ENSO Marketing
Heard on a local TV ad today: Skiers and snowboarders! El Niño is back, and it’s gonna be a great year!
Archive of entries posted on October 2006
The iSentence Fragment
Because everyone has the attention span of a nine-year-old with a cocaine problem. (Hat tip Nora.)
Daybook
cool new paper: Hainzl et al. show how rain can trigger earthquakes. stuff I wrote elsewhere: Wave in Alaska busts up iceberg off Antarctica (no big scoop here, every science writer with an angle has been doing this story, ’cause it’s so insanely cool) music: One of my favorite classic rock songs is Jim Hendrix’s …
The Giants Fans’ Clever Plot
A San Francisco Giants fan sends along this, evidence of a clever “Moneyball”-style plot to capitalize on the fact that Yankee fans are stupid enough to think Alex Rodriguez is a lousy ballplayer.
Mariachi Action Team
There apparently is a picture of me on the InterWeb. Also, I believe taken the same day, Mariachis. (You’ll recall that, in last week’s episode, Mariachis serenaded us along the bike trail. Coming up, the Mariachi Action Team (MAT) rescues Sophie from the SUB.)
Defining Drought
Daniel Collins has a nice post on the problem of defining drought.
ENSO Forecast
The latest ENSO forecast came out Thursday. No big surprises here: El Niño is strengthening, as expected, expected to continue into northern hemisphere spring 2007.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
I did not know this, but apparently the whole Hindenburg thing (“Oh, the humanity!”) is something of a problem for hydrogen fuel fans. It stands to reason that images of a giant bag of flaming hydrogen with bodies falling hither and yon is bad PR, it just had never occurred to me. Not to worry. …
Mailing List Dynamics
Mailing list dynamics are often fascinating: a complex self-disorganizing system, like a bunch of really dumb ants who are neither very good at finding food, nor at finding their way back to the nest. When they work their best, they’re a fabulous tool for decentralized group communication, thinking and decision-making. At their worst… Today’s case …
Why I Heart Google Earth
Playoff baseball tonight in Yankee Stadium, and the game’s start has been delayed by rain. Back in the olden days, I would have been perfectly happy with tracking the storm on National Weather Service radar. But that is so spring 2006. I mean really. Fire up Google Earth and type “Yankee Stadium” in the search …