Halfway done with grading… 2 more classes to go.
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I’ve been taking photos since the days of film, when I was on my high school yearbook. I’ve always loved doing it, but was never quite confident enough to think of it as a job option for me.
I do graphic design and marketing, and my biggest client has asked me to do a bunch of photography for them. I’m going to be a professional (at least in the most modest sense of being paid money to do it.)
I’m excited about work for the first time in a long time. I enjoy what I do, of course, but it’s been a long time since I had a nice, fat, juicy challenge.
And, because I will be making some money, I went out and purchased a nicer camera. That’s exciting also, a Nikon D750. I’ve wanted one for years, but without the possibility of using it to make money, I never took the plunge. Wheeeee !
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Remeber to get a decent lens, too!
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I’ll add others, but the Nikon 24-120 will suffice for now. I moved from an Olympus (because of film era loyalty) to a Nikon, so everything is just a tiny bit different. 
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I see. My professional camera since 2011 has been an Olympus E-P2. But now I’m tempted to migrate to Fuji.
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This is MY garage. It’s on MY property. Yes, kids - I’m now a homeowner!
But that’s not the true point. I’ve never owned a car and had a garage in which to park it
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Congratulations!
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Great news! I’m envious. My 
gets covered with 
and 
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And tree pollen, but there’s no emoji for that. Yet.
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Thanks!
Yeah, the yard next door to the south (this photo was taken facing west) has a lovely dogwood tree that you can’t see in the photo, and it sheds on my driveway each year, so I know what you mean.
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As I always say, the first sign of spring is scraping the turdus migratorius off the windshield.
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First piece of solo-authored software published today!
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Whats it do?
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Regrettably, a specific enough subset of analyses in an already specific subfield of biology that telling you is likely to dox me.
But something necessary!
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. . . . and the second, and the third, and the . . . .
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So it’s written in R?
So it’s written in R?
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Hahahah, yes. I have a couple collaborative Python packages and I’m a co-developer on some C++ stuff, but this is my first solo author work, in R.
I actually really like it! I like how much infrastructure R has to support both code review and biology. I didn’t like R much prior to this, but I do now. I’m increasingly disillusioned with elitism in other language communities.
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Almost done with grades… got everyone toted up, and am waiting for a couple of late papers…
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Yep. It supports Markdown format, so it’s possible for the code to contain its own documentation. Some of the graphics capabilities are really slick, provided you understand them. I don’t, but I steal from people who do.
It also has a lot of support among biostatisticians. Everyone else calls it clunky old 40-year-old tech that nobody understands,* but it can be really slick once you get around the weirdness. It’s like MATLAB, but more so.
*like I’m one to talk. I’m an EE. We use MATLAB because we do a lot with math and algorithms and simulations but for some reason are never taught to program properly. Also, everything we do uses matrices and complex numbers, so MATLAB does that a lot slicker than a bunch of for loops in C++. C++ doesn’t even have a standard format for matrices. I would personally rather use Python than MATLAB, which changes from year to year to year, but EEs would never adopt that because we don’t know how to program /s
Indeed.
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Got all the grades in with a few hours to spare! w00t!
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