|
|
|
worst options for flatbread
Thursday, August 18 2016
I had to return a book to the Hurley library for Gretchen, and that was why I was out tooling around in the Prius this morning. I never got any closer to Kingston than Old Hurley. From there, I turned around and drove out to the Tibetan Center on Route 28. I stopped on the way at ReStore (a much bigger and better-organized thrift store designed to benefit Habitat for Humanity), but I never find anything I want there. By contrast, there's almost always something fun at the Tibetan Center. Today I got a very nice Vivitar tripod, the kind with hand-cranked elevation control, for only $5. I continued from there up to Hurley Ridge Market, which, I discovered, has the worst options for flatbread of any store its size I know of. That place is more of a dump than Hannaford, but because of its proximity to Woodstock, it attacks a much more photogenic clientele. It's not the continuous freakshow one can reliably expect at the Uptown Hannaford (aka "Ghettoford"). While I was there, I ran across Jane the underachieving cellist in the parking lot. She was just leaving her boyfriend's (Duke's) place, which is nearby. It had been awhile since I'd last seen her, so we talked about my new job and Neville the Dog. I saw a cello in the back of her car, though she didn't tell me about about any big projects when I asked.
I had a punctuated, though still quite productive day in my remote workplace. My focus improved after I drank a cup of kratom tea, after which I proceeded to build a clever system for assembling a multipart code using ten different dropdowns. The target codes are reliably 22 characters long and contain ten different components, each of a set length. I could use the dropdowns to build a partial code, leaving the unpopulated character positions as underscores ("_"), which happen to be a one-character wildcard in MySQL. It was the perfect setup for a LIKE search in MySQL. Usually systems that evolve from two unrelated origins have serious mismatches between them, but not in this case.
For linking purposes this article's URL is:
http://asecular.com/blog.php?160818 feedback
previous | next |
