{"id":109,"date":"2009-04-10T21:31:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T01:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2009-09-07T21:31:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:31:38","slug":"excel-twitters-20090410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/10\/excel-twitters-20090410\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20090410"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concagnate? I guess that\u2019s how concatenate would sound after a few drinks. That must have been a bar in Seattle. I would have guessed a Nanaimo bar, but Ken was busy watching the CMA awards.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of Canadian things &#8212; maple wine? I\u2019m not sure about that, even if Excel is involved. I\u2019ll stick with the coffee.<\/p>\n<h3>The World Exploded<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>My instructor just used the word &#8220;sexy&#8221; regarding excel formulas&#8230;I like her!<\/li>\n<li>arrayed formulas in Excel: I don&#8217;t know how you work but am glad that you do<\/li>\n<li>Accidentally pressed Ctrl-` in Excel, and the world exploded. What the heck is that used for? That&#8217;s the key with the tilde, not the quote.<\/li>\n<li>So I just spent the last hour thinking that Excel was giving me calculation errors, then I realized Auto calc was turned off. 1 hour wasted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Stupid Excel<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>just discovered that apparently MS excel doesn&#8217;t do the order of operations correctly&#8230; i&#8217;m so disillusioned<\/li>\n<li>Why does Excel die with long lists? Bags of memory, 2&#215;64-bit CPUs takes 30 mins to calc a simple but long list; like 70&#8217;s style batch system<\/li>\n<li>working on a color coded advertising planning calendar &amp; quickly running out of colors, stupid excel and your limited color choices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A Drink Might Help<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>What the hell does concagnate mean? And why have I heard it used 3 times at the bar? Excel nerds..<\/li>\n<li>Building my first dashboard in Excel. Beer is a wonderful assistant.<\/li>\n<li>Husband -using excel to calculate sugar content in sap for making maple wine. Me &#8211; in awe of his mathematical mind (so not like mine!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Fun and Games<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Best use of Excel ever: modeling my NCAA brackets, and winning the pool.<\/li>\n<li>has just found out that a big chunk of her favourite game was created via Excel macros. The world is run by these things, it worries me.<\/li>\n<li>Finished creating sudoku-solving Excel spreadsheet. Why bother? Why not?<\/li>\n<li>haha yes! nothing like excel macro games for those poor guys who work for companies that delete solitaire off the work computer.<\/li>\n<li>is doing some Excel magic! It must be magic, because I fail to see the science to it&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Excel in the Arts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If excel wasn&#8217;t just a bunch of 0&#8217;s and 1&#8217;s i&#8217;d rip out its throat like patrick swayze in roadhouse.<\/li>\n<li>excel makes me want to come over all michael douglas in falling down. rrrooooaaaarrrr!<\/li>\n<li>Alice In Chains &#8230;and an Excel spreadsheet. An unlikely combo.<\/li>\n<li>Writing up my Excel course while my wife and child watch the CMA awards (and no, not the accountant CMA&#8217;s!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Labour Saving<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading a reddit comment about a guy that wrote Excel VBA scripts to do his job for him and then hung out at coffee shops all day.<\/li>\n<li>I think MS Excel is the PERL of the non-programming world: does a lot, results in unreadable information, proponents hang onto it for ever<\/li>\n<li>no&#8230;.this was personal labour-saving automation, so VBA\/Excel&#8230;not serious programming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concagnate? I guess that\u2019s how concatenate would sound after a few drinks. That must have been a bar in Seattle. I would have guessed a Nanaimo bar, but Ken was busy watching the CMA awards. And speaking of Canadian things &#8212; maple wine? I\u2019m not sure about that, even if Excel is involved. I\u2019ll stick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/10\/excel-twitters-20090410\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20090410&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}