim.
SQL Server and IN() Statements = Suck
Potentially. Example: SELECT t.* FROM table t WHERE t.id IN (SELECT DISTINCT f.id FROM table f, table e WHERE f.something = e.somethingelse AND f.someotherthing = e.somethingdifferent) In Postgres and MySQL, IN seems to be fairly efficient and treats the subselect as a simple list. In SQL Server, it appears that IN does some kind of [...]
New theme
I’m messing with a new theme, right now. Not sure if I’ll keep it, cause if you use IE less than 6 it doesn’t work well. That’s 15% of my viewership out the window. I think it may look at least readable in its current incarnation… we’ll see.
My first experience as an extra
So, yesterday I got to be an extra, or “background artist” in an indie film called Elsewhere. It was both fun and not fun — very much like the military with the hurry up and wait and all. Ah… the glamorous life of an actor! Read on to find out all about it.
Quick Note
I’m upgrading to WP2, here. The site may or may not be available and/or working. Update: Done. Things look to be good. I’m pretty sure everything is working, but I’ll probably find problems later… that seems to be the way these things go