Wednesday, January 27, 2010
1000th Post!
Here it is. Got notice of a one-on-one tomorrow afternoon, verily the day of the chopping block. Time to deploy Plan 9. It's from outer space, after all.
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Labels: Bad Movies, Blogging, techwhining
Friday, October 23, 2009
Count Sore Throat Pain visited today, just in time for one of those vacation days I hoarded after the big collapse last year. Very laid back day. Drove out to Burton, Middlefield and Mespo, for all that great leaf peeping color and real food. Immobile now. Worth every bit of it. Probly Marinis tonight as I ease into a football weekend. Yesterday say the new Vince Vaughn movie. Too much relationship bafflegab, but the guy is always funny.
May have come to the realization that continued fooling around with hands on tech and database outside the job may only be an Uncle Rico moment. How many more oversold projects from stupid project managers do you want to lose sleep over?
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May have come to the realization that continued fooling around with hands on tech and database outside the job may only be an Uncle Rico moment. How many more oversold projects from stupid project managers do you want to lose sleep over?
Labels: Bad Movies, Good Movies, Martinis
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Fox is showing some BS movie with Tim Allen and the much washed up Chevy Chase instead of KOTH tonight. So TCM is showing High Noon, one of the great ones. Somehow, I don't feel up to it, given who we chose as President last fall. Also got e-mail about an argument between two classmates at college. Each arguing some truther BS and about Obama's great RTWC and how they need to stick it to da man. Sad. Not worthy of Gary Coopers great performance, or theme.
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Labels: Bad Movies, Good Movies, Kumbiyah
Monday, May 25, 2009
I'm deep into summer shutdown. Three months until my daughter heads off to college, with me providing all the transportation from now until then. On the edge at work, still waiting for more shoes to fall. Girlfiend is hosting her grandson and we are in the early stages of that, although have chunked out time for a concert later this summer. So I'm pegged for the near future.
So I'm looking at short term amusement. Our local artsy-fartsy theater (theatre?) is hosting Plan 9 from Outer Space. This is the king of stinkeroos. Ed Wood is the worst way to get wood. But it raises this question: Can these hippies wreck Plan 9? Can you make a fiasco even worse? How would one do it? Discussions about the impact of Plan 9 on Third World Cultures? Vegan alternatives? A drum circle? Help me here, guys.
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So I'm looking at short term amusement. Our local artsy-fartsy theater (theatre?) is hosting Plan 9 from Outer Space. This is the king of stinkeroos. Ed Wood is the worst way to get wood. But it raises this question: Can these hippies wreck Plan 9? Can you make a fiasco even worse? How would one do it? Discussions about the impact of Plan 9 on Third World Cultures? Vegan alternatives? A drum circle? Help me here, guys.
Labels: Bad Movies, Kumbiyah
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Miscellaeous
Still grooving off the big Friday news. Saw DUPLICITY last night. Not so hot. Story jumping around in time. Paul Giametti as ruthless exec. Didn't quite sell it to me. Big changes where my girlfriend works, not good ones. She will almost certainly hold on to her job. My next version certification study guide continues to rest genly on the kitchen table, of heft northward of 925 pages. Certification not necessary in my native technology, but is an indication to employers that I'm alive and functioning. I know most of what is in there but don't use all features of the DBMS daily (who does?) so this is a lot of book cracking. Really dry. Martinis should be dry.
AIG should be renamed Aggravating Insurance Group. When you whine to the government for four consecutive bailouts worth 1/4 Trillion dollars you are opening yourself up to said government interference. If you have been working in any enterprise of any size for any amount of time, you should know that with any sudden bullshit change of direction you have to salute the boots or walk the plank. Large incomes don't exempt you from this. One way or another, through jerry rigged evaluations or congressional mandate, you will walk the line.
