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While last night my achievements were few, yesterday during lunch was a different matter. My spreadsheet now has the data sorted by team, and the teams are now named areas. This means I can now look at future opponents and look at how well their offense and defense are doing.
Pulling from the above data I was able to give bad estimates of what the score should be and whether that called for a win. These I compared future to real performance and hit a solid 50%. As I was already assuming the first the weeks would be off, that puts me at 66%.

Not entirely true. I did done shredding, and got the Wif set up on her laptop. The things pretty dope. Of course, trying to connect to the WiFi turned into the usual cluster off not being able to find the password. Me and my big long random hand done passwords. So I reset the router, which annoys xfinity, so I have to power off everything at least three times. Finally get a new password for the network, new password for admin, everything is written sheen and everything works.
She goes to bed and I head down to the den. My desktop is also on the WiFi, and you guessed it. I have to remember the password. I go back upstairs to grab it, and the post-it is gone. Just a big stack of nothing nowhere. I search for ten minutes on and under everything. Totally an exaggeration by the way. Finally I find it crumpled a little bit on top of the garbage. Oops. Disaster averted. More shredding and cleaning tonight.

During my lunch yesterday, I started looking at how to figure out winners. I then left everything at work. Oops.
I have a spreadsheet now with some basic numbers for each team in each game. With my being a purist though, l hit the wall of Excel’s useful functions for what I’m doing. Excel is incredibly powerful, the second you use it only for layout. The fact I have to go into a different editor to be able to do basic database style queries kills me. Hell, just embed an ability to add vbasic directly into cells. Is that really so difficult? I know, Excel isn’t designed for more than a spreadsheet, but if that were really true, why have the hooks already there?
Also, why is it called Visual Basic? It’s not like its a very visual programming language.

I did nothing on my list this weekend. I’m actually kinda disappointed with myself. Do I need to set targets before I play video games? Do I need to tell the Wif that I’ll be making a racket in the den while she’s watching some show or I think I need to get to a baseline cleanliness down there via the racket method, followed by a target achievement before video games. I should also define which video games I play at a when. Mount & Blade is only viable when I have plenty of time. That is an awesome time eater right there. I wonder if people would get it if I started referring to time sinks as Langoliers?
So yeah, my goal is to clean the den tonight and then start seeing targets. Probably this weeks first target should be v1 of my game picker. I need to coffee up with a name for it.

No one with a beard should be putting little bobbles in their beards, though its at least an improvement over hippie beads. No, they should be building Christmas displays in their beards.
Now I have myself a couple 555 chips, some red and green LEDs and an idea. Thinking a barrett, with perfboard hot glued to one side, using the metal of the clasp to hold onto the underbeard and a coin cell battery.
Right, so I need to breadboard this. I would really like to alternate green and red blinking, and I think I see how that can happen, which its funny as the way I would bee doing it, without using a spare transistor, would be using the odd diode as a Diode more than the whole light emitting action. Seems legit.

This will be the last time I pick the NFL winners based on guesses. It might not be a solid model at first, but it can’t be consistently worse than my average. Knowing me, what should take an hour will be more like eight, but whatever. I also don’t know if people want me taking a picture of a football pool, one which I did entirely for fun, and tagging it as #madewithcode. I’m sure some people might be peeved with that.
I’m still not sure what the original algorithm is going to be, the first iteration of you will, but that should hopefully work out fairly fast. Then as the days and weeks go by, just add another layer of data and have it determine the best multipliers and exponents on its own. Of course, I’ll have to start looking at secondary variables fairly soon, but that’s all doable.

The Wif is done with the quarter. It’s time to get down to brass tacks. Time to finish my desk. Setup my camera on a tripod. Maybe a spare phone on a timer. Build shit. Let’s do this!
Yah!

I wonder if I could up my fantasy football (and other sports) just by processing Twitter feeds. Especially given only 140 characters, it shouldn’t be too hard to go through all 32 had offices and fifty odd players. Probably start by looking for similar hash-tags and then compare with their fantasy scoring.
To clarify: I don’t believe this is a unique idea. I’m sure someone else has already done it. I’m sure someone else’s results will surpass my own.

To actually do something, I usually require a reason. I am a lazy person and I abhor work for the sake of work itself. I’ve known I really should learn Python at some point, but never had a good purpose. The thing that really struck me at in my one MIT book is the use of state machines to break down a problem into really small bits of code.
Entirely for fun I guess who the winners each weak are in the NFL. My record sucks. I usually do better than 0.500 but compared to other people, I show my obvious lack of knowledge. I’m cool with that. It’s fun. I was thinking though. As the impetus for better coding, why not look at my picks.
I’m figuring start by making a spreadsheet of every season game. Have all my data, or at least the ability to add it in later. Ooh 80, I could totally make it better. I don’t do any real work. I could have my script make its own tweaking after giving the data and rough handlers. It needs to know that one game affects two different teams. These teams both played in one stadium, giving only one team home field advantage, both both are affected by the weather in separate and distinct ways, not only for the teams, but the field itself.
So I have my raw data that it can mangle to its hearts content, and then complex data like the weather.
Right. Let’s do this.

I failed to mention something. The desk will continue to evolve organically. Not actually organically of course. Spare carbon based molecules won’t be getting added. Instead, as I get more excess parts, they’ll be bolted on. For now, I need one last piece of structural metal and I’m calling it done. A couple clamps, maybe a tool rack and it’ll start becoming.
The importance of a desk is minor, the importance of it being a precursor to other projects is immeasurable.
Having a vision is breathing new life into it. I’m seeing it set up with a automatic camera to photograph it at set intervals. Time lapse devolution of a work space.
One of the issues that was bugging me was the dead space. What what if I glued pages from books over the top, like a papier-mache skin, throwing lights behind it to make the words glow out.