I sent him away with the mystery of "Why are all the records May 10th, though?" If I'm lucky, he'll be chasing his tail through lunch, and not talk to me again.

The other query I asked for is actually pretty simple. I know his predecessor would have just done a huge IN statement with the values returned from the *first* query, but apparently that's not good enough for him. So--I wait. Yet, if I got my own DB access, I'd still only know enough to make a nuisance of myself 4 times out of 5.

I do hope someone complains about the tone in this IO9 article: [link] They're totes not giving the future the respect it clearly deserves.

And this Shortpacked strip came across my dash: [link] and is giving me the "it's funny because it's true!" sads.

And, yeah, the silent developer's email was all about how she's done nothing, and will have to keep doing nothing until later today. Great!

I think I'm going to go stick a sarcastic Post It on the "This door is alarmed" sign in the stairwell. That's almost as satisfying as punching a unicorn.

Sad news for fans of the John Pertwee Dr. Who era, as Caroline John died. She played the scientist Liz Shaw for one season.

I'm supposed to be off work as of half an hour ago. And you know what? I'm actually leaving! No, really, I'm signing off the VPN and I'm done for the week.

So I'm reading Our Valued Customers, which is always a good time, and then I go read the IO9 article about drinking during pregnancy, and this post:

Well actually, I saw an episode of this on the "Law and Order SVU" the other day, where an alcoholic woman was pregnant and Benson managed to defend her and negotiate with the judge to drop charges so long as she signed up with AA and agreed to a court order to not drink....then literally the next night, Benson visits her apartment and finds her openly drinking again, so Benson turns her in for breaking the court order. So it got me thinking about the whole issue.

While being way too long, this is exactly the sort of deep thinking Valued Customers are known for. It's beautiful.

Where are my painkillers?

I've managed to hold out against the heat this long (it's 94 here) but I think retreat to AC is going to happen soon.

So I'm reading Our Valued Customers,

sob. How can there BE that much stupid?

How can there BE that much stupid?

There is a lot of stupid in the world. This is why the stupid is winning.

We've had beautiful weather this month in Pasadena. Mostly 70s and 80s, and of course very low humidity. The desert climate has spoiled me. I'm hopeful we can hold onto this weather at least through the F2F.

How can there BE that much stupid?

So much stupidity. And yet, also, profound wisdom.

Turns out Janet Varney and Christina Hendricks are friends.

So if you wondered what it would be like if Avatar Korra and Joan Holloway sat around talking about their theater geek and teen goth years, here you go.

They even allude to the apparently inescapable Ren Faire/Rocky Horror schism in high school theater departments everywhere.