Jurassic Park. Excellent book and movie. Lost World is an good book too but sequels are rubbish!

xx <- ... is my garbage variable name. My instincts are to just use x, but my instincts also tell me I probably have used x in my actual code somewhere important

😍 How often do you run across the road for a cheeky swim at lunchtime?

One of my first jobs paid me with an actual handwritten cheque each fortnight. I had to sheepishly ask the office manager what to do with it, then was horrified to learn that I had inherited a chore each fortnight to cash it and get my money.

enjoy it while its ad free. the milking will commence soon

“If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds—even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

Not a night owl, but can be an antipodean code buddy using the magic of timezones :)

I'm not trying to be difficult here. I'm just holding GenAI to the same standard as a cooking recipe book.

this works too readr::read_csv(file = c("file1.csv", "file2.csv"))

...people can and should decide themselves on how to describe what they do. This might be different to what their employers 'brand' them ( often arbitrary). And in any case, many of us end up taking on tasks that don't neatly fit into any definition - and this can be satisfying or necessary.

It sounds like a scientist of some sort. I think the specific job title would depend on the employer's industry and domain. Ive found in different industries, specific titles can be rich with meaning and be very different to equivalent activities in other fields.

This is a snippet of my recent analysis of Airbnb ratings: www.deanmarchiori.com/posts/2025-0...

So did you load up on it?