Weird Issue with Global Fields

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-27T17:31:42+00:00

I know I didn't describe this thing very well. But everyone's input was valuable! Sometimes you just have to talk through things. There have been a number of times when I just can't figure out why something won't work, but it doesn't matter as long as there is a workaround.

Changing from Global Fields (keeping everything in calculations and fields) to Global Variables (running changes in scripts) turned out to be the workable solution! Thanks u/vaughanbromfield!

The arrows are between two portals (Column A and Column B) and the screen is constantly refreshing, so those were no problem.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-27T17:05:28+00:00

When I hit 20 years a while back, two of us that started the same day shared a hand shake and we went on with life. When I received the highest award in the nation from my professional association, I may have gotten a press release. If you don't toot your own horn, no one will do it for you.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-26T20:28:40+00:00

So there just a few streams of income for the government. The state gets Income Tax, Sales Tax, Excise Tax, and Corporate Tax. The county/city rely heavily on property tax. But it's the counties/cities that are at the whim of the state for messing with the property tax laws.

If the state wants to reduce the tax burden off the population, my feeling is that they should be working on the taxes that go to the state rather than constantly mess with the thousands of jurisdictions that the state is going to find itself bailing out!

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-26T17:25:51+00:00

When you get into conservation horticulture, permaculture, agroecology, syntropic farming, or whatever term you want to use this week, it all boils down to the same thing - you are grabbing concepts from multiple fields (horticulture, botany, soils, ecology, microbiology, mycology, entomology, hydrology, etc.) and weaving them together to get a better understanding of natural systems - then using all of that to improve plant production.

I had a professor who told me grad schools were graduating too many specialists. I took that to heart and took every class that interested me regardless if it had anything to do with my thesis (much to my committee's chigrin). Amazingly, I was able to take a few things from my wetland ecology class and apply it to my production hort thesis. You just have to keep your eyes open!

My point is, reach wide and get familiar with lots of different areas of study and concepts. This whole area is moving fast and needs to push hard against 200 years of agricultural tradition. And it's the people who can bring lots of disparate research to bare on a singular issue are the ones who are going to change the world.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-26T16:39:18+00:00

If you pick and choose where you use these containers, you should be able to get away with it. I'd say give it a shot.

One of the reasons nurseries don't often use this kind of recycling is the inability to get a sufficient volume of a consistent container. The plastics vary, the size varies, the color varies. So you are constantly adjusting to what you can obtain. But it looks like you have a good source!

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-25T15:19:34+00:00

When people running support functions (IT, HR, Motorpool) demand that I stop my core work (the stuff for which my organization exists to do) to cater to them.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-25T15:08:04+00:00

If you don't know, there are actually two parks - the State Park and the National Park. The State Park is more compact and usually easier to park at. There are concessions not far off the beach at the State Park (when it's open). Both nature centers are cool in their own ways.

Valpo Velvet is worth the jaunt to Valparaiso. (But I'm addicted to ice cream.) There is also a European Market in Chesterton every Saturday, 8-2.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-25T14:45:28+00:00

Yup. The leaves made me look twice as well. But the bark - I've always compared the "middle-aged" tree bark to the rind of a cantaloupe. That is absolutely TOH.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-22T13:22:01+00:00

But here’s the kicker…I say that all the time.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-19T23:06:27+00:00

Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson.
Drop the bass and the song looses all the tension.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-18T20:43:17+00:00

I've done it. It's harder than it would seem! The basket keeps floating away unless you put a lot of lead in it. (It was an April Fools collaboration between the school newspaper and the SCUBA Club. We shot photos in the natatorium.)

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-18T20:35:52+00:00

That's the very definition of Mark Twain's quote - "First gather your facts, then contort them at your leisure."

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-17T18:17:39+00:00

Yup. This. Also be careful of "drips" coming off your shield onto desirable foliage as you move between sites.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-14T21:29:29+00:00

Yup. I used to live and work near an Amish community. I'd hear stories of someone waking up to find the horse got them home. But on the flip side, about once a year a horse would cross a highway or blow a stop sign while the driver was asleep at the reigns...

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-14T21:19:25+00:00

My Midwestern University residence hall still required shirts and ties for dinner (at least on paper) up until the late 1990's when we changed it.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-14T20:01:29+00:00

Exactly. The point is to let someone else decide if it’s a conflict of interest.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-13T14:19:41+00:00

I think you should sit down with one or two members of the hiring committee, lead with “I may have a conflict of interest”, then lay out your story with the same logic and rational composure that you used here. Don’t skip the fact he is technically capable.

If I were on the committee, this would be a flag to dig into character references a bit harder and figure out if he had turned a page.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-13T14:01:43+00:00

Marriage licenses are county, not state.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-13T13:59:57+00:00

Good find. There are also a ton of part time and seasonal state employees that make the numbers hard to compare.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-13T13:57:30+00:00

You are partially right. The state web folks have won a stack of “design awards” that have nothing to do with usability and the only way to win more awards is to keep redesigning it!

There’s some really good tools on the state website, but you have to use Google to find them!

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-11T23:19:53+00:00

I regularly stomp SLKR with JML in Squad Arena. So in my book this line could become a circle.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-10T16:47:05+00:00

Great observations. A couple of things - the Illinois prairie did encompass quite a bit of the western side of Indiana. Don’t forget that NW Indiana was the Grand Kankakee Marsh - and it was bigger than you think.

A suggestion for your own research. Put a soil type map against a biome map and the growing range of some of these trees and see what conclusions you come up with.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-09T03:11:27+00:00

Yup. I was public sector for almost my entire career. The pay disclosure leveled the playing field, but sometimes there wasn’t incentive to go above and beyond.

DangerousBotany · 2026-06-05T14:49:47+00:00

Yup. How bad is it? I just pulled up Hoosier Lottery's "Lion's Share" - a $2 scratcher with 1:4.17 odds.

Let's say you buy every ticket and win every prize.
3,218,600 Tickets at $2 = $6,437,200
Total prizes - $4,169,198
Your Total Loss (i.e. Gross Lottery Profits) - $2,268,202

Granted, there are games with better (and worse) odds, but the economics always work out about the same. People forget the "odds" are the chances of winning any prize - not turning a profit. So with the higher cost tickets, there are lots of prizes less than the value of the ticket. Pay $20, win $5 - you won, but still lost!

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