anacronyms

If you sometimes think that nothing ever changes, nothing gets better, I remember a time when people questioned whether Tom Hanks career was over because he played a gay man in ‘Philadelphia’.
People also speculated that Bruce Springsteen’s career would end because he wrote and played the musical theme for the movie.
Things are much better now. [...]

Every once in a while I get things right.
One of my cow-orkers had a problem with a query. It was slow. She’d looked at the query plan, and everything looked fine: no table scans of large tables, all index scans and fetches… and yet it was slow.
I removed a join to one table, and boom, [...]

Here’s one way to tell that you like driving: if it’s a spring day and you’re disappointed that your family doctor signs your passport application while you’re there rather than requiring you to come back later, that might be an indication that you enjoy driving.

Because I have to prove that I Am Not a Terrorist, I have to get a passport so that the American border police will know that All Is Well.
Somehow, I don’t think this photo is going to convince them.

So I’ve got 10 months experience with DB2 now.
Here’s the scoop on DB2: blahdee blahdee blah ‘mature RDBMS’ blah-blah-dee blah, blah-blah ‘did you know that DB2 was the first relational database?’ blah-blah…
Mature RDBMS my ass. I have used three major systems now. DB2 is the oldest. It is the crappiest. When people rant about Microsoft [...]

Right.
I did a little tweaking and combining. I created this triptych, complete with helpful title in case you couldn’t figure out what you were looking at.
I must say that the choice of hot pink was a good one, and was at least partly due to the sxKitten’s influence.

One of the sxKitten’s favourite things to do is make me drive her somewhere. Anywhere.
Before we had HouseApe 3.0, we had occasional childless days, and one of our favourite things to do was to just get in the car and head out, wandering along and stopping where the whim took us. We still like [...]

Well, folks, the journey we all started on together so long ago, the journey leading to us ogling erotica writer Kris Starr as she stands damn near naked in the snow, has finally reached its sordid, childish conclusion. And I must say, as a red-blooded Canadian male… grrrr.

Seriously, thanks to Kris for being a hell [...]

I was walking to my car the other day, past a group of kids playing street hockey.
“Dude!”
“Pass it, dude!”
“Oh, duuuuude, I can’t believe you totally missed that, dude!”
I remember the first time I heard the word ‘dude’ applied to a human being who was not on a ranch. I was watching the Phil Donahue [...]