Tony and more

There's something funny on the Tony Kornheiser show almost every day. Today, they're talking about the runaway bride. To be honest, I have not followed this, and barely know what's going on. Wait, let me Google it.

OK, I'm back. Some woman named Jennifer Wilbanks, scheduled to marry her fiance, faked her own abduction and sexual assault, and was apparently trying to find an old flame. Not only did she want to be out of the marriage, she wanted to meet someone else. This has been in the tabloids for weeks, and frankly, I don't care.

But, Tony Kornheiser talks about these "fat woman with jewelry in Cleveland Park" who you can go to get new age healing or some such. Now, apparently, he brought this topic up on more than one occasion, so Andy Polley says "Why do you keep bringing this up? Did they take some money from you? Are you upset?" (I'm paraphrasing---Tony likes to make fun of people, and so it's funny when someone calls him on it and says he's ranting because something personal happened to him).

Well, it was funny hearing it live.

Guess you had to be there.

On Wil Wheaton's page, perhaps the geekiest celebrity that anyone's heard of had a t-shirt with this bit of SQL:

> SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0
0 rows returned.

For those of you who aren't geek credentialed (which should be no one), this is a query saying "get all the users who have a clue". 0 rows returned means there were no users with a clue.

Basically, you can think of databases as one big Excel spreadsheet. Each row of the spreadsheet refers to one unit of data. This might be a person's name and salary and say the number of years.

A database "table" (which is basically a spreadsheet) can have a large number of entries. So, databases typically allow you to ask questions, or in database lingo, queries. These allow you to select certain rows, for example, all employees who've worked more than 5 years and have salaries greater than 10,000 dollars.

Anyway, the point isn't how clever the T-shirt is, because it's kind of this derogatory geek humor that you find that make fun of non-geeks, it's that freakin' Wil Wheaton knows enough SQL to wear and appreciate a shirt like this. Now, what other actor with credentials can say this?

Wil Wheaton rocks! (Now stop getting weepy about the cat, Wil!)