Monthly Archives: November 2007

Mommy, Santa’s Being Rude

Are there really women out there that when con­fronted with a Santa hap­pily say­ing “Ho, ho, ho”, they would think he was talk­ing about them? Unlikely. And if so, they have far more issues start­ing with their self-esteem. More likely, the PC police are expand­ing their beat in an attempt to keep any­one from being …

November 15, 2007 – 7:19 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Comments (0)

PostgreSQL Advice

So in my ongo­ing trav­els down tech­no­log­i­cal rab­bit holes I’ve never vis­ited before, I’m learn­ing Post­greSQL which is an open source data­base with a lot of the power of SQL Server minus the fun licens­ing fees. If I ever run my own shop, I’d pre­fer not to pay the Microsoft Tax so it pays to …

November 14, 2007 – 7:18 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

When The Government Gambles

It’s all good. When you do it, it’s 2 years in prison for you, mis­ter. Some day, I’ll be too cyn­i­cal to be amazed by the audac­ity of our hyp­o­crit­i­cal lead­ers but I’m not there yet. It takes a lot of balls to out­law online gam­bling in a bill that specif­i­cally allows for the cre­ation …

November 14, 2007 – 8:40 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Comments (0)

Day 11

Yes­ter­day, I took a day off. Heh. Let that one sink in for a lit­tle bit. Any­way, K was off so we ran errands, got the car fixed and cleaned the house. Today has been good, at least this morn­ing was. In the last 10 days, I’ve dis­cov­ered that from 2 to about 4 or …

November 14, 2007 – 7:03 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Abyss Diving | Comments (0)

Norv Turner is a Bad Coach

This comes as no sur­prise to any­one who watches any foot­ball but fir­ing Marty Schot­ten­heimer was the dumb­est thing thing A.J. Smith has ever done as gen­eral man­ager of the San Diego Charg­ers. It is rapidly becom­ing appar­ent that Norv Turner has no busi­ness being a head coach in the NFL. The Charg­ers have far …

November 11, 2007 – 10:14 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Sports | Comments (0)

Keep Your Eyes Healthy

November 11, 2007 – 7:30 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Photography | Comments (0)

Day 10

Part of the prob­lem with this entire endeavor is that I’m try­ing to learn so many new things at one time, every thing I do becomes frus­trat­ing in its slow­ness. I really was look­ing for­ward to get­ting into a groove and cod­ing on some­thing for hours at a time but what I’ve dis­cov­ered instead is …

November 9, 2007 – 8:29 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Abyss Diving | Comments (2)

Remote Control Mail

From the “I can’t believe this is a busi­ness but I wish I would have thought of it” depart­ment, we have Earth Class Mail. For a monthly charge, you get a PO Box that Earth Class Mail mon­i­tors. They scan in every­thing that you get which you can then view. You can choose to have …

November 9, 2007 – 10:27 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Day 9

Doing lots of plumb­ing work on the NBA project, noth­ing very sexy or as it turns out, very fun. Today was not par­tic­u­larly use­ful long-term but did get a few things done.

November 8, 2007 – 7:12 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Abyss Diving | Comments (0)

Day 8

Today has been far more pro­duc­tive than the last two com­bined. I jumped back into Python and SQLAlchemy, work­ing on a pet project to har­vest and ana­lyze NBA sta­tis­tics. The more I work with SQLAlchemy, the more I’m impressed with it. I’ve never done any work with NHiber­nate on the .net side of things but …

November 7, 2007 – 7:24 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Abyss Diving | Comments (0)