willbpayne.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, studying spatial data and urban inequality through location-based services.
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How Dutch are these breeches, btw?
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I’m about to PayPal someone to send me hand harvested and cleaned seeds of a spring ephemeral plant called Dutchman’s Breeches, and it feels so refreshing to just be transacting plant nerd to plant nerd
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Plus the fact that any metric that California’s #1 in that’s not measured per capita is not necessarily all that exceptional!
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The ones that look like chunky zip ties that have been around since the 80s also work fine, but it’s annoying enough to undo them that you may end up leaving things unlocked sometimes, so then you’re back at square one…
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Reminds me of an SF chain called Sidewalk Juice; thanks but no thanks…
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I just put some of those big metal baffles on tall shepherds hooks and they seem to have totally stopped squirrel snacking (not house sparrows and finches, but at least those are birds!), we’ll see if it lasts though
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Where’s that crucial New Brunswick, NJ date? You could always just shout a few key ideas from the train window and we’ll take it from there.
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They just love The Smile is all.
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And that Milo (of the Descendents) both Went to College and got a biology PhD from UCSD and then worked as a researcher at DuPont for a couple decades before getting the band back together!
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We found a similarly vexing issue trying to get data on Housing Choice Voucher recipients by municipality in NJ from HUD: five Washington Townships (in separate counties), all combined into one entry with an invalid GEOID
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Maybe the NUMTOTs are on it? Modded versions of the games? I should ask my planning students!
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If anyone wants to give the Library of Congress feedback about their proposed changes to the Gulf of Mexico for subject headings, today is the only day to send comments: classweb.org/tentative-su...
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Welp, another one bites the dust…
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Denali watch starts now I guess. McKinley never set foot in Alaska and both R senators in Alaska don’t want the name switched back, but he liked tariffs so… 🙃