Interstellar Artois
So this weekend is great so far - did a lot of reading, still pondering what I might write about if I were to submit to Machine of Death 2, and tonight I’m about to grill some steak and asparagus, both which have been marinating in Teriyaki. I also got baby carrots and sesame seeds; if you throw the carrots in a wok with olive oil, garlic and sesame seeds, and then let them cook until they are scorched black and wrinkled, it will change your life. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Although I only just learned that baby carrots are merely grown up carrots whittled down that way; they are no more baby than Babe Ruth or Baby Jane, when she serves up dead rat to her poor, wheelchair-bound sister. Bette Davis is AWESOME. (Cue music; “I’m writing a letter tooo daddddeeeeeeeeee...”)
As well as starting The Believers by Zoe Heller, I did a lot of reading into MySQL and SQL, and have been taking some time out from the site to get to know databases a little better; so I made a fake “users” table, populated it with a bunch of fake users (including a few non-humans from Star Trek, The Hoax, MEAT and Backbite), and have been playing with this as a way to get comfortable with query constructs and such. SQL is an awesomely logical and simple language, but I have been avoiding it for ages out of fear of being bored to death. But I love that feeling of brain expansion and accomplishment you get when you develop comprehension of something that yesterday you were scared of and oblivious to. (I’m sorry to badmouth you SQL, you have a boring aura. But now you have pulled me into your boring little world, drugged me with Boreanol and I’m suddenly a convert, addicted to doing boring shit such as retrieving data and concatenating user names with hilarious little literal messages, such as:
SELECT CONCAT(first_name, ‘ ‘, last_name, ‘ likes to fool around with chickens’) FROM users
Spoke to my sis earlier, and started making tentative plans for her to fly over next year and meet us in Orlando; she wants to see Universal studios at Halloween, which I imagine is probably an excellent time to see Universal, as well as being nice weather, not too crowded and all round fun. I went driving round today and got in that summer mood, the weather was gorgeous, and I am very excited to go camping and kayaking, and especially to beat the shit out of my bike at Lincoln woods. In fact, Adrienne and I were hiking there 2 weeks ago, I became adventurous and got us a little bit lost, and accidentally happened upon some amazing single track bike trails. We found our way back to the main path fairly easily, but I made a mental note of how to get back there with my mahntan bayak.
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As well as starting The Believers by Zoe Heller, I did a lot of reading into MySQL and SQL, and have been taking some time out from the site to get to know databases a little better; so I made a fake “users” table, populated it with a bunch of fake users (including a few non-humans from Star Trek, The Hoax, MEAT and Backbite), and have been playing with this as a way to get comfortable with query constructs and such. SQL is an awesomely logical and simple language, but I have been avoiding it for ages out of fear of being bored to death. But I love that feeling of brain expansion and accomplishment you get when you develop comprehension of something that yesterday you were scared of and oblivious to. (I’m sorry to badmouth you SQL, you have a boring aura. But now you have pulled me into your boring little world, drugged me with Boreanol and I’m suddenly a convert, addicted to doing boring shit such as retrieving data and concatenating user names with hilarious little literal messages, such as:
SELECT CONCAT(first_name, ‘ ‘, last_name, ‘ likes to fool around with chickens’) FROM users
Spoke to my sis earlier, and started making tentative plans for her to fly over next year and meet us in Orlando; she wants to see Universal studios at Halloween, which I imagine is probably an excellent time to see Universal, as well as being nice weather, not too crowded and all round fun. I went driving round today and got in that summer mood, the weather was gorgeous, and I am very excited to go camping and kayaking, and especially to beat the shit out of my bike at Lincoln woods. In fact, Adrienne and I were hiking there 2 weeks ago, I became adventurous and got us a little bit lost, and accidentally happened upon some amazing single track bike trails. We found our way back to the main path fairly easily, but I made a mental note of how to get back there with my mahntan bayak.
[tags LiveJournal, WordPress, LinkedIn, carrots, sesame seeds, Lincoln woods, single track, mountain bikes, SQL, boring, steak, teriyaki, Sparrow Guts, Baby Jane, Bette Davis, The Hoax by Adrienne Jones, chickens]
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