What did you do today?

[DRKWNG]

Lowered the price on the SC by a thousand and the offers come out of the woodwork.

[Meerkat]

Commute: 1
Jim: 0

Put an offer on a place in the huge metropolis of Belcamp, MD. After closing, commute will be 4.5 minutes...if I get caught by the light.

[zooom]

Commute: 1
Jim: 0

Put an offer on a place in the huge metropolis of Belcamp, MD. After closing, commute will be 4.5 minutes...if I get caught by the light.

congrats I guess are in order...do you get a garage with that move at least?

[tocino]

Commute: 1
Jim: 0

Put an offer on a place in the huge metropolis of Belcamp, MD. After closing, commute will be 4.5 minutes...if I get caught by the light.

For some reason I thought your new job was south not north. Good riding up there yes? I wouldn't think the loss of a commute up/down 95 was that bad.

Congrats!

[Slide Panda]

Commute: 1
Jim: 0

Put an offer on a place in the huge metropolis of Belcamp, MD. After closing, commute will be 4.5 minutes...if I get caught by the light.

having a huge commute sucks the life from one. Not that Belcamp looks thrilling. But I expect you'll be able to get a proper garage of your own and a better quality of life with the short commute.

[Meerkat]

No such luck on the garage, but not a big deal. The other half works in DC, so we're keeping our place here. I just need a place to crash during the week and it was cheaper to buy than to rent...by about half. As long as gas stays above $3.25 or so (Do you think we'll ever see gas that low again?), it's paying for itself by not having the commute, tolls, and being able to get rid of the storage unit I've been paying for in DC.

[Slide Panda]

Ah, gotcha. Just the time saved not having to make that trek everyday is huge. Don't know how I'd like the several days away from home a week plan... but plenty of folks do it.

Hope it goes well.

[Slide Panda]

Vowed I'd have the testicles of who ever did the paint work for the PO of previous house. Spent most of my weekend stripping a casement window to the bare wood since they did such a shitting job. 2nd window I've had to strip... and there's a 3rd that's peeled off paint within 2 months of us living there...

And the cheap ass faucets used. had to replace one already...

Painting walls in preparation for the minions arrival.

[tocino]

Had to go back to work after a week in Costa Rica 

[DRKWNG]

Builds character. 

[The Mad King Pepe']

Had to go back to work after a week in Costa Rica 

You really have it rough!

Work now involves re-creating in Java a 12+ year old system written in Oracle Forms & Object Pascal...     Started the week playing with java.awt.Color and the CSS 2.1 color specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#color-units) 

[tocino]

You really have it rough!

Work now involves re-creating in Java a 12+ year old system written in Oracle Forms & Object Pascal...     Started the week playing with java.awt.Color and the CSS 2.1 color specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#color-units) 

Geek alert!

Object Pascal = good. Always liked Pascal. Borland Delphi especially.

Oracle Forms = ha! In a previous job my boss had us write some stuff in Oracle Forms; that sh** was slooooow. I ended up just rewriting one of the apps later in Clipper of all things. I don't think I've *ever* heard of anyone else that used Oracle Forms. It was another "if you buy our DB we force you to buy 33 other products you don't want/need" item.

Good luck on that!

[Slide Panda]

CSS 2.1 color specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#color-units) 

Why puke? CSS color is simple...

[zooom]

I may have seriously soiled the bathrooms at Lisa's office for the next 24 hours....last night I made chili for her "Office Chili Competition" for her...


3 - 32oz cans of whole peeled italian plum tomatoes
1 - 10oz can of tomato paste
2 - 10oz cans of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
2.3 lbs of 85/15 ground beef
1 whole small yellow onion
about 2.5 bulbs of garlic
1.5oz package of dried pasilla peppers

soaked the pasilla peppers and the used the water to dilute the tomato paste
chopped and diced and then sauted the onions and garlic and then added the ground beef
seasoned that mixture with cayenne pepper and hot hungarian paprika
put the peeled tomatoes and chipotles with adobo in the crock pot
added the tomato paste/pasilla water
put the immersion blender in and brought to a preferable texture.
added onion powder, garlic powder, ancho powder, some dried & chopped jalapeno's, brown sugar and salt and stirred
added in the ground beef mixture and stirred

put the lid on the crock pot and let it go go go overnight...

this morning when it was checked on, the oil raised to the top ready to be skimmed off and then 1 32oz can of small red kidney beans can be added and VOILA!!!...since she works in the financial industry...we are jokingly calling it "Hot Commodity" chili.

sad that I can't eat it till after Saturday morning's race....but tonight is a pre St. Patties day pub run fund raiser for breast cancer...so I get to run to drink beer to save boobies!

[The Mad King Pepe']

Geek alert!

Object Pascal = good. Always liked Pascal. Borland Delphi especially.

Oracle Forms = ha! In a previous job my boss had us write some stuff in Oracle Forms; that sh** was slooooow. I ended up just rewriting one of the apps later in Clipper of all things. I don't think I've *ever* heard of anyone else that used Oracle Forms. It was another "if you buy our DB we force you to buy 33 other products you don't want/need" item.

Good luck on that!

All the form metadata is stored on an Oracle DB so people figured it would make sense to use Forms & PL/SQL for the user interface. The layout is managed by a separate app written by contractors in Obj. Pascal, then the layout is encoded in XML and stored in the DB as a CLOB...  Why this setup? Don't Ask, Don't Tell. 

Why puke? CSS color is simple...

Not hating the CSS, just having to convert it (named colors, #RRGGBB, #RGB, rgb(0-255,0-255,0-255), rgb(0-100%,0-100%,0-100%) ) to java.awt.Color and it's a relative breeze compared to less documented parts of the system.


BTW, I'm not bashing in any way on the guys who built the system, requirements (when one finally gets them) can be a real PITA, not to mention changes over many years.