Commitment-o-phobe...

Last weekend, I was going to go see the Narnia movie, until I realized that it was frigging *2.33 hours long!*. Most movies come in under two hours, you see... and I wasn't sure I was willing to commit so much time of my life to a movie that might not be worth it to see on the big screen.

The new Hulk movie is out too, and as a superhero comic book fan, I should go see it. But maybe that should wait for DVD as well.

Anyone have any suggestions? Go out in the world, or stay at home?

Hm. Maybe I'll finally rent the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie instead of either.

Today: today I try to do some programming. If I get it done, I'll announce to my boss that, yes, I want to interview. I think it's best to combine that with some accomplishment, however minor.

(For me, though, it's relatively major. This'll be the first weird SQL script I've tried to write. I'm trying to find out if our servers have been rebooted in the past 12 hours, and when. I'm going to do this by checking the login time of system process ID 1, and then determine previous restarts by dates on the SQL logs - with commentary that logs *do* roll over, so they need to be checked for false positives, just in case a log rolled over within the last 12 hours, and then SQL restarted more than once afterwards, which should be rare. This is better (lower false-positive potential) than the current system we're using.)

Commitment-o-phobe...

Last weekend, I was going to go see the Narnia movie, until I realized that it was frigging *2.33 hours long!*. Most movies come in under two hours, you see... and I wasn't sure I was willing to commit so much time of my life to a movie that might not be worth it to see on the big screen.

The new Hulk movie is out too, and as a superhero comic book fan, I should go see it. But maybe that should wait for DVD as well.

Anyone have any suggestions? Go out in the world, or stay at home?

Hm. Maybe I'll finally rent the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie instead of either.

Today: today I try to do some programming. If I get it done, I'll announce to my boss that, yes, I want to interview. I think it's best to combine that with some accomplishment, however minor.

(For me, though, it's relatively major. This'll be the first weird SQL script I've tried to write. I'm trying to find out if our servers have been rebooted in the past 12 hours, and when. I'm going to do this by checking the login time of system process ID 1, and then determine previous restarts by dates on the SQL logs - with commentary that logs *do* roll over, so they need to be checked for false positives, just in case a log rolled over within the last 12 hours, and then SQL restarted more than once afterwards, which should be rare. This is better (lower false-positive potential) than the current system we're using.)