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My new project at work? Googlestalking people. There's a mailout survey on boating laws that Florida Sea Grant is doing, and I need to find these official email addresses ( Read more... )

Lord knows I'm fascinated by epidemiology, and this fact has only been exacerbated by reading one of the little lady's books about the Syphilis epi/pandemic resulting from contact between the "New" and "Old" world ( Read more... )

I'm listening to the Japanese Broadcasting Corp podcast in KiSwahili, of which I understand just enough to terribly confuse my little brain. I can catch phrases, but it's too fast for this mzungu to string it together.

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The other day at work we had to move some furniture out so that our new desks could be moved in. One of the former directors in my lab was hit by a car as he bike commuted to work a few years ago; I've been told more than a few times that I would have really liked the guy, but he's heresay to me, not even a ghost. His desk was bulky, substantial ( Read more... )

Raquelita raised the interesting and slightly piercing question of, "What are you doing with your life [after college]?" My response was sputterful and not nearly as adequate as I had hoped to be able to give. To ameliorate what I would consider a disagreeable situation, I will now attempt a more or less systematic approach to my thoughts on the ( Read more... )

Fact:

My brother is awesome.

Proof:

(23:10:26) David Godwin: indeed....someday....i'll go out to my jeep and you'll go out to your bike...and you'll have to scoot the Jawas away

1. Being a Geography major, I think about maps quite a bit. One thing that has come to mind recently is mapping the spatial extent of routers. Let me explain: Query all the major routers in Gainesville to determine their average throughput, and then geocode that information into a raster dataset. Take that raster and interpolate between points ( Read more... )

...Nzuri sana.

Nzuri sana sana?

Habari za kazi si mkubwa.

When I close my eyes at night, I can still see those bright blue selected polygons, burning. This no wake zone, that manatee protection area. Seering.

It took William Gibson to conceive it, and ESRI to birth it.