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The books I finished reading in 2020
These are the books I finished reading, for the first time, in 2020. I’ve added a few notes about my favorites … It will be difficult to beat
Hemingway
,
Hitler
, and
Bridge to the Gods
.
Micah Woods
2021-01-18
3 min read
Reached today's goal
I struggled with a good title for this post. At first I was thinking of something along the lines of “it’s not how you start, but how you finish.” Running out of Singha Park Chiang Rai just after sunrise.
Micah Woods
Last updated on 2020-12-30
3 min read
rturf 11: tidying data, ClipVol, and automatic reports
I step away from the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship stimpmeter and clipping volume analysis to show why I suggest that clipping volume data be recorded using the layout from the sheet
Last updated on 2020-10-27
1 min read
rturf
It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise
I took the title of this post from Gabriel García Márquez. That describes what I had been experiencing recently. And that was even before the elephants arrived. Here’s what happened. It had been raining for over a week, tropical rainy season kind of rain, a little more every day.
Last updated on 2020-10-16
3 min read
The Gateway Chip
Funny how I happened to be in 7-11 again the other day. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw some unfamiliar packaging, and took a closer look to find the details of this new flavor.
Last updated on 2020-10-15
1 min read
rturf 10: summarising by group, and chart facets
In the last episode, I showed how R packages—also called libraries—can be loaded into the working environment. These packages contain useful functions. One that I use all the time is the summarise function in the dplyr package.
Micah Woods
Last updated on 2020-10-07
6 min read
rturf
My current training diet
If you’re like me, this is the time of year when you’ve got more bananas and passion fruit than you know what to do with. I’ve been mixing 500 mL boxes of coconut milk with about 75 cm3 of chia seeds to make a pudding.
Last updated on 2020-10-03
1 min read
Wet rocks are slippery rocks
Last Sunday I started running in Phattalung as the sun came up at 6. Four hours and 27 minutes later I was back where I started, at the finish line of the Ultra Trail Thailand Phattalung 25 km.
Last updated on 2020-09-29
1 min read
A big morning at the bird club
There was a big competition at the bird club a couple blocks down my street this morning. I had walked out on a circuitous route to get some fried bananas, sticky rice, peppered pork, and planting pots.
Last updated on 2020-09-26
2 min read
Promising results after one week
You may recall the mosquito and all that followed from that. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that I heard footsteps a couple weeks ago—footsteps on the ceiling above my office on the second floor.
Micah Woods
Last updated on 2020-09-20
2 min read
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