Computers are good for crunching numbers automating things 🖥

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Computers are good for crunching numbers automating things 🖥

Often these days when you hear about computers all the talk is about big data, complicated software applications created by professional developers. You hear about geeks and nerds, crackers and theives. But rarely do you hear about the many things you can do with just a few lines of code.

While I doubt I’ll ever be a software developer or computer programmer, I’ve learned enough code to do a lot of simple things quickly piping together commands. Useful things that save time, extract meaning out of data, turn it into pretty good maps and charts.

A while back I got this book out from the library called, Python Programming: Automate the Boring Things. This actually seems like a good reason to use programming and scripting to get things done.

Winter 🌄

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Winter 🌄

The average season is 91 1/4 days or roughly 13 weeks long, well slightly longer than that because the earth’s orbit of the sun is around 365.256 days. But due to the nature of the earth’s orbit it can vary a bit when exactly the sun crosses the equator and is directly overhead the tropic of capricorn and cancer.

Some seasons are 89 days while others can be 94 days. Winter this year is on the shorter side, only a few minutes over 90 days or about 12 6/7th of a week.

Ground Hog Day is on the 44th day of winter this year which is about midway through winter, there are 46 days of winter thereafter. But it varies every year slightly.