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Is it Friday yet?

Had a lovely, lovely visit from ladylabrinth and the_yellow_king, and Saturday's festivities were, in the main, quite enjoyable. Meat, food, booze, laughs, repeat. Got to meet D's new K. Echo pending.

In and amongst the usual litany of downtime geeking and reading, we enjoyed a ton of good food and conversation, and are working hard on bringing more Gothopians on board.

I feel like stir-fried rat snot, and it's got nothing to do with drinking immoderately. I honestly think that I'm just getting fried at the office (picked up a book on CF programming, which includes a section on SQL, and hopefully that will not make baby jesus cry reading it). Again with the lack of focus or direction, though we do have a Dreamweaver development conference (skillpath seminar) on Thursday, which hopefully will rekindle some modicum of interest in or passion for the job.

Apparently, we're having our sister teams from Home Despot and Comcast come over in November. I am deeply thrilled. Seriously. [The previous sentences are best read in Ben Stein's tone of voice.]

Enjoying Gaiman's "Anansi Boys," although, partway through, it feels as though it lacks the depth of his meatier works ("Neverwhere," "American Gods"). For instance - Neil, I'm 200 or so pages in, and have to work on the assumption that most of the characters are -not- caucasian, though you've not said a thing about how they look. Would it have killed you to at least drop a hint, other than that the god Anansi is black? [This may be a byproduct of my brainmeats not firing on all cylinders, but it sure the heck seems intentionally ambiguous.]

Comments

[tylorael.livejournal.com]

What kind of SQL stuff are you doing? I'm rather good at creating custom queries, but that's where my knowledge stops.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

i am learning about it; i know two things right now - jack, and shit. ;-)

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

"CF programming"? EXPN?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

coldfusion. might open up an opportunity for me outside of BRC3

[etcet.livejournal.com]

coldfusion, for potential professional opportunities (lj ate my reply)

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Gotcha. Feel free to send questions my way. Databases buy my beer and furniture.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

right know, all i know is i'm rock fucking ignorant about 'em. and seeing 700 or so pages of HOWTO FOR DUMMIES is intimidating.

hehehehe

[neecerie.livejournal.com]

Randomness...but I am in CF classes at the moment and for the forseeable future.......

oh fun and joy.......

Re: hehehehe

[etcet.livejournal.com]

how's the learning curve? i'm good at html and decent with css. i'm passingly familiar with xml.

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[neecerie.livejournal.com]

well the html will help you out..as well as the css...

CF is like code added into the html that just miraculously pulls all your info into the page...hehe

Its ok...I know enough html to not be good at it and I am doing ok....it helps that I also encounter CF stuff in daily work now, and the coworker that is the main developer (i am learning in order to give her a backup/codeveloper) is dragging me through and helping a lot...

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

okay. keen.

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[neecerie.livejournal.com]

The only part you might have a bit of 'hmmm have to learn to think differently' is the SQL query pulling parts...and you an grab any number of brief books to pull you up top speed on that part of it fairly fast....

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

I'm sure if I looked by googling (or even going through your interests) I might be able to answer my own question. Call me lazy (and I guess, desirous of hearing it from a human being rather than a search engine), but what is "Gothopia"?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

the freaks who've moved to tampa are planning to secede. we've dubbed it "gothopia" pre-emptively. our house is Gothopia Moon Base Alpha North. Bob & Sill are Gothopia Moon Base Alpha South. Critus & Netgoth are Gothopia Moon Base Bravo. Xany is Moon Base Bravo Prime (because I don't know which of the Bravos is N/S/E/W). Ross & Adrienne are Moon Base Charlie. Don Waugh pre-emptively selected Moon Base Epsilon, because he's weird like that.