[–] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have a painting of the Australian desert that belonged to my mother. It's banished to the second bedroom because it's got a thick coating of nicotine, but I plan to have it cleaned some day.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    I was staying in a motel for an overnight trip. I'm a light sleeper and I got woken up by the sound of someone very quietly turning the door handle. I'd locked it, obviously, so they couldn't open it. They figured that out and spent five minutes trying to wrench/kick it open before giving up and leaving.

    So that was unsettling.

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    I'm working on a personal project that involves calculating the mean, median and mode of word length in a series of poems. I've imported the first into LibreOffice Calc as a CSV, and have about 600 cells of word lengths.

    Calc has Average, Median and Mode functions, but they only accept 255 inputs each. I could split the cells into batches of three and then work with those results, but it feels like that would only let me calculate the overall mean, not the other two figures.

    So firstly, am I even using the right tool for this? Maybe there's a better way than using a spreadsheet. And secondly, if a spreadsheet is the best tool, is there a way I can do the calculations I need?

     

    To explain what I mean, I think you can level up a cooking style. For example, pasta. At level 1, you're boiling dried pasta and adding sauce out of a jar. At level 1, you add your own spices. Level 3, switch to fresh pasta. Level 4, make your own sauce. And finally at level 5, make the pasta from scratch.

    So with BBQ, I guess level 1 would be cooking the meat so it's neither burnt nor underdone. Maybe level 2 is mixing different meats/cuts that have different heat/time requirements and cooking well. Further levels = ?

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