Below are the songs I got most excited about in 2020. Between the pandemic and having our first kid...I didn't get much music discovery in! As per usual, most of these were not released in 2020 -- I just found 'em then. You can listen to them all via a YouTube Music playlist here.2019 post … Continue reading Music I listened to in 2020
Music I listened to in 2019
Below are the songs I got most excited about in 2019. The majority of these were NOT released in 2019 (some are quite old) -- they just occupied a significant portion of my listening time during the year. I've tried to keep the list concise. You can listen to them all via a YouTube Music … Continue reading Music I listened to in 2019
Using tidyr to clean messy, wide data
A while ago I had some climate data that I needed to play with, but they were in a "wide" format that made analysis in R difficult. These data were obtained from weather stations across the range of C. xantiana, and their format may make sense to us humans, but for data wrangling / analysis, … Continue reading Using tidyr to clean messy, wide data
Garden Update – July 2015
First some pics of the early spring action around the yard: Returned from fieldwork on July 4th and came home to a very happy garden: I'll admit the "blended sowing" method made things a bit chaotic. But I think that's partly because I was gone for the first half of summer and couldn't keep as close … Continue reading Garden Update – July 2015
Garden Planning 2015
(This is a belated post -- all this garden prep happened in the spring!) I grew up in rural NC, so urban gardening is a new challenge. My mom has always had wildly successful vegetable and flower gardens, so here I'm hoping to emulate her green thumb, starting with lots of prep work. We're renting … Continue reading Garden Planning 2015
John Benning 