Blog Tag: Learn
The Hilarious Solution
Earlier this week at work I was entering some data into the 'rules' table. I needed a related record ID from the 'delivery' table but I didn't want to worry about figuring out what data it needs ('delivery' has about 20 fields).
On a whim, I tried this:
mysql> insert into delivery set id = 0;
I thought the query would fail. Instead the response was:
Query OK, 1 row affected, 7 warnings (0.00 sec)
Seven warnings?! That made me laugh out loud. But hey! The row got inserted and I could move on. Sometimes the hilarious solution to a problem is the best solution.
Virtual Fortune for Virtual Goods
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I'm a web a guy. I make stuff that goes on the web. I've been doing this for going on 8 or 9 years now. My "life's work" is web sites.
However, my life's work is simply 1's and 0's on a piece of hard drive some where. One big magnet could wipe all of it out very easily. Granted, the magnet would have to be used in several places and take into account all the backups that exist of various things, but it's possible. No hard-goods exist for all my efforts. All of the goods I've produced are virtual.
I get paid real money for doing this work, but after direct deposit and cashing checks, etc. that money, too, ends up on a hard drive somewhere. I hope to hell they have a backup! I view my accounts through online banking. It's a virtual fortune (and it's no fortune, mind you) for all intents and purposes.
Boil it all down, and I make web pages, then get paid for them and look at the money on a web page.
If I made ice sculpture, it would last as long, but be prettier. It makes me want to become a carpenter who only barters.
Love Wrote the Play
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The song Show The Way by David Wilcox played on my iTunes today and I had such a strong emotional reaction to the lyric (again - I've heard it a million times), but it made me want to share it (emphasis mine).
Look, if someone wrote a play
Just to glorify what's stronger than hate
Would they not arrange the stage
To make it look as if the hero came too late?
As if he's almost in defeat
So it's lookin' like the evil side will win
So on the edge of every seat
From the moment that the whole thing begins -It has been love that mixed the mortar
It was love that stacked the stones
It was love that made the stage here
And made it feel like we're alone
Within some scene set in shadow
Like the night is here to stay
There is evil cast around us
But it's love that wrote this playSo that in this darkness love can show the way
It's a good reminder for me. What special things give you hope and strength? How long since you reconnected with them?
Learn When To Forget
In a recent blog entry, Maeda's Simplicity quotes Descartes:
To live is to learn to forget.
Then almost apologizes for writing it down.
Learning to forget is one thing. Learning when to forget is key, however. I've read a lot of stuff about organization in the past few years (couldn't tell, could ya?). Learning how and where to remember has been key for me. Do I put this in a note in a folder on my computer, or do I put this in a reminder which will text message my phone at a certain time?
Descartes didn't say to live was to forget, though. That's what I'm trying to say. Somethings I will never want to forget.
