2010-08-07

elainegrey: Inspired by Grypping/gripping beast styles from Nordic cultures (Default)
2010-08-07 01:22 pm
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Air traffic around my home and SJC

There was an interesting thread about air traffic locally on a neighborhood mailing list, and this site http://sjc.webtrak-lochard.com/template/index.html was mentioned. I suspect the site is provided to address noise concerns from San Jose's airport, with a ten minute delay. Presumably the "point of closest approach" function, showing the distance and angle that a plane might have to one's home (or any other random place on the map) will display a point in time that is always in the past.
elainegrey: Inspired by Grypping/gripping beast styles from Nordic cultures (Default)
2010-08-07 01:23 pm
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Birkman Report

So, through a process that may best be described as badgering, i managed to get our professional development folks to give me an electronic copy of my Birkman report. There are some interesting results i want to discuss with myself here, so i've tried cutting and pasting from the pdf. No go, it looks something like
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I've used "strings" and found nothing useful in it. There's a "Save to text(accessible)" menu option in Adobe Acrobat, it looks like
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You know, this is terribly annoying.