I’ve been listening to Lowell George off and on lately, and I keep flipping around to Willin’, which has always been an anthem of sorts to me. But of what? If anthems are defining sacred texts, then Willin’ must be about as far from my life as a text could be, the words of a …
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Albuquerque scientist Mark Boslough’s famous pi hoax resurfaces, this time morphed on OhmyNews: Crawford Texas – Mathematicians and educators across the nation were stunned and infuriated after President signed a bill into law yesterday redefining pi, a mathematical constant used around the world. The bill to change the value of pi to exactly three was …
Here’s a fun little bit of business to warm a weather wonk’s heart: That’s from John Wesley Powell’s 1878-79 Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States, and is the earliest climatic data from Albuquerque that I have ever run across. The data was collected by Charles Schott of the Smithsonian, …
Aaron’s delightful tale of being laid off: I don’t know where I’m headed, but it could be practically anywhere. I could visit my brother in Bolivia. I could move to my grandmother’s farm in Ivy, VA, and raise pet goats, write freelance, sell vegetables at the farmer’s market. I could get the bird flu or …
Via HP, link to a fascinating piece on Steve Jobs.: Jobs doesn’t believe that technology is going to change the world. ‘This stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t … Technologies can make it easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in a …
My new favorite search string, in the logs this morning: “article on t.v. reports on october 31 about bedbugs”.
Via Luis, a trail of bread crumbs leads to Paul Graham: Actually, the fad is the word “blog,” at least the way the print media now use it. What they mean by “blogger” is not someone who publishes in a weblog format, but anyone who publishes online. That’s going to become a problem as the …
Finally found the time this evening to tack a comment onto a post at Roger Pielke Sr.’s blog, in which he suggested the media hasn’t been writing about a new NAS report because it “is inconvenient for those who view the radiative effect of human-caused CO2 increases as the dominant forcing of climate change.” Roger’s …
This morning I donated blood. Most of the the staff at United Blood Services was in Halloween costume. For some reason, there were a disproportionate number of vampires. Wonder why.
I know precious little about monetary policy. But I am inclined to enthusiasm about Ben Bernanke’s nomination to replace Alan Greenspan after hearing this on NPR about what might be called the “Bernanke-Jaffee Theory” on baseball’s hallowed “earned run average.” The ERA is a measure of the average number of runs a baseball pitcher would …