The actions of the ACORN Community Organizer mobs are frightening. So are recent church and synagogue invasions by leftists and Muslims. The Castle Doctrine needs to be upheld. James A. Rhodes, where are you now that your are needed most? He stopped campus riots in the 70's cold at Kent State. I hope our current flock of governators are up to it. I know "Buck" Strickland isn't.
Riddle me this about the AIG fuckups, Batmench: Why not just offshore they jobs? We've been doing it across the board in IT for years. Clearly AIG was staffed by fuckups. India could do the job for a fraction of the price. And, since quantitative analysis is a job that is supposedly one Americans won't do, isn't it logical that we will have to be dependent on India to do it for us?
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AIG should be renamed Aggravating Insurance Group. When you whine to the government for four consecutive bailouts worth 1/4 Trillion dollars you are opening yourself up to said government interference. If you have been working in any enterprise of any size for any amount of time, you should know that with any sudden bullshit change of direction you have to salute the boots or walk the plank. Large incomes don't exempt you from this. One way or another, through jerry rigged evaluations or congressional mandate, you will walk the line.
The actions of the ACORN Community Organizer mobs are frightening. So are recent church and synagogue invasions by leftists and Muslims. The Castle Doctrine needs to be upheld. James A. Rhodes, where are you now that your are needed most? He stopped campus riots in the 70's cold at Kent State. I hope our current flock of governators are up to it. I know "Buck" Strickland isn't.
Riddle me this about the AIG fuckups, Batmench: Why not just offshore they jobs? We've been doing it across the board in IT for years. Clearly AIG was staffed by fuckups. India could do the job for a fraction of the price. And, since quantitative analysis is a job that is supposedly one Americans won't do, isn't it logical that we will have to be dependent on India to do it for us?
Labels: Babe Magnet, Bad Movies, Kumbiyah, Martinis, techwhining
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Is This Any Good?
BartenderTommy sez it's the greatest movie ever made. I saw it as a kid, at a drive in. Can't really make the call on this. You be the judge.
Also, further intense research has shown that Walter Kowalski was the real name of CaptainSQL wrestling hero Killer Kowalski. Who knew? Probably Clint Eastwood
Do unto others before they do unto you!
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Also, further intense research has shown that Walter Kowalski was the real name of CaptainSQL wrestling hero Killer Kowalski. Who knew? Probably Clint Eastwood
Do unto others before they do unto you!
Labels: Bad Movies, Good Movies, Martinis
Sunday, December 14, 2008
The weekend has been ok to pretty darn good. Saw the latest Batman movie yesterday. Nice, but too long by a half. Not much to blog about here. All are awaiting their fate in the unknown murky climate of 2009. Pretty quiet weekend.
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Labels: Bad Movies, Blogging, Good Movies
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Veterans Day
This is a day to reflect upon and thank all Veterans, those that have given of themselves to protect our freedom.For some reason, AMC has been running crappy war movies today. They had Von Ryan's Express around midday. Killing Nazis good. Frank Sinatra good. Mixing the two, doesn't work for some reason. I wanna get Sink the Bismarck. That was one of my WW2 faves, and also my dad's. It would be appropriate for today.
Have purchased an MP3 in anticipation of long road trips in the upcoming college years for my daughter. Never let it be said that I'm not a hep cat. Don't know why it's not vi edit based. Must have a bunch of dorks as a user base. Hell, if they had any nads, they's program it in raw BAL. Using punch cards and paper tape. First to get loaded, ZZ Top. In fact, I've got Recycler playing right now. Plenty of head banging roadmusic to load.
Work is still tumultuous and probably will be for a while. Noodled around today in search of Blue Highways, by Bill Moon. I wanna read that book again. It was a damn good read. I did two statewide blue highway tours in my lifetime, both in the 70's. One was my post graduation cross Ohio trip on Route 42, in the old black Chevy Impala. Then later, and much colder (try around -22 Farenheit) across that state up north in the Olds Omega crapcar. Anyways, didn't run into Moon's classic, but did pick up It Takes a Village Idiot by Bill Mullen. Like I said buried in an earlier rant, if I do get relocated, I'm heading for Red country.
