May 29, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Jack Corbett (5/29/2012)
For those not on tiwtter, just signed the papers for my new house. Went from no debt to hundreds of thousands, but in the long run it'll be great!Any of you New England folks are welcome to make a trip to NH this Saturday to help us move. For the next month I have 2 houses so I can even put up some travellers 😀
Congratulations Mr. Corbett.
We just bought a home ourselves in the Denver (CO) area. We are apartment dwellers no-more.
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May 29, 2012 at 7:03 pm
L' Eomot Inversé (5/29/2012)
I thought things were very dull and quiet of SQL Server Central (logged in this evening after not having time to look at it yesterday, only 8 messages in the thread) but now I've seen this which I reckon makes up for the dearth of inspiration elsewhere on the site. 😀edit: that's 8 new messages that I hadn't seen before, not 8 messages in total. I didn't use DBCC TimeWarp to retrieve the thread as it was before Steve first posted to it. :hehe:
BTW, the reason I didn't have time to look yesterday was that I spent most of the day travelling (or sitting on a stationary plane while flight delayed, which I guess isn't actually travelling because it isn't travel when you don't move). Some of the actual movement being at a pace that would have earned a scornful look of disdain from a crippled snail - that was getting through the "security" farce at Manchester airport - the "fast lane" in security - which we use because my wife is somewhat disabled - was vastly slower than the checkin queue, which is quite an achievement. I haven't had quite such an awful experience at an international airport since last time I was in the states, which was five years ago. Anyway, I'm back in LZ now. Unfortunately have to go back to UK mid-June, but at least for 18 days I can pay about 2 euros for a bottle of excellent red instead of the £8.50 the same bottle costs in a supermarket in England.
Did you do anything that was fun? And, enquiring minds want to know... who actually won? The plane or the snail? 😛
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May 29, 2012 at 7:54 pm
L' Eomot Inversé (5/29/2012)
. . . I spent most of the day travelling (or sitting on a stationary plane while flight delayed, which I guess isn't actually travelling because it isn't travel when you don't move). . . .
L'esprit de l'escalier (I am sure you understand): have you read Dune? (I am sure you did.)
Re the (unquoted) 2 euro bottle of great red wine, I am (almost) green with envy. I expect to pay at least $12.
May 30, 2012 at 12:30 am
Revenant (5/29/2012)
L'esprit de l'escalier
Oh I wish I'd thought of that...:w00t:
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May 30, 2012 at 3:48 am
GilaMonster (5/29/2012)
L' Eomot Inversé (5/29/2012)
I thought things were very dull and quiet of SQL Server Central (logged in this evening after not having time to look at it yesterday, only 8 messages in the thread) but now I've seen this which I reckon makes up for the dearth of inspiration elsewhere on the site. 😀If you want a train wreck, I nominate this
Running no diagnostics they are lucky if they getoff with only a train wreck.
Tom
May 30, 2012 at 4:03 am
Jeff Moden (5/29/2012)
Did you do anything that was fun? And, enquiring minds want to know... who actually won? The plane or the snail? 😛
Fun: yes - after getting off the plane and eating went to a Spanish music bar; tradititional Spanish guitar and song. That's real fun after a month in England, because in most towns there the only music you will hear in a bar is from third raters "singing" bad pop incompetently with ineptly twanged (electric) guitars and amplifiers turned up to a level which maximises the distortion (bar music is a lot better in Northern Scotland, but I rarely get there these days).
The planes don't go through the security check area so there was no direct competition between planes and snails. However, snails on the window ledges of the security check area were observed moving at several inches per minute, so they would have won a race with any passengers passing through there.
Tom
May 30, 2012 at 4:16 am
Okay, I have to ask. What brands / years do you consider to be "a good red"?
May 30, 2012 at 4:19 am
Revenant (5/29/2012)
L' Eomot Inversé (5/29/2012)
. . . I spent most of the day travelling (or sitting on a stationary plane while flight delayed, which I guess isn't actually travelling because it isn't travel when you don't move). . . .L'esprit de l'escalier (I am sure you understand):
That's 18th century French. The modern Frenchman suffers from the same problem, but in our 21st century it's know as "L'esprit d'apres la touche d'envoi"
have you read Dune? (I am sure you did.)
