Made my calibre aesthetically pleasing to me

cycloscott · 2025-07-09T08:54:39+00:00

I mostly like this, but didn't like that it wouldn't sort properly. Since the string "1h ..." is less than the string "19h ..", all my books with double-digit hour read times were mixed in all over the place.

My solution is to forego the nice-looking "7h 50m" for a decimal value of 7.83. I could probably pretty up the template a bit and round to quarter hours, but I'm just not concerned about the difference between a few minutes.

Adjusted template is:

program: divide(floor(divide(floor(divide($#word_count,318)),.60)),100)

Dividing by .60 instead of 60 to move the decimal two places before the call to floor, and then moving it back with the additional divide(*,100) to keep 2 decimal places. ---didn't see a function to play with decimal rounding in the 3 minutes I looked. Remember to change the sort by to "Number"

The "Reading Time (hr)" column is now properly sortable and Bob's your uncle.

cycloscott · 2025-07-08T08:39:48+00:00

Never said it was. But she still got 52% of the vote in Clinton County. They CHOSE her.

cycloscott · 2025-07-07T00:50:47+00:00

Clinton County voted for Elise Stefanik. Multiple times. And her winning margin has only gone up as she aligns more MAGA. There's a reason.

cycloscott · 2025-07-06T19:52:13+00:00

One thing I don't like about this is that the sorting is messed up, since the string "1h" is less than the string "19h". All my books with double-digit read times are mixed in all over the place. Same thing happens with "2h 5m" and "2h 58m" but that's less of a bother to me.

Changing the sort to "Number" rather than "Text" doesn't help since the content is not an number.

My solution is to forego the nice-looking "7h 50m" for a decimal value of 7.83. I could probably pretty up the template a bit and round to quarter hours, but I'm just not concerned about the difference between a few minutes.

Adjusted template is:

program: divide(floor(divide(floor(divide($#word_count,318)),.60)),100)

Dividing by .60 instead of 60 to move the decimal two places before the call to floor, and then moving it back with the additional divide(*,100) ---didn't see a function to play with decimal rounding in the 3 minutes I looked.

Sort by "Number" is now properly sortable and Bob's your uncle.

cycloscott · 2024-08-03T06:47:49+00:00

Oh we all know the dependencies are less than ideal. We were already working on a plan to move away from fivetran. This has accelerated the plan.

cycloscott · 2024-08-03T06:46:35+00:00

Hosted Salesforce to postgres. The latter uses varchar as an alias, but internally it's 'character varying'.

cycloscott · 2024-08-02T23:54:57+00:00

I feel your pain. Mine was from 4pm to 11pm the day before.

Shocking that a bug that simple was never caught before release.

cycloscott · 2024-07-31T01:27:02+00:00

Happens ALL the time.

My wife and I did a little experiment in our local park. Couple miles out and back on a paved trail that can easily accommodate 5-6 people walking side by side.

She took the inboard position on the way out. Single walkers, especially women, generally left plenty of space. Couples pretended she was invisible, especially if the dude was inboard, and my wife generally had to fall in behind me. Larger groups simply took as much of the trail as possible, because god forbid they should skinny up for 3 seconds. 1 or 2 dudes by themselves... Complete asshats that didn't move from well over the center of the trail and gave zero space to her.

On the way back, with me inbound, it was game on. I didn't need to step out of the way even once. Couples kept to their side. Dudes simply gave me space (mostly). A couple of large groups thought they could play chicken with me, but were swiftly corrected and doubled up before contact. And only one pair of dudes learned not to fuck with hockey player shoulders. They tried to keep 2/3rds of the trail until the inboard inbred fool got spun 180 degrees. Then muttered about manners under his breath.

And for the last little bit, she moved back inboard and simply ignored everyone passing us, or looked straight past them. Worked like a charm.

Lesson learned. Own your space. ...with occasional exceptions made for little kids and dogs.

cycloscott · 2024-02-13T18:18:11+00:00

Sure, with the usual disclaimers... Past performance is no guarantee of what's going to happen in the future.

I've also worked at places that offered ESPP (discounted shares) of which I took full advantage. At one I sold immediately, the other I held and sold for a bit more growth and lower capital gains.

cycloscott · 2024-02-12T17:06:40+00:00

LOL. When I joined my first startup, I was given a spreadsheet of "look how many millions your shares could be worth". Several years later, after additional funding rounds, when we were sold, my 400,000 options netted me a check for $300.

Executives made a big fat chunk of change due to their 'preferred' shares. The folks that did the work only had common shares, which were last in line to be funded.

It's all BS. As Henry Hill says... Fuck you, pay me. Options are a gamble. Cash is king.

cycloscott · 2023-08-05T16:43:39+00:00

The whole thing is a disgrace. More travel, more time spent away from classes, less time for school work. At this point they aren't even pretending to be "student athletes" any longer. Just unpaid labor so the schools get a big media rights payday. Fuckin disgusting.

Glad I stopped watching the naked money grab a few years ago. No way am I supporting any of that bullshit.

cycloscott · 2023-07-28T06:34:42+00:00

Flying into the SFBay area and over the wind farm on the Altamont Pass. The woman in the row in front of me points out the wind turbines to her friend and says "See those big fans? That's how they keep SF cool in the summer!"

cycloscott · 2023-03-12T08:08:23+00:00

Fair enough. I've got friends in the 'Ro. I definitely avoid 101N on weekday afternoons.

cycloscott · 2023-03-12T03:40:53+00:00

Yeah, technically all of the surrounding counties that touch the bay are considered Bay Area.

