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September 2006 - Posts
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I realize that the title of this entry could probably be considered pornographic to some Southerns living in mobile homes. I'm ok with that. I never have been a big reality TV fan (Project Runway doesn't count) but I did happen to see some of the previews a few years ago from My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancee. I distinctly recall him saying he wanted to be a TV actor and thinking "Hah!".
And that, friends, is why I'm not a casting director. Mr. Fiancee is of course the friendly, yet noticbly man-nuzzling, bartender on Grey's Anatomy. Good for him.
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There was some confusion last week so this entry is updated. THESE are the songs from Episode 2. I had errantly labeled last week's Grey's Anatomy Music Episode 1 with these songs and I'm sorry. The ones music below is definitely from Season 3: Episode 2. Please forgive me.
1) Moloko - The Time Is Now
2) Mat Kearney - Crashing Down
3) The Chalets - Theme From The Chalets
4) Bitter:Sweet - The Mating Game
5) Jesus Jackson - Running on Sunshine
6) Snow Patrol - Run
Finally, the Episode 1 title, The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today
As usual, you are very welcome for the music of Grey's Anatomy. :)
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I called it. I called it two weeks ago. This season was going to have four "finalists". Next week is the Project Runway Season 3 Runion Show. Who cares? Not me. I am kind of curious to see what Cheater Keith has to say for himself. Regardless, Michael is going to win. I know Michael Cors (by the way, I saw some of your shirts in a store and they were DAMN ugly. FYI: We're not allf at. Sorry, I know you're designing for Joe Everyman but there are still a handful of us left that get exercise and don't weigh 500 pounds) said Michael Knight could only design sportswear and his last couple designs have been awful but come on, he's good for the show and a nice designer. I'd like to see Laura win but her winning doesn't fit with the show's image. Total age discrimination. I just don't like Neck's stuff. I know they keep him on the show because he provides a lot of drama but he's just not that good. I think Uli is freaking nuts. And what a *** move to steal Michael's model. In Uli's defense though that model is smoking hot but surely Michael would appreciate that more anyway. Go Michael! Or Laura!
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It's not that I hate kenpo, deep down I like it. I'm a pretty calm person (I think) and I don't really like fighting. That said, there's still something to be said for giving someone a crescent kick to the face or locking someone's elbow. I just hate the people I have to work with. This probably sounds crazy but there is a total Girls Clique and not being a girl I'm not allowed to join. The only other guy is this Russian dude named Mikhail who totally creeps me out. Let's review the people I've worked with in the past year. I'm sorry I didn't ever learn their real names.
Christine - By far my favorite person to work with. It helps that we work in the same office and started together. I definitely get the most accomplished when I work with her.
Ogre - At 6'6", 250 and at least 50 you totally weird me out. I know you're a neo-hippie graphic designer but stop trying to impress me. I also know you haven't come in six months so whatever. I hated working with, just FYI.
McOgre - The late-20's something son of Ogre. Also about 6'6" but lanky, I'll never forgive you for telling me you'd "rather be a garbageman than have to sit in front of a computer all day". Eat me. I sit in an air conditioned office in a faux red leather chair with two computers and make enough money to eat at the crappy restaurant where you work as a waiter three times a day. You were also really, really sweaty. Take a shower you nasty hippie.
Dixie - God, please shut up for like two seconds. Seriously, just zip it. I know you're in high school and as a popular girl you're required to talk non-stop but some of us are there trying to learn something and have to pay our own bills. At least you shower so I don't totally hate your guts.
Pyscho - Wash your damn gi. You're a yellow belt and your "white" gi is more yellow that the belt. That's disgusting. At least Ogre would wash his gi when he'd skip washing his body. You're 40-something and are PSYCHO. That's why I call you Psycho! And stop making weird noises when you do moves. I know I only had to work with you once but seriously, I am fully prepared to hear about police finding hundreds of bodies buried in your back yard.
Chach(i) - I realize we'd never be friends outside of the Dojo. You're a frat guy and I'm a computer programmer. Nonetheless, I'm sorry I bruised your arm so badly. Anyway, in a normal setting I would totally hate you for being so good-looking and buff but compared to the other freaks in the class I'll happily work with you. Where have you been the past four months?
Raji - Quit kenpo right now. I know you're only like 14 but you are TOO SMALL. Believe me, as a really skinny guy I feel your pain being small but I at least have a little muscle mass. When I sweep your legs out I have to hold onto your shoulder to prevent you from flying through the window. It doesn't help you're so weirdly hyper and that you count the exercises really, really fast and don't do them at that speed. You are SO WEIRD.
