Jolene Smith @aejolene@octodon.social
My office bandwidth is still trash, so making a great sacrifice by learning SQL and REST by a reflecting pool next to my most favorite new sculpture.
Ha! Just found a stack oveflow question that perfectly expressed a thing I've been trying to do for a while now. Got super hopeful. Scrolled to the bottom and realized it was my own question from 2016.
My accidental journey for the day has been to get (non archaeology) gov't data out of a 33 column xls-in-pdf and make it filterable on the web. For the good of humanity. Send tips.
It's a beautiful day, folks (here, at least). Go get 'em. https://youtu.be/kMCMudxTTQE
Just added another post-it to my wall of future projects. It's a bittersweet and hopeful place, that corner behind my monitor.
scrape-a-grave: python. pulls FindAGrave data into SQL database. (I haven't tested this, but I just might...) http://bit.ly/2Htim7G
My 6yo confuses the words predator and creditor. It's both adorable and completely depressing.
COVA in NoVA! In Falls Church for the winter meeting of the Council of Virginia Archaeologists.
This morning I talked to my 6yo 1st grader about her most recent "code red" active shooter drill. She was lying on the floor with her head covered. She was scared because she wasn't sure it was practice. This is not OK. This is not normal.
1st jacket-free commute of 2018! 🌸🚲🌸
The way to my heart on Valentine's Day is with diamonds. The @OpenRefine@twitter.com data cleaning kind. 💕💘💎💎💘💕
Some years, lovely hand-crafted, diy kid school valentines are in order. Valentine's Day 2018 credits, however, go to the Spider-Man™ and My Little Pony™ franchises, respectively.
Possum's Rest is a good Virginia historic house name.
Reading a transcript of my own recorded words with all the "um" and "like" and "you know" fillers still included produces a special kind of discomfort.
Unexpected thing I'm learning today: how to get data out of a big ol' Access database into XML while specifying relationships/fields.
At my first History Happy Hour! Topic- Freedom Fighters at Rest: US Colored Troops at East End & Evergreen Cemeteries (Richmond).
The end of the dark, cold season approaches and I realize that I haven't done a single tactile/textile project. Mixed feelings. I've not been idle, but still.
@edsu Took over someone's languishing project involving an Access db w 84 tables. 90% closer to deploying a few thousand records of historic goodness in consumable form on the web with accompanying media! Bless .bat and xcopy.
Today I won at data.
*sobs*
