A few days ago I posted a picture of a Romanesco. This is the same one from a different perspective and in monochrome rather than in color.
At first I wasn’t sure I liked the monochrome. The color of the Romanesco is beautiful and adds a lot to its interest. However, black and white photography has always interested me and I like the way the light and shadows here play on the photo.
Several years ago I wrote about how to export an ArcGIS feature’s attribute table as a CSV file. ESRI didn’t make this extremely intuitive. Since that time I’ve moved into using ArcGIS Pro and thought I’d post about doing the same thing in this application.
It’s even easier to export table records in ArcGIS Pro. You can select a subset of records in your attribute table if you aren’t trying to export the entire thing. Then, right-click on the feature and click Data -> Export Table. Alternatively, click the feature layer “Data” tab and select Export Table. A geoprocessing dialog table will open with a Copy Rows task.
Under the Output Table parameter enter a name for your table with a .csv extention. You can also choose to save your table as a .dbf, in a geodatabase or as a .txt file(comma delimited).
Incidently, if you try to save your table outside of a database but without an extention, the tool will default to exporting as a .dbf file.
This process isn’t difficult but it might throw some people off since you can’t select your extension in any dialog dropdown. You have to type it out yourself.
About a week ago I was at the grocery store when I noticed this beautiful thing nestled between the lettuce and broccoli. I had heard of Romanesco before but had never seen one.
I came back a few days later and bought one. I plan on eating it but my main purpose for buying it was to photograph it. This edible flower bud has an amazing fractal-like appearance and is quite striking to look at.
I’ve actually been in the habit of photographing vegetables for some time although I haven’t been posting them here. Perhaps in the future I will. It’s fun to share amazing natural art work.
Panhandlers and bums are becoming more and more honest and trasparent. It’s become fashionable for them to display signs saying something like “Not gonna lie, I need beer”.
Why can’t businesses be more like today’s forward thinking beggars? I’d appreciate the honesty of a commercial stating “We really don’t care about your needs, we just want your money”?
New ideas are nothing more than the remixing of old ideas. There is nothing new under the sun but new combinations are everywhere.
Ryan Davison
Finally Daylight Savings is over for the year. The day it ends isn’t that much better than the day it begins. But at least you feel like you’re getting something back.
But jerking people’s internal clocks around really isn’t something the government needs to be doing. I think we’d all be happy to just let this one go. I know I would be.
I was full of hope when SmugMug bought Flickr earlier this year. I’ve used the Flickr platform for several years. As a place to store and display photos, it’s great. But it did seem a little stodgy and old.
I thought the SmugMug purchase might spruce the site up and excite people to reconsider it as a visual social media destination. I don’t know the Flickr numbers but I haven’t read anything about a resurgence in use so I assume one hasn’t happened.
Instead of any apparent optimizations to the site, Flickr has now decided to limit free accounts to 1000 photos and videos. Now, 1000 is pretty good and I’m nowhere near that number of photos on the site. But for SmugMug to come in and start taking away what users have been used to in the past seems like a bad decision. Now, all over the Flickr site I’m getting ads for the platform’s paid “pro” subscription.
I was bored the other day and was trying to get myself to do something; anything! I decided to give myself two minutes to write a poem. It didn’t matter how short or unrefined it was (good thing). It was only important that I wrote something.
What I came up with probably should have only taken one minute. It’s short, circular and has no deep meaning. But it felt good to accomplish something anyway.
I have two minutes
To call the muse
And have her show me verse.
So any lines
I here put down
Must naturally be terse.
It’s important to pay attention to what people say. But the real measure of a man is in what he does.
Take politicians for example. They love to talk and promise the world to get elected. Once elected, however, they very often disappoint their constituents by not following through with what they promised.
So how can you tell if you’ve elected a good leader or a total dud? You look at their actions. How did they vote on issues if they were previously elected? Did they vote at all or were they absent most of the time? If they were a private citizen prior to being elected, what did they do? How did they act?
The same action based principles hold true with businesses. Advertisements and mission statements might get me in the door. But it’s the way employees treat me or the way a manager handles a problem I may have with their product or service that determines if I become a loyal client or not.
In today’s information driven world there’s a lot of talk and little action. This makes it hard, but not impossible, to judge character. It definitely takes a bit of work. But by observing actions, regardless of intent, we can form a pretty good model of who people are.