My office has not been touched since December; the week before xmas I came in twice to hold “office hours” of sorts, allowing my students to come by and pick up old homework, quizzes, exams, and papers.I always want my work space(s) to be clean and organized. A shared office, however, is never these things, and my own desire for a minimalist aesthetic conflicts with my pack-rat-ishness. Today I’m getting rid of old newspapers.
I need to head to the University Bookstore later for “Der treffende Ausdruck” — there is no desk copy in the office so I’ll have to pick one up using the department’s account #. Thereafter …? Coffee, I suppose. No fritter today for me, though … the pants are getting a bit snug in the waist. It’s the gut, really.
Books:
The Vampire Wears Flannel, and He Cheats on His Tan: A review of sorts of You Suck by Christopher Moore — “[He] glides comfortably through the book’s loony little corner of San Francisco and through drastic changes of mood. He also manages, despite figures like a blue-painted prostitute who prompts visions of sex with a Smurf, to keep the book’s eccentricity in check and its screwball antics from becoming insufferable.”
Computers:
A step-by-step SQLAlchemy tutorial: This is for those programming in Python. One of the more important passages is as follows: “In other object-relational mappers such as SQLObject, the table definition also doubles as the class whose instances are rows of data from the table. SQLAlchemy, on the other hand, makes a strict distinction between the table definition and the data class. You first create the table definition, then create an (empty) class definition that will hold your data objects, and then create a mapper that will map that class onto the database.”
Bread:
A few bread recipes…
- Julia Child’s White Bread
- Whole Wheat Bread (from The Good Home Cookbook)
- Amish White Bread
- NY Times No-Knead Bread
Spam of the Day:
From: simonbunce_49@yahoo.com
Subject: HOPING TO HEAR FROM YOU
Date: January 15, 2007 8:26:30 PM CST
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credit entries to bank accounts and settle such entries. Under the automated clearinghouse system.Once your details is approved as the new recipent; a Credit advise will be issued in your favour and the funds will clear your account within three banking days.
I am willing to give you 20% which is $ 5million as your commission out of the $25 million for your assistance.
I hope you will be honest enough to observe my share in spite of the $25 million coming through your account.
I will need you to forward me your details to file on the fund as the new recipent on this first quarter of the financial fiscal year 2007.
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Simon Bunce.
Accredited vendor
Emirates International Holding (EIH).
While blog-hopping last night I came across a decent comics site or two. The first is Comics Should Be Good!, the second, linked from a comment, is The Hurting … his section on criticism vs. reviewing reminds me of something I might write in a drunken haze.
