I'm banging my way through the final chapters of "Grover Park George on ACCESS". I owe somebody a simple database that they'll be able to use and update and thought "well, why not finish working your way through those Access examples from that book ( Read more... )

"Why wouldn't Prof. Harold Hill go out with the St. Pauli girl?"

Found another note this morning:

"The sadder Budweiser Girl for me!
- HH"

Okay, now I've started messin' with my own head. I woke this morning to find a note to myself on the nightstand that says only,

"Why wouldn't Prof. Harold Hill go out with the St. Pauli girl?"

That it. Nothing else. It's some kind of koan from my dreaming self.

The lodge raised three new Master Masons on Wednesday night. We balloted on four applicants. Last month we balloted on two. And as I was settling in at the Secretary's desk (I'm learning that getting there merely a half-hour early isn't enough time) I was handed five more applications to read this month ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday (Thursday) to lediva

"They also post who only sit and Twitter."

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You think there's enough room on the Hudson River for Captain Sully to land the whole frikkin' Economy?

"Of modern snakes, Titanoboa is most closely related to boa constrictors, except that it was the length of a school bus."

Ancient snake was as long as T. rex -- Reuters

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Consider that "the" groundhog, the official one, lives in Punxsutawney, northeast of Pittsburgh, in the heart of Pennsylvania. So, do you honestly suppose that, no matter what the groundhog may have ever seen or not seen, that Spring has ever come to the middle of PA two weeks after Groundhog Day, that is, February 16? Ever? I mean, since the ( Read more... )