April 26, 2013 at 7:48 am
I love getting out of town for the weekend...
Getting a year older today (well, technically I've been getting a year older every day since last year at this time, today is just the day that the counter rolls over and starts counting until next year) and the wife and I are slipping out of town and across the border...
Going into Toronto for the weekend.
Why?
'Cause it ain't here!
😀
Jason
April 26, 2013 at 8:00 am
jasona.work (4/26/2013)
Going into Toronto for the weekend.
Smuggle us back some maple syrup and a couple of real live Canucks if you would, please. Just for kicks and giggles. @=)
April 26, 2013 at 8:05 am
I just going to hope we don't get mocked on Saturday for wearing our Red Wings jerseys...
As for smuggling back Canucks, do we want the hockey players (in which case we're going to the wrong end of Canada) or the cute snow-bunny types (in which case the wife will hurt me)?
😛
April 26, 2013 at 8:10 am
jasona.work (4/26/2013)
I just going to hope we don't get mocked on Saturday for wearing our Red Wings jerseys...As for smuggling back Canucks, do we want the hockey players (in which case we're going to the wrong end of Canada) or the cute snow-bunny types (in which case the wife will hurt me)?
😛
That second thing. It's worth the pain (and thank the gods my wife doesn't read this).
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April 26, 2013 at 9:01 am
jcrawf02 (4/25/2013)
L' Eomot Inversé (4/24/2013)
jcrawf02 (4/24/2013)
Lynn Pettis (4/23/2013)
L' Eomot Inversé (4/23/2013)
Jeff Moden (4/23/2013)
Heh... to complicated. Just take Jason.A to work and let him entertain the kids with stories of GPO's as if they were dragons. 😛That's too risky; if the kids have been reading the wrong stuff they'll be seeing the GPO's as heroic dragons and the DBAs as foul thread.
Safer would be to present the sysadmins as evil sorcerors casting foul black magic spells upon the system's GPO defenses to make them betray their purpose and harm the system instead of defending it.
How many others caught the reference to the Dragon Riders of Pern??
Is the inference that Anne McCaffrey is "the wrong stuff"?
Yes, but only in the sense that if the kids had read her it would make the "evil dragons" story seem a bit odd. That of course would be a good thing, since a dragon is a man's best friend and reading McC would give the kids some defence against corruption by stories of nasty dragons because they would know that all dragons are nice, wouldn't it. :Whistling:
Ha! Gotcha.
Hmmm, where do the hapless dev's fit into this story? I don't want to be a villager!!! Or even one of the aristocracy! I want my own white dragon, that's what I want. 😀
April 26, 2013 at 10:56 am
Grant Fritchey (4/26/2013)
jasona.work (4/26/2013)
I just going to hope we don't get mocked on Saturday for wearing our Red Wings jerseys...As for smuggling back Canucks, do we want the hockey players (in which case we're going to the wrong end of Canada) or the cute snow-bunny types (in which case the wife will hurt me)?
😛
That second thing. It's worth the pain (and thank the gods my wife doesn't read this).
We can make that change 😀
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April 26, 2013 at 11:01 am
Jack Corbett (4/26/2013)
Grant Fritchey (4/26/2013)
jasona.work (4/26/2013)
I just going to hope we don't get mocked on Saturday for wearing our Red Wings jerseys...As for smuggling back Canucks, do we want the hockey players (in which case we're going to the wrong end of Canada) or the cute snow-bunny types (in which case the wife will hurt me)?
😛
That second thing. It's worth the pain (and thank the gods my wife doesn't read this).
We can make that change 😀
Now, now. What happens in The Thread stays in The Thread. :alien:
April 26, 2013 at 5:55 pm
Grant Fritchey (4/26/2013)
jasona.work (4/26/2013)
I just going to hope we don't get mocked on Saturday for wearing our Red Wings jerseys...As for smuggling back Canucks, do we want the hockey players (in which case we're going to the wrong end of Canada) or the cute snow-bunny types (in which case the wife will hurt me)?
😛
That second thing. It's worth the pain (and thank the gods my wife doesn't read this).
Copy. Paste. Email to Mrs. Scary...
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April 26, 2013 at 7:03 pm
Grant Fritchey (4/26/2013)
jasona.work (4/26/2013)
I just going to hope we don't get mocked on Saturday for wearing our Red Wings jerseys...As for smuggling back Canucks, do we want the hockey players (in which case we're going to the wrong end of Canada) or the cute snow-bunny types (in which case the wife will hurt me)?
😛
That second thing. It's worth the pain (and thank the gods my wife doesn't read this).
Just make sure it's not these "canucks"
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April 28, 2013 at 9:59 am
dbursey (4/26/2013)
jcrawf02 (4/25/2013)
L' Eomot Inversé (4/24/2013)
jcrawf02 (4/24/2013)
Lynn Pettis (4/23/2013)
L' Eomot Inversé (4/23/2013)
Jeff Moden (4/23/2013)
Heh... to complicated. Just take Jason.A to work and let him entertain the kids with stories of GPO's as if they were dragons. 😛That's too risky; if the kids have been reading the wrong stuff they'll be seeing the GPO's as heroic dragons and the DBAs as foul thread.
Safer would be to present the sysadmins as evil sorcerors casting foul black magic spells upon the system's GPO defenses to make them betray their purpose and harm the system instead of defending it.
How many others caught the reference to the Dragon Riders of Pern??
