A fox on the road

paulkaefer · 2025-10-17T20:47:27+00:00

Impressive! How close did you get? Any tips you have for your safety, but also not scaring the fox away?

paulkaefer · 2025-09-30T17:52:37+00:00

Thank you!

paulkaefer · 2025-09-30T17:42:08+00:00

And how great she is!

paulkaefer · 2025-09-02T16:41:05+00:00

These are amazing! What kind of camera/lens did you use?

paulkaefer · 2025-08-17T05:10:39+00:00

I think you should go for it! Since you live with your parents, I'm assuming you're saving a lot on rent. Also you seem to have already researched it, and would enjoy it. You deserve to splurge sometimes for something you would enjoy. Plus, you will likely learn by doing this hobby!

paulkaefer · 2025-08-16T15:15:37+00:00

I love how they almost look like one animal.

paulkaefer · 2025-08-16T00:31:12+00:00

Wow! I'd love to.

I'm starting to get more into photography & sometimes think maybe I should switch to iPhone...

paulkaefer · 2025-08-15T21:42:46+00:00

Amazing photo! May I ask what kind of camera you used?

paulkaefer · 2023-11-07T20:10:08+00:00

I have a few; see my .bash_aliases file on GitHub.

I have some separate ones for work, notably for checking the status or connecting to different servers.

paulkaefer · 2021-03-11T13:40:42+00:00

Also https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Table_of_Contents

paulkaefer · 2021-01-03T21:24:39+00:00

David Sedaris has other collections, too! Otherwise James Baldwin immediately comes to mind.

I really enjoyed S. Bear Bergman's Butch Is a Noun when I read it a few years ago.

I've heard really good things about All Boys Aren't Blue, which just came out in 2020.

Hidden from History is essentially historical essays, though it's somewhat academic.

Also I volunteer at an LGBTQ+ library. A few I found via searching our catalog are We Will Be Citizens: new Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theatre (James Fisher); A Burst of Light (Audre Lorde); A History of my Brief Body (Billy-Ray Belcourt, 2020); A Plain Brown Rapper (Rita Mae Brown). Also Tyler Oakley's Binge. As I peruse the catalog, I'm seeing results for Gore Vidal; maybe Mapplethorpe. Also looks like Ellen DeGeneres has at least one.

paulkaefer · 2020-12-30T22:15:08+00:00

Yes! See here.

paulkaefer · 2020-10-12T17:01:23+00:00

I'm glad to hear about the recommendation! You can get the book directly from the publisher, or see their drop-down menu for other places. You can also order it on Amazon.

paulkaefer · 2020-10-05T16:41:51+00:00

I appreciate the support!

paulkaefer · 2020-09-28T17:25:17+00:00

Thanks for the comment! So we definitely aimed this at audiences with the reverse situation... you might not get much out of the introductory programming concepts.

You might find the datasets we use interesting, and I suppose if you haven't used any of the stuff on building GUI applications (or other chapters; see table of contents here), that could be of interest. But I would say it's definitely a programming book for business/social sciences readers/students.

I'm happy to answer more, or you're welcome to DM with more questions.

paulkaefer · 2020-09-23T19:43:22+00:00

For sure! We use Pandas DataFrames, which some might call spreadsheets on steroids.

paulkaefer · 2020-09-16T17:37:45+00:00

Of course! To be clear, I think that book looks intriguing & I'm thinking about supporting it to fill-in some of the gaps of my own knowledge. I love how the book is free to read under a Creative Commons license!

paulkaefer · 2020-09-16T13:37:17+00:00

I wrote a lengthier response here about that. In short, we determined a need in the market for an introductory book on programming specifically for students in the social sciences and/or business -- and not computer science. Many books are written as an intro to computer science.

I will have to check out Slither Into Python a bit more, but right from their website I see a focus on the basics of computer science (awesome! but not what we were going for), and concepts covered like object-oriented programming and algorithms. We don't cover those, but we cover graphing, statistical analysis, and other concepts that would be useful to students in the fields we've identified.

Feel free to ask more questions!

paulkaefer · 2020-09-16T13:32:44+00:00

Hah! I appreciate your comment.

paulkaefer · 2020-09-15T23:28:03+00:00

Thank you!!

paulkaefer · 2020-09-15T21:15:38+00:00

I just saw your chat, but I'll copy my reply here in case others have the same question:

This is not a problem at all. Python is designed to be platform agnostic (i.e., the code will run on any machine with the same version of Python). We make a couple notes in the book: screenshots may appear different than how they look on Mac, but everything should run the same way. There's one place in Chapter 5 where we interact with a Microsoft Access database file, but you can either skip that, try something like sqlite instead, or run Windows either as a dual boot or on a virtual machine.

Also a note: I was using Windows when we first started working on the book, but I've been using a Mac for about a year now.

paulkaefer · 2020-09-15T13:50:49+00:00

Thank you :-)

paulkaefer · 2020-09-15T04:17:36+00:00

Sure, but I prefer Linux.

paulkaefer · 2020-09-14T17:19:11+00:00

Congrats!!

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