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I just can't right now with this...

turningthepedals replied to your post: The Little Problems

what are you stuck on ?

Actually, Jon, I think this may be a bad case of RTFM. Let me try re-reading the instructions on Microsoft's web-site (one thing I already know is that SQL Server 2012 LocalDB is nothing like what I expected it to be; it's all CLI, for one thing; I was expecting it to have some kind of rudimentary GUI).

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The Month in Review for May, 2011

At the end of last month, I redesigned and renamed my Tumblr.  I've already stated my reasons when it happened.

How is it going?  All things considered, I think it's going pretty well.  Since that heady time a month ago (has it been a month already?), I've gained about ten followers, or so Tumblr keeps insisting.  Some of these people I've also started following myself.  I've also decided that with a few exceptions, if they don't follow me, I'm not following them.

But I am attracting attention, which is what I wanted originally.

My promise to myself (I never posted about it, more's the pity) that I would write and post something every day has not gone as I had planned.  Some days, nothing would happen worth posting about, or worth dealing with the consequences because I'd posted it.

Other moments in case you missed them:

I had an embarrassing moment on Tumblr that I beat myself up mercilessly about.

I wrote an impassioned email to my Congressman concerning suicide rates among veterans.

A Not Rapture Rapture happened (didn't happen), and I blogged about it.

I received news that a clinic will be named after my mother.

I wrote about the Led Zeppelin song "When the Levee Breaks" and its roots,  hoping to bring home the point that the event this song portrays is responsible for the ascendance of Rock and Roll as a musical genre.

I violated the sanctity of office furniture, thus proving that a bored Tom is a dangerous one.

And I gushed over Wonder Woman more times than is probably healthy for a 42-year-old hetero male.

I've also made some "friends," if people you've only "met" online can be counted amongst friends:

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SweetHeatherBee

FickleChick

InSearchofMistery

NotWhatIHadinMind

AldricNewberry

MisterPrankster

So all in all, not a bad May.  Here's to hoping June is even more awesome.

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turningthepedals replied to your post: My Tagline

I like your existing tagline :)

Oh, believe me, so do I.  It symbolizes this blog perfectly: random crap without theme or reason, just whatever happens to be whizzing through my head any moment (usually it's whizzing because there's nothing in my head to stop it).  This was really just a joke because I happened to be looking on Google Analytics and noticed that (other than New York), I get a lot of hits from Ohio.  This was another of my "Huh?" moments of which I am so proud.  New York (a somewhat "liberal" state; I say "fuck" a lot) I can understand, but Ohio (a much more "conservative" state) just leaves me a bit puzzled.

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turningthepedals replied to your photo: To which I respond:

That GIF is brilliant :) Where do you find them!?

This one I happened to find on www.gifsoup.com, which I found by Googling "animated gif dog tilting head."

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turningthepedals replied to your photo: Tumblr Math: 5 + 5 = 11

that is excellent :)

What I don't get is why Tumblr insists on using base 9? (59 + 59 = 119)  That is the only way that equation works out to be true.  It's such an odd number to choose; why not 8 or 16 or 2?  Or, God forbid, 10?  It just makes no damned sense.

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turningthepedals replied to your post: When the Levee Breaks: A Whirlwind History of One Song

Fantastic post. Off to have a listen to that track right now.

Thanks.  It took me four hours of planning, researching, writing, researching some more, revising, revising again, proofreading, revising, and sitting there reading it over and over to make sure it was the best I could make it.  Glad you enjoyed it.