I'm my #1...

Google search result!!!
Hit the link if you don't believe me. For some time it never returned my blog as the first result. I think some college basketball player used to get the top result. Now you also get links to publications, my facebook, and some guitar tab I posted a long time ago. Apparently, I'm also an old man who was a 2006 Hall of Fame Honoree. Who knew! :-D

~Nerd Out~

Occasionally, every bedroom needs...

a new coat of paint. Or, like 8 after all is said and done. :-D I had some peeps over a couple of weekends back to help paint my bedroom. P and C, as well as AR and C, and I finally finished what the crazy 5 of us had started. It started when Slickdeals posted an item about Home Depot having a paint rebate deal. So I thought, well, I'll go buy some paint. I decided on Toffee Crunch walls, Mystic Purple trim, and Classic Toupe doors. (I know, the purple is sooo surprising.) Anyway, Michael and I started painting in the early afternoon, then AR and C showed up after their dance lessons, but they didn't show off any of their new krump moves Apparently they won't be trying out for SYTYCD P and C then showed up and we all had a good time mocking my musical selection and hanging out while literally watching paint dry.
We got the walls done and over the course of the next few weeks, I continued painting the trim and doors. It took forever. The trim alone required 3 coats. But, it looks excellent and I've posted my pics on my flikr account. I did some side by sides with pics I took when I first bought the condo. Here's the magazine style teaser link:

I'm About To Break...

someone's database. I bought My cat SQL cat food at my local PetSmart and it apparently qualified for an $8 Science Diet OnLine coupon. As some of you know, my little buddy was dropped off with his two brothers in a cardboard box at the Humane Shelter. The workers there then did not have a specific date for his birth, and said I could make up one. Realizing that the worker would have to enter this date into some database, in my coy way, I coy way I told her February 29, 2006 a date that doesn't actually exist. Apparently the developer of the database application didn't check the date entered for validity, and the date took. I was amused. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, I bought the aforementioned cat food with qualifying coupon, and the online rebate form is asking for my cat's DOB as well as my cat's name.
Now my cat's name is also amusing in that SQL is an acronym for Structured Query Language which is used to manipulate data in computer databases. However, it is also a keyword in Microsoft's ODBC function calls. Microsoft state that you should "Consider avoiding the use of these words as identifiers" due to their possible use as keywords in future versions of SQL Server. So my entries as observed in the picture, may cause a database somewhere to blow up. That means that I broke someone else's code today and I'm happy that it wasn't mine, as mine seems to break, in some form or another, and most often during demos. :-D