Totally random:
Because it is run by humans and human nature can be petty and childish. I pick up stories like this because it reminds us that government isn't just a big faceless machine, but an organization run by individuals. Some of...
Posted on November 5, 2006 12:20 PM • 1 Comments
As I just finished submitting my abstract for AGU Fall '06, I don't feel bad posting this. Janet started a nerd-off and Tim has posted all the scores so far. I refer to this test, in which I scored 45,...
Posted on September 7, 2006 5:36 PM • 1 Comments
But back to Roadside Geology. What book do customers who view the Roadside page eventually end up buying? At an astonishing 77% it's the Christian self-help book
The Power of the Praying Wife. Huh???? Second, at 13%
Posted on July 3, 2006 12:16 AM • 3 Comments
Major kudos to Lance Armstrong for
taking it straight at the worst bureaucrat in the history of international sports, Dick Pound. I'm beyond tired of Pound's sanctimonious, high-horse bullshit when it comes to his anti-doping witchhunts.
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Posted on June 19, 2006 11:48 AM • 7 Comments
This is what is going on outside my office window right now:
Posted on April 27, 2006 6:33 PM • 12 Comments
I don't know how people find this stuff, but I've got some dedicated readers who find gems like this. It follows on nicely from this Dr. Free-Ride post and comments. How do you think he'd spell the word in question?...
Posted on April 21, 2006 5:54 PM • 4 Comments
This definitely isn't my shtick either, but I'm pretty sure I just spied Apolo walking down Pearl St. in Boulder. It wouldn't be that far of a stretch as I think he lives/trains in Colorado Springs at the USOTC. I...
Posted on March 30, 2006 3:53 PM • 2 Comments
...depending on how I answered #2. I also answered NO to #7 and #10, although being in Sb might make those answers YES? I'll justify the NO by saying : for #7: I didn't choose the TLD name for #10:...
Posted on March 26, 2006 1:42 PM • 2 Comments
After grrl's post, I had to take the quiz. Nice study break from the incessant crunching of earthquake property damage numbers I've been doing lately. My undergrad path was Aeronautical Engineering -> Mechanical Engineering/Materials Science -> Geography -> Geology. Then...
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Posted on March 6, 2006 6:32 PM • 1 Comments
...worst offender was Selena Roberts and her column after sour-pussed column, written as if she had been ass-grabbed before the games by Bode Miller and so had a strong vendetta against him and everything else American...
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Posted on February 26, 2006 12:01 PM • 7 Comments
Back in summer 2002, I spent a few days in Barrow, Alaska, laying over for this cruise aboard the USCGC Polar Star. Barrow is an amazing place (warning: I recognize that this is highly debatable) and if you're ever in...
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Posted on February 22, 2006 12:32 AM • 4 Comments
Internet food fights are for idiots, so this is the last thing I'll say on the Hansen/SciAm stuff. I responded to John Rennie's SciAm post about Hansen here. While I explained again my position on Hansen, I also raised what...
Posted on February 4, 2006 8:55 PM • 10 Comments
Over Thanksgiving I had the misfortune of witnessing down to every last detail just exactly why Northwest Airlines is in bankruptcy. I had a 3-leg flight both going and coming and for not one of those six flights was the...
Posted on January 26, 2006 11:37 AM • 0 Comments
Straight outta today's CQ Midday update, Senator Stevens plans a markup on yet another broadcast bill. But wait! Congress still hasn't taken up H.R. 3687 from the 108th session. You should contact your Rep. today and ask them to bring...
Posted on January 24, 2006 2:40 PM • 0 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
