Too much of a good thing

This is random but I wanted to write it down.

We had 55 attendees at our wedding. Our wedding events included a welcome bbq on Friday night, wedding and reception on Saturday and general hanging out on Sunday and we had 30 people staying on site with us Friday-Sunday morning. Given these factors we thought we would need a lot of alcohol so we acquired 3 kegs several buckets of Margarita and several 3 liter boxes of wine. I don't know what we were thinking.The kegs were available to our guests from about 3pm on Friday until Monday morning around 9am. Despite everyones best efforts only 1 Coors lite keg was fully consumed. The other Coors Lite keg was only lightly dented and the Mirror Pond keg was about 3/4 drank. We also had a fair amount of wine left over.

The moral of the story is unless your party consists of lots of college kids, Don't buy so much booze.

Unique IDentification

I don't know how I missed this, but the Global ID (GUID) field in ArcGIS gives you a hands free way to add unique ids to features. The Add Global IDs tool will create the field and populate it with the ID. The GlobalID will stick with the features as you edit or join or export or clip or whatever. This will allow you to trace back and maintain relationships.

I will start using this in everything. No more staring at the attribute table to see what I can combine to make a Unique ID.

Metadata is for the birds

Today I was faced with some metadata that ended up in HTML but needed to go back into a geodatabase as FGDC metadata. Luckily I found this link that outlined out to use a USGS tool to convert the HTML to a text file that could be imported. No manual ctrl+c and ctrl+v required.