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Favourite Books of 2019
Ah, one of those dreaded “best of” posts. As you can see from my Books page, I managed to read/listen to 71 books this year. Granted, several of them were short stories or novellas, but still, a new record for me! Given this new PR, I thought I would post my 3 favourite books from this year.
While many were good or very good, and a few terrible, these 3 make my best of list because they had super characters, great storylines, and unique twists and turns that kept me thinking about these books long after I finished reading them. All three of these fit into the hard science fiction genre, which is one of my favourites in addition to non-fiction science books.
My Second Trip to Mars!
InSight Provides Real-time Weather on Mars
This is pretty cool!
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Setting the To value: cell in Excel’s Goal Seek to a Cell Reference
Sadly, it took awhile to “figure” this out. I was trying to solve a set of equations in Excel. I had one equation in one cell, say B1, that had a dependency on the value in A1. I had the second equation in cell C1 that also has a dependency on A1. I wanted to set cell B1 equal to CELL C1 by changing cell A1. You can’t do this with Excel’s Goal Seek feature, the To value: has to be a number.
The solution of course, was to create a third cell, D1, with the formula “= B1 – C1”. When those two cells are equal, as I wanted, D1 = 0. So now you can ask Goal Seek to solve the set of equations by setting cell D1 to value 0 by changing cell A1.
Yay!
NBA 2018 Bracket
Okay, the NBA bracket challenge has a horrible interface! As a reminder for future years, don’t use this! Go with ESPN or someone else. Having said that, here’s my NBA bracket. I think it shows my picks except for the Blazers, who got their asses swept by the Pelicans, so zero points there! Amazing that was the series with a sweep.
Go Warriors!
NHL 2018 Playoff Bracket
Here it is. Haven’t followed much hockey this year but going with the heart!
P.S. I do have a second bracket with Tampa Bay taking the east and the Preds winning it all but I’m not posting that one 🙂
NCAA March Madness 2018 Bracket
University of Virginia to win it all 🙂
FTP on macOS High Sierra
As you may have noticed, FTP is no longer a part of macOS High Sierra. If you are in the Terminal, you’ll get something like this:
Norms-iMac-Pro:~ norm$ ftp
-bash: ftp: command not found
An Apple Forum’s post has this reasoning.
Fortunately, there is Homebrew to the rescue. As pointed out in that post, you can install the `inetutils`, which includes FTP. All you need to do is:
brew install inetutils
Unfortunately, for me, this resulted in a linking error, as the directory `/usr/local/share/man/man8` is not writeable. You can solve this by by issuing the following command:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/share/man/man8
Then run the link command again:
brew link inetutils
I hope this is helpful and happy FTPing!