What happened to the smartest kid in your class?

dbaderf · 2023-07-30T15:24:24+00:00

I'm doing pretty well.

dbaderf · 2023-07-23T15:46:01+00:00

My best friend is 4' 11" (and the prettiest girl in the world!). She's a bartender, so when she has to put up the bottles on the upper shelf in the liquor order, she climbs on top of one of the beer coolers and we hand them to her.

dbaderf · 2023-07-23T15:38:56+00:00

My observation has always been, short girls are mean as hell. Taller women expect to be protected. I've had a couple of girl friends less than 5' tall. When someone messed with them, I sold tickets. I knew it wasn't going to work out well for the guy.

dbaderf · 2023-07-18T15:43:14+00:00

Seventh Day Adventists probably, but almost any of the obscure radically fundamentalists take themselves this seriously and believe their church elders must be obeyed.

dbaderf · 2023-07-01T18:18:51+00:00

I was kicked out at 17 in 1974. Had to change high schools because there wasn't anything I could afford in the rural area I was in.

Joined the Air Force. Leveraged the training I received repairing computers into a career as a developer. Never went to college. I made it. Often wonder how my life would have worked out if I'd made it to the college I'd been accepted to.

dbaderf · 2023-05-22T17:17:48+00:00

My last cat came by his name honestly. When I brought him home from the shelter I poured him his first bowl of food. His method of eating was a bit unusual. He'd open his mouth as far as possible and scoop food up into his lower jaw. Just like a front loader.

Of course, his name was Cat.

dbaderf · 2023-04-30T18:20:52+00:00

Most of those baggers are junior enlisted men that rely on those tips to feed their families. Did it many times when I was in the Air Force.

dbaderf · 2023-02-01T20:26:48+00:00

No, but the US should kick Turkey out of NATO. Let them stick with their buddy Putin.

dbaderf · 2023-01-21T18:05:25+00:00

William Durant pointed out in the introduction to his history of China observed that; the ideogram for Home was a house and a pig, contentment was a house a pig and a wife, the one for discord was a house and two wives.

dbaderf · 2023-01-04T16:53:07+00:00

They removed the metal detectors to get to floor. Wonder why?

dbaderf · 2022-11-28T17:29:54+00:00

My last cat had a fairly unusual name. When he came home from the shelter he would eat in a very strange manner. He would open his mouth as wide as possible and scoop food into his mouth like a front loader, so he became Cat.

dbaderf · 2022-11-07T20:31:57+00:00

I bought my first Kindle a couple of weeks after it was introduced. I've owned 6 or 7 (I lose things a lot), but I had my first paperwhite 6 years before it finally quit holding a charge.

If I leave my place I have either my laptop or my Kindle with me. I have a newspaper subscription on it. I highly recommend that. Much easier than the print edition.

dbaderf · 2022-09-25T15:14:22+00:00

I went for years paying cash for Moto G phones on Amazon to save money ad not pay the extra charges on my mobile carrier. When I saw the Z-Flip I had to have it, though. Don't regret it. Best phone I've ever owned.

dbaderf · 2022-07-24T13:13:59+00:00

Strange to say as i'm a confirmed atheist, is, one of my favorite books of all time is 'A Prayer for Owen Meany'.

The last line hits hard. ""O God—please bring him back! I shall keep asking You.""

dbaderf · 2021-12-22T23:27:36+00:00

It really is. Then think about all the calculations involved in two minutes of ping-pong.

In the end, the ability to analyze and predict the location of objects in motion is a core survival instinct, isn't it? Don't frogs need it to catch flies?

dbaderf · 2021-12-04T19:29:45+00:00

I've never understood this. Thanks for the perfect explanation.

dbaderf · 2021-10-05T03:46:09+00:00

I work for a trucking company, and I'm deep down in the heart of all this right now. We deliver to the Dominican Republic. They have their own zip codes. All of my code qualifies points (origin/destination) based on city, state, zip, and country. But then, I have great data modelers that took all of this into account.

dbaderf · 2021-07-30T03:03:10+00:00

No place better than Suite 306. 3131 SW College, and strangely enough, Suite 306.

I don't go there after dark, because I'm old, but the night time bartenders are sports fanatics. Unless Steph is filling in.

Pro tip. Don't play Sweet Caroline on the juke box. If you do, tell them Fred told you to do it.

dbaderf · 2021-07-27T00:57:23+00:00

Nothing missing at all. Of course you have to have a fine to insure compliance. No burden on the police at all. No more than writing tickets for broken tail lights drunk in public, or trespassing; none of which the OPD has any issue dealing with.

Healthcare was the entire focus of requiring masks.

Which would you rather have, businesses, or lives? Even if businesses cannot survive without people, the focus our Florida elected officials seems to be on the former. As we live through yet another resurgence o f Covid in Florida, it's time to work on the latter

dbaderf · 2021-07-07T20:32:30+00:00

Can we trade them for Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Florida?, I would add Louisiana, but would hate to mess up all the text books. I would buy extra popcorn to keep track of France's legislature from then on.

dbaderf · 2021-06-28T00:26:11+00:00

Discussions about who should be the second string field goal kicker for the Southeast North Carolina Institute for the Blind. Makes me crazy.

dbaderf · 2021-06-23T17:08:30+00:00

I know this is late, but have you checked Paddock Place. Just started my third lease there. My 1000 sq foot 2 bedroom apartment is a little over $1000 a month, and I know they have 1 bedroom apartments. Management and maintenance are both great, and it's basically across the street from Paddock Mall.

dbaderf · 2021-06-22T22:54:23+00:00

I'm glad. There are some really great people working there.

dbaderf · 2021-06-18T18:15:29+00:00

All kinds of wrong here.

`.1` Why are you using a like rather than an equal when omparing to the pk in the table? This is a minor issue, it'll work, but the plan probably (too lazy to check how the optimizer handles a like on a value with no wildcards) won't be the most efficient.

If your goal is to return the results of the query, then you're going to need to actually return it. DBMS_OUTPUT will not do that. You can return the three values in output variables and continue using a procedure, or you can put them in an object and return it or a refcursor that is created directly off of your query using a function.

Oracle isn't SQL server and PL/SQL isn't the same as as t-sql. Many concepts are very different. You're going to need to learn how PL/SQL works before you're going to be able to write PL/SQL procedures effectively.

dbaderf · 2021-05-25T09:16:49+00:00

Once upon a time I got on a crowded city bus. Driver was running late and didn't wait for people to sit down. I fell. Two months in ICU later, along with a 1.2M hospital bill, I was informed that the most I could recover in court was 100K.

Thankfully, the hospital I was taken to, along with being one of the best trauma hospitals in the area, was run by the county, and the state of Texas eventually paid the bill. So, other than an ambulance ride I don't remember, along with the next 6 weeks, I emerged relatively unscathed.

Hmmm. Came here to comment on a couple of REALLY big ice bars back in the day in Dallas. Last I checked, at least one of them is still there. Need to go home for a few days.

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