Is the inference that Anne McCaffrey is "the wrong stuff"?
Yes, but only in the sense that if the kids had read her it would make the "evil dragons" story seem a bit odd. That of course would be a good thing, since a dragon is a man's best friend and reading McC would give the kids some defence against corruption by stories of nasty dragons because they would know that all dragons are nice, wouldn't it. :Whistling:
Ha! Gotcha.
Hmmm, where do the hapless dev's fit into this story? I don't want to be a villager!!! Or even one of the aristocracy! I want my own white dragon, that's what I want. 😀
Oh, the devs are the harpers of course. What else could we imaginably be? 😎
Tom
April 29, 2013 at 5:43 am
Wonderful weather for the weekend while we were in Toronto...
They were letting people get their pictures taken with the Stanley Cup by Eaton Center, which I passed on as I didn't feel like standing in line for 20 minutes. Got heckled in a friendly way about wearing our Red Wings jerseys as we walked around.
Saw some cute Canuck snow bunnies, couldn't do more than look unfortunately with the wife right next to me, so I wasn't able to bring any back...
:hehe:
Overall, a nice weekend, despite getting a year older...
Jason
April 29, 2013 at 7:52 am
Brandie Tarvin (4/26/2013)
jasona.work (4/26/2013)
Going into Toronto for the weekend.Smuggle us back some maple syrup and a couple of real live Canucks if you would, please. Just for kicks and giggles. @=)
Actually I'd love some turkish delight from the farm market just south of Niagara-On-The-Lake, made out of their fruit juices from the orchard. They display it on two huge tables, it's like Willy Wonka threw up or something...
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April 29, 2013 at 7:53 am
L' Eomot Inversé (4/28/2013)
dbursey (4/26/2013)
jcrawf02 (4/25/2013)
L' Eomot Inversé (4/24/2013)
jcrawf02 (4/24/2013)
Lynn Pettis (4/23/2013)
L' Eomot Inversé (4/23/2013)
Jeff Moden (4/23/2013)
Heh... to complicated. Just take Jason.A to work and let him entertain the kids with stories of GPO's as if they were dragons. 😛That's too risky; if the kids have been reading the wrong stuff they'll be seeing the GPO's as heroic dragons and the DBAs as foul thread.
Safer would be to present the sysadmins as evil sorcerors casting foul black magic spells upon the system's GPO defenses to make them betray their purpose and harm the system instead of defending it.
How many others caught the reference to the Dragon Riders of Pern??
Is the inference that Anne McCaffrey is "the wrong stuff"?
Yes, but only in the sense that if the kids had read her it would make the "evil dragons" story seem a bit odd. That of course would be a good thing, since a dragon is a man's best friend and reading McC would give the kids some defence against corruption by stories of nasty dragons because they would know that all dragons are nice, wouldn't it. :Whistling:
Ha! Gotcha.
Hmmm, where do the hapless dev's fit into this story? I don't want to be a villager!!! Or even one of the aristocracy! I want my own white dragon, that's what I want. 😀
Oh, the devs are the harpers of course. What else could we imaginably be? 😎
Thread...
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How to post performance problems[/url]
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April 29, 2013 at 8:40 am
Had a good time in Fargo this weekend, at SQL Saturday #173. It's a nice town, good weather for us, and MS has a large facility there that is the Great Plains campus.
And as a treat, Bill Gates was in town and spoke in the atrium of the building we were in. I ended my session early so people could walk outside and see/hear him do a little Q&A.
As a bigger treat, as he was leaving he saw the SQL Saturday signs and asked the building manager what that was. The guy explained it quickly as a free event for SQL Server professionals, put on by the community. He told us Bill Gates said it was "cool".
:w00t:
April 29, 2013 at 9:00 am
jcrawf02 (4/29/2013)
L' Eomot Inversé (4/28/2013)
dbursey (4/26/2013)
jcrawf02 (4/25/2013)
L' Eomot Inversé (4/24/2013)
jcrawf02 (4/24/2013)
Lynn Pettis (4/23/2013)
L' Eomot Inversé (4/23/2013)
Jeff Moden (4/23/2013)
Heh... to complicated. Just take Jason.A to work and let him entertain the kids with stories of GPO's as if they were dragons. 😛That's too risky; if the kids have been reading the wrong stuff they'll be seeing the GPO's as heroic dragons and the DBAs as foul thread.
Safer would be to present the sysadmins as evil sorcerors casting foul black magic spells upon the system's GPO defenses to make them betray their purpose and harm the system instead of defending it.
How many others caught the reference to the Dragon Riders of Pern??
Is the inference that Anne McCaffrey is "the wrong stuff"?
Yes, but only in the sense that if the kids had read her it would make the "evil dragons" story seem a bit odd. That of course would be a good thing, since a dragon is a man's best friend and reading McC would give the kids some defence against corruption by stories of nasty dragons because they would know that all dragons are nice, wouldn't it. :Whistling:
Ha! Gotcha.
Hmmm, where do the hapless dev's fit into this story? I don't want to be a villager!!! Or even one of the aristocracy! I want my own white dragon, that's what I want. 😀
Oh, the devs are the harpers of course. What else could we imaginably be? 😎
Thread...
Oh, no way. We may be annoying in our immediately noticing when something is wrong, but I don't think that makes Thread. I'll go with Harpers. Exploring new places, living to tell the tale...yup, that's how I feel when I'm the first one in in the morning and the refreshes haven't worked...
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