randomness 2 Comments

Maybe This Is Mean…

I noticed that I’ve been having a lot of hits to one of my older entries lately, and that these hits have all been coming from a particular messageboard. As I am unable to sign up on this messageboard, for some reason or another, I can’t see whether or not they’re simply linking to the image there or actually displaying it, using my bandwidth. Either way, I suppose it’s cool that I’m getting traffic… except that my stats also show that they read my page of internet funnies, and promptly leave again.

Thing is, I can’t afford to host several instances of this 1MB animated gif *and* my podcast. Well, maybe I can, but it’s the principle of the thing. So, I renamed the image I’m sure they’re probably linking to. I’ve done this before, repeatedly, as someone on a completely separate poker forum insists on direct linking this image as his avatar.

What’s so mean about this?

I then uploaded goatse under the old filename.

Ain’t I a stinker?

geekspeak 6 Comments

Geekery In Motion

Dear Internet,

Today was a very special day. Today I got paid for being a geek ALL DAY LONG! My boss had asked me and a co-worker of mine to create a request log database, and today was the first full day I got to spend on the project. It didn’t go very well in the morning, since my chosen geekery was Microsoft Access, which I haven’t touched since CS100. I spent the first half of the day figuring out how Access works and deciphering the basic database my co-worker had set up. He couldn’t work on it with me very much, as he was busy with “normal” work.

The second half of the day went better, though. My co-worker and I briefly talked over some of our options, and figured out a few key points about searching tables in Access. After that, I did some cosmetic and security-based tweaks, and learned how to tweak VB code a little. I took a class in Visual Basic back in college, but that was a long time ago, and nothing I did then really applies to Access. Google was my bitch friend, though, and was much more helpful than the Access help file.

Tomorrow, I’m going to learn how to do my very own search in Access, instead of using the default Find/Replace function. Google has already given me some clues, and tomorrow I’ll finish my research and implement a nice FindRecord with an InputBox.

Yay for at-work geekery!

…should I get paid more for doing what I *like* to do? Hmm.

randomness

Lost Forever

I just spent 20 minutes writing a long, elaborate entry about my own self-worth and my varied interests and so on and so forth.

Then I accidentally closed the wrong tab in my browser before I hit Submit.

Maybe it’s just as well; you didn’t want to hear me ramble on about my inner mental crap, anyway. I’ll just say that I feel like a jack-of-all-trades, and leave it at that. Maybe I’ll be inspired to write about it again some other time.

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Pre-Gardening

I wonder what will come back.

I planted some perennials last year. Some did well. Others failed miserably. I’m eagerly awaiting the return of any plants that survived the winter.

See, I’m a very beginning gardener. I also have the unfortunate habit of getting disinterested in various hobbies at various times, which is not good for living things. My houseplants are a prime example; I tend to forget to water them during the winter, and a few plants that I had intended to transplant outside have died during their dormant season as a result of my neglect.

I also am unsure about simple things, like when to mulch and when not to mulch, or how to prepare a flower bed and with what, and so on. Some of these things I can learn online or in books — still, though, it seems like so much to remember! This isn’t intuitive to me as it is to some.

Anyway, let me give a rundown of what may or may not return for the Spring of 2006…
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