Painting by numbers: NASA’s peculiar thermometer Viewing the NASA 250-mile map for March below, what immediately grabs the attention is that NASA has essentially no data (gray areas) in most of Canada, most of Africa, the Greenland ice sheet, and most of Antarctica. This begs the question, how can one calculate an accurate “global temperature” [...]
Archive of posts tagged General
“The greatest scam in history”
I’m guessing John Coleman doesn’t get invited to ride on Al Gore’s private jet… Weather Channel Founder’s Forecast Currently, John Coleman is a TV weatherman for KUSI News in San Diego. But Coleman is most famous for being founder of the Weather Channel. He has had a long career in predicting the weather, working for [...]
Another Image Test
Re-uploading a number of the WordPress 2.5 core files seems to have resolved this problem. Here’s the default WordPress Gallery (rather plain and simple) And here’s NextGen’s version (sexy)
Testing Image Display
Having problems with the media uploader… this one is from a direct upload / URL link. Lightbox-2 Plugin is working, though… (Click the image!) Another test – now using NextGen Gallery!
The Dark Knight
I can’t wait…
It’s the Sun, Stupid
This would be hilarious, if the end result either way wasn’t so devastating. IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor’s Business Daily — The Sun Also Sets Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back [...]
Customer Service: The Good and the Bad
I am pleased enough with this transaction, I want to share. Here’s the comment I just posted to ResellerRatings: Wrong item was shipped (I believe the problem is the manufacturer part number mix-up, not NewEgg’s error), called for RMA. Explained similar problem I have still not resolved with another company, CSR was *very* sympathetic and [...]
Sometimes even the good guys send spam
Just a minor rant, as I clean out the trap of another spam filter (gmail, this time) Awhile back, I had subscribed to the MinutemanHQ.com (link deliberately left out, if you want some of this, find it yourself) newsletter. All was fine for quite some time, but then I noticed I started getting the same [...]
10,001
I just noticed the counter to the right has passed 10,000 (10,001 at the time of this writing). Ugh. TheReligionofPeace.com Turns 10,000! In the mind-numbing aftermath of 9/11, who would have guessed that within just a few years American politicians would be campaigning on promises to ensure the comfort of incarcerated terrorists… that Hollywood writers [...]
This all seems so eerily familiar:
24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
232 Years of Marine Corps Excellence
Happy Birthday, United States Marine Corps!
Halloween Fun!
I spent the past few days helping out a co-worker and neighbor set up a small “haunted house” for Halloween. Personally, I can’t imagine inviting hundreds of strangers to traipse through my house and yard, but he’s been doing it for a few years, and it all seemed to go over pretty well. Next year, [...]
Slogans
Hey, even Madison Avenue gets it right, sometimes! The Few, The Proud, The Marines slogan wins MARINE CORPS RECRUITING COMMAND, QUANTICO, Va. — Madison Avenue’s Advertising Walk of Fame now has a new member in its ranks. “The Few. The Proud. The Marines.” will be forever enshrined on the famed walk, the announcement, Sept. 26, [...]
Making the completely stupid sound perfectly plausible?
I’ve often been amazed at the ability of seemingly reasonable people arriving at obviously stupid conclusions. Especially those whose educational credentials should allow them to know better. Consider the “911 scholars for truth” (website not linked, as I won’t waste my time to find it), and useful idiots like Rosie O’Donnell (spelling? I’m also not [...]