Monday stuff
Nov. 20th, 2006 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendi1. Had a good weekend with Miss Kid while ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong was at Philcon. Shopping happened. As did cleaning and organizing (I even built a desk!).
1.5 In the process of cleaning and organizing, I found my copy of Saga Frontier! The one I bitched about being unable to find this summer! Woohoo! I know that many others consider this game the black sheep of the Square PS1 empire, but I always considered it one of their top two games (along with Final Fantasy Tactics).
1.7 I also burned my arm rather painfully on the oven door as I was dealing with biscuits. Ouch.
2. Speaking of pain, my Jets fell apart in the fourth quarter, which actually appears to be a part of their game plan this season. That said, their defense played a great game against a team that should have slaughtered them, and I'm not really that upset. By all rights, we should have been 0-2 with blowout losses in each of the last two weeks.
3. Job-wise, it looks like the skills I'm going to have to increase include XML and MySQL. THe former is getting addressed. Anyone have any good tips for places to address the latter?
4. Another reason to love Ken Jennings: He's a grammar cop!
5. Speaking of language issues in general, the always-wonderful Language Log notes that the use of punctuation marks as a replacement for written curse words can be traced to 1591, when empty parentheses were used in lieu of naughty words. That's some surprising (), yo.
shadesong was at Philcon. Shopping happened. As did cleaning and organizing (I even built a desk!). 1.5 In the process of cleaning and organizing, I found my copy of Saga Frontier! The one I bitched about being unable to find this summer! Woohoo! I know that many others consider this game the black sheep of the Square PS1 empire, but I always considered it one of their top two games (along with Final Fantasy Tactics).
1.7 I also burned my arm rather painfully on the oven door as I was dealing with biscuits. Ouch.
2. Speaking of pain, my Jets fell apart in the fourth quarter, which actually appears to be a part of their game plan this season. That said, their defense played a great game against a team that should have slaughtered them, and I'm not really that upset. By all rights, we should have been 0-2 with blowout losses in each of the last two weeks.
3. Job-wise, it looks like the skills I'm going to have to increase include XML and MySQL. THe former is getting addressed. Anyone have any good tips for places to address the latter?
4. Another reason to love Ken Jennings: He's a grammar cop!
5. Speaking of language issues in general, the always-wonderful Language Log notes that the use of punctuation marks as a replacement for written curse words can be traced to 1591, when empty parentheses were used in lieu of naughty words. That's some surprising (), yo.