Tag: just for fun

  • White Van with Tinted Windows

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    Brendan Barry
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    Where is my mind? On the dark side of the humour scale. Because when I saw this latest Venn diagram from Indexed, my mind leapt somewhere else entirely. At the end of the day, don’t talk to strangers, kids. Credit for the piece goes to Jessica Hagy.

  • Out of Office

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    Brendan Barry
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    One of the pieces I flagged a month or so ago around the time of my trip to the Berkshires was this one by Indexed. There was a time in my life when I would receive notifications for e-mail, particularly work e-mail, on my mobile. As a manager, I tend to think that’s…not great. There…

  • Greater Delaware

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    Brendan Barry
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    We are at that point in the year where I begin to use up my holiday time for work. I just returned from two weeks away, but I am out again tomorrow, so no post. Ergo, this Thursday is my Friday. And so I’ll leave you with a post from xkcd that talks vexillology, or…

  • Speaking Truth to Employees

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    Brendan Barry
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    First, today is Friday and so congrats to us all for reaching the weekend. But before the weekend begins, I want to do a little housekeeping. I am taking my first real holiday for the first time in two years—thanks, Covid. So don’t expect any posts for the next two weeks. But I’ll be back…

  • Danger Isn’t My Middle Name

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    Brendan Barry
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    Happy Friday, everyone, we’ve made it to the weekend. When I work with developers I always make clear to them that they are the experts and that they know the best ways of coding the crazy ideas in my head. I then almost always add that I do, however, know a little bit of HTML…

  • An Animated Approach to Understanding Vaccines…

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    Brendan Barry
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    …courtesy of Family Guy. In the last 18 months of looking at the data behind Covid-19 and the vaccines, I’ve had a lot of conversations with people, maybe even some of you, about the pandemic and the vaccines we’re using to combat it. Unfortunately, I’m just one person. Seth MacFarlane, however, has himself and the…

  • The Hexagons of Saturn

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    Brendan Barry
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    Well, it’s the end of another week. I’ll save the bigger posts I have planned for next week and instead end with this little astronomy/geometry gem from xkcd. It takes a look at Saturn’s polar storm that takes the shape of a hexagon, not a circle or anything else. Credit for the piece goes to…

  • What’s in a Corporate Name?

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    Brendan Barry
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    Last Thursday I wrote about the Wagner Group, an off-the-books semi-private army the Kremlin uses wage war where plausible deniability is desired. During that piece I mentioned Blackwater, one of the more infamous American private security contractor firms. The day before I had seen a tweet, this tweet, where Samantha Stokes created a matrix to…

  • The Years of the Asterisks

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    Brendan Barry
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    Happy Friday, all. Another week and we made it. This Friday I want to highlight a graphic from xkcd that, strictly speaking, isn’t really data visualisation, but it does speak to that world because it’s about the underlying data. And as with the best humour, there’s an element of truth in it. Credit for the…

  • Come At Me, Bro

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    Brendan Barry
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    I did not create this, but rather I saw it on a friend’s social media feed. But I didn’t take a screenshot instead I sketched it my sketchbook. So if anybody knows who actually created this I’d like to get the credit correctly attributed. Anyway, it was just a Venn diagram that made me laugh.…