Follow Up to Climate Change Post
This report suggests skepticism about skeptics is in order. My main point still stands. It may be a long time before we get an answer.
Global Warming Prediction and the Problem with Models
It’s with some trepidation I dip my toes into this subject. But this recent report from the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, using data from NASA’s Terra satellite, shows why keeping a minimum of skepticism about anything you hear about what conditions on Earth will be like in 20, or 50, or 100 years is probably warranted. The problem is that predictions about future temperatures on Earth […]
Time to Close a Deal
This gets tiring after a while, watching politicians on the left and the right using the upcoming deadline over raising the federal debt limit to score political points with their respective bases. The idiocy of the Right’s “no new taxes or revenues ever ever ever” position against the Left’s preposterous “we’ll give everyone everything they ever want forever forever forever” — what a choice, huh? It isn’t even as if […]
15 Seconds to Spare
It was brutal this morning getting up at 3:30 a.m. Following nights of 4 hours and 5 hours of sleep, it was painful. Why I had scheduled a flight out of SFO at 6:55 escapes me. But I did get up, and managed to cajole my son Will into truly believing that we needed to get into the car and on our way by 4, a process that involved some […]
Obnoxious Cheap Petty Gouging Hyatt
I spent part of the day in the basement of the State Capitol with Suzie’s group, where I was treated to a free and fast wireless connection to the internet. Flash forward to 4 p.m. After checking in at the Hyatt, I pop my computer out to check work emails, only to discover that I have to pay for wireless access. That didn’t particularly phase me; it was expected, if […]
One of My Pictures Goes A Little Viral
On April 29, 2009, I attended a Giants game at AT&T Park and took this picture and posted it on the photo site Flickr: The picture sat out there in the cloud somewhere, largely unviewed, until the day before yesterday, when I checked my Flickr stats and noticed that it had been viewed by 79 people. This has happened before with several of my pictures, when someone has used them […]
Further Adventures In Linux-Land: OpenSUSE Rocks
We bought Suzie a new computer last weekend, which meant that the one she was using (which was running painfully slowly under Windows XP, for reasons I could never figure out, notwithstanding a lot of effort and, in the end, a complete new install) was now available to me to more or less do with as I wished. What I wished was to see if it would run any better […]
Grande Faute d’Orthographe
J’etais en train de regarder cette photo quand je me suis rendu compte que j’ai commis une grande faute d’orthographe pendant cinq années. Le nom de la ville où nous sommes restés en France n’est pas “Levellois” mais “Levallois.” Avec un “a.” Plus précisément, le nom est “Levallois-Perret” (bien que il semble que on utilize “Perret” de moins en moins). Donc j’ai modifié l’orthographe dans tous les posts et toutes […]
Our Return from Paris: Incompetence, Thug Border Agents, and “Why Do You Live in France?”
We’re back in Sonoma County after a long, stressful, long, hard, long, hectic, hard day of travel, which started when I woke at 4:30 a.m. in Paris and ended 25 1/2 hours later when I finally climbed into bed in Santa Rosa. In between, it was a combination of stress, boredom, irritation, and anger … anger like I haven’t felt in a long, long while, at the rude, smug, arrogant, […]
The Last Two Days in Paris, Day One
If only for the sense of completion, voilà the last two days in Paris: On Sunday Suzie had arranged to see her French conversation partner and some of his friends for lunch. As the boys were off on their own, this left me with a free afternoon all to myself. I decided to go to the Louvre again, because I love it and still feel after 4 or 5 visits […]