Javabeans!

Just wanted to point out that I love the boiling water tap that we have here at work. Just toss a tea bag into a mug, add nearly boiling water, and in three minutes, wa-la! tea!

Today I'm drinking Trader Joe's Jasmine Green Tea.

Mmmmm....

Suppose you have a table in Access with the fields "Name", "quiz 1", "quiz 2", and so on through "quiz 50"

The recordes include student names and their scores for the quizes.

What I want to do is, for each student, provide a list of quizes that he failed. A simple report might look like:

***************************************
John Doe
quiz 7, quiz 9, quiz 23, quiz 42

Jane Smith
quiz 7, quiz 10, quiz 23, quiz 49

Jack Jackson
quiz 7, quiz 25, quiz 46
***************************************

This might be easy if the student names were the fields and the quizes were the records, but the database uses student names as the primary field for other reasons.

Any ideas?

Dow closes down more than 600 points, ending less than 8700. It was at about 14000 one year ago.

GM is at 1950s levels (down more than 30% today).

Cedar Faire (they own Cedar Point, King's Island, King's Dominion, Knottsberry Farm, etc.) is down more than 20% for the day.

Edit: Dow closed down nearly 700 points, ending less than 8600.

How could they know...

Tina is meeting with PHB.
PHB: "Tina, I want you to write our annual report."
Tina: "How should I explain our poor results?"
PHB: "Just give it a positive spin."

Tina, now at her desk, types, "If you have to ask why our stock keeps plummeting, you can't afford us."

mud show, 1989 -- is that really our joust field? Look at the royal box! Look at the very young hedges just inside the fence!

Stars Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris as a wandering sheriff and deputy who go from town to town in the wild west, cleaning out bad guys. The town of Appaloosa is home to bad guy Jeremy Irons. Add to this Renee Zellweger on the piano, and you've got yourself a movie, in a dirty glass. I can't wait to see it.

computer tattoo

gives me the wooglies!

The $700B bailout plan was soundly defeated in the House today, with about two-thirds of Reps and two-fifths of Dems voting "no" -- truly a bipartisan defeat of a knee-jerk reaction to a bad situation. The Dow was down by more than 700 points (about 7%) earlier today, currently down by about 580 points.

In the news today, a man crossed the English Channel using a rocket-powered winged backpack. Very cool!

clicky!

Didn't I just see something like this in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

Umami. No, it's not a Jawa battle cry. It's the semi-official name of the new taste identified about a year ago.

So now there's sweet, salt, sour, bitter, and umami. Apparently, it means "yummy" in Japanese, but is often translated as "savory" in English. Certainly most of us know what salty means, or sour, as a taste. But what the heck is "savory"???

Scientifically, it's when L-glutamate receptors on the tongue are triggered. But what flavor is it?

According to this article, meat, cheese, asparagus, tomatoes all have a savory taste. But meat is also sweet, asparagus can be sweet or bitter, and tomatoes have some sweet and sour. Where does the savory come in?