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#Logged Positions of Captain Cook's journey from England to Rio Janeiro August to October 1768
#Extracted from http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/cook/james/c77j/chapter1.html
Friday, 26th latitude 49 degrees 30 minutes North, longitude 5 degrees 52 minutes West
Saturday, 27th latitude 48 degrees 42 minutes North, longitude 6 degrees 49 minutes West
Sunday, 28th latitude 47 degrees 16 minutes North, longitude 9 degrees 7 minutes West
Monday, 29th latitude 46 degrees 38 minutes North, longitude 9 degrees 29 minutes West
Tuesday, 30th latitude 46 degrees 9 minutes North, longitude 9 degrees 52 minutes West
Wednesday, 31st latitude 45 degrees 3 minutes North, longitude 8 degrees 43 minutes West
Thursday, September 1st latitude 44 degrees 56 minutes North, longitude 9 degrees 9 minutes West
#Logged Positions of Captain Cook's journey from Rio Janeiro towards Terra Del Fuego. December 1768 - April 1769
#Extracted from http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/cook/james/c77j/chapter2.html
THURSDAY, December 8th latitude 24 degrees 17 minutes South, longitude 42 degrees 29 minutes West.
Friday, 9th latitude 24 degrees 46 minutes South, longitude 42 degrees 16 minutes West.
Saturday, 10th latitude 25 degrees 34 minutes South, longitude 41 degrees 12 minutes West.
Sunday, 11th latitude 25 degrees 43 minutes South, longitude 41 degrees 8 minutes West.
Monday, 12th latitude 26 degrees 14 minutes South, longitude 41 degrees 23 minutes West.
Tuesday, 13th latitude 28 degrees 0 minutes South, longitude 42 degrees 6 minutes West.
Wednesday, 14th latitude 29 degrees 24 minutes South, longitude 41 degrees 55 minutes West.
Thursday, 15th latitude 30 degrees 8 minutes South, longitude 41 degrees 39 minutes West.
#Logged Positions of Captain Cook's journey from Tahiti to New Zealand. August - October 1769
#Extracted from http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/cook/james/c77j/chapter4.html
Friday, 11th latitude 18 degrees 59 minutes South, longitude 151 degrees 45 minutes West.
Saturday, 12th latitude 20 degrees 15 minutes South, longitude 151 degrees 36 minutes West.
Sunday, 13th latitude 21 degrees 47 minutes South, longitude 151 degrees 9 minutes West.
Monday, 14th latitude 22 degrees 26 minutes South, longitude 150 degrees 55 minutes West
Wednesday, 16th latitude 25 degrees 00 minutes South, longitude 150 degrees 19 minutes West.
Thursday, 17th latitude 26 degrees 10 minutes South, longitude 149 degrees 46 minutes West.
Friday, 18th latitude 26 degrees 48 minutes South, longitude 149 degrees 42 minutes West.
Saturday, 19th latitude 27 degrees 40 minutes South; longitude 149 degrees 6 minutes West.
#Logged Positions of Captain Cook's journey from Batvia to Cape of Good Hope. January - February 1770
#Extracted from http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/cook/james/c77j/chapter10.html
Thursday, 17th latitude 7 degrees 32 minutes South; longitude 255 degrees 35 minutes West.
Friday, 18th latitude 7 degrees 55 minutes South; longitude 255 degrees 54 minutes West.
Saturday, 19th latitude 8 degrees 48 minutes South; longitude 255 degrees 51 minutes West.
Sunday, 20th latitude 9 degrees 14 minutes South; longitude 256 degrees 15 minutes West.
Monday, 21st latitude 9 degrees 46 minutes South; longitude 257 degrees 5 minutes West.
Tuesday, 22nd latitude 9 degrees 29 minutes South; longitude 257 degrees 8 minutes West.
Wednesday, 23rd latitude 9 degrees 30 minutes South; longitude 256 degrees 50 minutes West.
Thursday, 24th latitude 9 degrees 34 minutes South; longitude 256 degrees 50 minutes West.
#Logged Positions of Captain Cook's journey from Cape of Good Hope to England. April-July 1771
#Extracted from http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/cook/james/c77j/chapter11.html
Wednesday, 17th latitude 32 degrees 14 minutes South, longitude 344 degrees 8 minutes West.
Thursday, 18th latitude 31 degrees 14 minutes South, longitude 345 degrees 19 minutes West.
Friday, 19th latitude 31 degrees 14 minutes South, longitude 345 degrees 33 minutes West.
Saturday, 20th latitude 29 degrees 40 minutes South, longitude 346 degrees 10 minutes West.
Sunday, 21st latitude 28 degrees 43 minutes South, longitude 347 degrees 42 minutes West.
Monday, 22nd latitude 27 degrees 27 minutes South, longitude 349 degrees 24 minutes West.
Tuesday, 23rd latitude 26 degrees 19 minutes South, longitude 350 degrees 42 minutes West.
Wednesday, 24th latitude 25 degrees 6 minutes South, longitude 351 degrees 16 minutes West.
URL Page_Title Date Transcript Img_Title Img_URL Keywords from http://www.andromedayelton.com/dckx.php
http://xkcd.com/1 Barrel - Part 1 [[A boy sits in a barrel which is floating in an ocean.]] Boy: I wonder where I'll float next? [[The barrel drifts into the distance. Nothing else can be seen.]] {{Alt: Don't we all.}} Don't we all. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/barrel_cropped_(1).jpg
http://xkcd.com/2 Petit Trees (sketch) [[Two trees are growing on opposite sides of a sphere.]] {{Alt-title: 'Petit' being a reference to Le Petit Prince, which I only thought about halfway through the sketch}} 'Petit' being a reference to Le Petit Prince, which I only thought about halfway through the sketch http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tree_cropped_(1).jpg
http://xkcd.com/3 Island (sketch) [[A sketch of an Island]] {{Alt:Hello, island}} Hello, island http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/island_color.jpg
http://xkcd.com/4 Landscape (sketch) [[A sketch of a landscape with sun on the horizon]] {{Alt: There's a river flowing through the ocea
#!/usr/bin/env python
# James Scott-Brown, 2016-01-25
# This script loops through each of a user's repositories
# for each, it prints the name of each release asset, and how
# many times it has been downloaded
import urllib2
import json
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jamesscottbrown / gist:9e49ee2f66e0fb8c7166123c3ba50570
Last active November 30, 2017 18:40
CSS styling of SVG glyphs

As an example, the Insulator specification image could become:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<svg
        xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
        xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
        xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"

xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"

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jamesscottbrown / Group SOPs.md
Created April 1, 2018 09:31
This is a list of some standard operating procedures/policies/onboarding documents from various research groups.

This is a list of some standard operating procedures/policies/onboarding documents from various research groups.

General resources

Lab carpentry “was founded at the DDD Training Workshop at UC Davis in October 2015 by C. Titus Brown, Casey Greene, Raman Shah, Blair Sullivan, and Matt Turk.”

Resources for Running Research Groups

Eugene Wu’s Research Setup Wiki