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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Sunday Sales Revote: Does This Make Sense?
In case you haven’t been reading my blog, there was a ballot measure during the March 6th primary to authorize “Sunday” sales of alcohol here in Cobb County1. The measure passed resoundingly, in unincorporated Cobb County and in all of … Continue reading
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Opposite of Politics
To relieve everyone from my political side, here are some pictures taken recently. Careful when moving furniture. You might find a cat inside Remember to change the default password on your variable message boards. Construction is proceeding on the Ashford … Continue reading
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Burnishing the Election Year Image Edition a.k.a. ABORTION
This legislative session is 5 days from being over. If you’ve been following my notes on the legislative items of interest (to me) you probably have realized that no commentary from me means not much is going on. All of … Continue reading
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Pollen Denial of Service Attack
No, the trees here haven’t been mounting a DOS attack on critical infrastructure; instead the AJC has! The headline Pollen Count Over 8,000 Shatters Old Record for Atlanta brought the Atlanta Allergy and & Asthma Clinic website to its knees. … Continue reading
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Data Presentation
I do a lot of data-intensive document production. It’s in the nature of my job that I have to look at a lot crash records and then boil it down into something that is useful. For example: This table represents … Continue reading
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RPI Hockey
As you are of course aware (because why wouldn’t you be?) the RPI Men’s hockey team has advanced to the second round of the ECAC tournament. We did so by beating rival Clarkson in three games. Now we play the … Continue reading
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Crossover Day
In at least one way, following the Georgia Legislature is easy: If a bill only has Democratic sponsors, it’s dead and won’t go anywhere. For example, Senate Bill 517 which would specifically exclude breastfeeding from “lewd, lascivious, indecent, or unlawful … Continue reading
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Oh Microsoft. What Are You Doing to Me?
On the left is a pie chart made in Microsoft Excel, for the express purpose of copy/pasting into Microsoft PowerPoint. On the right is the same, after the copy/paste operation. I will now go get coffee.
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So I Finished This Today
I can now add it to the collection.
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