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This morning's micro progress in thinking about data mining & python (before i stepped over the microprogress line into the space of overwhelm), was to find the couple of top-ish python libraries and modules for the purpose. A couple books on data mining came to my attention in the search, and i should probably read those too.

From the code libraries i can begin design work.

This, instead of playing with resumes and such. Sooner or later, i will need to resurrect my blog and begin being social under my public name about the project.

Feeling the overwhelm that hit, though -- partly triggered by seing the data mining company a friend used to work for is now at Google, realizing the unexplored networking opportunity that friend presents, also recognizing my fear... not fear, but learned aversion... of the environment that i recall from grad school and listening to the guys posturing and posing.... and i ran into that environment at WhereCamp ... and maybe that's part of what is bothering me about work: the ego and posturing and combativeness for the sake of combat, an interest in being right in the dimension of academic precision and not about a solution that works in multiple dimensions...

Again, i circle around to the question: Do i want to stay in this world?

A possible vision: develop my personal data mine, find value in the small data, and show it off as business analytics i can do for Meeting... go off in search of problems from folks who can't afford... sigh. There's a glimmer there. A glimmer.

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Morning: up early as part of the shift to eastern time.

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Christine recommends talking to friend Twit re the learned aversion and that i should question the learned aversion.

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Cloudy. Only coots by the back water feature. My vague memory was that there were gulls as well neat the water feature during the last storm.

Hmm, if i word mined this entry based on the #perpetual calendar tag, would i think gulls were present.

As i left, i saw a flock of male and female hooded mergansers (Tribe Mergini, Lophodytes cucullatus). In the dim light, my phone did not get a particularly good image, but it's good enough to note crests on the males raised and lowered. I am embarrassed that all that registered for me was the big white patch so i thought "buffleheads!" without reflecting that they were fairly large ducks and had the longer bodies of a merganser.

Mergansers are dramatic birds, i think.

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Packing. I hate all my clothes. I feel exhausted, but i need to get the minimal kit together. I am being picked up by a friend at 4:50 am tomorrow. Oy.