Any thoughts?

We thought a November jaunt to the Caribbean would be on order, so we're down to three choices:

1. Aruba
2. Nassau
3. Puerto Rico

We have three major requirements:

1. Good food
2. Not a strip mall
3. Affordable accommodations

Anyone have any suggestions? 

Datahour,A,B,C,D,E,F

You get a new record everytime something happens.

In DataHour 11, you get substantially more things happening than happened in DataHour 10.

So, you want to figure out which particular data point might be bulking up to give you more records.

So, you effectively do:

SELECT datahour, a, COUNT(*)

FROM table

GROUP BY datahour, a

for each field A, B, C, D, E and F, hoping to find the particular field where it went from low to high.

There's got to be a term for this type of data analysis, but I can't figure out what it is.

Forget the old website example.  This isn't particular to websites.  Or emu births.  Or lottery tickets sold.  Fields A-F could just as easily be 'Client IP, UserAgent, CountryCode, etc' as it could be 'Weight, Height, Eye Color, Hair Color, Payment Type, etc'.

HENCHMEN NEEDED (London, but planned worldwide expansion)

Reply to: job-783766933@craigslist.org

Date: 2008-08-05, 2:34PM BST

20-30 henchmen needed for moderately-sized supervillain organisation with large expansion potential (fortresses built into geological structures, corruption of government officials, possible genesis of 'nemesis' vigilante). Electrical theme.

Applicants must be willing to learn new skills, including but not limited to operation of specialised 'lightning guns'. Applicants will also be required to wear specialised uniform when at work (functional rubber suits with my logo on front), except in cases where deception is required (posing as hostages in order to ambush vigilantes, etc).

Desired (but not necessarily required) in applicants:

-interesting deformations/obsessions/powers(?) giving rise to interesting nicknames (e.g. Claws, Pyro, Buzzsaw, and similar)

-unwavering loyalty

-being a corruptible government official

-ability to work as part of a close-knit team (unless interesting obsession is of the 'lone wolf' variety)

-grudge against any well-known vigilante

-flexible moral code

Equal opportunies employer. Both henchmen and femmes fatales absolutely welcome.

Great promotion opportunities - right-hand-man position constantly being unexpectedly opened. Would look good on any future supervillain resume/CV.

Send an email with details of any prior henchman work, or details of what is driving you to join the ranks of a supervillain organisation. Will reply to all serious applicants. Hope to hear from you, and with luck, welcome you into a rewarding and promising career!

- Jacque (The Zapper) Zerapi

* Location: London, but planned worldwide expansion

* Compensation: £20,000pa starting salary, with added commissions based around success of supervillain operations. Contracts negotiable depending on applicant's personal skills/powers.

* Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.

* Please, no phone calls about this job!

* Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

I, of course, needed to apply.

Greetings,

I would like to apply to the position of Henchman as posted to craigslist.org.

The majority of my career has been involved with a major evil corporation, based in the Pacific Northwest, whose end goal was to not only ensure that every household had a computer, but that their particular software was going to be on that computer.  As naught but a cog in the machine, I toiled and toiled at the hands of unseen masters to help achieve this goal.

Luckily, all was not lost.  I found a position in the belly of the beast at which I excelled, helping to run the online communities which tried to provide a sense of transparency into the organization. While the hint of hidden beauty is often far better than what you see when it is stripped naked, true evil is best seen clearly.

What is truly driving me to join the ranks of your supervillain organisation is that I have spent years toiling for an established organisation.  I wish to be employed in a startup, to help that fledgling group become the true evil that it can become.

Do I have hopes and dreams of becoming a supervillain in the future? No, that would be stepping both too high and not high enough.  My goal is to become the person behind the scenes, the one that the transparency never quite reaches to, hidden in a back office, whispering plans into the welcoming ear of the charismatic leader, or whoever will pay me enough to hear my devilish machinations.

Thank you for your time and for this opportunity.   A more detailed resume and/or evil plan samples are available upon request.

John Eddy

But I can't come up with an encapsulating term that describes that.

I've penciled in 'exploration' but that sounds a little too Captain Cook and the Hawaiian Islands...

Thoughts?

