The Return Of Mechasmack

I miss Portishead.
:(

So on the way to work this morning I saw two old Korean ladies arguing on a street corner. There was something about the way they were gesturing and how the wind was blowing, it almost looked like it was in slow motion as I watched from across the street. Then for some reason I felt like something bad was going to happen.

Is "Old Korean Ladies Arguing On A Street Corner" an omen?

Still not a peep from the neighbor. A note has been slipped under her door but has remained there for 3 days.

Here it is
BAMMM
And you say Goddamn
This is the dope jam
But lets define the term called dope
And you think it mean funky now nope
Here is a true tale
Of the ones that deal
Are the ones that fail
Yeah
You can move if you wanna move
What it prove
It's here like the groove
The problem is this we gotta' fix it
Check out the justice and how they run it
Sellin', smellin'
Sniffin', riffin'
And brothers try to get swift an'
Sell to their own, rob a home
While some shrivel to bone
Like comatose walkin' around
Please don't confuse this with the sound
I'm talking about...BASE

Public Enemy - Night Of The Living Baseheads

A new wreath has appeared on the door. Another sign of life. Still not a peep from her or the dog.

I think I heard someone sneeze this morning!!

I finally made the switch.

Well, maybe not switching completely. Ubuntu is still in the running. But if I'm moving to mostly using a laptop, then I might as well move to this sleek machine. Now where's the Start button?

Michael Crichton pleads for patent reform.

I wonder if Back To The Future II got it right? Should we abolish all lawyers?

nah

Thanks Visa for helping me re-discover this break dancin classic!

Don't you just love when you get one of those projects that you really need a year to do properly but it's gotta be done in about 3 weeks. Man, I have been working nonstop for so long I can't remember what day it is. Oh wait, it's Friday. I know that because we have a meeting tomorrow morning at 8am. No cartoons for me. There aren't any cartoons on Saturday morning anyway. I guess I should consider myself fortunate for having grown up during the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons - aka the 80's.

But I digress. And I know what you're thinking.

"Quit yer whinin, pansy! We all have those periods at work where we have to work 12 - 16 hours a day, every day, for weeks on end so just suck it up and get back to work!"

But I gotta tell ya, it's getting to me. I always thought I was a pretty good multitasker but I think I've reached my max recently. I can't keep track of what I'm supposed to be doing or who last asked me to do something or which database I'm looking at. Speaking of, Sybase sucks cuz I can't do anything without it timing out. Come on! Is 7 million records that freakin' much. No! Maybe it's the ODBC connection. Maybe you're about to stop reading right now cuz I'm starting to geek out. Well, you should have known that was gonna happen when you first started reading this post as I am complaining about work.

I guess I better get back to it even though I'm waiting for this "Executing..." message to go away so I can start the next thing that will make it say "Executing..." for a virtual eternity.