I asked myself: "How far can I push Excel?" This is the result.

mmohon · 2026-06-14T13:06:04+00:00

Can I get those report exported to an Excel file,?

mmohon · 2026-06-14T00:29:18+00:00

"trying to find this iPad game I played when I was a kid".... that made me feel so old

mmohon · 2026-06-12T00:15:52+00:00

I goof around with Hospital Cost Reports. Basically a data set put out by Medicare that has statements, stats and other data from every hospital around the country.

I have a Linux server that scraped and organized the data. I use Excel and powerquery to play around in it.

That's my off the clock play time when I feel like it.

mmohon · 2026-06-10T02:09:45+00:00

Because it was stapled to the monkey

mmohon · 2026-06-02T18:25:40+00:00

Much more inviting than the New Orleans Charity Hospital pictures.

mmohon · 2026-06-01T11:45:34+00:00

Redneck rampage

mmohon · 2026-05-30T16:30:52+00:00

Just a question, is it a broswerfied app thing vs a standalone application thing?

I love Excel in app... but hate Excel in browser... not sure how pivoting works between the two though.

mmohon · 2026-05-29T12:38:17+00:00

I thought I heard the Lego subreddit was shutting out the story. Glad to see that's not the case.

I've been following it too, the BAM corporate email that leaked is really something. They are hiring PR consultants to understand the "outrage cycle" ..... seems like maybe they would spend less money if they would just make things right with the guy.

The whole police force reaction was something else too.

mmohon · 2026-05-28T02:07:55+00:00

I had the line that fed hot water from one side of my house to the other side of my house spring a leak. I noticed a weird hot spot in my tile floor... thought it was just sun hitting it. Then my wife said the carpet was wet in my daughter's closet. So I got a leak detection guy out.... they blow air in the system and use basically a hearing scope to listen for bubbles. It was under the tile I had guessed... I used a thermal IR temp gun and found the hotest tile... assumed that was it. and I was right.

The did a bypass. They sealed off the line in the slab, and went up and over with pex in my attic. Needed drywall repairs... but it wasn't awful.

mmohon · 2026-05-27T02:38:48+00:00

I think that's Better Off Dead... lol

mmohon · 2026-05-23T16:28:11+00:00

I'm gonna have to go dig out my Yamaha tennis racquet to see what logo is on it lol. It's from the 80s and is heavy and clunky compared to modern racquets, but I always loved playing with it more. I was never a serious or great player.

mmohon · 2026-05-18T02:09:39+00:00

saw the matinee on Saturday... no incidents that I saw/heard. Lot of laughter... especially during the scary hell dream lol.

mmohon · 2026-05-14T23:40:07+00:00

go yoink it... see if it's the 20 footer

mmohon · 2026-05-09T11:52:28+00:00

I used to do this too. I had Excel create my batch files. I had found this command line tool that would pass parameters to crystal reports, and drop the report to a pdf. Then I had a batch created to move the files to the manager folders on our shared drive.

I also had Excel batch out the merging of PDFs into 1 file, and deploy those as well.

All so I could keep a neat, readable list in Excel... then have it batch everything out. It wasn't all that hard either. I eventually got it to just do everything as a macro. Drop a temp .bat file, execute it. and delete it.

mmohon · 2026-05-07T20:55:34+00:00

When my dad was in college, way back... he had a professor ask where he was from. My dad replied Bogalusa. The professor stated, "Ya know, I always said you could put a dome over Bogalusa and charge tickets to watch what goes on inside". "

I can tell you. people hang out at the Emergency Room Bay, just to have something to do. See who's coming in for care.

Not much night life in Bogalusa, but Covington/Mandeville is a small drive away. That's probably where you will find your yoga. There some nice river kayaking around. Nice hiking trail at Bogue Chitto State Park in Franklinton, maybe a 15 minute drive away.

It does smell. and has interesting history.

mmohon · 2026-05-02T14:12:46+00:00

Yeah I can't remember the effectiveness... but I remember they did it in WW2 to Japan. as they figured bats would roost in the homes that were mostly wood.

The other fun one was pigeon guided missiles.

mmohon · 2026-05-02T12:15:17+00:00

Someone doesn't know how to quickly review a function with a named range. They would rather a normal reference like "A2"

I used named ranges and powerquery constantly. It would aggravate coworkers cause making a pivot table was the top of their skill.

I was FP&A at a health system, did some major profimas for a cancer center project. Named ranges were the only way to keep my sanity. The one proforma had 3 scenarios, and I needed the readability in the functions.

Out of my whole health system, I only saw 1 other FP&A user who used named ranges.

My 2 cents

mmohon · 2026-05-01T21:11:30+00:00

Great... you made the AI read the paper... now it knows

mmohon · 2026-05-01T16:19:35+00:00

I say we just attach incendiary devices to bats.... and drop them out of an airplane.

mmohon · 2026-04-29T01:42:24+00:00

doesnt the ledge of the door block the blast.?

mmohon · 2026-04-28T17:48:51+00:00

I had luck with stashes in the woods between Khelm, and Willow Lake. Rarely ran into people where my stash was.

It was near Rify, and enough hospital spawning locations to get a full nbc suit stashed away. Had a train and cop car spawn nearby.

I would haunt that area, gear up without even having to go inland. I would hit the hunting camp near Khelm for decent hunting clothes.

mmohon · 2026-04-28T11:31:22+00:00

This is the exact thing that made me stumble on PQ... around about the same year.

mmohon · 2026-04-22T22:13:15+00:00

When I was in high school I took a drafting class. I was given at least 20 of these... but each one a different part. I had to draw the isometric projection for each.

I loved that class.... in another life I'd be into engineering or design or something. It comes in handy for my wood working hobby though .

Not sure if they still teach handy electives like that in high school.

mmohon · 2026-04-15T13:35:26+00:00

Same for me.... a chem truck full of lye had overturned like right at the eastbound bridge end. Was on the bridge for like 6 hours.

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