Labels: Bad Movies, full screen editors are for losers, Good Movies, Music, techwhining
Sunday, October 26, 2008
CaptainSQL Meets The Normal People
I sought them out, and this delivered a really nice weekend. I needed this to knock the Kumbiyah away. Yesterday, Pizza and a movie in the company of a normal babe. Didn't like Iron Man that much though. Overhyped. Dragged along in the middle. Paltrow was wearing too much clothes. Had a nice long talk with an old friend from many years ago that now lives out of town.
The only bad thing was OSU's score yesterday. JoPa. Bah!
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The only bad thing was OSU's score yesterday. JoPa. Bah!
Labels: Babe Magnet, Bad Movies, Football
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Shizz, I thought it was Maureen McGovern, not Maria Muldauer.
So, there's got to be a morning after, after all.
Can't believe I wreaked havoc on th hedge this week. Guy tore it out and I spent today diggign and axing out the stubble, then putting down grass seed. I will pay for this later in the week.
How bad can the movie above be? Pretty freakin' bad. But it does have Ernest Borgnine and Gene Hackman.
Attended a Boston U. talk for the kid. Fewer Volvos than Barnard. Not as good corn storage.
OSU beat up Troy today. BFHD. Damn good game between Pitt and Iowa, though. Damn good.
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So, there's got to be a morning after, after all.
Can't believe I wreaked havoc on th hedge this week. Guy tore it out and I spent today diggign and axing out the stubble, then putting down grass seed. I will pay for this later in the week.
How bad can the movie above be? Pretty freakin' bad. But it does have Ernest Borgnine and Gene Hackman.
Attended a Boston U. talk for the kid. Fewer Volvos than Barnard. Not as good corn storage.
OSU beat up Troy today. BFHD. Damn good game between Pitt and Iowa, though. Damn good.
Labels: Babe Magnet, Bad Movies, Football, Good Movies, Kumbiyah, Music
Friday, August 08, 2008
I Still Rule
Just look at these guys. Pathetic. I am CaptainSQL, one of the last remaining American DBA heroes. These guys aren't man enough to launder my tights. Or hold my cape. Stand back while I strike fear in the hearts of developers and project managers alike. Snort.
Labels: Bad Movies, full screen editors are for losers, Good Movies, single line editors are for men, techwhining
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Last night at the Martini place no Indians game, so Starman was playing on the tube. Missed that one, with Karen Allen. Didn't miss much, except for Karen, whom I like. She's held up well, too. Accomplished the Waffle House today. Major reason for bringing it up here: supply Cappy with a steady stream of hash browns. They are still available locally, but are a rapidly vanishing commodity. Now I'm immobilized for the rest of the day. Good move putting it in Eastlake. A lot more convenient than way out on the West Side. Just down the street from my favorite minor league team. You guessed it. The Lake County Captains. Also not far from the site of the big GE Lighting Order Entry Reorg rewrite of 1984, in which I played a prominent, and shikker role. I may have fallen up the stairs, and may have had to shave my tongue the next day, but damn, I could still fix the friggin' code! Also in business across from CaptainSQL Stadium, Beanie's, our local bar of choice at the time. For hanging out after Neutron Jack completely raped the department.
On the way home I saw an open house for a condo. This was the first one I've seen that could actually house the Fortress of Database Excellence. One day, soon, my daughter will be in college, relieving me of the need to hold down the fort in this school district. Home improvements here are in two categories; those needing professional help, and those that get mightily interrupted until I need professional help. So this was a good idea to visit said condo. It would be about an even trade for my house in terms of cost and living space.
Labels: Bad Movies, Good Movies, Martinis
Sunday, June 08, 2008
A good weekend doing what I do best, nothing. I did manage to bestir myself to attend to more Martinis last night. Candy-at-the-bar was on leave in Montana, but we did have crazydredlockman there, and he was crazy. Also saw Harold and Kumar Escape from Gitmo, inspiring this from it:
Square Root of Three
I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun,as 1.7321
Such is my reality
,a sad irrationality
When hark! (hark?)
