Uh oh Spurs fans

Party is almost over. But, to be fair, Steve Nash will be a weaker defender because of the rule change. 🙂

MySQL Workbench Rocks

In April MySQL Workbench 5.0.x reached GA status. I had a chance to try it and wow — it rocks.

It’s super-easy to use and I’ll just copy its feature list:

Cairo based diagramming canvas which allows output to different targets such as OpenGL, Win32, X11, Quartz, PostScript, PDF etc
visual representation of tables, views, stored procedure/functions and foreign keys
live database and SQL script file reverse-engineering
database/model synchronization
SQL script generation
extensible architecture
export as SQL CREATE script
import DBDesigner4 models
support for MySQL 5 features
selectable notations for diagram

For me, it’s a very useful tool for importing an SQL script, visually modifying it, and exporting a working SQL script. It’s also a cinch to just create ER diagrams in 5 damn minutes that look decent and map out foreign key relationships.

I’ve used DBD4 in the past as well as Aqua Data Studio and this tool gets me more excited. If you design or work with MySQL databases, you should check it out (see screenshots). Right now it’s Windows-only but they plan on releasing Linux and OSX in June, 2008.

Overall, very nice work MySQL — this tool is light years ahead of its predecessors.

Yeah, it was a foul

Okay, Brent Barry got fouled.

Awww... poors Spurs fans...

It doesn’t matter.

It’d take more than 10 fingers to count how many times the Spurs’ got ridiculous calls or no-calls. In fact, if you take into account just 3 flops (two by Oberto, one by Bowen) you negate 7 Spurs points and add 6 Lakers fast break points.

Lakers should have won by 20, it was close because of the referees in the first place. Phil Jackson was right during his 2nd quarter interview. The refs turned an 11 point lead into a 5 point lead with 3 consecutive bullshit calls.

Let’s take a closer look at the last minute or so shall we?

Fish’s shot hit the rim. Small detail? How convenient to overlook that.
Odom’s block was legit. Eh, let it slide.

Hank Abbott ain’t talking about those plays, though. Instead he sees an aging Barry and vicariously plays the old guy not getting the fair call on a shot he never would have made. Face it – that shot wouldn’t have gone in. Not even in Hank’s pick-up game that he talks about in his article.

And this isn’t a pick-up game. Even pick-up games — and series — shouldn’t really come down to one play. Spurs still lost to L.A. three other times. Thing is, they know it’s over now, and it sure stings doesn’t it?

But after all the crying, shameless flopping, cheap-shot Rob plays and getting away with continuously fouling Kobe and CP3 — isn’t it a shame that when the Spurs play, win or lose, there’s always some trailer about the refs or dirty this or that?

It should be about basketball.

Then again, maybe it is — sometimes the ball rolls where you don’t want it to. Sometimes the calls don’t go your way. Sometimes your star player is chucked into a scorer’s table on purpose and you lose the series because of a technicality (yeah, I’m still pissed).

The game isn’t perfect, people aren’t perfect, refs aren’t perfect. One bad call after another or just a poetic reflection of the human condition? You be the judge.

Anyway, Spurs should just be grateful they’ll have all of their starters back. Sure would suck to lose two starters for a game 5, huh?

Stupid.

Statistically speaking, most series where the home team is the better team do end 4-1. I hope Hollinger was right. Would be nice to watch real basketball in the Finals and not feel the urge to ship a barge of No More Tears to Timmy and Manu after every play.

American Bikesheds

I wasn’t really surprised when I read the comments on a simple news ticker post on CNN. But it got me to thinking (instead of sleeping) about common arguments made against Barack Obama. Ready? Ok, go.

Obama can’t beat McCain, so let Hillary go even though she lost the primary in delegates and popular vote.

So why have a primary then? Why not just have 6 or 7 old guys in a room pick the democratic nominee instead? Oh, right, democracy and all that crap.

Obama is an elitist who is completely out of touch with normal Americans.

So let’s see… Barack said, “It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or anti-pathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” So now he’s an elitist. Out of touch with the working class. But… but… but…

It’s true… American politics have become trivial in many ways because we’ve started to seriously argue about stupid bullshit like who wears lapel pins. Don’t make me quote the “pieces of flair” line from Office Space. Barack was a dumbass for saying it the way he did, but get over it.

This election is a huge-ass bikeshed argument because nobody truly understands how we’ll fix the economy, improve education, resurrect social security, fix our world reputation or reform our federal government. Is it much easier to talk about guns, god and how fucked up everybody else is? Yes. In fact, I do it all the time!

So that’s what elections are about for so many Americans — which is probably why they vote so differently compared to elitist assholes who can read and understand the issues. The Kentucky vote distribution says a lot. Hrm, I wonder what’s in Louisville and Lexington… ?

Obama is a cult leader who hates America.

Well, this is just stupid. But hey, cue the angry pictures of Rev. Wright, say elitist, and *poof* — the dog has been wagged. Pretty sure Fox News beat this dead horse (probably a bad phrase given current events but I’m leaving it in) quite a few times, and it worked, too.

Exit polls in Kentucky showed that, “nearly 55 percent of Democratic voters said Obama shares the most controversial views of Wright and those voters went for Clinton 84 percent to 9 percent over Obama. Among the 44 percent of Kentucky voters who said Obama does not share Wright’s views, 51 percent voted for the Illinois senator while 43 percent went for Clinton.”

Anyway, what really kept me up late on Tuesday was rummaging through comments on this ticker item about Oregon voters on CNN. And oh boy, there is some good shit on this page. Let me tell you some of my favorites:

Oregon = always was a worthless town full of pot heads. The lawyers, teachers, police,students, doctors and nurses. I lived thereâ€¦I know. They are very liberal because they always snort. Obama snorts too that’s why he’s so popular. What a bunch of rot. They deserve each other.

Besides not knowing that Oregon is a state, this person obviously has had some bad experiences with snorting marijuana. Must have hurt pretty bad.

lol college educated but no common sense.Kentucky was by far more impressive then elitist oregon.

What a humble statement. I think I lost you at “lol college educated”.

Curiously, though not ostentatiously religious, OBAMA is by far the nearest thing to Jesus that I have seen among the presidential candidates.
“Naive, poor judgment” guy that he was, Jesus said “Love your enemies” and meant it, whether they belong to the Clinton following or are Republicans or whether they are Iranian, Cuban, Venezuelan or anybody.

This kind of cracked me up. Interesting point, but I’d have to see him in a beard to make an educated decision.

Read the rest — it’s hilarious (and depressing).

But of all the diatribes and idiotic crap I waded through that night, this one stuck with me:

I believe I would rather be uneducated versus non religious. Brains versus Moralityâ€¦.I’ll take Morality.

Upon reading this, something occurred to me. Could be nothing, could be everything. Either way, my spidey-sense tingled and I came to a shocking conclusion: that person, my friends, is obviously not a zombie.

Brainzzzzz…….

Elbow Fail Update

Eye is healing nicely, but it’s changing colors. Maybe it’s a sign I should end my NBA boycott and cheer for the Lakers just to spite the Spurs:

Basketball stats and a dose of stupid

I play in a couple of leagues at Timber Hill Athletic Club. Here are some stats from my B4 team:

I don’t shoot that well with that team, think it’s contagious. And here are stats from the other team in the B3 league:

Much better.

And, as promised, more stupid:

The End

Mac OSX Leopard syslogd

If you’re having issues with syslogd thrashing your computer, see this blog for more info. This worked for me and it’ll do until Apple figures out and patches whatever causes Time Machine to rape syslogd.