You Can't Always Get What You Want

Woke up from a migraine with this song, alternately cheerful and blue. Stones.

You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes
You might find
You get what you need

Overflow Games

php - Database Design: schedules, including recurrence - Stack Overflow

As I write this, there are no answers, but I want to predict that it will be decided that the asker should use a database of events with a scheduled (datetime) field, a rec_end (datetime) field and a rec_days (string) field. The rec_days would have the first 3 characters of the days of reoccurence separated by commas, and the string would be exploded at the ',' to read them. So a task that repeats MON,WED,FRI, if the next MON reoccurence was after the rec_end datetime, it won't reoccur after the FRI.

Techpocalypse?

We've all seen the commentary on CNN or FOX or, hell, from our professors or parents. I've heard it from:

• My Parents (now reformed)
• A professor of Economics
• Pretentious Teenagers
• Hipsters
• Republicans
• Vegans

Everyone thinks that the sky is falling, the Google makes us stupid, the Facebook makes us anti-social goblins, and the porn makes us exhausted. If there's anything I hate more than a Luddite, it's someone who pretends to be "counter-culture" or "hip" or "grown up" because they don't change with the winds of technology and mass culture. Fuck you, and I will be all over your lawn if I damn well please.

When Did This Happen?

I sent a text to a girl whose name would be familiar to you all. And then another, and then another. And we start talking again, like old times. Suddenly, things are back the way they were supposed to be, I guess. Which worried me. Because, as you may or may not know, I used to be a puling, attention-hungry shit. I still am a shit, don't mistake me, but somewhere along the way I lost the puling part. Because it's been hours since she texted me back. And I'm fine. When did this happen?