My Musings

  • The Night Before Christmas

    Okay, it’s actually late afternoon and I’m just relaxing. This post is going to be a stream of consciousness kind of post to keep me from watching videos all day long. The Bitlocker Drama I finally got the Python code and Jupyter notebook loaded onto this machine. This drama began maybe 5 or 6 weeks…

  • A typical American weekend

    Last weekend was a terrible weekend. It was as American as baseball, hot dogs and apple pie. Last Saturday started with a shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and 9 injured. In addition, the suspect was believed to have shot an MIT professor during the same time period. I believe a manhunt…

  • Using Dynamic Range

    I’ve been working on this project that enabled me to use quite a few interesting functions and approaches: hyperlinks, EDATE, Agent Mode. And now dynamic range. Dynamic ranges are ranges that grow and shrink depending on the situation. Here are some visual examples of what I mean: Pay attention to the section outlined in red….

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    Random thoughts

    Today is going to be just sort of some random thoughts spilled out into this post. Nothing about new Excel tricks, amazing AI stuff, or enraging stuff from the hard-core capitalists, etc. I believe I said I would do a post outlining my thoughts about a project, but I am still cogitating over it (and…

  • EDATE: a quirk of the dates

    It’s the day before Thanksgiving and I thought I would do a post before doing some feasting. I’m continuing on writing about some “findings” that I encountered while working on a project. This time it is about the function EDATE and its curious quirk. But it does make sense for the quirk. Little background First,…