Ah; your bleeding heart is getting all over the place...

Someone stubbed their toe on a stop sign and thought that it would be helpful if there were a government sponsored program to rehabilitate toe-stubbing and another sign next to the stop sign warning the errant walker of the dangers of toe-stubbery in the area.

If this were real, it would, of course, be in the uber-safe confines of Boulder, Colorado; the fascist-liberal capital of the mid-west.

I can tell, when driving in Denver, which of the squishy idiots walking out into a busy street has gotten used to the way crosswalks in Boulder work as opposed to the way they work in the rest of the world. Somehow, the average Boulderite pedestrian seems to have a disproportionate sense of entitlement due to the fact that they are at a distinct disadvantage in battle with large metal objects... They seem to think that because there is a sign and some white lines painted on the ground that the standard first rule of crossing the street (remember from childhood; what do we do before we cross the street...) has become obsolete having been replaced with "State law: pedestrians in crosswalk have the right-of-way" signs.
You will notice the difference in the way Boulderites cross the street by the way that they will rush as quickly as possible to enter the crosswalk before the automobiles just fuck with the already overly-stressed drivers.
Their genetic potential should be removed from the pool... We should stop protecting these kinds of people from the dangers that lurk behind everyday stupidity.
We should not need a disclaimer at the end of a commercial in which cars are flying around to know that cars don't really fly.
We should not need to be warned that hot coffee is hot.
We should not need to be protected from every possible danger; we make ourselves victims by subscribing to this mentality and we make ourselves weak.

Stupid Fucking People That Require A Bullet

Ah yes, those of you out there whose sole purpose in life is to make things more difficult for the rest of us; you know who you are!

You call superfluous meetings to discuss some other meeting.
You expect specific things from people without communicating the expectation.
You blame others in the heat of your own desperate attempt to avoid blame.
You take up space and atmosphere and should be shot and killed.

Super Amazing

This site (http://tesladownunder.com/) is the coolest thing I've seen in awhile.

God; the Invisible Giant you turn to when you are about to die...

;^) Title says it all. Thanks Matt Groening!

CLI -vs- GUI

Upon becoming a Database Engineer, I have encountered a number of things that are not thoroughly discussed in the classes that Microsoft provides for a price. These classes generally use the GUI to perform tasks such as backup, restore, shrinking, etc., instead of using the command-line. I assume that this is due to the time that it could take to get the commands typed vs the time it takes to go clickety clickety done.
Unfortunately, when connected to the SQL server with the GUI, one sometimes cannot perform certain tasks that require the database to be in a state with no connections. The GUI itself creates multiple connections, so this can be really bewildering for the noob DBA.
It is necessary to learn how to perform all tasks from the query analyzer first, and then with the knowledge of how the whole thing works, working from the GUI becomes almost laughable.

Revenue Generating Projects vs Operational Integrity Projects

This is a real sticking point for most of today’s businesses: should we devote our energies to projects that generate money, or projects that will keep us generating money in the future?
You may be amazed and frightened to learn that most CFO/CIO types will almost always pick the former to satisfy the perceptions of their audience; the CEO/Stockholders. Usually, IT/IS groups will only get buy-in for projects that don’t make money after the shit hits the fan.
In a lot of cases, this means that you are stepping in to a new role where your predecessors have been blamed for the shortcomings of the broken system that they were likely ardently trying to get fixed, but only receiving push-back. The IT folks generally wind up implementing stop-gaps and workarounds to the issues to satisfy the perceptions of their audience; the User/Customer.
Due diligence needs to take place and many eyes and ears need to be available to determine which projects should be pushed through and why. If revenue is of primary interest, then more funds need to go toward headcount to balance out the need for what should be the strong secondary interest, operational integrity.
It seems like common sense to me that once the car will not start any longer, one cannot drive to the store…

Moab... enjoy!