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The weather today was supremely beautiful, and Benchmark in Park Slope has a lovely outdoor dining space. Jason, Holly, Tania, Loc, and I met up there for brunch.

 

The food just wasn't seasoned enough, but the place was nice, so I'd give it another try.

We found a benchmark near our camping place. This marks the boundaries between sections.

 

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Cut benchmark, just where the 1st edition OS map said it would be. (SE 1545 4063)

 

On the OS benchmark locator database: benchmarks.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=111:3:2634...

  

Blogged here.

 

We faulted Apple for using a Photoshop "common tasks" benchmark in the dark days of the G4, why aren’t we faulting these benchmarks? Modo and Pages are Universal binaries, not all apps are such. Pages makes heavy use of integer math. Why aren’t you running a Photoshop shootout Steve?

 

(Not that I don’t think for common tasks like iLife, Safari, and iWork people will enjoy a nice speed boost relative to the iMac G5, but there are people going around claiming that the PowerMac 2x2G5 is slower than an Intel iMac. What are they smoking?)

 

Image from Apple's website.

Port Authorty Transit benchmark

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mount Washington

This is an internal benchmarking example. Using best practice KPIs organizations can compare individual departments with each other. With this information the organization now can learn from high performing departments and improve underperforming departments

Carlinville, IL

 

On the town square. It's kinda fun to run into these. I used to actively seek these out, until the whole geocaching scene started making me feel like kind of a dork. And I'm enough of a dork already.

www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=GA1042

 

01/01/1961 by CGS (MONUMENTED)

DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1961 2.2 MI SE FROM ROMEO. FROM THE JUNCTION OF STATE HIGHWAY 70 AND BAILEYTON ROAD IN ROMEO, GO 0.8 MILE SOUTH ON STATE HIGHWAY 70 TO A Y JUNCTION, THEN GO 0.6 MILE NORTH AND EAST ON A GRAVELED ROAD TO A T JUNCTION, TURN RIGHT AND GO SOUTHERLY FOR 0.8 MILE TO A SHARP CURVE. THE BENCH MARK IS ABOUT 300 FT. SOUTH OF PROPOSED INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 81, ABOUT 0.1 MILE SOUTH OF A LARGE DAIRY BARN, 30 FT. SOUTH OF THE CENTER OF THE GRAVELED ROAD, 4.4 FT. EAST OF A GATE POST FOR A WIRE GATE, 1.4 FT. NORTH OF A FENCE AND 1.7 FT. EAST OF A WITNESS SIGN. THE DISK IS SET IN TOP OF A CONCRETE POST PROJECTING 4 INCHES AND IS ABOUT LEVEL WITH THE GRAVELED ROAD.

Benchmark survey marker in Chicago

Grungy street portraits

The Infinity Benchmark Tower under construction in Nabadiganta, Kolkata.

 

photo by ArijeetB

benchmarking: A process of searching out and studying the best practices that produce superior performance.

This building has a Ordnance Survey benchmark on it.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 20: BenchMarks 2019 Event at the National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution on November 20, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Olympus OM2n | Zuiko MC Auto-S 50mm f1.4 | Kodak Portra 160VC

We visited Hoover Dam during our travels north. Looks a little different than it did in the late 1950's, when I had last been there.

 

I was quite taken with the brass benchmarks embedded in the dam itself. This one is dated 1935.

  

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The curve-a-licious benches in front of Groningen Centraal train station in low early morning light.

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