My evening did not turn out the way I anticipated today and I just made a rather sound, responsible decision ( Read more... )

i got some really good advice from someone who is helping me get up to speed on a particular software product. she said, "you may just need to get used to allowing some parts of it to remain as a 'black box,' until it becomes necessary to look inside ( Read more... )

ever think back to where you came from, who you used to be, and marvel at the person you are now? wonder how you came to be the person you are now given who you were then ( Read more... )

i love technology. admittedly, it’s not always intuitive. and when starting a new job, it’s never easy navigating through the various systems and people to get access to everything you need, but eventually you get there. and when things work, they really work. i find the level to which SAS is organized to be pretty amazing ( Read more... )

back in june i posted that work at the nursery was going well and that i had an informational interview coming up with someone at the national park service. to pick up where i left off ( Read more... )

i went to a seminar today on exploring predictive analytics and data visualization, which is essentially corporate speak for (and the short form of), using data to simulate different decisions, predict outcomes, and display the outcomes effectively in a visual way so that the possible outcomes are easily and quickly understood. in order to really ( Read more... )

man, i am totally geeking out today! i'm doing some serious programming this morning.

i've known for a while that it's possible to take a value from a dataset and assign that value to a macro variable to use later on, but i've never known how to do it. i'm at the point where i need to use this b/c i need to run a program repeatedly on various ( Read more... )

written tuesday, march 24 @ 12:30 pm ( Read more... )

well, spring has sprung and i’m as busy as ever. last weekend, stacy and howard came down to DC for a visit. it was great to see them. stacy and i were able to catch up with each other on saturday afternoon and then saturday night, we all went out to dinner with lara and gordon at rasika. rasika is a fantastic, upscale, trendy indian restaurant ( Read more... )

written weds, march 19 ( Read more... )