What is this I see,
Another square root of a three
As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed
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Square Root of Three
I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun,as 1.7321
Such is my reality
,a sad irrationality
When hark! (hark?)
What is this I see,
Another square root of a three
As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed
Labels: Bad Movies, Blogging, Good Movies, Martinis, techwhining
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
24 hours have passed since I finally slumped in to my favorite bar. As you can tell from the previous posts and lack thereof, boy, did I ever need it. Tommy Bartender was pinch hitting as maitre d, and ambled in now and then to have a look at his Yankees as us normal people waited for the Indians to show up. Looks like the Tribe used it's monthly allocation of hits in yesterdays game. While waiting for said Tribegame we turned our attentions to some mid-'60's artsy-fartsy black and white movie (no pun intended) with Sidney Portier and Anne Bancroft. He was manning (can I say that now?) some suicide hot line and she was going nuts. That got us around to the discussion: who was hotter, Anne Bancroft or Suzanne Pleshette? I think Suzy would have been more fun. Anne Bancroft had a lot more sophisitcated veneer (can I say that too?), one that only a woman that has learned of love at the hands of Mel Brooks can have.
Tommy Barkeep let loose that he's looking to move the wife and Bambino out to the Hinterlands of Solon. That drew a dirty look from Winegirl, she of the P.C. persuasion, probably of the belief that all must go down with the sinking ship of the People's Republic of Cleveland Heights. It also drew a hearty accolade (I can use that one, can't I?) from your's truly, along with the warning that the little rugrat had damn well be perfect. I mean, they kill the imperfect ones in Solon. I mean, it's just not natural that kids that smart kick ass in all sports too.
Too much Kumbiyah on TV now. Don't care about Obama. If we're stupid enough to elect him, you'll have Cleveland as your model for the next four years. And I don't mean the cartoon character on Family Guy.
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Tommy Barkeep let loose that he's looking to move the wife and Bambino out to the Hinterlands of Solon. That drew a dirty look from Winegirl, she of the P.C. persuasion, probably of the belief that all must go down with the sinking ship of the People's Republic of Cleveland Heights. It also drew a hearty accolade (I can use that one, can't I?) from your's truly, along with the warning that the little rugrat had damn well be perfect. I mean, they kill the imperfect ones in Solon. I mean, it's just not natural that kids that smart kick ass in all sports too.
Too much Kumbiyah on TV now. Don't care about Obama. If we're stupid enough to elect him, you'll have Cleveland as your model for the next four years. And I don't mean the cartoon character on Family Guy.
Labels: Babe Magnet, Bad Movies, Blogging, dang grammar, Kumbiyah, Martinis
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Summonsed for drinks tomorrow by the current chick. Not been a happy girl lately. Could be time to walk the plank. Big deal. At least no divorce attorney makes any kind of money on this. Also, since she is Russian I can crack the obvious pun: the Operating System will go from DOS to DOS Vedanyah. Too bad I never got her to say "Moose and Squirrel".
Enough whiny relationship talk. Time to comfort myself and offer you a link to probably the biggest stinkeroo of all time. If you have nothing better this weekend to do than guzzle rotgut or apply bondo to the '83 Chevette this may be around the same level waste of time: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0183884/ . A guaranteed time waster.
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Enough whiny relationship talk. Time to comfort myself and offer you a link to probably the biggest stinkeroo of all time. If you have nothing better this weekend to do than guzzle rotgut or apply bondo to the '83 Chevette this may be around the same level waste of time: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0183884/ . A guaranteed time waster.