Passions

• News
  • Politics
  • Emerging Technology
  • Sports
  • Breaking News
• Entertainment
  • Internet Culture
    • Blogging
    • Online Community Technology
    • Web Comics
  • Geek Culture
    • Make Magazine
    • Craft Magazine
  • Toys
    • Action Figures
    • Lego
    • Nerf Warfare
    • Remote Controlled Trinkets
    • Robots
  • Pop Culture
    • Movies
    • Music
    • Television
• Reading
  • Books
    • Science Fiction
    • Mystery
    • Fiction
    • Young Adult
    • Science
    • Cooking
  • Comic Books
• Games
  • Board Games
  • Role Playing Games
  • Console Games
• Food and Drink
  • Farmers' Markets
  • Wines, Spirts and Beer
  • Cooking
  • Coffee
  • Soda
• Photography
• Health
  • Fitness
  • Diet
• Family and Friends
• Debating
• Writing
  • Short Stories
  • Reviews
    • Book
    • Movie
    • Food
  • Microblogging
• Enabling
• Researching
• Exploration
• Travel
• Science and Technology
  • New and Emerging Technologies
  • Physics
  • Astronomy

• News
  • Politics
  • Emerging Technology
  • Sports
  • Breaking News
• Pop Culture
  • Movies
  • Internet Culture
    • Blogging
    • Online Community Technology
    • Web Comics
  • Geek Culture
  • Music
• Reading
  • Books
    • Science Fiction
    • Mystery
    • Fiction
    • Young Adult
    • Science
    • Cooking
  • Comic Books
• Games
  • Board Games
  • Role Playing Games
  • Console Games
• Food and Drink
  • Farmers' Markets
  • Wines, Spirts and Beer
  • Cooking
• Photography
• Health
  • Fitness
  • Diet
• Family and Friends
• Debating

Life is too short to do something you aren't passionate about.

Ever since I said that, I've been trying to figure out, in terms of work, what I am passionate about.  I fired up my little freeware MindMapper and set about writing it all down:

Passions

• News/Current Events
• Pop Culture
  • Movies
  • Internet Culture
    • Blogging
    • Online Community Technology
    • Web Comics
  • Geek Culture
  • Music
• Reading
  • Books
    • Science Fiction
    • Mystery
    • Fiction
    • Young Adult
    • Science
    • Cooking
  • Comic Books
• Games
  • Board Games
  • Role Playing Games
  • Console Games
• Food and Drink
  • Farmers' Markets
  • Wines, Spirts and Beer
  • Cooking
• Photography
• Health
  • Fitness
  • Diet
• Family and Friends

That's what I have so far.  I'm not sure what might be missing (maybe new and emerging technology), but, now I'm not sure where to go next.  I obviously need to find a job in this area, hopefully without an on-call component (but if it has to have one, it might as well be something that I enjoy doing, right?).

See, I've blocked a person or two on Facebook because they linked their Facebook status to their current twitter, and they definitely twittered.  Incessantly.  Not to the point where they're talking about making boom boom, but, more than enough.

I even unsubscribed to someone's blog because they blogged their recent twitters[1].  Which in and of itself wasn't bad, but she also blogged those twitters in more detail. 

In fact, I actually follow her on twitter, now.  But, the reason why I do those things above is because I believe twitter is, really, quite useful and fun.  But Twitters belong there.  If I want to follow your twitters, I'll follow you on twitter.

It works in the other direction too.  There are two people on twitter I stopped following because all they posted were links/headlines to their recent blog posts.  If I want to read your blog, I'll subscribe to your blog.

Really, I have Defective Yeti to thank for me getting into Twitter with this post.

So, if you want to follow me on Twitter, go ahead.

[1] I refuse to say tweets.  Well, apart from just then.  Or talking about birds.

Client Country Code, ClientIP, UserAgent, DataHour, Referrer, DomainName, Datadate.

(the real table is much deeper than this, but, it'll do for my question)

I think my website is being flooded, but I'm unsure as to the vector.  Is it one particular IP address?  One particular country?  One particular referrer?  So, what I'd like to do is run something like this:

SELECT xyzzy, COUNT(*)

FROM mytable

WHERE datahour = '##'

GROUP BY xyzzy

ORDER BY count(*) DESC

where xyzzy ends up being populated by each field in the table in succession until all the fields have been done.  I'm planning on doing it in code, it's easy enough to do, but, what is this kind of data analysis called?

Is there even a name for it?  I mean, in english, it's 'What is the source of the majority of my web traffic for this hour?'

Is it me, or does that 'teenager' look like she's 30?

I'm beginning to feel that way about my new role.

It isn't just working with someone that I have a history with.

It isn't just the 2 calls a night I seem to be averaging.

It isn't just the 24x7x365 with a 5 minute SLA "on call schedule".

It isn't just the egos of some of my coworkers.

It isn't just the lack of a work/life balance evidenced by the email discussion of #3.

It isn't just being told that 'You might think he's trying to help you succeed, but he's just setting you up to fail' about the senior person who pushed for my position.

It's all of that.

And especially #3 coupled with a sub-6 digit salary and #2 coupled with my wife's sleeping issues.

*sigh*

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