Good Evening – August 3, 2021

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Good evening! A pleasant before I get my tooth filling fixed at 8 AM tomorrow 🦷

Eh, lucky me? 😁 Bright and early going to have to skip the morning walk 🚶🏻. I did walk this morning.

Partly cloudy and 68 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 57 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 5 pm.

A pleasant evening 🌃, sat out back for a while under the stars ✨ after my evening walk. Took a nap this evening after work as I stayed up too late last night. This afternoon went to the laundromat 👖 and got enough clothes clean through the weekend. Didn’t get groceries 🛒 but that’s fine I’ll stop at Hannaford after work as I’m going to park at the Park and Ride 🅿 and the catch the bus 🚍 from there after my dentist appointment. 🪥

Continuing to explore PANDAS 🐼 and all the amazing data processing and munging with Python, much faster and better with a few commands compared to dozens of clicks 🖱 and complicated formulas in my normal spreadsheet, LibreOffice Calc. PANDAS isn’t better than spreadsheets for everything but it is for a lot of things. The commands once you learn them are easily stacked and well documented. It’s amazing technology I should have learned about years ago. So much about PANDAS is super logical when you think about it but it’s a somewhat different philosophy to data management compared to Excel and similar spreadsheets.

Flooded Lake

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This portion of the Cedar River Flow, demostrates how very much this area was once open plains, until the DEC flooded the area shortly after obtaining the land from Gould Paper Company in 1967.

Taken on Wednesday August 11, 2010 at Moose River Plains.

Mandatory emasculation

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I would post a comment on social media about mandatory emasculation rather than mandatory vaccination for government workers but such a comment would be rather tasteless these days.

That said, mandatory emasculation for government workers probably isn’t a bad idea if not somewhat unpopular with the unions. But it would mean much more level headed, well thought out public policy and a generally fairer and better society. Less police brutality, fewer crashes of transit vehicles, less war.