Mikhail - I actually know you're name. You need to learn some more English although I applaud your efforts; really I do. But you need to learn the word "ready". I always say "ready" before I punch in. Don't nod your head because I'll accidentally take your face off one of these times. I'm concerned that you are and I are going to be working together a lot because we're both over 6' and male. And would a smile kill you?
Future Rapist - You take the cake. You are the king of freaks. I've tried ignoring you and I've tried being mean. Get it through your 15 year old head that I hate you. I don't care that you buy throwing knives at the flea market. I don't care you kill squirrels in your backyard. I don't care that you don't have any friends in high school. I don't care how you describe the innards of people pulling out when you slice a knife into them. You are a total and complete freak. You're the reason we use rubber knives to practice on. If we didn't I'd kill you and save countless girls from being raped by you in five years. I do like working with you though because I just let it rip when I have to knock you to the floor. Man, I love sparing you any pity you sicko.
And I think that's it. Oh, I left out Paul. He's this HUGE black dude who is a couple belts behind me. He actually has a really great sense of humor and believe it or not I don't mind working with him at all. See, I can get along with people.
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Well, Jeffrey, it's time to say goodbye. I really anticipate your DETROIT neck going home tonight. I sure hope so anyway. You've been killing Project Runway with your mean spirit and ugly clothes. Then again, it might be your mean spirit and your ugly clothes that have kept Project Runway interesting enough to watch. Anway, friend, Jeffrey, tonight is your night and I will not miss you one bit. I know I've said this before but had I been on the show and you talked to my mom the way to talk to Angela's mom I would have kicked your face in. Your tatoos don't scare me. I'd Combination #4 your ass so hard it would probably take all of your creepy neck tattoos right off. Oh Jeffrey, it's been a good run but it's time for you to go home.
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According Reuters Desperate Housewives flopped big on their openings night. We didn't even get it here! Surely if our ABC affiliate was out of service there were others like it. Desperate Housewives sucked last season but people (like me) still watched it and for their ratings to tank against No-Namers like Cold Case and Trace surely was a sign that not every who should have been counted was counted.
Jamie and I really wanted to watch it but we simply couldn't and while the Florida panhandle is probably not the largest hub of television watchers in the country surely the quarter-million people that live in this area should count for something. I'm surprised ABC hasn't released anything about the outtage. At least the DH episode is now available online; we plan on watching it tomorrow.
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I'm ok with the main ABC page being ahead of me for Grey's Anatomy for all my searches. I really am. It's their show. But the fact I now come on the second page for most terms is ridiculous when I have so much more to offer than most of these top 10 sites. To be #11 or #12 is terrible. This time last year I was either #2 or #3 and getting about 2k-3k unique visitors a day. Now I might get 500. I spend a lot of time on my grey's anatomy blog and it really pisses me off that sites that offer nothing with lower PR and fewer backlinks are ahead of me. Grr.
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Are we the only city in the country (Tallhassee) not getting anything on ABC tonight? Where is Desperate Housewives! I want it now!
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I discovered today I am going to have to retake the GRE. That does not make me happy; at all. I took it in May of 2001 when I applied for my Masters degree. I did pretty well--there were three sections: Verbal, Math and Analytical. I scored in the middle 600s on both Verbal and Math and got a perfect 800 on the Analytical. Bam. It didn't matter to me one bit that none of the schools I applied to cared whatsoever about the analytical section. I got a perfect. A+.
Three years ago the GRE dropped the analytical section and replaced with a writing section. As you can tell from my less than stellar blog entries I am not a very good writer. I don't think I make many grammatical mistakes but I've always prefered math things to English things and I never pretend to be anything more than an average writer. Now I need to retake this damned test replacing my best section with a section I am sure to bomb.
Not only that, but when was the last time I had to do any math beyond the algebra or geometry that I have to use as a programmer? Oh that's right, never. Does someone who is getting a Ph.D in music really need to know calculus? I took AP Calculus in High School and that was the last math class I had. Ten years ago. Truly the only math I use now is in things like $array_count=count($array); and I am doubtful they are going to be asking the math questions in terms of PHP. Crap.
On top of this Jamie took the GRE a couple of years ago for her Masters and set the bar really high for me. I always had the Analytical section before but now I have nothing; she's a fantastic writer and now I have nothing. I am now the academically retarded one in our relationship and that sucks.
