Databases Pain....

In case you are wondering, I pretty much hate Oracle and PostgreSQL. Mostly for childish reasons, ex. Postgres mainly because it's spelled funny. Oracle is just a beast. And I mean that in every sense of the word. A true beast.

Mucho respecto to the guys and gals who make Oracle their beyotch for a living. I'd rather be calculating eigenvectors for the rest of my life than be stuck having to bend to the will of the Oracle gods.

Scary thing happened to me. I was in the midst of filling out the info required to download WinSQL yesterday and realized that I have learned to deal with 7 of of the 10 database products listed. For a CS guy, that pretty much sucks.

SELECT TOP 10(*) FROM table
SELECT * FROM table WHERE ROWNUM<10
SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 10
SELECT * FROM table WHERE ROWID(table)<10

K-sa-de-a....

K-sa-de-a:
Tuna (flavored preferred, Hickory smoked works like a champ)
Chopped bell pepper (red, orange, yellow, green...pick your favorite colors)
Chopped onion (could replace with Onion Powder if you're not going to saute or sweat the veggies)
Shredded cheese (mexican mix)
Tortillas (flour)
Pinch of salt
Black Pepper
Thyme
Parsley
Garlic Powder

Mix everything but the tortillas together. General ratios is 1 package tuna to 1 cup peppers to 1/2 cup onions to 2 cups cheese. Spices to flavor. Heat skillet to medium, place a tortillas in the skillet, spread mixture liberally onto tortillas, top with second tortilla. Brown (approx 2 to 5 minutes depending on temp.), flip, brown, serve. Easy, very little fuss and reasonably tasty......

Strange Man and his Safety Cone.....

I went to lunch today and decided I didn't want a huge hassle so I'd just go fast food (BK for $4.57, which is half of what lunch seems to cost when I go with coworkers). So I'm eating my burger (no onion thank you) and watch the cars drive by. I notice that someone is pulling into their parking space backwards.

This is kind of interesting because it seems like a bad idea to stop and go in reverse when you are in the parking lot of a pretty busy fast food joint during lunch hour. Car parks, no incidents. The driver gets out, and begins to walk to the rear of his vehicle. This is kind of odd as the rear of the vehicle is the opposite direction from the building.

It is at this point that I notice a logo on the door of his white four door sedan. The logo is for a company that used to just do long distance and now is the "sole" service that will work with a certain "popular" (yet recently unlocked) phone. The guy opens his trunk and pulls out an orange cone. He then proceeds to place it in the parking lot right in front of his bumper and walk inside to purchase some food.

Now this seems kind of odd to me......is the guy trying to make sure no one mistakes his car for an empty space and tries to park on it? It's a freaking car parked in a full parking lot of other cars.....if anyone was to "mistake" it....the stupid little cone isn't going to help....."Oh...a spot.......wonder what that orange cone means......maybe I shouldn't ram into the car that's in 'my' spot because the cone might get angry...."

Is he trying to make sure other cars don't come near it because his company car might bite? "Your honor....I was just driving along looking forward to a good burger and fries when my car was bit by the defendants car......that thing is a menace....it could have given my car bad gas mileage...."

Maybe, as his vehicle could have been a company car, he is required by the vehicle's owner to place a cone by it wherever it goes? This lead to a funny thought of seeing a large parking lot full of cars from said company all with little cones placed in front of them. They'd be different colors or decorated so that each person would be able to recognize their own personal safety cone. There'd be at least one with stripes, probably one with a birthday hat, maybe one painted like it's wearing a tuxedo......what would your cone look like?

So no point......no moral.....just this guy and his little safety cone