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12 November 2018

My Very First R Script!

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After over a decade of always defaulting to Matlab for all my data processing tasks, I finally work at a place that does everything in R - a...
14 July 2014

A review of my 2014 Prius V

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It has been almost exactly one month since I started driving my new Prius V. I've driven to and from work, around town, and gone on a le...
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01 January 2014

What was the best part of 2013?

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Someone on Facebook put that question out there as his status, and I couldn't actually think of any one thing that really stood out as ...
22 December 2013

Why I think I'm better than everyone else

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So I just read Why you think you're better than everyone else on io9.com , and decided to put my response to it over here instead. Th...
05 November 2013

On Thankfulness

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I'm not thankful for anything. There are a lot of good things about my life. I am where I am today for many reasons. Some of them wer...
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02 November 2013

Turning over a new leaf in dietary habits

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My father died of a sudden heart attack when he was 53. He was not overweight and did not have high blood pressure, so everyone figured he w...
12 July 2011

Behold, Some Code!

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Since my life reboot, my leet code skillz have gone to whole new levels. Here's a representation of the kinds of things I've been do...
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20 May 2011

Things Learned from a Gulf of Mexico Science Conference

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One The preliminary results are in on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. There basically wasn't any hugely negative impact to wildlife...
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16 May 2011

New Chapters Begin, Old Chapters End

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In mid-2008, my friend Robert talked me into signing up at eHow to write articles. He was making some serious pocket money and thought I c...
14 May 2011

A Tall Shorebird

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Coastal Alabama has a lot of birds of all kinds. Here's one I saw yesterday morning: It's a great blue heron. Very common over most ...
08 May 2011

Newest Toy

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When the apartment management first told me about my new apartment, they said it wouldn't have any washer/dryer connections. But after I...
30 April 2011

Life is Grand Again

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Part of my view into work: Yes, I think in terms of workplace, I've definitely traded up. :) Also, in the hopes that I really am about t...
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09 April 2011

From GA to AL via IN

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BEFORE I loved my work and my boss, I liked most of my coworkers, and I had come to hate my workplace. AFTER I'm doing the same work tha...
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28 January 2011

An Idea for Modern Education

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Step One Do a traditional lecture on the topic. Step Two Assign standard homework. But for each question, ask where and how students arrived...
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01 January 2011

2010 Retrospective

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In January, I was still receiving unemployment money while sending out job applications and receiving rejections. I was in the middle of sor...
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25 October 2010

Ahh, Prejudice

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On the one hand, I'm really flattered that someone could be so comfy including me in their "us" category that they'll use ...
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19 July 2010

Slice of Life Reprise

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After having lived for several years in a place where people commonly did their best to avoid acknowledging my existence, I can't say ho...
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22 April 2010

Today's Insipid Thought

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At some point your potential is supposed to turn into kinetic. If it hasn't by the time you've reached 30, you've lost it all.
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11 April 2010

Two Roads Diverge in a Wood, and I

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On one side lies the Science Academia path. I can get another job as a data analyst and continue my endless string of research tech jobs. Or...
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01 April 2010

March articles

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My friends with the seafood market have managed to drag me into helping them on the busier weekends, and also at month starts when they hav...