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July 30, 2010
Category: misc
A friend pointed out just recently: we usually measure a car's fuel efficiency in Miles per Gallon. But some would like us to switch to the more logical Gallons per Mile (or 10,000 miles, to make the numbers more convenient,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:42 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
Header shamelessly stolen from Coby. But his post is so wonderful that I can't help re-saying it. So: Roy Spencer says that the basic greenhouse effect mechanism is sound; or perhaps, more weakly, that the basic mechanism is phyically possible....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:12 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 29, 2010
Category: fun
I have a funky new watch, a Garmin Forerunner 110. It lets me do kewl stuff like: although you only get that after post-processing, of course. In fact I haven't even worked out how to make it work like a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:39 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fun
As discussed by Viz in the August 2010 edition, #197: Paul has more useful discussion, but Viz is funnier....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:47 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2010
Category: misc
mt discusses Denialism, Informational Conformity and New Coke. Go read it now, if you didn't when he first wrote it. Paul Graham propounds the concept of the top idea in your mind which might partly explain why rolling out a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:50 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 24, 2010
Category: climate science
There is an interesting new post up at KlimaZweibel about a paper by Smerdon et al.. This is going to be all over everywhere very soon, so I may as well jump in. The title, of course, is a snark...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:23 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: rowing
Oh dear, and we were rowing so well, too. Our best row of the week, and we pushed hard to get Cantabs, but while we closed on them (again!) it wasn't enough to hold off the Leys who came...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:26 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 22, 2010
Category: rowing
A somewhat disappointing day today: we rowed well, but only achieved a row-over. Nines 5, as expected, succumbed quickly to Leys behind us, perhaps depriving us of that vital spark of being chased. But while we closed to within a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:23 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
[Tags: climate-wonk incest. Everyone else please ignore] We interrupt your diet of boatie-type news [update: sorry, late boatie news: a great bow-cam video of Champs 6 bumping the Hornets (sorry Paul)] for something related to climate: BigCityLib notices that the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:50 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 21, 2010
Category: rowing
Yesterday we rowed over, but discovered that we could leave the crew behind us and most likely catch the crew (Nines 5) that Cantabs 7 dropped for us. And so we did, just under the motorway bridge, which was...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:02 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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