Tsunayoshi's Journal: These are the DBA's who work at my place

Contents of some emails that just passed through my inbox....

From: "one of our DBAs"
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:10 PM
To: "sysad"; DBA Group; Webmaster
Cc: Admin (UNIX)
Subject:RE: Rp needs to be rebooted

On which box?

"dba name"
_____________________________________________
From: "sysad"
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:05 PM
To: DBA Group; Webmaster
Cc: Admin (UNIX)
Subject:Rp needs to be rebooted

Because we needed to install a patch for the soft partitions.

DBA's:
Please let us know when Oracle has been shut down on the box so we can reboot.

Thanks,
"sysad's name here"

Apparently reading the subject line is not this guy's strong point.

Olympos

[krell]

Brad Pitt? I have not had the pleasure (?) of seeing that movie yet. I was stuck with the image of the Achilles character as being like this guy [flickr.com]

I didn't think the second book lived up to the first. The was some ridiculously overdone gore (and I am typically quite insensitive to gore in books) involving Zeus and his golden ichor and his intestines trailing. And what was with that section for a while where everyone was watching Odysseus have sex on TV?

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[Tsunayoshi]

I agree the 1st book was better, and the author must have just had a hell of a wet dream when he thought to write the section where Zeus takes Hera and then she knocks him out.

Troy was not that bad a movie, I liked the way he played Achilles. Some parts got drawn out too much but overall not bad.

I was more disappointed by Orlando Bloom playing Paris.

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[krell]

Did you read the Hyperion books? Those were much better.

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[Tsunayoshi]

Oh yeah. That was my first introduction to Simmons back in 1996. I had access to the 1st two from a library and came across the 2nd two purely by accident in a bookstore sometime in 2002-2003. He also turned me into a Yeats poetry freak.

May I suggest this 4-part series by Tad Williams--"Otherland" [tadwilliams.com]. The first one is the best but was good throughout the whole series. I came across the 1st volume from the used book section in a consignment shop and got hooked. Somehow he manages to tie in a large number

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[krell]

Different tastes, then. "Hyperion" is one of my 2 or 3 favorite science fiction series of all time. I loved how the vast river of the stars turned into a trickle coming from a under Frank Lloyd Wright house. There were certain elements that were SO well done that in other series are usually the entire creative element. The ruling computer intelligence was one, as is one of the best described "galactic empires". I've ever seen. Backing off from the big picture, the little details add up as well: the "real" f

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[Tsunayoshi]

Not sure where the "different tastes" came from (unless you are referring to the movies) but I agree Hyperion is a classic.

I got "Shadowmarch" after the Otherland series and can't stand it. I think I am still sitting at page 100 or so after a year. I want to strangle the female protagonist.

I like the cyberpunk theme (I own everything William Gibson has published) so maybe that was why I liked Otherland but the detail he went into with various things was amazing. One of the books was rather drawn out (#2

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[krell]

"Not sure where the "different tastes" came from (unless you are referring to the movies) but I agree Hyperion is a classic."

I meant that we both loved "Hyperion", but really strongly disagreed on "Otherland.". Have you tried the "Saga of Pliocene Exile"?

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[Tsunayoshi]

Just Wiki'd it, looks interesting. It is now added to my list of books/movies to read/see.

Of course that list currently fits on 3 3x5 sticky notes, so might take awhile to get to.