Since the early-afternoon presentations were all going to be over my head (eigen this, partial differential that), and Minneapolis’ weather was a sunny 52°F, I punted on lunch and went biking. I had hoped to do a quick ride over to the St. Paul side, return and shower for the late afternoon session.
When I worked the trade show/presentation circuit in the 1990s, I’d often have to hunt down “lost” components of our booth. On the way to the super secret customer package storage depot, I’d see the inner operations of hotels. Employees weren’t maintaining the facade they do in public, tossing stuff around, fraternizing in the nooks,
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It’s bad enough that we’re using Greek letters for hurricanes and product release phases (how’s that for juxtaposition?), but yesterday’s presentations became progressively top-heavy in their use of mathematical notation. Even though I used to be a math gΣΣk, it was too much and I bugged out around 2:30 to go biking. (That’s the excuse
Today was my first full day at the visualization conference in Minneapolis “dang it’s cold here” Minnesota. All of my local contacts informed me there were still tickets available for the Packers-Vikings game. Not wanting to find out if pigs were clogging the airways, I passed up the opportunity and went to the conference.
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(Doesn’t have the same ring as Freakonomics.) In a previous entry, I tried to quantify the economies of bicycle commuting. There were several interesting comments that I wanted to call out.
Interloper update: we caught two in January. Another was trapped in March, indicative of a new hole (now fixed). Since then, there’s been no new activity in the crawlspace. In July, a fourth one made an ill-timed visit to the bait trap, only to have the next door neighbors’ cat go medieval on it. The
Since gas appears “stuck” near $3.00/gallon, the psychological price that encourages me to bike commute when the weather is cruddy, I was kind of curious how much, if anything, I was saving.
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Last February, I mentioned my dentist had acquired a plasma screen television for his smallish waiting area. Although I was correct about the tax-deductibility aspect, I had naively assumed the TV would be primarily used for daytime television, perhaps even to keep the staff amused. Boy howdy, was I wrong. The morning started with my