Warren Meyer at Coyote Blog has an interesting post about storm frequency and the claims of various climate change advocates.
And, on the subject of storms, it’s been raining a lot here, lately. This is what one of my planters currently looks like:
Archive for August, 2007
Stormy weather
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007If I did this …
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007I would so die, not to mention endanger everyone around me. BoingBoing had a link to this guy racing a motorcycle down a hill, but this is a more informative video. Too bad I can’t understand French.
In another video (poorer quality than this one), he says a suit costs almost 3000 Euro. That’s a lot.
Here is the inventor’s site. Weird, but cute, interface.
UPDATE: Trying to embed the original video caused problems with my site; I’m just going to provide a link to it now.
If it hadn’t been for the divorce …
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007I’d be celebrating my 25th anniversary today, and probably be in trouble for not having remembered it far enough in advance to have made appropriate plans.
There are stories
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007… and then there are sea stories.
I was never near Diego Garcia or in the brown-shoe Navy myself, but this brings back memories.
It was a dark and stormy night
Monday, August 6th, 2007So I curled up with a bad book.
You realize, of course, that this means war
Monday, August 6th, 2007Ruminations on punctuation
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Robert Samuelson talks here about commas, diverging into a mention of multitasking and trends in work hours in industrialized nations. It’s an interesting column, and the theme ties in with my recent minor rant.
Quack, quack
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Jeff Atwood talks about Baby Duck Syndrome and why it restrict people from using different applications. It’s why I’m still more comfortable with WordPerfect than Word, among other things, and why I’ve installed Eclipse three or four times and deleted it each time.
It probably accounts for a lot of the “we’ve always done it this way” attitudes, as well.
Death of the internet. Film at 11.
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Found this at Rachel Lucas’ site. Pretty funny.
Ok, it doesn’t seem to want to embed, so here’s the link –
But, what happens at 88mph?
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007I always wanted to chrome one of these.