anacronyms

Retro elegance.

In a conversation here at Yukon, discussing a change to a stored procedure:
Me: And just to be clear, that has not gone to production yet, has it? I’ve made the change on the staging db and put it into Vault1.
Developer: Sadly, I don’t know I’m afraid. I’ve lost all track.
Me: I know how it feels.
So [...]

I am on record as loathing the current fad for huge-ass pickups with 4WD, duals on the rear, crew-cab, chrome shit everywhere… you know the ones.
One reason not to drive one of those is that I think you look like an idiot, particularly if it’s really shiny and has chrome side-steps and a ‘brush-guard’ and [...]

I have a test blog. It’s a mostly empty shell to which I apply changes before putting them on the main blog, which is this here page right here. The one you’re reading now. Yes, this one.
I use it to test new templates, or CSS changes, or to try out new widgets to see whether [...]

A year ago I started the Friday Flickr Babe.
This one also features a gooey mouth. And I didn’t realize it shared a theme with FFB 1 until just now.

All y’all who only come here for the naked chicks and sordid tales of personal debauchery might want to come back tomorrow.
Time was, a big database approached a gigabyte in size. The first database I worked on was problematic when it approached 50 Mb, which seems laughable now: you can store that on the thumb [...]

I’m peripherally aware that there is this singer named Fergie, but I can’t say I know anything about her. Couldn’t say whether or not I’ve ever heard her voice. But I was driving home from work today and the news clip show that throws out filler between their traffic reports said something about Fergie doing [...]

I sit near the front doorway at Yukon. Everybody that comes in or out walks about 15 feet from my desk.
A new person started today. I knew it was someone new because when she came in, I subconsciously registered ‘female’, and then as she walked by, I realized that I did not recognize her rear [...]

Both Christine and I have healthy doses of Scots in our ancestry. She has Rennie, Sutherland, and Cameron. I have Shaw and Cochrane. At least. HouseApe 1.0, who you may remember has a different mother, has McInnis as well.
So we like the Highland Games. The sound of the pipes is in our blood.
HouseApe 1.0, [...]

Wow, that means that next week I’ve been doing the Friday Flickr Babe for a year.
This one is aquatic, dreamy, and NSFW.