Alan Files - Pharmacy Tech

I've been working in a pharmacy for the last month. Helping to implement part of an inventory system (I'll be making some custom code additions eventually).

But for now, I'm just learning about the pharmacy domain, like how to pronounce fenocyxliciproxifan.

Might be useful in boggle someday.

Moving to Kenya

Time to dust off the old blog, and write about living in rural Kenya.

And by 'write about' I mean, connect my instagram to this blog and just post all the same pictures.

DIY

I'm either making some homemade limoncello, or I'm making Jarate.

Maps

I was at a thrift store the other day, looking at an old globe, trying to figure out when it was made by the countries that existed on it.

It seemed like a good skill to have, so I researched a little more, and found this list a like minded gentleman had put together!

May 1990: North and South Yemen merge

October 1990: There is only one Germany

December 1991: Soviet Union breaks up

During 1992: Yugoslavia breaks up

January 1993: Czechoslovakia dissolves

April 1994: White rule over and racial homelands are dissolved in South Africa

May 1997: Zaire becomes the Democratic Republic of the Congo

July 2000: Yemen's current border with Saudi Arabia officially agreed upon

May 2002: East Timor becomes independent

June 2006: Montenegro separates from Serbia

February 2008: Kosovo becomes independent (not universally recognized)

http://www.geographictravels.com/2009/06/how-to-tell-when-map-went-out-of-date.html

Fantastic!

Google Ngrams!

Google has a very fun tool out, working through a dataset of all the words from the books they have scanned.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

It's great fun to check on different spellings! (I still prefer connexion, who cares if it pretty much died out in 1860)

And you can search for multiple things. I think this graph says something about the type of books that are out there. 'You' is just like a smoothed out curve of 'I', and 'me' is a slightly smoother 'you', but the proportions stay pretty consistent.

Check it out for yourself, very fun.

Tumbling

While I plan on using this blog more concretely, I've decided I want a more abstract output.

http://alangfiles.tumblr.com/