Archive for July, 2008

“No Smoking Hot Spot”

Jul 23rd 2008nerd alert

A former consultant for the Australian Greenhouse Office writes in The Australian about the lack of evidence pointing to carbon dioxide emissions as the cause of global warming. (He was actually the one who wrote the FullCAM model that measures Australia’s compliance with Kyoto.)
When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon [...]

While I move…

Jul 23rd 2008General & nerd alert

… posting has gotten a bit sparse… I’ll pause for a moment while you gasp in surprise…
Why do I always move by letting the schedule slip until I’m doing everything at the last minute? I know the answer to that one - lack of ability to say “no” to myself and others; [...]

Crouch, Skoog & Holler

Jul 2nd 2008laughter & nerd alert

“Crouch, Skoog and Holler”.
Is that…
Southern-style fire safety instructions?
or
the authors of a popular textbook in instrumental analysis?
Why not both?? I just need to figure out how one “skoogs”.