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Should i be worried that towlie is the mascot for the new kids' program at the library?

Shits McGee says, make way for the first truly violent leisure sport.

One of HST's first published stories. It's a bit stilted, but interesting, nonetheless.

My PP357 nozzles+injectors just shipped from Greg. Yay.

If your uncle was stuck up on the roof with his horse, would you help him jack off a rock?

   Vic: Up first is Chaz Heston...Chaz, of course is the leader of the

        Soylent Green Peace Party.

 Kenny: Yeah, they recycle dead environmentalists.

I know I'm about 5 years behind the times, but I've recently started playing with the OpenSchema() method of the ADODB.Connection object. You can get at a lot of useful information that way. For example, when importing data, you can read the ForeignKeys schema to figure out the order data needs to be loaded to avoid violating key constraints or get at extended properties, like column descriptions.

Public Function GetColumnDescription(cnn As ADODB.Connection, sTableName As String, 

  sColumnName As String) As String



  Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset

  Dim sDescr As String

  

  ' Init description

  sDescr = ""

  

  Set rs = cnn.OpenSchema(adSchemaColumns)

  With rs

    .Filter = "TABLE_NAME='" & sTableName & "' AND COLUMN_NAME='" & sColumnName & "'"

    If .RecordCount <> 0 Then

      If Not IsBlank(.Fields("DESCRIPTION")) Then

        sDescr = CStr(.Fields("DESCRIPTION").Value)

      End If

    End If

    .Filter = adFilterNone

    .Close

  End With

  Set rs = Nothing

  

  ' Return description

  GetColumnDescription = sDescr

  

End Function

  

It's somewhat surprising to see one of the standard auto mags confirming what TDI loonies, er, enthusiasts have always known.

"Perhaps haranguing CEOs makes for better soundbites back home. But when oil CEOs like Chevron's Dave O'Reilly spend more time talking about conservation than our elected officials, you know we've got a real problem on our hands - one that will last well beyond the summer driving season."

I didn't even need to read the Wikipedia article since the Google ads made it so clear that my assumption about the meaning of 'schamhaar' was correct:

    I Will Show You My Vagina

    You can look at my webcam for free

    Let me show you how sexy I can get.

    CuteTina.com

  

From the Wikipedia article on gear ratios we learn that:
v_car = (C_tire * v_engine) / (gr_gear * gr_diff)

For those of us with no tach, RPM can be inferred using the following formula:
v_engine = v_car * (gr_gear * gr_diff) / C_tire

In cars with transaxles, gr_diff is the final drive ratio, otherwise it'd be the gear ratio in the rear differential.

Greater Rule the Only: The car is changing, you must change with it; be smooth in all motions, in all driving.
This sound stupid? It is the key, damn you! A road course is like a giant physics equation you will work out in real time, one too complicated to comprehend by anyone but the almighty programmers of Gran Turismo!

Apparently, heel-toe is different from trail-braking.

what is understeer and how does it affect handling, steering response, and agility?

For a limited time, come and get the new Tool single. You tool.

Microsoft is kind of a suck, right? So, I've had SQL Server 2005 Express install fail the first time through on 2 separate machines, so I figure this may be a common problem. Fixing it goes like this (yes, I'm not making it up).

• Download SQLEXPR.EXE from the Visual Studio download area
• Run SQLEXPR.EXE to have it extract all its bullshit and then run the installation wizard.
• SQLEXPR is going to extract its shit into a root directory folder with a huge hex number for the name. Find that folder and copy everything in it except for $shtdwn$.req to another folder, because you will need to run one of the files after the install fails. However, SQLEXPR is very helpful and will delete all these files, if you don't save a copy.
• After your installation fails, complaining about a corrupted package 'sqlncli.msi' then close the wizard and let it delete its files.
• Go to your copy folder, go to the setup sub-folder, right-click sqlncli.msi, and select Uninstall from the context menu. Confirm that you really meant what you said.
• This will do some shit for a bit and then close.
• You can then run SQLEXPR.EXE again and this time it will actually install SQL Server 2005.

    Rush:  Other druggies belong in jail.

