Recipe: Chili Goooolash

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2lb Lean Ground Beef

30oz Chili Beans in sauce

15oz Black Beans

2 boxes Kraft Macaroni & Cheese

15oz Tomato Sauce

6oz Tomato Paste

1/4c Milk

2tbsp Worcestershire Sauce

1tsp Rosemary Leaves

1tsp Ground Pepper

1/2tsp Garlic Powder

In 6-quart pot, add ground beef, Worcestershire sauce, rosemary, garlic and pepper. Brown and simmer five minutes; drain.

Me DBA, Me Smart!

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Well, I took part in a phone screening today. I was called by a company that needs a guy with Oracle experience. I figured I knew the basics: stored procedures, tablespaces, rollback segments, etc., so there shouldn’t be much to worry about. I certainly didn’t expect questions such as, “What does a ORA-3113 error mean?” This was followed quickly by “What are some specific Oracle supplied PL/SQL packages you may have used in stored procedures?” I didn’t anticipate pinpoint questions concerning esoteric database structures and errors. All I have to say is I got pwn3d.

Nostalgia Extravaganza!

3 min read

Stand in the place where you live
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven’t
Now stand in the place where you work
Now face West
Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven’t before

Clean Cars Cause Crashes

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After recently washing my car, I noticed quite an abundant population of bug carcasses stubbornly littering my supposedly scrubbed vehicle. There really is only one permanent way to rectify this. I’ll freely admit I haven’t clayed my poor car since right before winter. I’d hoped waxing would contribute in preventing random garbage from adhering to the paint. The situation really calls for something a little more drastic.

Rice Cookers

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Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of studying. It seems like my head is constantly embedded in various database manuals, and my ears ring with incessant babbling of Japanese audio lessons. Motto yukkuri hanashite, kudasai.

Within all of this, I’ve finally located a really good rice cooker to better facilitate healthy eating: Zojirushi ns-zcc10. This thing is widely regarded as the Cadillac of rice cookers, the only thing better is the ns-zbc18, but they only sell a 10-cup version of it, and I don’t foresee a need for that much rice. Now I just gotta go buy one…