Random Thoughts....

Take a mate - get them to drop it whilst you wait in the car - revving hard.

They're all in class / work / out of town. I'm stuck home bored outta my mind! :lol: Otherwise that is pretty much exactly the kind of thing I'd do - with added honking, random people looking at me like WTF and evil laughter...lots of evil laughter! :evil:
 
You're a star! That is exactly what to do. No Mum/dad/bruv/sis you can cadge a favour from, what about a Forum member - female of course?
 
Ballarat.....Ballarat......

Might not make it there before cob........But much more fun than wrestling with spreadsheets!
 
Just spent 3 hours dumbing down spreadsheets for people in the upper echelons so they can 1) understand them and the very big and colourful pictures, and 2) get the answers they want for questions they don't know they have.

Oh for a crystal ball!

and as for the derivitive SQL.....tis worthwhile reading the script for something that has been used "since the dawn of time". Because telling the boss (sql guru) that the script he wrote is fatally flawed is such a lovely experience.
 
I'm staying in a Missouri riverboat casino where the interior of it looks like a downtown area. It got me thinking. I'd really like to live in a village where I could walk to small shops and restaurants. You'd be one first names basis with the shop keepers and it just seems to be a more pleasant way to live.

The two towns I've lived in aren't that way, in Tulsa you had to drive to get anywhere because it was all spread out (thank you urban sprawl). In Asbury, there's nothing (it's a town of ~200) so you have to drive to one of the larger cities which are urban sprawled as well.


I know exactly how you feel and the thought appeals to me as well... maybe I'll move. Taking offers from cities the world over!
 
Ferndale is pretty nice, and you can walk to most places you need to go - depending on where in Ferndale you live. Most people live in town so its not a big deal, but I live in the boonies so I can't walk anywhere without being splattered across the 50mph busy road I'd have to cross

Bellingham has all the better stores, and the mall, but its much bigger so walking everywhere you need to go doesn't always work. It all depends on where in town you live.
 
The first rule of big business: the higher you go in an organisation the more stupid and cut off you will become, until the ultimate where you will do all your deals on a Golf Course and say things like - my God we need an 8% cut across the board. ? D'oh!
 
Ferndale is pretty nice, and you can walk to most places you need to go - depending on where in Ferndale you live. Most people live in town so its not a big deal, but I live in the boonies so I can't walk anywhere without being splattered across the 50mph busy road I'd have to cross

Bellingham has all the better stores, and the mall, but its much bigger so walking everywhere you need to go doesn't always work. It all depends on where in town you live.

Washington would be nice. What's the highest temperature this week?
 
The first rule of big business: the higher you go in an organisation the more stupid and cut off you will become, until the ultimate where you will do all your deals on a Golf Course and say things like - my God we need an 8% cut across the board. ? D'oh!

Absolutely. I miss the days when the old Exec Director used to come down and talk, ask questions and actually had a clue about the business and what areas actually did. She would then be asking for data about specific things instead of "I want everything on all of that....".

We've got a 1.5% cut starting from last year and continuing indefinately. On top of the 10% cut three years ago.
 
My personal favorite is trying to get an upper manager to understand that cutting costs can actually impact the line of business in a negative fashion. It's as if they think costs and profits are completely independent.



... So I'm working on this application, and I discover that a certain SQL stored procedure isn't always Doing The Right Thing. I wrote that stored procedure. I have NO IDEA how it works or why I wrote it like I did, because it's a horrible, hateful clusterfuck. I can barely even muster the desire to think about it enough to rewrite it.

Nothing confidential, so here it is. If you can figure out what the hell I was thinking, let me know.
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_addPC]
@internalsn char(10),
@manf int = NULL,
@manfsn varchar(50),
@donationID int,
@user varchar(50)
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;

DECLARE @count int;
DECLARE @returncode int;
SELECT @count = COUNT(internalsn) FROM tbl_internalsns WHERE internalsn = @internalsn;

if (@count != 0)
BEGIN
DECLARE @issued int;
SELECT TOP 1 @issued=order_id FROM tbl_pc_issuance WHERE pc_internalsn = @internalsn ORDER BY pc_issueID DESC;
if(@issued IS NULL)
BEGIN
DECLARE @alias char(10)
SELECT @alias = internalsn_alias FROM tbl_internalsns WHERE internalsn = @internalsn;
SELECT TOP 1 @issued=order_id FROM tbl_pc_issuance WHERE pc_internalsn = @alias ORDER BY pc_issueID DESC;
END
if(@issued IS NULL)
BEGIN
SELECT @returncode = -1;
END
END
else
BEGIN
INSERT INTO tbl_internalsns (internalsn) VALUES (@internalsn);
END

if(@returncode IS NULL)
BEGIN
SELECT @count = COUNT(pc_manufacturersn) FROM tbl_pc WHERE pc_manf = @manf AND pc_manufacturersn = @manfsn
DECLARE @oldinternalsn char(10);
if(@count != 0)
BEGIN
SELECT TOP 1 @oldinternalsn = pc_internalsn FROM tbl_pc WHERE pc_manf = @manf AND pc_manufacturersn = @manfsn ORDER BY pc_internalsn DESC;
if (@internalsn != @oldinternalsn)
BEGIN
update tbl_internalsns SET internalsn_alias = @oldinternalsn WHERE internalsn = @internalsn;
END

