{"id":44,"date":"2008-08-30T20:28:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T00:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2009-09-07T20:29:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:29:32","slug":"excel-twitters-20080830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/30\/excel-twitters-20080830\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20080830"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were more Excel Twitters than usual this week, and some of that was thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydoseofexcel.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/25\/twitter\/\">Dick Kusleika<\/a>, who decided to record all his activities in Twitter. I didn&#8217;t include those &#8212; you can follow Dick and read them for yourself! Anyway, here are some of the Excel comments that I found interesting this week.<\/p>\n<h2>Excel Health Hazards<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Just had a mini-heart attack &#8211; opened Excel db with 34 entries and it only showed 4. Damn you AutoFilter!<\/li>\n<li>Trying to coerce a 527 line excel spreadsheet into a coherent site map. Brain leaking out my ears&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>You ever get that effect after playing a game for a long time where you see enemies\/whatever everywhere? Experiencing the same w. Excel now.<\/li>\n<li>Excel giving me fits. Wish &#8220;Help&#8221; was actually helpful. It probably makes perfect sense to a Microsoft software engineer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Excel Hell<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Having to use excel for any kind of analysis is as engaging an endeavor as having to host my mother-in-law for four weeks.<\/li>\n<li>I love it when Excel says &#8220;Eh, I might have told you that your 4 hours of work was saved, but I&#8217;m a lying bastard. Start over.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Suspicion: in Hell they give you a Win laptop and make you do massive pivot tables in Excel &#8217;00. You &#8220;recalculate cells&#8221; for an eternity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Excel Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s Friday Eve: Use Excel as a Time Saver in Reading Back Long Legal Descriptions <a href=\"http:\/\/productivityhintsandtips.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/use-excel-as-time-saver-in-reading-back.html\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/68qxt9<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Part 3 of 3 now posted. Dramatic change from the prior two&#8230;w\/ li&#8217;l ol&#8217; Excel 2003. Check it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilliganondata.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/27\/dashboard-design-part-3-of-3-an-iterative-tale\/\">http:\/\/is.gd\/1Z5S<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Curious tool &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/paraclouding.com\">http:\/\/paraclouding.com<\/a> (I don&#8217;t often think of 3D generative geometry being driving by MS Excel).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Excel Ponderings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;bad-ass&#8221; and &#8220;excel charts&#8221; are mutually exclusive.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s been more than a decade since I first heard the phrase &#8220;seemless integration&#8221;. Yet somehow, Word, Excel and Powerpoint still aren&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>you know your company is &#8216;maturing&#8217; when you have 5 spreadsheets for every decision. Note: Andrew Carnegie did not have Excel.<\/li>\n<li>I wonder if the federal budget is on one giant Excel sheet?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Excel Is&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Excel is a videogame. Business software never has so many pretty colours.<\/li>\n<li>MS Excel is like the Human Brain &#8211; No one knows how to use more than 3% of it.<\/li>\n<li>Excel is a horrible blind date revealed to be a ninja when you are attacked by thugs.<\/li>\n<li>there is NOTHING excel can&#8217;t do!! it&#8217;s a floor wax! it&#8217;s a dessert topping!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t Ask&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Working on my excel that lists different types of death. Currently have 29.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were more Excel Twitters than usual this week, and some of that was thanks to Dick Kusleika, who decided to record all his activities in Twitter. I didn&#8217;t include those &#8212; you can follow Dick and read them for yourself! Anyway, here are some of the Excel comments that I found interesting this week. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/30\/excel-twitters-20080830\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20080830&#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-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}