Labels: Babe Magnet, Bad Movies
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Work is continuing pretty much OK, but there's a lot of shakiness about the latest financial doings. Trying to mellow out before the NYC trip, but a dense, wet snow has blanketed the immediate vicinity making Martinis less likely tonight. My bartender gave me a good lead on those drinks in New York. He's genuinely benefitted from a striking resemblance to the leading weatherman here, but is with a local lady who's mom owns a Hungarian place nearby. That's us: come for the forecasts, stay for the cabbage rolls.
The technobabes at work are being especially irritating this week. And for no apparent reason I'm adding this video. Not a big SciFi fan. I think this chick is daffier than Erin O'Brien, but also less naked too.
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The technobabes at work are being especially irritating this week. And for no apparent reason I'm adding this video. Not a big SciFi fan. I think this chick is daffier than Erin O'Brien, but also less naked too.
Labels: Bad Movies, Martinis, Psychotic Ex, techwhining
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Four Dang Years!
It's my blogaversary! All hail to CaptainSQL!!!!!!! Tower of SQL coding excellence in an ever-downgrading pointy/clicky world! Titan of Tuning, Maharajah of Metadata! King of Code Reviews. OK, that last one was a stretch.
Four years of blogging excellence, taking on Nimrod Project Managers and sea-hag friends of the ex-wife alike. And it's gone so fast too! It's like it was almost yesterday!
Still on call, doing my on-call flawlessly. As expected. Saw my requisite chick-flick (27 Dresses) last night. Boy, the things guys do to impress! Need a dose of Hank Hill more than ever now. But just when you need that pick-me-up life picks you up, then gives you one straight to the snotlocker! The Clintoons are on the loose locally. They figures this is Clintoon country and they are right. Phooey! The local schoolmarm summonsed all the townsfolk for a big rah-rah rally when Hillary comes here to tell us how to think and when. Indeed, nothing brings on that uneasy, sleazy, cheezy feeling like a Clinton! I plan to avoid her in droves!
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Four years of blogging excellence, taking on Nimrod Project Managers and sea-hag friends of the ex-wife alike. And it's gone so fast too! It's like it was almost yesterday!
Still on call, doing my on-call flawlessly. As expected. Saw my requisite chick-flick (27 Dresses) last night. Boy, the things guys do to impress! Need a dose of Hank Hill more than ever now. But just when you need that pick-me-up life picks you up, then gives you one straight to the snotlocker! The Clintoons are on the loose locally. They figures this is Clintoon country and they are right. Phooey! The local schoolmarm summonsed all the townsfolk for a big rah-rah rally when Hillary comes here to tell us how to think and when. Indeed, nothing brings on that uneasy, sleazy, cheezy feeling like a Clinton! I plan to avoid her in droves!
Labels: Babe Magnet, Bad Movies, Bitchslapped, Blogging, dang grammar, King of the Hill, Kumbiyah, Psychotic Ex, techwhining
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Oops...
Saw Waitress last night. This was a get-together with my sister who is moving to Chicago, and her kids, and my daughter and a friend of hers, who was scrutinized intensely. Turned out to be a chick-flick. Big surprise. Also, my kid has a couple of friends that are into systems. Didn't they get the message that Americans are genetically incapable of writing programs? Otherwise, they seem like nice kids.
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Labels: Bad Movies, techwhining
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Idiocracy
See this movie. It's by Mike Judge. It is so simplistic that it is good. That is what's needed here. Ya see, where I live we're way ahead of the curve. Our local shitrag newspaper and many TV stations admire criminals, blame the police, villify those that stand up to the criminals, and will not stand for any academic achievement. So we're ahead of this movie by about 500 years.
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Labels: Bad Movies, Good Movies, King of the Hill, Kumbiyah
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Less drama now, and less baggage too. Things is normal. Big migration to the technology of the future now hitting the reality phase. Who would have thought? Could it be Full Scream Editors?
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Labels: Bad Movies, Baggage, Bitchslapped, Blogging, full screen editors are for losers, King of the Hill, single line editors are for men, techwhining
