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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 1

john.arnott (1/29/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (1/29/2010)
Is it alive? Anybody have a defibrillator?
Careful. It starts to be a sad thing when someone looks to the Thread for company on a Friday night....;-)

Heh - that was still afternoon for me.

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 2

Jason,

What the heck is that new avatar? I miss the old one 🙂

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

It's Hermes (Mercury) one of the greek gods. I believe he was the messenger of the gods

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 4

GilaMonster (1/30/2010)
It's Hermes (Mercury) one of the greek gods. I believe he was the messenger of the gods

Thanks

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 5

Paul White (1/30/2010)
GilaMonster (1/30/2010)
It's Hermes (Mercury) one of the greek gods. I believe he was the messenger of the gods
Thanks

Hermes - Greek

Mercury - Roman

Kind of a catch-all god. Messenger, healing, god of travelers, and god of thieves

It was time for an avatar change. The winged feet or helmet kind of goes with my blog (SQL RNNR). Or I could say it was done in a fit of identity crisis 😉

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 6

Paul White (1/29/2010)
Jeff Moden (1/28/2010)
Would someone explain to me the attraction to sites like Twitter and FaceBook and explain what they're actually good for so...
It's a bit like SQL Server CLR integration - it seems to be A Good Idea in principle, but no-one has yet found a killer application for it. 😉

I would say that differently. Like the CLR, you have to know how and when to use it. Not everything belongs in the CLR, just like some things don't belong on Twitter or FaceBook.

I started using Twitter to listen to what some SQL professionals have to say. Unfortunately, I get more noise than I get useful information which is making this a time waster. That is why I don't pay as much attention to Twitter as I used to. I don't want to ignore it completely because it does provide me with another means to ask questions if I'm stuck on a problem.

I use FaceBook strictly to keep in touch with "personal" friends and acquaintances, ie family, relatives, and people that I grew up with or went to school with. Business/professional acquaintances belong on LinkedIn.

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Florian Reischl SSC-Dedicated Points: 37301 More actions · Answer 7

Hi % 🙂

I like Twitter, since it works like a proactive search engine for technical stuff. Sure, there is a lot of useless noise (sometimes provided by myself :-P) but dozens of professionals tweet very useful links I'd never find without Twitter.

I don't use FaceBook.

Greets

Flo

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 8

Florian Reischl (1/30/2010)
Hi % 🙂
I like Twitter, since it works like a proactive search engine for technical stuff. Sure, there is a lot of useless noise (sometimes provided by myself :-P) but dozens of professionals tweet very useful links I'd never find without Twitter.
I don't use FaceBook.
Greets
Flo

I agree with you about Twitter. Fortunately, most of the noise comes from just a couple of people.

I don't think I would have started using FaceBook if it wasn't for the fact that most of my old friends and family are 2000 miles away and I rarely get to see them.

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Florian Reischl SSC-Dedicated Points: 37301 More actions · Answer 9

Alvin Ramard (1/30/2010)
Fortunately, most of the noise comes from just a couple of people.

Yup, this makes it easy to skip some tweets.

(BTW: One non-technical thing I really love is Lynn's sports studio! 😀 Most times I have no clue about the kind of game but it's really funny to attend!)

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 10

Florian Reischl (1/30/2010)
Alvin Ramard (1/30/2010)
Fortunately, most of the noise comes from just a couple of people.
Yup, this makes it easy to skip some tweets.
(BTW: One non-technical thing I really love is Lynn's sports studio! 😀 Most times I have no clue about the kind of game but it's really funny to attend!)

Wow. Finally found someone that follows me while I tweeting the Air Force Academy home hockey games! Thanks! :w00t:

Got into hockey by accident. The older two attended an AFA Men's Basketball game for free, and the tickets allowed them to stay for a hockey game. Next year we bought them season tickets, and my wife and I ended up attending a few games and got hooked too. Bought season tickets again this year. It has been fun. Too bad they lost yesterday in an away game. Hope they do better tonight.

Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 11

Lynn Pettis

is said that you are never more than 6 persons removed from every other person on this earth

Always thought that was a fallacy - what I am about to say is tenuous proof of that statement

if you look at these picture of the Academy Chapel

http://www.watchingamerica.com/images/airforceacademychapel_pic.jpeg

http://www.xap.com/school_logos/CollegeInColorado//United_States_Air_Force_Academy/United_States_Air_Force_Academy1.jpg

which I am sure you have seen many times.

The attachment: I helped quarry the stone that forms the wall around that portion of the chapel.

The stone was from a granite quarry in Chelmsford Vt,

and if memory serves me right it was some 50 years ago.

Lynn have you ever visied Pueblo?

I worked, for about a year, next to a steel mill (Colorado Fuel & Iron) - made a heck of a lot of barbed wire.

Company is now known as Rocky Mountain Steel Mills.

Now what I (we) have figure out who are the 6 people between myself (you) and Bill Gates

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Ron

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 12

bitbucket-25253 (1/30/2010)
Lynn Pettis
is said that you are never more than 6 persons removed from every other person on this earth
Always thought that was a fallacy - what I am about to say is tenuous proof of that statement
if you look at these picture of the Academy Chapel
http://www.watchingamerica.com/images/airforceacademychapel_pic.jpeg
http://www.xap.com/school_logos/CollegeInColorado//United_States_Air_Force_Academy/United_States_Air_Force_Academy1.jpg
which I am sure you have seen many times.
The attachment: I helped quarry the stone that forms the wall around that portion of the chapel.
The stone was from a granite quarry in Chelmsford Vt,
and if memory serves me right it was some 50 years ago.
Lynn have you ever visied Pueblo?
I worked, for about a year, next to a steel mill (Colorado Fuel & Iron) - made a heck of a lot of barbed wire.
Company is now known as Rocky Mountain Steel Mills.
Now what I (we) have figure out who are the 6 people between myself (you) and Bill Gates

I visit Pueblo a bit. Last few years I work the Sunbelt tournament last week in February. Been down there when CF&I was still CF&I as well when I bowled in a AJBC Tournament down there when I was still in Junior High School.

The six people between us and Bill Gates, not sure off hand.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 13

Lynn Pettis (1/30/2010)
bitbucket-25253 (1/30/2010)
Lynn Pettis
is said that you are never more than 6 persons removed from every other person on this earth
Always thought that was a fallacy - what I am about to say is tenuous proof of that statement
if you look at these picture of the Academy Chapel
http://www.watchingamerica.com/images/airforceacademychapel_pic.jpeg
http://www.xap.com/school_logos/CollegeInColorado//United_States_Air_Force_Academy/United_States_Air_Force_Academy1.jpg
which I am sure you have seen many times.
The attachment: I helped quarry the stone that forms the wall around that portion of the chapel.
The stone was from a granite quarry in Chelmsford Vt,
and if memory serves me right it was some 50 years ago.
Lynn have you ever visied Pueblo?
I worked, for about a year, next to a steel mill (Colorado Fuel & Iron) - made a heck of a lot of barbed wire.
Company is now known as Rocky Mountain Steel Mills.
Now what I (we) have figure out who are the 6 people between myself (you) and Bill Gates
I visit Pueblo a bit. Last few years I work the Sunbelt tournament last week in February. Been down there when CF&I was still CF&I as well when I bowled in a AJBC Tournament down there when I was still in Junior High School.
The six people between us and Bill Gates, not sure off hand.

Oh that's not hard. We can get you real close. Gail knows Paul Randal and Paul Randal knows... someone in Microsoft that knows Bill Gates. You guys know Gail. That's not even six people. You could make the chain a little longer. I know Buck Woody and Buck knows lots of people at Microsoft, none of whom is Bill Gates because they probably don't let Buck into the same building as him...:hehe:

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