I finally slunk into the 21st century this week, purchasing a portable pod device with which to play audio files. The tipping point came when a friend explained that you can get podcasts of Le Show. Nora wisely points out that “podcast” is really just a fancy marketing word for “mp3 file you can download …
Rufus asks: It’s Feb. 16th…. Why haven’t you updated your blog since 2/12????. Good question, Rufus.
A friend sends along Jim Brady’s column from today’s Washington Post: For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks who believe exactly what they do. This creates an echo chamber that only further convinces people that they are right, and everyone …
health 1: So the whole reason for all this blogation today is that I’m home sick. I’m not in terrible shape, but took a clue when a friend at work yesterday covered up his mouth and backed away uncomforably as I hacked. health 2: I hurt my knee Saturday. My bad knee on which I’ve …
If you can’t help a friend now and then set up a trail of Google crumbs to pediatric care in North Carolina, then there’s really no point in having a blog, is there?
I’m taking a class on drought from Dave Gutzler at UNM this semester. Last week’s topic was the strengths and weaknesses of the Palmer Palmer Drought Index, the widely used standardized measure of drought. It’s a graduate seminar, which last week meant me leading the discussion on Palmer. Since I did a bunch of work …
I had a dream the other night about a shortage of jet fuel. Someone handed me a piece of paper with a list showing which flights were allowed to go, and which were grounded. I couldn’t figure out how they’d decided which was which.
reading 1: Donald Wilhite’s “Drought: A Global Assessment”. Wilhite, in his introduction, clearly lays out the climate-societal vulnerability link: “Thus the incidence of drought could increase because of a change in the frequency of the physical event, a change in societal vulnerability to water shortages, or both.” reading 2: Via Roger Pielke the Younger, a …
I was feeling a little subversive yesterday morning when I posted Strunk and White’s advice for bloggers. It amused me. But since it drew such varied and amusing ripostes, it’s worth defending why I it struck me. At the risk of abusing S&W’s point, I do not think bloggers should not have and share opinions. …
Paul D. Thacker, in a New Republic piece, tags Steven Milloy, the “Junk Science” king, with the paid-pundit spray can, that so recently smeared our old friend Michael Fumento: But, whereas Scripps Howard fired Fumento and apologized to its readers, Fox News continues to look the other way as Milloy accepts corporate handouts. And it’s …