Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle
Mar. 1st, 2012 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkfrostMy GIS class has been thwarting me every step of the way this week. First the Census Bureau totally changed their website, meaning that not only was my book out of date, the teacher's updates to the book are now out of date! So I had to email the professor and let her know, which stalled out my progress on Tuesday. Then yesterday, having gotten the correct files, ArcMap starts fucking with me! I tell it to delete identical files, it deletes, like, half the map. I undo it, and I try again. Nothing happens. I try a third time, et voila! But it didn't isolate them like its supposed to, so I couldn't write down the FIDs and Country_IDs for the homework assignment! GAH! So now I'm pausing and taking a deep breath, and when I finish this entry I will get back to work on this stupid stupid map.
I know I sound like I hate this class, but it is really quite interesting. ArcMap is just frustrating. But shiny! Plus, new skill set! Check me out with my GIS skills!
Totally slacked on the whole "weight loss" thing for the last week and a half, and therefore did not weigh myself on Tuesday because I didn't want to see that number go up. But! It is a new dawn, a new day, (a new life) and I'm feeling good, so back on the wagon I go! Metaphorical wagon. I got a fruit salad this morning, and it served to remind me how much I hate melon. Well, honeydew is ok, but not when it is contaminated with cantaloupe like this stuff was. Blech. Cantaloupe is just gross to me. It doesn't even taste like food. You know how some people have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap? I have that, but for cantaloupe. Soap cantaloupe. Look, cantaloupe is just kind of fun to type, ok?
Tried (and failed) to go to Taco Tuesday this week. Quarry House was jam-packed, so we went across the street to Corporate Bar and Grill, formerly Piratz Tavern. Well. Bar Rescue really screwed them right the fuck over, and I have no idea what they're going to do. But right now they have the old menu, so we got some delicious pirate-y cocktails and some sandwiches, and hung out for a while. Duante and I also took a picture of our angry faces and sent it to Joe, who'd ditched for the second time in a row.
Angry faces:
Ok, enough procrastination, back to my mapping!
I know I sound like I hate this class, but it is really quite interesting. ArcMap is just frustrating. But shiny! Plus, new skill set! Check me out with my GIS skills!
Totally slacked on the whole "weight loss" thing for the last week and a half, and therefore did not weigh myself on Tuesday because I didn't want to see that number go up. But! It is a new dawn, a new day, (a new life) and I'm feeling good, so back on the wagon I go! Metaphorical wagon. I got a fruit salad this morning, and it served to remind me how much I hate melon. Well, honeydew is ok, but not when it is contaminated with cantaloupe like this stuff was. Blech. Cantaloupe is just gross to me. It doesn't even taste like food. You know how some people have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap? I have that, but for cantaloupe. Soap cantaloupe. Look, cantaloupe is just kind of fun to type, ok?
Tried (and failed) to go to Taco Tuesday this week. Quarry House was jam-packed, so we went across the street to Corporate Bar and Grill, formerly Piratz Tavern. Well. Bar Rescue really screwed them right the fuck over, and I have no idea what they're going to do. But right now they have the old menu, so we got some delicious pirate-y cocktails and some sandwiches, and hung out for a while. Duante and I also took a picture of our angry faces and sent it to Joe, who'd ditched for the second time in a row.
Angry faces:
Ok, enough procrastination, back to my mapping!
