Helping Out
In which Dave helps out some folks in need.
Archive of entries posted on November 2005
Ode to Stephen Dowling Botts Revisited
My amusement is unbound by the delightful discovery that Inkstain is the top Google result when searching on Stephen Dowling Botts. Really, though, the more useful site for Botts aficionados is the Wikipedia entry on Julia Moore, wherein we learn that Mark Twain based his Emmeline Grangerford character in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on …
More on Globally Averaged Surface Temperature
This whole blog-to-blog comment conversation thing can get a bit maddening. What we really need is to all sit down in a room together. I think a lot of the misunderstandings that turn into arguments would instead play out as useful conversations. Plus we could drink beer*. Today’s disjointed conversation has Mark Hadfield raising good …
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Stuff from the bike
Scribblista was right: “I love the vantage point from a bike… one always gets to see the city and the day from such a different perspective…” When you move through your world on a bicycle, it unfolds before you at a perfect pace, full of surprises. The act of cycling demands awareness as a practical …
Bill’s Bike-Racing Pics
Bill McLain’s latest bike-racing pics. This is cyclocross, which is a hoot to watch. If you’re looking for a fun couple hours in the park, you can do worse than the Dec. 4 state championships.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Some nuke news in this morning’s paper (sub. req.). The state of New Mexico’s proposed WIPP permit modification is out. It goes along with a Department of Energy request to reduce waste testing requirements, and allows shipment of remote-handled waste (this is the stuff that is much more radioactive) to go forward.
Richardson and Baseball
A nice little bit of business this morning (sub. might be req.) by my colleague Toby Smith about Bill Richardson’s baseball career: Over time, draft status became part of Richardson’s political persona. His official campaign biography in 1982, when he first ran for Congress in New Mexico’s 3rd District, concludes: “In 1966, he was drafted …
A Thanksgiving Murder of Crows
Just after sunup on Thanksgiving morning, still in sweatpants and slippers and tousled hair. Lissa opens the curtain on the big east-facing picture window in our living room so Sadie can see out (Sadie loves to sit on her stool and observe). In the leafless cottonwood across the street, backlit in silhouette, a murder of …
How You Got Here
A couple of weeks ago, I added the WP-ShortStat plugin (props – it’s cool) to my Word Press installation for grins, and I now have a much clearer picture of where y’all are coming from. Google is, as one would expect, the king of the refer. Aside from that, it seems to be the climate-politics …
Another Vote Against Average Global Temperature – Sorta
Down near the end of a long and ultimately tedious* comment thread over on Prometheus, Gavin Schmidt offered an incredibly useful little gem today. As I’ve written before, “paleoclimate and future projections on a regional scale are critical.” This is one of the reasons I’ve been so interested in the argument Roger Pielke Sr. makes …
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