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| Well, I don't really know how to say this, so I guess I'll just say it. I've been posting on
another blog lately. It's not xanga, it's me. Xanga is great,
and I'll always treasure our time together, but I think we might be
going in different directions. Maybe we can work this out, but right
now I need a little space, and if that means that I have to experiment
with other blogs, that is just the way it needs to be. I want to be
sorry, but I can't be, this is just the way things are. We'll talk
again, and xanga and I will always be on friendly terms, even if this
is the end of our blogging relationship.
see climateboy.blogspot.com for new posts, at least for now...
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| Hey, there's an interesting paper out about "ice ages" on Mars. I haven't really taken a close look at the paper, but there's a news story on Nature.com
that describes the work. It sounds like some folks at Brown took high
resolution images from the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) and tried to
reconstruct the stratigraphy of the northern ice cap. They find a
pretty strong cycle at 30 m, which they estimate to be about 51,000
years. That's pretty neat. I can't say they did a good or bad job at
this, but it is a good idea, and probably took a lot of work to get
this first estimate of the paleoclimatic reconstruction of Mars.
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| Okay, so first let's have a round of congrats for me.. my GCM ran at T85 for 120 days! [Here's a 30-day mean!] See, I do work too!
Second, while trying to avoid doing other work today, I ended up on foxnews.com. Just to look around, you know. I scrolled down and saw a box called "POLITICS HEADLINES" which I took to mean, political news of the day. Of course, that uses the clearly left-wing radical idea that "headlines" implies timely news stories. In that box was a "headline" that read "Kennedy Fights Times, Fans Love It." I looked at it and wondered what I was missing. Which Kennedy? Which Times? I wondered if, e.g., Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was fighting with the NYTimes about something. Or maybe it meant that JFK was still popular despite being so very dead. I had to click. Then I found a story (LINK) about Ted Kennedy. The entire piece, with no obvious author, is about how Ted Kennedy is a liberal and is out of touch with the country. There was nothing about any current politics, except a poorly thought out notion that since TK was agains "welfare reform" in the past, it makes him out of touch or something.
I swear, I went to foxnews.com just to look around and see what was going on with it. This was the one and only story I clicked on, and it lived up to every foxnews stereotype I have in my head.
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| Well, well, well.... moonquakes.
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| There is a very interesting article by Peter Byrne on Salon.com today about the
governor of California. I'd really, really like for you to read it. It
is biased, yes, but some of the facts seem indisputable.
Here's a little bit, just to get you interested:
There are other
intersections between the governor's private and public capital.
Schwarzenegger has been receiving income from six private Goldman Sachs
partnerships worth more than $2.4 million. According to the firm's Web
site, Goldman Sachs has a stake in the California energy market and
would benefit from deregulation. The firm owns a power supply contract
with the state Department of Water Resources. It also underwrote $3.3
billion in financing for Calpine Corp., another player in the
electricity deregulation game.
You can find the whole text at: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/15/arnold/print.html
That is the entire text all at once, very printable for those of you who don't like to read things on-screen.
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