We had a bizarre airport experience just now in Kalispell, Montana. An experience that makes you wonder about the people running security at our airports. Here’s the story. We met the mother of one of Andrew’s housemates, and the four of us had a nice dinner on Friday. She was slight and shy-seeming, with a soft voice and a gentle laugh. Charming and obviously smart. The 180 degree opposite of […]
About 5:15 p.m., the idea of driving from Santa Rosa to Kalispell didn’t seem nearly as good as it had earlier in the day. Most of the day had been easy and beautiful, especially the drive from Redding to Bend, sunshine and clear blue skies, evergreen forests and stark dry landscapes, all newly seen on a road — US 97 — that I’d never taken. But as the sun fell […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]