Yes, it was one of the things that distracted me from my studies in the early 60s; in Analog in two(? three?) parts. Someone gave me the novel when that came out later so it distracted me again. Definitely not good for my studies, that Mr Herbert.
Re the (unquoted) 2 euro bottle of great red wine, I am (almost) green with envy. I expect to pay at least $12.
That's between 4 and 5 times as much as I pay here - you have my sympathy. But at least you are only paying 90% of what the benighted English are stuck with.
Tom
May 30, 2012 at 4:54 am
Brandie Tarvin (5/30/2012)
Okay, I have to ask. What brands / years do you consider to be "a good red"?
Famara commune (not Vega de Yucca Famara) (Lanzarote) for a really cheap one. 2010 is good, 2011 less so. Very cheap when you can get it (it's local, most goes direct to restaurants and bars, can only get it when there is some spare left over from the reglar customers)
Stratos 2008 (Lanzarote) is very good but ridiculously expensive.
Viña Rustica (Rioja) 2010
Campo de Gules (Rioja) 2007
Abadia Miraglo (Rioja) 2008
Those 3 range from Eur 1.75 to Eur 2.00 per bottle, but in a bad week they can be more (Viña Rustica is 2.25 this week, it'll probably be 1.75 again next week).
Campo Viejo (Rioja) 2008 and other similar Riojas: there are several other good Riojas which are sometimes about 2 Euros a bottle here and sometimes about 3.5 - the larger shops tend to have some a 2 Eur, but which ones are 2 Eur changes from week to week. And of course Riojas at prices up to about 50 Eur a bottle, but I don't drink those.
Currently I have some Azpilicueta (Rioja) Crianza (2008) which a neighbour gave me; but I haven't seen it in the shops I use, so I don't know the price.
De Bardos Ars Romantica (Ribera del Dureo) 2008 (about Euro 2.50 here, but it goes up to 4.50 somtimes)
There are several other Ribeira del Duero wines in the supermarkets here, all quite good, prices from about 2.50 to about 4.50 (and like the Riojas, the price fluctuates - one will be cheap now, another next week); plus of course others at anything up to about 50 Eur (which I don't buy).
Tom
May 30, 2012 at 5:25 am
Maybe we should start a new thread for oenophiles.
We could call it the wine cooler thread!:-)
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May 30, 2012 at 5:26 am
dwain.c (5/30/2012)
Maybe we should start a new thread for oenophiles.We could call it the wine cooler thread!:-)
As long as there will also be an equivalent beer thread 🙂
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May 30, 2012 at 5:50 am
WheeHaw! Quantum computing, here we come!
and the first article in that paragraph:
http://www.nature.com/news/not-quite-so-elementary-my-dear-electron-1.10471
May 30, 2012 at 6:49 am
Jack Corbett (5/29/2012)
For those not on tiwtter, just signed the papers for my new house. Went from no debt to hundreds of thousands, but in the long run it'll be great!Any of you New England folks are welcome to make a trip to NH this Saturday to help us move. For the next month I have 2 houses so I can even put up some travellers 😀
This is how I move these days[/url] inexpensive and reliable. Wish I still had the name of the guys from NH that unloaded my stuff when I moved to MA 5 years ago. They were great.
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May 30, 2012 at 6:52 am
Brandie Tarvin (5/30/2012)
WheeHaw! Quantum computing, here we come!and the first article in that paragraph:
http://www.nature.com/news/not-quite-so-elementary-my-dear-electron-1.10471
Awesome! Thanks for posting this, I might have missed it otherwise.
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May 30, 2012 at 8:59 am
Grrr.
I love my job, I really do. I work with great people and the company is awesome... But it annoys me that I don't have time anymore to really dig into things and learn new stuff.
I'd love to learn VB.Net and C#.Net but everything needs to be done "now." Every time I sit down to learn how to use the new SQL Features or how to program in new languages, I get interrupted by emergencies and new projects and then forget most of what I've been studying because I don't have a chance to learn it properly.
GAH. <headdesk> GAH.
SET RANT ON Brandie = OFF;
Thank you for letting me vent.
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