My Musings

  • 57% Okay with 170K+ Dead

    I read an astonishing statistic that approximately 57% of Republicans think 170K+ deaths are acceptable. About 73% think the handling of the coronavirus has gone really well. Here’s an article relaying those statistics and more but that article wasn’t the article that I first found that shocking 57% statistic. No, I read it somewhere else….

  • Python and Windows

    Finally figured out how to run a Python program as a batch file from Windows. Well, sort of. I’ve been learning about algorithms and as part of that adventure I had to wade into Python programs so I’ve been learning Python as well. The problem stems from the way I downloaded Python as per Algorithms…

  • Time to chill out

    So, the Conways decided to take time out of their political work and focus on family. I think that’s a great idea. Their daughter has been on twitter acting out whatever family dynamic has been going on in her life and I was a bit worried about what that meant. I can’t see that family…

  • He Knew.

    [I’m trying out something new: the Google web stories. I love the concept of tiny stories via images and a few text, but I do think it will be a LOT more work for me since my images are rarely photos. If I do use this tool, I will have to turn toward photos from…

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    Power BI and Forecasting

    Since my last post on the coronavirus data before the Labor Day weekend (two posts ago?), I’ve watched a few videos on using Power BI to track the coronavirus. Most of them show just the usual: total number of cases, deaths and recoveries by global, country or states shown as a card, a table, line…