{"id":701,"date":"2005-10-11T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=701"},"modified":"2005-12-05T20:57:50","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T01:57:50","slug":"oh-its-yoursql-all-of-a-sudden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/oh-its-yoursql-all-of-a-sudden","title":{"rendered":"Oh, it&#8217;s <em>your<\/em>SQL all of a sudden?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to write so intermittently this week. It&#8217;s not a sign of depression or that I&#8217;ve run out of things to ramble about: I promise!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just been spending the last few days learning (teaching myself) some programming stuff, so I can do a little more with this blog. You&#8217;ll have a pretty clear idea of when VM 2.0 launches, insofar as it&#8217;s got a pretty cool look. (I can&#8217;t guarantee that my posts will be any more interesting, but hey: you&#8217;ve made it this far.) It&#8217;s taken some long evenings of trying to figure out SQL and CSS, as well as reinventing some wheels with Photoshop, but I think it&#8217;ll have a great new look-and-feel.<\/p>\n<p>In other news: Congrats to my mom for coming over to the dark side! My brother helped her buy a Mac Mini last night. It&#8217;s a long way from when she had to deal with her first office word-processor, back in 1989 or so.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the <a href=\"mailto:amlicita@yahoo.com?subject=Are you Patrick Bateman?\">official VM fiancee<\/a> &#038; I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0000AQS0F\/voyantpublishing\" target=\"_blank\">Firefly<\/a> this weekend. Official VM buddy Tony gave me the complete series DVDs for my birthday last January, but we didn&#8217;t get around to watching them till last weekend. We saw the first 3 episodes (out of 15), and were thrilled. Amy&#8217;s a big fan of Joss Whedon&#8217;s shows (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000AQ68RI\/voyantpublishing\" target=\"_blank\">Buffy<\/a>, Angel), and I&#8217;ll always try to give SF a shot.  The characters were a hoot, the plot holes weren&#8217;t too immense, and the libertarian slant of the crew was pretty enjoyable. Plus, the prostitute character was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davonline.com\/epsi\/firefly\/inara_gris.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">hot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll get around to the wrap-up movie later, I guess. Maybe when <em>it<\/em> comes out on DVD. . .<\/p>\n<p>Also, we&#8217;re getting ready to head down to New Orleans this weekend. We&#8217;ll be staying with her parents, who live about 25 miles from the city, but we&#8217;ll be making a trip or two into New Orleans during our stay. I promise to take plenty of pix and try to give you guys a good description of the place.<\/p>\n<p>I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/09\/magazine\/09neworleans.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Lewis&#8217; piece in the NYTimes magazine<\/a> this Sunday was great, but I haven&#8217;t had time to read it yet.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0812966929\/voyantpublishing\" target=\"_blank\">Number9Dream<\/a> by David Mitchell right now. Picked it up a week ago, and didn&#8217;t even think about the fact that John Lennnon&#8217;s birthday was coming up. Freaky to think that he was born 65 years ago, but that calendar sure does wreak havoc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to write so intermittently this week. It&#8217;s not a sign of depression or that I&#8217;ve run out of things to ramble about: I promise! I&#8217;ve just been spending the last few days learning (teaching myself) some programming stuff, so I can do a little more with this blog. You&#8217;ll have a pretty clear idea &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/oh-its-yoursql-all-of-a-sudden\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s <em>your<\/em>SQL all of a sudden?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-bj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}