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Camping the Excel way
Apr. 30th, 2010 09:37 pmOne of my friends is off camping next week. But they're planning to take so much stuff, they're worried that it might overload the suspension on their car. So they did what ever anally retentive geek worth their VB does: knocked up an Excel spreadsheet with the weights of absolutely everything, down to pan scourers, to ensure that they came in under the limit.
Somewhere, my mother is envious. If only her computer skills weren't so pour, she too would be able to code up all her obsessive lists into a spreadsheet and modify them at the flick of a search and replace. But as it is, she barely has enough computer-fu to open a browser window (which she can only do if the machine is already running), so all her listing is limited to the pen and paper kind. Probably just as well. Were she able to enlist computational help, her list-making dark-side abilities would become more powerful that I could ever imagine.
Somewhere, my mother is envious. If only her computer skills weren't so pour, she too would be able to code up all her obsessive lists into a spreadsheet and modify them at the flick of a search and replace. But as it is, she barely has enough computer-fu to open a browser window (which she can only do if the machine is already running), so all her listing is limited to the pen and paper kind. Probably just as well. Were she able to enlist computational help, her list-making dark-side abilities would become more powerful that I could ever imagine.
