This is the kind of thing where it sounds like knowing must have been well more than half the battle. The way this realization would unify what I canimagine might have seemed like many otherwise unrelated preferences!

Posting while cycling works a lot better when stationary

eh, a quick hack I did mostly while waiting for my emergency new phone to be delivered 2.5 hours late to the wrong door. (I have found the phone.) The longest part was just downloading the 10GB raster files to my laptop and then uploading them to my compute server.

`tigris`: github.com/walkerke/tig...
`exactextractr`: isciences.gitlab.io/exactextractr/
`terra` package (for rasters in #rstats): rspatial.github.io/terra/

I arrived at:
* 1592 nW/cm²/sr (2012)
* 2012 nW/cm²/sr (2024)

It's as if, if there is really a larger increase in lighting, not all of that added light is escaping to space for observation by satellite and ending up in the VIIRS data. It makes me wonder what I yet don't appreciate about VIIRS!

All I did was:

* get the VIIRS annual average nighttime lights raster dataset (eogdata.mines.edu/products/vnl/) for 2012 and 2024
* overlay a current Census Bureau shapefile for Princeton with the `tigris` package in #rstats
* compute yearly zonal totals with the `exactextractr` package

Having a passing familiarity with satellite lights data, I ran a quick check on this. It's not nearly as sophisticated as what the prof has been doing, but it doesn't reinforce the magnitude of change claimed. Rather, I come up with around a 26% increase.

This is the real flaw in the FBS league pyramid I've so long desired: there's just too much churn at the top to maintain an apex league of 20 or so teams via annual promotion and relegation only.

Don't know whether it would make a difference if we construe the characters of F1 TV to be the drivers rather than the commentators

No I'm not From here in New Jersey, this is just where I've settled down

I get to wondering whether maybe Tony Gwynn hadn't figured out how Maddux called his own pitches after all, and just kept it to himself.

Fuck your bullshit, RFKJ.