This actually gave me an idea. Over break I wanted to practice dB design and entity framework. Designing a database and interface for santa to track kids naughty or nice could be a fun/interesting way of doing it.
I think you would have a table of “activities” with a value of how good/bad each is. So like cleaning your room would be +5 but crying in a store because mommy wouldn’t buy you a toy would be - 15. Then you have a table for children and each child starts with 0 in January and then for each activity the child does there naughty/nice value gers adjusted. December 24 Santa runs a query on the dB and gets a list of every child with a positive value.
Keep in mind I currently feel sick and put about 5 minutes of thought into thus.
Actually I think there should be a intermediary table as a history of activities of each child. Like child table is I’d, name, age, address, and naughty/nice value, activities would be Id, description, and good/bad value. Then a history table of ID, child_id, activity_id. So santa can recalculate a child’s naughty/nice value to “check it twice”
Just FYI, LinqPad is a really neat tool for messing around with EFCore. I use it all the time for testing ideas or doing quick tasks that I don’t want to spin up a new project for.
Hope that the behavior is enum and indexed. …and that the table doesn’t have to many columns …and there aren’t many nice people …god damn it just select only what you need and use limit
What if the ignorances of the plenty curled up within the masses. But if the time was taken to count, in the end all that is forced will become infinity.
What strikes me most about this picture is the weight. The triceratops femur is not much longer, but it’s like twice as thick. The weight it must have bore is simply incredible when you think of alligators as our largest reptiles alive now.
Dinosaurs were beyond massive. The vegetation required to feed these giant herbivores must have been astounding.
Again, I'm just floored (so is the person in the photo!) by this kind of thing. To think such gigantic reptiles once populated this planet, for realsies. I mean if that doesn't sound like something out of the most way out kind of science fiction. And yet we had no idea such creatures existed until fossils began turning up around the 1820s.
Can you imagine what kind of plays Shakespeare would have written about dinosaurs if he'd known about them? But even suggesting that thunder lizards once existed on earth would probably have landed you in the stocks back then.
To me the fact that they belong to dinosaurs is almost as fantastic and awesome as if they DID belong to dragons. I've always found dinosaurs to be kind of hard to accept as a reality, especially when you stand next to those gigantic bones or visit a display of animatronic ones and realize, "these things once were actually real and alive."
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