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It's my understanding that ABC will be rebroadcasting Grey's Anatomy Friday nights at 8pm. This rebroadcast is excellent news for us; now we can continue to play poker on Thursday nights. Last Thursday we desperately called Jamie's mom at 9:05 to tape it unaware that ABC had any plans to show the first episode again but once we found out we set the time aside to watch it on Friday and we'll just have to find some way to deal with the guilt of begging poor Robin.
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Sterling, VA - If you're running a Verio server, and you probably are, your sites and web applications are down. As of 1pm EST there was no timetable for a repair although they have assured everyone they are working very hard to get everything back online. They have been good about such things in the past so we feel good things will come back at some point today.
Their formal message is:
September 22, 2006 - Verio.com Data Center Status Update
At approximately 9:45 AM ET this morning, Verio lost commercial power to its data center facility in Sterling, Virginia and experienced technical problems with its generators. The problem has now been resolved. The data center is currently operating on generator power and Verio's operations staff is now beginning to bring the data center back online.
We will continue to work toward service restoration, and will post updates as needed to this Web site.
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As I always do I have scoured the internet searching for mp3s of the Grey's Anatomy Season 3 Premier. Some of the songs from Episode 1 were hard to find but I have all but one. Not too shabby; hopefully I will have the rest soon.
Dixie Chicks - Lullabye
Tegan & Sara - Take Me Anywhere
Sleeping At Last - Quicksand
Emilianna Torrini - Nothing Brings Me Down
Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone (just FYI it's officially listed as Gone Daddy Done but I think it's a typo) Grant Lee Phillips - Under the Milky Way
Mat Kearney - All I need - Thanks Jeff!
And, ladies and gentledogs, you have the music from Grey's Anatomy Season 3 Episode 1.
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Tonight is the Grey's Anatomy Season Premier! Tonight is the Grey's Anatomy Season Premier!!!! Get it? I know there have been millions of rabid fans waiting for this but I am not ashamed to say I am not one of them. I plan on playing poker with my friends tonight, as I have done on every Thursday night for the past three years. I'm not selling out just because the season premier is on; heck no. I'm sure Jamie and I will find a way to tape it or find someone to TiVo it so we can watch the Grey's Anatomy season premier on Sunday, the time it SHOULD have been on anyway.
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I don't understand (Ok, I do understand and the answer is money) how professional anythings are allowed to have sponsors. I'm not talking about all the stickers of Tony the Tiger or whatever lame crap lame car drivers plaster over their cars for NASCAR races. I'm talking about, for example, how the Chicago Cubs are allowed to have an Official Carpet. It happens to be Empire; I remember the phone number from when I was a kid. 588-2300-EMPIRE. Yeah yeah.
What do you get as the Official Carpet of the Chicago Cubs? Collectible urine stains in the corner? God knows it's never going to have any sort of celebratory beverage spilled onto it. And if that were to happy how pissed would be people be that Stainguard was there to prevent the winning carpet saturation?
I'd like to be Official Coffee of the Chicago Cubs. Who drinks coffee at baseball games you ask--no one. But no one is standing on carpet either.
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If you're like me your database administrator is retarded and your database constantly has corrupted tables. Rather than wasting your time every day trying to sort through thousand of tables by guessing which ones are corrupted I've written a script that you can implement to quickly sort through all of your tables and repair them if they need it. This site has around 2000 tables and millions of records but this script has never taken more than about 30 seconds to repair them all. Save yourself the hassle of trying to repair tables yourself and just use this script. You're welcome in advance.
MySQL Table Repair Script
define("DB_USERNAME", "your_MySQL_username_here");
define("DB_PASSWORD", "your_MySQL_password_here");
define("DATABASE", "your_MySQL_database_name_here");
function dbConnect() {
//connect to database
$dbname = DATABASE;
$handle = mysql_connect("localhost", DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD);
if (!$handle) {
$today = date("F j, Y, g:i a");
exit;
}
mysql_select_db($dbname);
return $handle;
}//end db_connect()
function dbDisconnect() {
if (isset($handle)) {
mysql_close($handle);
}
}//end dbDisconnect
#start the list of tables
$db = dbConnect();
$tables = array();
$rows = mysql_query("SHOW TABLES FROM $dbname");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($rows)) {
$tables[] = $row[0];
}
#prep array for loop
foreach ($tables as $key) {
$query="repair table $key";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
for ($j=0;$j<count($row);$j++)
{
echo "$row[$j]\n";
echo " "; }
}
echo "<br />";
}
$db = dbDisconnect();
##############
Ta-Da!
All of the tables in your poor MySQL are repaired! If you're feeling a little more ambitious you can set this up to run on as a cron job and you'll never have to worry about your tables being corrupted again.
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