In 2010 I landed back in Utah, from gallivanting around the world.  Spending a lot of time in Turkey, largely enjoying wandering around the Aegean Coast for the better part of a month.  After spending enough time in the interior regions and backwaters I was happy to visit an area that was decidedly European.  Familiar cultural trapping become ( Read more... )

From an R Programmers QnA mailing list:

Q: I have 27 variables kai 146 observations. I want to make a contingency table for this data set but it doesn't work.

A: You could try being a little less greedy in your expectations.

Brief explanation: attempting to cross tab that many observations would result in the number of tabulations being 146 ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening was eventful…ok, it really wasn’t.  It was productive though!  Based on iffy weather, I had two options - if it rains or rain becomes extremely eminent, ride a bike.  Because riding in a downpour is actually a lot of fun.  If it doesn’t then yard work ( Read more... )

Was able to talk with Phil last night for quite some time.  Since I figured he would not remember the last time we spoke it was good to catch up (traumatic brain injury will indeed do that to you).  Continuing on in the process of slowly coming out of my Thesis writing cacoon Yesterday I raced bikes for the first time in several months.  While the ( Read more... )