My vicarious Geo Metro story.

1814, when the British burned down Washington DC.

Perhaps they should just stick with the Italian Ice business.

No, but you can stuff all your data in SQL and create and schedule email excel reports out.

Dev - “Hey I need to create some groups to test this new feature.”

Counterpoint:

Well there’s Bobby Jindahl - no, erm Marco Rubio?

Interesting, but where’s Wilhelm?

Rearranging the furniture.

A lot of these things are open secrets. I had a boss who sexually harassed employees and interns. When someone like that has power over your livelihood it becomes complicated. We end up growing a thick skin about the behavior and the open secret is shared.

I think I mentioned in the grays that he used to savage the Frugal Gourmet.

To be fair, Tony used to also rag on the Frugal Gourmet which in hind sight was totally warranted.

Hey, teach your kid what you think is best, but my kid’s learning Mandarin.

Deeply conflicted between “Spoon!” or “Little Wooden Boy!” as proper response to this news.

Ever copy-paste excel data into a table with SQL with headers?

I’ve seen it before. Kid starts out with Access, then they want something a little harder so they go for MySQL or SQL Express. It’s easy for the kids to get Microsoft and open-source just give it away. Next thing you know they’re talking about crazy non-referential databases strung out on Mongo and Hadoop.

Access is the “gateway database”.

I still remember the meeting where someone suggested we should have a “backup internet”.

The Hamptons noise ordinances also ended the drag strip in Westhampton. Somehow Riverhead Raceway is still holding on though.

91 - The Portrait of Dorian Grey