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Historian, Writer of Food & Systems. Entering my mad data scientist phase
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Maybe it isn't interesting to anyone else, but in this data project it hits me that as late as 1993 a relatively big place like metro Atlanta still has only one area code. I think I may have had a bag phone at that time.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It would be nice if instead of peddling its ideological agenda and wrecking active research a DOE intent on revolutionary change would simply clip the wings of accreditation bodies who demand ever increasing and mostly meaningless assessment schemes and other existence-justifying paperwork.

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Working on #viz techniques for #tableau - in this case using a calculated field and datediff operator to vary a point size to expand by evolving number of years of operation. The idea is that a #restaurant open for more years has a bigger impact on a community than ones that come and go #maps

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I, too, enjoy Fussell, but I wonder if this author realizes that in terms of contemporary WWI scholarship, this work represents the apex of a narrow focus on a select group of literary elite white men that dominated the 20c historiography at the expense of a broader understanding of the war.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I need to give my elderly colleague mad props for somehow still being able to use a circa 2006 iMac.

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Saw a bald eagle when I was walking in Audubon Park with my son this afternoon, so that was cool.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

One of many ironies of our historical moment is that inexpensive and plentiful chicken and eggs came about entirely due to post WW2 vaccines and antibiotics. Whatever downsides may be attributable to the latter, without these tools, both will simply be significantly more expensive.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

A Super Bowl of fawning over the Super Bowl is… tiring

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Welp. 😑

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"I wrote in Faith, Hope and Carnage, ‘Hope is optimism with a broken heart’. This means that hope has an earned understanding of the sorrowful or corrupted nature of things, yet it rises to attend to the world even still."

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When Cassidy decided not to run against Landry for governor he said that he could do more for Louisiana by serving in Washington. Well, today's that moment. Moreso for the whole country. Bill, I hope you do the right thing and sink this nut job's chances.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Our Director General Hilary McGrady comments on the launch of the Land Use Framework consultation 🧵: “We welcome the launch of the Land Use Framework consultation, which is desperately needed.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Looked out my office window, and it feels as though that only a week after 10.5" of snow, New Orleans spring shamelessly peeks from behind the curtain.

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I’m proud to have worked at Second Harvest, for Natalie Jayroe, early in my career. I work in policy because she believed in me. What the Archdiocese has done to her and to the organization is unconscionable. www.fox8live.com/2025/01/30/f...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I am obviously not the first person to realize how poorly Excel deals with (by not dealing with) dates before 1/1/1900. I'm beginning to think this is worth building an SQL database instead. Tableau and ArcGIS handle it fine.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone who thought it was a great idea to "crack down" on H1B visa holders is not and has probably never been a serious person who has functioned in that "real world" about which they seem to enjoy speaking so freely.

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And all this time I thought “The Gulf of America” was the difference between the US and all other developed nations in the number of children slaughtered by gun violence

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I am moved by all my friends posting their pictures of Pableaux Johnson. This one is mine. The sad irony is that if you are doing it right, you'll break a lot of hearts when you leave.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

As I have put my plants back outside I have been giving them each a little scoop of snow by way of water and it is amazing how slowly even this has melted

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible premiere performance tonight of New Orleanian Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane, the earliest known surviving full-length opera written by a Black American composer. Performance is available to rewatch. Kudos to Givonna Joseph for bringing this opera to life. hnoc.org/events/music...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Just in case you are wondering what the date is, it’s 225th January. No that’s not a typo that’s how long this month feels. However sometimes this month is not too bad - just look at that winter sunlight in the chapel. ❤️

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

I put this on FB 12 years ago. A surprisingly (not) evergreen sentiment.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments