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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5aVI2zsFE">Black Star (Mos Def &amp; Talib Kweli) - Re: Definition</a></p>

<p>UPDATE: (by bookis) Dudes in the van, rasta hat, black shirt, and beanie, red shirt is stic.man and M-1 from Dead Prez. Thats neat.</p>

<p><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2sbig_talib-kweli-hot-thingin-the-mood-ne_music">Talib Kweli - Hot Thing/In the Mood (NEW)</a></b></p>

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<p>with the help of <a href="http://blog.fallingsnow.net/">evan</a>, i've got <a href="http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/">mdb-tools</a> installed on the lappy. mdb-tools gives you a set of utils to do things with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access">Access databases</a>, in my case that means getting the schema and data exported to some nice sql to move it into <a href="http://mysql.com/">MySql</a> or <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">postgres</a>. The utils it installs are:</p>

<ul>
  <li>mdb-array</li>
  <li>mdb-export</li>
  <li>mdb-header</li>
  <li>mdb-hexdump</li>
  <li>mdb-import</li>
  <li>mdb-parsecsv</li>
  <li>mdb-prop</li>
  <li>mdb-schema</li>
  <li>mdb-sql</li>
  <li>mdb-tables</li>
  <li>mdb-ver</li>
</ul>

<p>mdb-ver gives me the version of the db in question: JET4.</p>

<p>mdb-hexdump works. i guess. but i don't really know what to do with a fuck ton of hex data.</p>

<p>all the rest just give me a "bus error".</p>

<p>i have no idea where to go from here or what the error really means for me. mdb-tools development seems to be pretty dead in the water. so i don't know what to do next. i would like to be able to get at that data, though.</p>

<p>help me, lazyweb. help me.</p>

<p>My mom sends me a bunch of email forwards. You know the kind: witty anecdotes, kids say the darndest things, pictures of people I don't really have any relationship with. Most of them don't do much for me. Occasionally, one slips through that is pretty cool. The latest one was one of the cool ones. It had a list of interesting geographic facts. I'll be reposting them in a series of micro-posts of the next few days.</p>

<p>Yesterday, sucked a lot. I mean a lot A LOT. More on that later. The one funny moment, though, was when we were at the <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=american+apparel&amp;near=98105&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;cd=1&amp;view=map&amp;om=1&amp;ll=47.678103,-122.290535&amp;spn=0.108875,0.233459&amp;z=12&amp;iwloc=A">American Apparel store in the U. District</a> (in Seattle).</p>

<p>The hipster turd that was working the store then was explaining to us the shrinking that happens in some shirts. They shrink upwards, but not inwards. Ok. "Why is that?" I ask. "Oh, because they're laid out vertically." He should've stopped here, but no... "Because they're vertically integrated." </p>

<p>Emily and I both had to bite our lip to not laugh at the bullshit that this schmuck was spitting at us. Vertically Integrated... good one.</p>

<p>Just to clear things up. <a href="http://store.americanapparel.net">American Apparel</a> <em>is</em> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_integration">vertically integrated</a> and their shirts do shrink (a little) upwards not inwards, but those aren't the same thing.</p>

<p><img src="http://www.americanapparel.net/storefront/images/header/header1.gif" alt="Vertically Integrated"></p>