If you care.
Jeopardy! Rage!
A few months ago, I caught a snippet of the US gameshow Jeopardy! Contestants are given answers to questions, and they have to figure out the question. Here is the answer a contestant was given.
“Dustin Shuler arranged eight of them on a spike to make a sculpture in 1989”
The question was:
“What is a car?”
That is not how any sane person would answer the question “What is a car?”. It’s very probably the absolute final thing people would say in answer to that question. Better answers include:
- A motorised vehicle with four wheels
- A sinkhole for money
- Not a bike
- Larger than a lion, smaller than a cruise liner
- Blue (if it’s mine)
- Badly driven (if it’s mine)
In fact, rather than being an answer, the supplied answer would work much better as a regular question: “What did Dustin Shuler arranged eight of on a spike to make a sculpture in 1989?”
This angered me, for many insignificant and boring reasons. I have no idea why I’m posting about it months (actually over a year) after the fact. I have no idea why I’m posting about it at all, but it’s out there now, and we all just have to make the best of it.
Good morning.
The database was backed up on a server running version 10.50.2500. That version is incompatible with this server, which is running version 10.00.5500.
Dear Microsoft, I am running SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. So that must be version 10.00.5500. Which one is 10.50.2500, exactly? Do I download SQL Server 2008 Express Edition Service Pack 3 for that? Or do I need the non-Express Edition? Or do I need SQL Server 2012?
No, what I need is SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition. Obviously.
Mondays are the worst.
You know what’s very quick and simple to install? Not this:
I can have MySQL running in about 10 minutes from a standing start. SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, on the other hand, can’t even open it’s manager without having a “this might take a few minutes” box pop up. And I’ve been bumping heads with the installer for two hours now (how can I just install the manager without installing everything? Joke’s on you, it’s impossible). It’s all installed, finally, but the components aren’t talking to each other.
GRUMPY.
I’m starting to read all news as pretty much the same these days:
David Cameron says he will fight to protect the UK national interest in discussions over a new EU Treaty but Ed Miliband says the UK is being “left on the sidelines”.
comes out as
David Cameron says something he thinks the public wants to hear, while Ed Miliband says something designed to make him look proactive.
Every day, about every thing.
Well, that clears that up
Paul’s Boutique is both a Beastie Boys album and a clothes label. I did wonder why all the local skanks were wearing tops referencing a 22-year-old Beastie Boys album.
Michael: hey, assmunch
me: *sigh*
Michael: I require a "solid" offa you
Michael: as I'm very bad at planning, I require TWO sheets of text printed out
me: Oh-kay.
Michael: I can swing round later in my pimp-ride to pick them up. is this solid enough?
me: It is, I have a couple of questions, though...
me: 1) Aren't you at work? No printers?
Michael: nope, holiday today (hence the bad planning)
me: Okay, then...
me: 2) What about the printer THAT I FUCKING GAVE YOU FOR FREE?
Michael: out of ink (hence the bad planning)
me: You know what I do when my printer runs out of ink?
me : Guess.
Michael: rely on me to print your stuff out for you at the last moment?
me: GUESS AGAIN.
Saw this on the way into work this morning. Unfortunately, by the time I was able to get a photo, it was much less colourful than it had been. When I first saw it, it was very bright, and had the colours of the rainbow running all across it. I assume the light of the sun was passing through one cloud and hitting this one, and as the sun and clouds moved, they stopped being aligned sufficiently for it to happen.
Just five minutes after I saw it, it had reduced to this red and yellow tinged cloud, making for a slightly more underwhelming photo than I hoped!
