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Roger MacNicol

@rogermacnicol.bsky.social

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Once upon a time, in a land far ago, where Bowie and Jagger still dance in the streets, I knew a lot about databases. Sym42.

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 2d

? Ho does Daarth Tangerine affect UK prices?

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 2d

It’s more scary with an ampersand
sudo rm -rf /&
I saw this once when someone tried to delete the Prime Information &SPOOL& dir and mistyped the escape character. It died silently halfway through /bin 😈

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 2d

Have you seen the portable laptop monitor extenders?

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Amazon.com

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 19d

Because marzipan to me smells like cyanide so I’ve never been able to eat it

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 20d

Good question - sadly, I can’t find a more recent one for sale

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 21d

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 21d

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Andrew Coulter Enright - Wikipedia

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 22d

Not weighted, connecting rods I think

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 22d

University of Puebla - amazing place which was started by a catholic bishop who believed in making information available to the public by donating his 5,000 books in 1646 including 9 incunabulae

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 22d

The original Windows UI circa late 16th century. Keep multiple books open at different pages and rapidly flick between them when studying.

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 23d

Yeah, we lose 70 mins daylight in Sep far more than any other month

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 23d

I learnt today that tacos were invented by the Lebanese when they came to Puebla and wanted to reinvent Schwarma

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · Aug 28

Those kinds of lazy, clickbait headlines annoy me and I refuse to click on them

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · Aug 27

<<groan>>

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’d love a param to ban inserts that don’t name the columns. As long as all inserts name them, you can reorder columns for performance but that’s lost with unnamed inserts. eg needed when you add a new frequently used column at the end of a wide table

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · Aug 16

I identify as an advert for high-end Armagnac 🍸🧐

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · Aug 8

I think my golden doodle is a vampire. He goes out the dog door without a second thought, but won’t come back in through it unless you invite him in 🐶🧛

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · Jun 23

I rewatched The Gorge in AppleTV tonight - despite the plot having more holes than a road in New Jersey, the movie works because of the powerful chemistry between the lovely #AnyaTaylor-Joy and Miles Teller. It should be up for an Oscar

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · Jun 21

I watched fantasy-comic-horror movie #DeathofaUnicorn tonight. I always enjoy seeing #JenaOrtega on the screen and the entire movie is well cast (Tea Leoni Well, the horn does have a lot of girth 😉)

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · Jun 20

Or you could install Vivino - point it at the label and it remembers what wine you drank and tells you all about it 😀 @emptythimble.bsky.social

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · Jun 12

I would love to ban the Null value - have explicit ‘not applicable’ and ‘not known’ etc and permit discreet, comparable zero length values for any data type that are meaningful - known to be blank

Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · Jun 7

I inherited 50 Dave Brubeck albums, mostly from the 60’s, so need to run them all through the ultrasonic bath before playing them #vinyl #brubeck #davebrubeck #jazz #humminguru

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · May 27

Three day internals review of all the amazing developments this year

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · May 27

Annual pilgrimage to see the Oracle