I rarely take lunch breaks at work. Sometimes I go for a quick walk around campus in the morning, and then I always get coffee in the Arkansas Union every afternoon. So usually I snack and eat at my desk while working or surfing the web. One day, I started noticing what appeared to be dandruff around my keyboard and on my desk. I was shocked and horrified as I had never had a dandruff problem before. Thinking “Surely this isn’t dandruff?”, I ran my left hand through my hair, and this dandruff-like substance rained down on my keyboard. I freaked, quietly mind you (I share an office with others). I went to the bathroom, and violently scratched my head, trying to get as much of “it” out and off of my scalp as I could. I returned to my desk. As the weeks passed (yes, weeks), this happened several more times. When I got my next haicut, I casually asked “Does my scalp look dry to you?”, only to get “No, not really. Aggravated maybe, but not dry.” Aggravated? What the hell does that mean? So now I was getting a complex. What was I going to do?
Back to the eating at my desk, which seemingly has nothing to do with this story, or does it? One day during this ordeal, I was peeling a naval orange to snack on. We get the huge bags of ‘em from Sams Club, they are the best naval oranges I have ever had in my life, seriously. Anyway, I’m peeling this orange and notice the dandruff-like substance, yes, the same substance I had been seeing and believed to be coming from my scalp, I see this stuff all over my desk where I had been peeling the orange. I look at my left hand, this same stuff is all over my hand. And then it hits me. I take my left hand, rub it through my hair, and wax from the orange, NOT dandruff, rains down. Turns out all this time it was not a case of dandruff at all, but the wax from the damn oranges getting stuck to my hands, then coming off on my desk and keyboard while I was working.
These oranges are giving me dandruff.
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It’s kinda sad when you get excited over data. But this isn’t just data, it’s data that will make my life a little bit easier. My boss bought me the 7.5-minute DRGs (Digital Raster Graphics) for the entire State of Oklahoma on CD from Charttiff. I already have the Arkansas set, and having them has been a real timesaver. When you rip them off of the CD and onto your hard drive, you select the projection you want and the format (JPEG, TIF). It’s pretty slick. And most importantly, this means that I don’t have to hunt around for them on the web, find them in four different formats and in three different projections, and then convert them and reproject them. Yeah, this will make my life alot easier.
