February 2012
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January 2012
2 posts
NWS WFO Seattle AFD 9:35 AM 1/20/2012 →
WARNING: For weather nerds only!
Ok. Since I’ve ragged on them for the bad, I’ll give them props. Click through and read this because it is actually a GOOD discussion. Possibly the best one I’ve read during this whole ordeal.
Of course, now it’s basically over, but the text outlines the after effects fairly well. Especially the hydro section. This could have easily been...
“GRADIENTS ARE FORECAST TO TURN ONSHORE AND BRING SOUTHERLY WIND TO MOST AREAS...”
– National Weather Service - NWS Seattle
Just…argh. How vague is the wording in this discussion? It should not be allowed.
December 2011
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The Nerd →
November 2011
4 posts
Uh Oh! →
Just like with oil, the world is maxing out the volume of coffee it can sustain.
Who Killed Che? →
This took too long (several weeks of on and off reading) to finish. But it was worth it.
October 2011
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#6: Ripping off kids
I spent way too much money at comics and card shows when I was a youth. Where the heck did I get all that money anyway? This guy was undoubtedly laughing all the way to the bank (and apparently the business card print shop) with my “hard-earned” wealth. I suppose when we are children, money means little more than “I can trade this for crap I actually WANT!!!” Well, guys...
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#3: Flying Things
Yay! We took a vacation…to Oregon.
I can only imagine the guy who runs/ran this business is an outward Parrothead. You don’t sell kites at the beach because you are a cutthroat, GlenGarry, GlenRoss, “always be closing” kinda guy. You sell kites at the beach because you sell kites at the beach. It’s a calling many will hear in their lives but few will heed.
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September 2011
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“Unfortunately a music of effects is a weak base for a rock group to rest its...”
– From Jim Miller’s 1968 review of the Pink Floyd’s A Saucerful of Secrets.
He’s right of course, but at least they were able to make some money off it in the long run.
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August 2011
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Can't Stand the Heat? Rise up!
Reuters has a short but interesting piece on how not just climate change but the cyclical El Niño pattern sparks revolution in tropical nations.
From the article:
Peru in 1982 and Sudan in 1963, 1976 and 1983 showed remarkable links between El Nino patterns and civil unrest, the researchers found. Other countries with a strong link between violence and El Nino include El Salvador, the...
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What I am Downloading Right Away
If there’s only one reason why you need Quicksilver, here it is:
Spotlight forces you to think when you search. Quicksilver allows you to just start typing and get what you want. Maybe not the first time you type it, but the third or fourth time for sure.
Anything that helps you not think is great.
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Facebook and Your Credit Score
Scary.
So, one of the sort of more surprising findings in the book was that banks are beginning to look at people’s Facebook friends and their credit ratings in order to decide to whom to offer credit. And this is based on this fact that, you know, if you look at the credit ratings of people, you can make predictions about the credit ratings of their friends. It’s very creepy, though, because...
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Chris Jones on Barry Zito and "the end" -... →
Not just a good article on Zito but the effect seeing your talent, your future, your life broken down into numbers on pages. Your faith in yourself weakens and you become the kid who just learned there is no such thing as Santa Claus.
[Zito] would never again be able to feel his way through his life; now he could only calculate the value of it, when all people ever had to do was watch him...
July 2011
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Bill Maher on the Controversial Ground Zero Cross:... →
Agreed. It’s a memorial park, not an apse. Many non-Christians died there too. Leave the iconography, however coincidental it may be, out of it.
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Blistering heat wave stressing nation's power grid... →
Meanwhile, one utility here in the Pacfic NW is limiting wind farms’ output to the grid because there is TOO MUCH hydropower. State regulators and wind farm owners are pissed.
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“…we are in the early days of the warming and most of the action is yet to come....”
– Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Scary Snowpack Stories
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Haboobies
Much has been made in the news of the crazy dust storms ravaging Phoenix over the past several weeks. Mile high walls of dirt and sand are undoubtedly not a nice thing, but are part of life in the area during monsoon season. And they are most certainly not (…yet) a sign the world is coming to a slow, region-by-region end.
Having a wife born and raised in Phoenix and family members still...
“Employees at Sears, 341 Three Rivers Drive, Kelso, told Kelso police that a man...”
– From the Longview (WA) Daily News Police Blotter: July 7.
Man, I cannot get enough of this stuff.