Ah! I figured it out. Thirty years or so ago some bastard put a "kick me" sign on my back and I forgot to take it off!
Bad things are happening in Boston…and good things are too
Patton Oswalt says this far more eloquently than I could but echos my sentiment. Yes, horror is happening in Boston right now. However, great things are happening there too and elsewhere. Somewhere a baby is being born. A life is being saved. Someone is sharing a smile with someone else who needed it.
Status Update
By Patton Oswalt
Boston. Fucking horrible.I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I’ve had it with humanity."
But I was wrong. I don’t know what’s going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.
But here’s what I DO know. If it’s one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they’re pointed towards darkness.
But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."
H/t Danny.
As a reminder, news is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier.
Ladies, take that bra off!
Yes, you can burn those bras with confidence. Sagging boobies? According to a 15-year study led by professor Jean-Denis Rouillon, your bra may be contributing to sagging breasts while not wearing a bra will help keep them…um, perky.
"Medically, physiologically, anatomically – breasts gain no benefit from being denied gravity. On the contrary, they get saggier with a bra," Professor Rouillon told France Info radio on Wednesday.
[Image Source, Venusian Glow, Does this bra fit ? How do I tell ?][Source, The Local,Women better off without bras: French study]
If you can believe one of the commenters, she supports this idea of losing support:
Maia • 14 hours ago ?
I haven’t worn a bra in almost 20 years, I’m 50 this year, and my breasts are in perfect shape – they feel no different from when I was 20.
Of course, I think she should show us pictures for proof 🙂
Dear Dad
Thank you for allowing me to live. Looking back, it is unclear to me how I am alive and you are not in jail. Love, Son.
Deep Thoughts
I will never be as young as I was yesterday.
What a great day!
This is my 2nd day back from vacation. I really wanted another 2 to 3 weeks of vacation. That aside, this day has been wonderfully productive! Good things are happening. The future is bright!
Vacation was great
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Today’s accomplishment — iPod brought back to life!
For Christmas, Amy and Evan received iPods. About three weeks ago, Evan’s iPod was in his coat pocket when the coat went through the washing machine. Fortunately it was discovered before going through the dryer. I immediately pried the case open (it is held together with a glue strip) and removed the screws holding the mother board in to lift it for slightly for drying. I grabbed a Tupperware container and put the open device in it, covered with a papertowel, then poured two pounds of rice into the container. Next I went to Amazon to order five new adhesive strip stickers
Today marks a new chapter
I’m turning over a new leaf. Today I walked to lunch. I return to daily exercise, getting things done, and a positive attitude. The future is bright. Good things are happening.
Last week was a fog
So last week, I worked in the yard Sunday and felt my allergies kicking in…so I thought. Went to work Monday but was so ill that by the end of the day I’d left a couple of hours early. Tuesday I was home asleep except for that trip to the doctor’s office. My doctor confirmed…allergies. I think she was wrong. An attempt at work Wednesday failed half way through the day. Then Thursday I was home caring for sick family members. Friday was a half a day of work before returning home for sick family members. It was a rough week.
In all, we had a confirmed virus, three cases of Flu B, strep throat, and two bad coughs all in the same week.
It’s Tuesday and I’m still drained but finally work is starting to flow and items are falling off my to do list rapidly. Things are looking up!
Date night
We are fortunate in that the grandparents are very involved in our children’s lives. They typically take them on Saturday nights to spend time which leaves Cathy and I Saturday nights for quality time and blueberries. Our 22 year old typically spends Saturday playing MMORPGs. Sometimes it is easy to forget he is in the house. So…
Awkward? Loudly declaring, "More handjobs!"
Funny! Realizing everyone on his voice chat probably heard it.
Context? Cathy complaining that she isn’t strong enough to squeeze the foil cutter enough to open the bottle of wine.
Query of queries reports runtime error
So are you pulling your hair out because your query of queries is returning an error "Query Of Queries runtime error."? The solution is rather simple. In your query that is feeding your QoQ, you probably have a column that is of datatype nchar. Cast that to a varchar and life will be good. Do the cast in the source query not the QoQ. eg. "CAST(foo AS varchar) AS bar" You’re welcome.
p.s. Yes, you can cast it to the same column name eg. "CAST(foo as varchar) AS bar" Case doesn’t matter.
jqGrid so powerful!
I am loving working with jqGrid. My latest discovery is the ease at which elements on the grid can be changed. For instance, if you want to change the default "View 1 – 10 of 98" you can do it in either the language file or simply by adding a parameter to the grid:
recordtext: "View {0} – {1} of {2} addwhateveryourwant",
From the mouths of babes
Me: "Noah, do you want to go to your aunt’s wedding?"
Noah, 16: "Uh, I don’t think so."
Me: "Ok. You’ll miss out on going to King’s Island."
Noah: "Why King’s Island?"
Me: "They live there."
Noah: "They do?"
Me: "Yes. You’ve been there."
Noah: "Once!"
Dad fail! Perhaps I have been a bit remiss in traveling my children. I’m thinking it’s time to plan a vacation.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Life!
Master: Over complicated it didn’t ya?
