Thursday : 29 June 2006
Another NBN Thursday comes to a relatively uneventful close.  The workday was good and pretty much monkey-free.  I’ve been reading the SQL book that I picked up last week.  I discovered something in it that I didn’t find in the PHP & MySQL book that I had previously purchased: SQL supports “transactions.”  And from what I gather, so far, it handles them in the same way that ColdFusion did.  That’s something that I can work with.

The Shocking Adventures of Indigo Bolt
I joined a team for a mission tonight… and died twice.  Not because the team was inept.  Rather, it was because we were fighting one of the game’s Arch-villains.  I wasn’t the only one to be caught on the bad side of the Envoy of Shadow; everyone died.  At least once.  But, in the end, we beat it.  Of course, there’s still the little matter of 24,000 points worth of new experience debt to dealt with…

Stray Toasters

  • I talked with my uncle and got his travel itinerary for the weekend.  He’ll be in Sunday evening… and leaves Monday afternoon.  Not a long visit, but it’s a visit nonetheless.  And I’m thankful for that.
  • By way of comes: 100 Awesome Music Videos
    (: Frontier Psychiatrist is on the list.)

  • I should have started laundry an hour ago, not five minutes ago.
  • I was a little shocked to find this in the 19 June 2006 issue of Newsweek, but it intrigued me: Popular Comic Book Heroes Faith-by-Faith (You can click on the given hero’s religious affiliation to see how the researchers came to these conclusions.)
  • The above ‘Toaster reminded me of An American Pantheon

    In every culture there is in it’s past a collection of myths recounting the tales of a pantheon of gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters.

    Tales that stand both as answers to why things are as they are, and as personifications of the `essence´ of that nation, people, and culture.

    The Greek mythos, the Roman mythos, the Chinese mythos, and the detailed listing of angels and demons along with the legends of saints that made up the Christian mythos of the middle-ages are all examples where a culture generated a mythos that stood as the spirit where the people and land were the body and mind.

    But what about America? I don’t mean the rich and varied mythos of the Native Americans. I mean the United States of America.

    Where is the American mythos? Jung said that you need to get in touch with the myths and beliefs of the land where you are.

    That no matter what your religion or belief system (or lack of same) might be the place where you are has a power that can not be denied.

    That being the case, again where is the American mythos?

  • “Who watches the watchmen?”  I don’t know.  But I do know Who scams the scammers.
  • I have begun to think of as “Queen of the Flash Distractions”  (not that this is a bad thing, per se).  Today’s goodie: attractors_water.swf
  • Introducing the Baen Free Library
  • H to the izz-O
    V to the izz-A

  • Robin Williams.  As The Joker…?  Could be.
  • The Blade television series premiere is available.  For iPods.  For free.  I shall have to acquire this.

Time to switch the laundry over… and call it a night.

Namaste.