Various and Sundry
Favorite refinery vocabulary word: raffinates. I suddenly get deja vu writing this… I need to bring my search function back.
Season 3 of The Office (US) is outstanding. I have had a few Arrested Development-style moments of paralyzation with laughter. It came out pretty fast on the Netflix direct-download service, so it’s been nice to not wait so long (or have to get them one-by-one in the mail).
I don’t want to spoil anything for anybody, but the whole Jim/Pam thing is handled quite well, despite it being protracted across such a long story arc. Aside from the obvious Dwight Shroot entertainment, the Jim/Pam story is enough to keep even a somewhat skinny episode going.
All this lazy typing in VBScript is driving me nuts. I can’t believe I’m doing “real work” with such a toy language.
Speaking of toys, Access allows you to name a column “Date,” but when you try to use ODBC to run SQL on the database, it chokes unless you rename the column. This is awesome, especially when you have this problem about once every three years and forget the solution each time.