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If I had a dollar for every time I've had a "tech nerd" explain to me why cellphones are so same-y now and completely fuck up the entire timeline, history, and process involved... Anyway it's about market control, not inherent technical & ergo features.

Manually cleaning spatial metadata is so fun because I get to play a silly little game in which I get to guess if the data's fucked because somebody goofed it in the field, they used an iPhone as a GPS, or some poor undergrad had a final the same week they were doing data input.

I may not be a hardcore fish person, but I do have the intense desire to blast someone with a garden hose every time I hear the phrase "There's enough volume in the tank, it's just vertical!"

"Politics is a sophisticated game of chess" says local dipstick claiming that the Interstate Commerce Clause & the Elastic Clause are unconstitutional.... Somehow. More at 11.

Literally anyone except NOAA provide functioning metadata for national-and-above scale datasets challenge. "We're a world-leading institution and format our data to reflect the needs of users" Sure but I've had lab partners whom I failed labs because of with better metadata docs.

Publish your goddamn code.

Still think the funniest thing about my undergrad degree in environmental science is how much more I learned about time series analysis from my music classes

Being the child of a former children's choir director gives you an extremely funny Pavlovian response to hearing güiro when you least expect it.

Happy Pride! (But also more seriously I strongly recommend this movie and if you want to talk about it, I am so game)

If I had a dollar for every time a national statistics center website offered secondary language options that bricked their search tool, I'd be going out for lunch right now.