October 24, 2003 – not falling down

October 24, 2003 /

Found while trying to get to the Pants Press forums:

     SQL Error : 2006 MySQL server has gone away

Man, that’s really kind of lonely.

     SQL Error : 2007 I miss MySQL server

     Apache    : 405 DO NOT WORRY SQL ERROR SHE WILL COME BACK TO YOU SOMEDAY

     SQL Error : 9992A# I hope you are right Apache

     SQL Error : 2892 It has been so long

     Apache    : 590 HOW LONG

     SQL Error : 23%44% Approximately 20,398 microseconds

October 24, 2003 /

And speaking of Amazon, why is my Gold Box almost entirely kitchenware? It can’t be a random survey of inventory–I know they have more books and music than, say, S’More Makers. They must be pretty desperate to ship that stuff.

October 24, 2003 /

The funny thing is that The Matrix Reloaded was not called Matrix², because that would actually make sense–matrix multiplication is a perfectly normal algebraic operation. Yet Alien³ and the Hackers² (and ³!) quasi-soundtracks were exponentially notified, which makes no sense at all!

While I’m grouching, I’m fine with IMDB, but I really need to find a better book / music linkdump than Amazon. I have nothing against them personally, I’d just like having a database that’s less explicitly commercial, and I’d like to avoid contributing to Google’s shopping bias. I tried the Library of Congress, but they’re really useless in terms of context. Anybody else have a better idea?

Oh, and yeah, I own Hackers². I’m weak.