     Vic:  Here's alleged rehabber, Rush Dimbulb. He, of course, was hooked

           on pain killers.

   Kenny:  Yeah, side effects include racism, blowhardedness, and avoiding

           prosecution.

  

Uh, diesels don't have distributors.

If cwm rhymes with loom then pwn rhymes with loon.

Deleted C:Recycler and let Windows recreate by deleting a file from Explorer. The info below is from the newly created Recycler folder.

The attributes are:

    C:>attrib C:Recycler

      SH      C:RECYCLER

  

    C:>cacls C:Recycler

    C:RECYCLER BUILTINAdministrators:(OI)(CI)F

            EDDIELuser:F

            CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)F

            Everyone:(OI)(CI)F

            NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM:(OI)(CI)F

            BUILTINUsers:(OI)(CI)R

            BUILTINUsers:(CI)(special access:)

                              SYNCHRONIZE

                              FILE_APPEND_DATA



            BUILTINUsers:(CI)(special access:)

                              SYNCHRONIZE

                              FILE_WRITE_DATA

  

Why is Sun documenting OLEDB and ADO? And even more curious, why is their documentation the first hit in a Google search for the OpenSchema method?

I was watching Henry Rollins's "spoken word" thing on IFC and he had an aside about how he always respected the elderly because they " had had their hearts broken more than you, were smarter than you, and most of their friends were dead".

Maybe I'm just hanging around with all the wrong elderly people, but they don't seem to be any more or less intelligent as a group than anyone else. Actually, in my experience, the elderly often seem to be out of touch with minor events of the past 50-60 years such as desegregation and the iPod.

As for their broken hearts and dead friends, that's just life. I don't really see how "not dying for a long time" immediately marks one as worthy of respect. It seems to me that there ought to be something extraordinary about your character if you are to be respected. Based on the number of Baby Boomers retiring now (whose social security benefits I get to pay for), it's obvious that there's nothing extraordinary any more about being old.

  going up and coming down

  scratch away away away

  it's all the little things that kill

  tearin' at my brain again

  oh the little things that kill

  tearin' at my brain again

  oh the little little little little...

  little little little little

  --

  breathe in breathe out x 2

  breathe in

  tied to a wheel, my fingers got to feel

  {bleeding through, it's ok to smile}

  spin on a whim i slide to the right

  i felt you like electric light

  for our love, for our fear

  for our rise against the years and years and years



  got a machinehead better than the rest

  green to red, machinehead

 

"Into the Void" as played by a string quartet is just comical.

This is what you get when you start googling on Nietzsche and voids:

• "The Matrix" is a Nietzschean parable of cosmic Enantiodromia or something...
• The decline of dialogue in the West is a symptom of lividity.
• Post-modern "double-standard" foreign policy.
• wrong.
• Indra's Net and postmodernism - The self-existence (Sanskrit, svabhva) that Mahyna refutes corresponds to the "self-presence" which Derrida criticizes in textual terms, by showing that every process of signification, including self-consciousness, is an economy of differences:

  
    The play of differences supposes, in effect, syntheses and referrals,
  
    which forbid at any moment, or in any sense, that a simple element be
  
    present in and of itself, referring only to itself... There are only, 
  
    everywhere, differences and traces of traces.
  
        

The answer to my previous question is that I didn't have anymore clandestine "Into the Void" covers on my HDD. However, I went on a quest to discover how many covers have been recorded.

My undying pal Google told me about a thrash metal band, Exhorder, that did a cover of "Into the Void" on their album, "The Law". So, of course, I acquired their discography for the sake of that one song. Second Hand Songs tells me that another band called "Rise" did a cover of "Into the Void". Don't you worry, dear reader, I'll track that track down, too. That's what I do.

Beowulf wonders if the author of this article is related to our friendly neighborhood A Bennett. Probably not.

The story of Unida is pretty much the story of why the RIAA sucks. Incidentally, Unida eventually gave away copies of the unreleased album at shows and it can be downloaded fairly easily off the internet. In fact, there's a person with a username suspiciously similar to mine who has released it on a tracker near you. Not that I release or download music.