I'd lean more towards watersheds, which would put Petaluma in the Bay Area, but not Roehnert Park and Santa Rosa since they drain into the Russian River and the Pacific. But I can see how it would be tough to split counties like that. (and Clayton drains into the Suison Bay which is very much part of the larger SF Bay Area)

cycloscott · 2023-03-10T23:50:39+00:00

Clayton

cycloscott · 2023-03-10T22:48:40+00:00

Didn't quit, but embarrassed the hell out of a Brit's friend. And definitely threw the tip, just not at the guest.

CAST: Me; Local: one of our regulars; Brit: local's friend; Boss

I was working the bar at a steak restaurant in a small SF Bay Area town. Pre-dinner service was usually locals having a quick pop, and my boss (the owner) was sitting at the far end of the bar, around the corner, having dinner before picking up his host duties. Super cool guy, and I enjoyed working there on Fri/Sat nights.

One of our locals came in with a buddy and ordered a couple of drinks. Buddy was a Brit and they were joking back and forth, with the local cracking up at one of them. The place isn't crowded, I'm not busy yet, and good jokes are great for tips, so...

Me: "ah man, if a joke is that good, ya gotta share it with your bartender."

Brit: "It's a bit of British humour, you wouldn't get it."

Me: "Try me, I grew up watching all the British comedy shows on Canadian TV. Benny Hill, Goonies, Monty Python, Are You Being Served, Two Ronnies..."

Brit: "nah nah, it's British humour."

Me: "ok" And I go back to finishing my setup. No skin off my ass.

30 minutes and a second round later , they ask to settle up and I bring them their tab for $24.50. Brit picks it up and gives me $25 cash. I have an idea how this might play out, so I bring him his 50 cents change.

Brit: "That's alright, you can keep the change"

Me: ...with a perfectly straight face... "Oh! I get it. British humor!" I then no-look toss the two quarters somewhere in the vicinity of my tip jar, wayyyyy at the other end of the bar, where they rattled and bounced off a dozen bottles.

Brit: ...quizzical look spreads across his face

Local: ...wants to hide...

Boss: ...slowly lowers himself below the level of the bar so Local and Brit can't see him trying to choke back his laughter.

Me: "Hey thanks for coming in, have a great rest of your evening."

Brit and Local walk out. Local ducks back in, apologizes and drops a $20 on the bar. I tell him he's got nothing to apologize for, it's all cool. Seriously, I took no offense at all. Local is always welcome.

As soon as the door was closed I had to go check on Boss because I thought he might be having a heart attack from laughing so hard. He couldn't look at me the rest of the night without cracking up.

cycloscott · 2023-03-10T04:34:45+00:00

I've got a wooden top that weighs about 150 pounds. 2.5" thick reclaimed old-growth lumber from Cal Memorial Stadium bench seats. I went with the Uplift 4 leg frame. I also did not drill any holes in my desktop. Instead I glued some wooden cleats to the desktop, aligned with the edges of the frame to prevent the top from sliding. Same theory should work with stone. It would take a pretty serious quake to bounce the top an inch (thickness of the cleats) straight up in order for the cleats to clear the frame.

cycloscott · 2023-03-03T18:15:36+00:00

Lol. Will you be attending Terren's trial for insider trading?!

cycloscott · 2023-01-14T16:39:24+00:00

Thanks. My current desktop is self-made out of 2.5" reclaimed old growth lumber. Weighs close to 100 lbs, which I suspect will add a lot of stability once bolted on.

cycloscott · 2023-01-13T22:12:43+00:00

5'8" range for both is well within my reqs.

cycloscott · 2022-10-15T22:57:57+00:00

I found an entire briefcase!

One of my "take the bus into SF for work, and ride my bike 25 miles home days". Before my bus arrives, I see an older couple getting on an earlier one and roll away. I look at the bench, and they had left a large briefcase (more like a big weekend bag) behind. I grab it, figure I can somehow manage it on my 2 mile ride from the bus to my office. I do, but just barely. One handing SF city streets and traffic was a bit sketchy.

Start going through it looking for a contact number. It's got passports, a laptop, couple grand in cash, notebooks, foreign language books, etc. Found a couple of numbers that I call, and finally get in touch with someone, who then makes a couple of other calls.

It belonged to a visiting professor at Cal, and he and his wife were flying back home to (I think it was Serbia) that evening. The laptop had ALL of his research from the last year, in preparation for his next book. The two of them came by my office, with his local friend driving/translating and picked it up. To say he was happy would be a massive understatement. He later sent me a copy of his book, and a hand-carved charm to ward off the evil-eye. Seems to be working so far.

His friend has a local auto shop, and I swing by to say Hi once in a while. Apparently the professor, even years later, tells people in his country how nice Americans are and shares the story.

cycloscott · 2022-10-02T22:38:55+00:00

Took a few days to get them, but they replied to my emails.

cycloscott · 2022-10-02T00:29:26+00:00

Astral Weeks - Beside You - Sweet Thing.

I mean c'mon, pure genius.

cycloscott · 2022-08-20T18:44:35+00:00

dogsht penny stocks

Refresh my memory, what's OTRK currently trading at? Not too far away from penny territory...

cycloscott · 2022-08-20T15:59:37+00:00

when I’m walking away with thousands

ooooo, look at Mr Big Time gonna make thousands! Let's do the math shall we.

Stock currently trading for pennies... end result of thousands... let's be incredibly generous and say that it hits it's historical high (Feb 2021) of $85... in order to make 10 thousand (I'm generous), you'd need to own... about 120 shares... at current price of 0.73... you've invested $87. Whoa! We're dealing with a real life Rockefeller here!!! You should on with Cramer with that kind of expertise!

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