taco bell?

I felt like an American the other day.

I was watching a show where this music promoter talked about Eminem visiting Japan. Apparently he really likes Taco Bell and that was the only thing he wanted to eat every day. However, Taco Bell doesn't exist in Japan; none of the Japanese celebrities had ever heard of the chain. So, they actually had Taco Bell staff come to Japan (bearing Taco Bell supplies I presume) and feed Eminem while he was here on tour.

One of the guests on the show asked the promoter what Eminem's favorite Taco Bell food was. She had no idea, so she offered, "Taco Bell hamburger?"

ROTFLMAO. Obviously, they have never been to Taco Bell.

The show is set up so they have 4 people who fall under a specific job description, but one of the 4 is an actress merely playing the role. The celebrity guests get to ask various questions about the work and the 4 people tell stories about their jobs. So that day there were 3 music promoters and one actress playing a music promotor. After hearing the woman say "Taco Bell hamburger," I thought that she had to be the actress. But she turned out to be a real promoter, so apparently she didn't actually deal with the Taco Bell people or look at the food. It also might have been a story that she heard from a coworker, or she could have been just clueless.

Visual Source Safe

I am so far unimpressed with this versioning control system. Need to read up on how to use it, but the view for commit history and comments is pretty lame.

c# references

beginner references:
http://www.softsteel.co.uk/tutorials/cSharp/contents.html
http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorial.aspx

simple form calling and dialog return values:
http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/csharp/csharp19.html

passing values between forms:
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/PassingValuesBetweenForms.asp

oracle written user functions

I needed to write a simple Oracle PL/SQL function today.

This example came in handy.

The difference between a PL/SQL function and a PL/SQL procedure is that a function returns a single value, and a procedure doesn't return any values.

However, a procedure can modify parameters (and I think a function can too), so even if you don't return any values, you can get information back to the caller.