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Starting the condensing
Oct. 12th, 2009 10:30 pmAnd the count is up to 1025 books in the catalogue (well, actually 3 bookcases), of which about 2 1/2 bookcases worth have been packed into boxes and shifted downstairs*. Of course the catalogue is building on the spreadsheets from the Adelaide move, so there were about 700+ on when I decanted from the spreadsheets. And we haven't bought 300+ new books, just retrieved a whole bunch from storage... and bought some more.
Unfortunately it is the 3 biggest bookcases with the most books on left to go. But Z has packed tools downstairs and a fair amount of the spare room is packed.
Now we just need somewhere to move into... soon.
And in other news, for those with a sense of humour like that, Journal of Obnoxious Statistics. I like the "Walking-the-dog Bias in Household Travel Surveys" (pg 32) and the review of the deSade statistical software (pg 94) with such functions as "slash, which removes all outliers, abnorm, which denormalizes all data, and maim," ... "which starts by removing all cases which are not complete. For applied statisticians, a particularly useful function damn, which automatically removes all non-significant data."
Blackwork is getting there.
* There is somewhat of a Pratchett binge a present as have just watched Hogfather over the weekend and am listening to Going Postal on audio book while cataloging. Z has so far finished Hogfather and is half way through Going Postal in paper form. He can occasionally be pried away to do other things.
Unfortunately it is the 3 biggest bookcases with the most books on left to go. But Z has packed tools downstairs and a fair amount of the spare room is packed.
Now we just need somewhere to move into... soon.
And in other news, for those with a sense of humour like that, Journal of Obnoxious Statistics. I like the "Walking-the-dog Bias in Household Travel Surveys" (pg 32) and the review of the deSade statistical software (pg 94) with such functions as "slash, which removes all outliers, abnorm, which denormalizes all data, and maim," ... "which starts by removing all cases which are not complete. For applied statisticians, a particularly useful function damn, which automatically removes all non-significant data."
Blackwork is getting there.
* There is somewhat of a Pratchett binge a present as have just watched Hogfather over the weekend and am listening to Going Postal on audio book while cataloging. Z has so far finished Hogfather and is half way through Going Postal in paper form. He can occasionally be pried away to do other things.
