Jan
22
2009
Note: this post is also on ElementalMom This morning, my galley is spotless. An old roommate of mine once mentioned that if she could control no other thing in her world, she could keep her kitchen clean. The chaos level in her personal relationships was high, but her kitchen was always gorgeous. And so today, [...]
Tags: RIF, unemployed
Jan
19
2009
Mad Mariner reports: The Interior Department on Friday issued a detailed proposal for widespread oil and gas drilling off both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts in areas that have not had energy exploration for decades. The proposal, issued in the Bush administration’s final days, calls for oil and gas leases to be made available within [...]
Tags: Bush, Environment, Mad Mariner, oil drilling
Jan
15
2009
Here ya go, the GISS Global Temperature Trends: 2008 Annual Summation. For when you want to have your global climate changes discussions using actual numbers, unlike the individual I was chatting with here at the marina a few days ago, who insists the whole thing was dreamed up by Al Gore to make a profit. [...]
Tags: Environment
Jan
12
2009
Thanks to the Mighty Toast, I find that NOVA was doing a show about this phenomenon back in 2003. And as one of my marina compatriots asked me, as I was telling him about what I’d found out, “Why the heck aren’t people talking about this?” I have no answer there. Although I have some [...]
Tags: Environment, magnetic storm, Navigation, news, NOVA
Jan
06
2009
From National Geographic News You find the most important news in the most unexpected places, sometimes. Totally without the fanfare that such an announcement should be getting, I found this buried in my feeds from National Geographic: An unexpected, thick layer of solar particles inside Earth’s magnetic field suggests there are huge breaches in our [...]
Tags: Environment, Navigation, news