Driving Lightning

Tonight we are enjoying a fabulous Pinot Gris from Coastal Vineyards of South Dartmouth, MA. Sunshine in a glass. flip.it/UNbNY

Applied special Lync hotfix to eliminate crashing when on Cinema display. Now just won’t log in.

Nope — 354MB MS Lync 2011 still can’t log in without crashing. I’m waiting for the 1GB version.

Silly me — I needed the Lync update that’s 354 MB. Clearly 228MB isn’t enough to do IM.

And after installing 228 MB of code, Microsoft Lync 2011 consistently crashes after the login screen. Nice.

I just installed Microsoft Lync 2010 for Mac and it told me I needed to install 228 MB to do instant messaging. Yikes.

Love the dplyr pipes, but struggle with how to use non-standard evaluation for lists of column names. Doable, but brain-hurting. #rstats

Just finished reserving two week-long business trips. I long for the days when that didn’t take half a day.

Apple’s stock price seems to be taking a run at its all time high of 705 pre-split, 100.71 post-split.

This NYTimes article isn’t just for big data scientists; ALL data scientists spend most of their time cleaning data. nytimes.com/2014/08/18/tec…