DECLARE @issued2 int;
SELECT TOP 1 @issued2=order_id FROM tbl_pc_issuance WHERE pc_internalsn = @internalsn ORDER BY pc_issueID DESC;
if(@issued2 IS NULL)
BEGIN
DECLARE @alias2 char(10)
SELECT @alias2 = internalsn_alias FROM tbl_internalsns WHERE internalsn = @internalsn;
SELECT TOP 1 @issued=order_id FROM tbl_pc_issuance WHERE pc_internalsn = @alias2 ORDER BY pc_issueID DESC;
END
if(@issued2 IS NULL)
BEGIN
INSERT INTO tbl_pc (pc_internalsn, pc_manf, pc_manufacturersn) VALUES (@internalsn, @manf, @internalsn);
SELECT @returncode = @@IDENTITY;
END


END

END

if(@returncode IS NULL)
BEGIN
INSERT INTO tbl_pc (pc_internalsn, pc_manf, pc_manufacturersn) VALUES (@internalsn, @manf, @manfsn);
SELECT @returncode = @@IDENTITY
END

DECLARE @issueID int;
--if(@returncode != -1)
BEGIN
PRINT 'foo';
INSERT INTO tbl_pc_issuance(pc_internalsn, pc_incoming_id, pc_issuance_inventorydate, pc_issuance_adding_user) VALUES (@internalsn, @donationID, GETDATE(), @user);
SELECT @issueID = @@IDENTITY;
END

SELECT @issueID;
END
 
Just spent 3 hours dumbing down spreadsheets for people in the upper echelons so they can 1) understand them and the very big and colourful pictures, and 2) get the answers they want for questions they don't know they have.

Oh for a crystal ball!

and as for the derivitive SQL.....tis worthwhile reading the script for something that has been used "since the dawn of time". Because telling the boss (sql guru) that the script he wrote is fatally flawed is such a lovely experience.

I deal almost exclusively with senior management and most of them just simply dont' have time to go over 1000 page tomes that people give them. When writing briefings for senior executives, I try to make sure it's no longer than a double a4.
 
I have to sound a bit condescending here, but that's the opinion of an 18-year-old with a limited outlook on things.
First of all, i don't know of too may "wasteful B.A."s out there. Most likely you'd count philosophy in with them, won't you?

Second, and that's more important: Photography is quite a large subject that does not only include aesthetics, but also physics and mechanical engineering. On top of that, there are different skill sets needed depending on what kind of photographer one wants to become.

Saying you "don't need to go to uni to learn photography" most of all shows that you don't know too much about the job. If by "photography" you mean "doing boring passports, portraits and wedding jobs" you're most likely right, no need to go to uni for that. You'll need only a total of three lenses, two lightning setups and enough photoshop to stamp the pimples from the bride's face to do just this. Will make you steady money and hate your life.

written like a true college student.
Seriously.. I've met more successful photographers who learned on their own and/or as an apprentice than people who've gone to school for photography. Yes, there are some good reasons to spend the money on schooling for photography, but most photographers didn't go to school to learn their trade/art and they're doing just fine. With that in mind, it certainly makes schooling sound like a waste of time & money to me.

If I wanted to make money shooting photos, I'd go to school for business & accounting. I already have the photography part down... but I definitely don't have the money part down. Going to school for photography would be a waste of time.
 
One of the most successful people I know (financially, but more importantly mentally,) took a semester of college, got pissed with uninspiring classes. Subsequently dropped her college savings into traveling abroad for two years and practicing her trade. A year into her travel she had no debt and positive cash flow and absolutely loved her work. She gets more work because travel the world looks a lot more interesting than the other million kids with a BA in photography.

I'm so envious. My dream career is to travel, shoot photos, and make a living doing it. :(
 
Washington would be nice. What's the highest temperature this week?

lol.. this week sucked in WA all around. Eastern Washington probably hit the 70s a couple of times, but it's mostly been 50s & 60s in western WA.. cloudy & rainy. The last month has been rather nice though.. a bit cool for summer (still mostly 70s & low 80s), but very nice.
 
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