Shoals

The things he carried

Rating items I found while cleaning out my old grad school hoard

Posted on March 9, 2022

The time had finally come to sort through and [mostly] discard the stuff I’d accumulated in the last days when higher education was conducted on paper. What follows is merely a selection. [Read More]

Compton

Recreating a Superbowl halftime show basemap

Posted on February 14, 2022

Generating points with PostGIS . . . to approximate streetlight locations in Compton, Los Angeles. [Read More]

How to deploy a webpage in 2022

Posted on January 21, 2022

Instructions for getting a [mostly] static website onto a custom domain, with https encryption, for [mostly] free. [Read More]

2020 Census drop, yo.

A look at the implications in the Green Mountains.

Posted on August 12, 2021

The 2020 numbers are in! Let’s take a look at the changes since 2010, Vermont-centric . . . [Read More]

On November 9, 1938, Goebbels turned the SA loose on Jewish communities throughout Germany, in a pogrom now known as Kristallnacht. With the veneer of a “popular, spontaneous uprising”, nazis smashed Jewish business, attacked Jews, and arrested them in the thousands, heralding the horrors to come. [Read More]

Democratizing data science where it counts

Posted on July 14, 2020

We at Faraday are data science experts. We have a collective century of experience in the mystical arts of data whispering; we’ve transformed oceans of rows and columns, built and discarded thousands of databases, and molded far-seeing algorithms in a dozen programming languages. [Read More]

Family artifacts

A story about a bottle and a war, with subtext about the magic of corroborating accounts.

Posted on March 9, 2020

My grandmother died last Spring. We mourn of course, but she lived to 100, saw and did amazing things, and the family has more a sense of respectful awe than anything else. In any case this is actually about a bottle of her perfume that came to me recently. [Read More]

How I use Twitter in 2019

Posted on November 11, 2019

I’ve been on a long ride with this microblogging-whatever-the-hell-it-is platform, and I’ve noticed a few patterns in my usage evolving over the years. So here, at the end of the decade, is: [Read More]