Jun 28 2009
Show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click – http://helpiranelection.com/ # Wondering when this cold thing is going to finally decide to leave my body. Maybe I’ll try to bake it out on the deck today. # Managed pumpout, cleaning both heads, and taking a shower in one [...]
Jun 22 2009
I dig the Ethicurean; it’s a great blog with a lot of things to say about what we eat and how we eat it. So, I was happy to see them review the new film, The End of the Line, which is about commercial fishing and ocean depletion. A few highlights: None of these recommendations [...]
Jun 21 2009
Still sick-ish, but feeling great about the world and my to-do list this morning! Bring it! # Preparing to do battle. Still. Why are financial people so sure, even in today’s climate, that they have the answers? # Facing my everyday afternoon exhaustion, and wondering if there’s an answer besides extreme caffeination? # The wind [...]
Jun 15 2009
HT to Jonathan, more awesome physics-geek stuff about the magnetosphere: The Earth’s magnetic field remains a charged mystery Professor Gregory Ryskin from the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University in Illinois, US, has defied the long-standing convention by applying equations from magnetohydrodynamics to our oceans’ salt water (which conducts electricity) and found [...]
Jun 14 2009
The kids and I have some miserable crud. It is so nice to just cuddle with them and rest; no meetings, no emails, no distractions. Ahhh. # The illness shows no signs of abating, no matter what I throw at it. Except, y’know, sleep, since moms don’t get to do that much. # Still sick, [...]
Jun 08 2009
…more on the Cosco Busan debacle. Prisoners of the Cosco Busan: In accounting for Cota’s perplexing confusion, NTSB investigators eventually concluded that “the higher-level cognitive effort and perceptual skills” needed to interpret the Cosco Busan‘s standardized radars and maps “were precisely those capabilities that would have been degraded” by the drugs that Cota had possessed. [...]
Jun 07 2009
Made huevos rancheros for breakfast, now cleaning up and generally indulging in a day of domesticity. This afternoon, sewing and art! # Happy birthday to my great grandmother, born in the 1890s, whose name was Alpha June. # Rowan’s bottle of red paint shattered in his hand, splashing the entire cockpit. Looks like a murder [...]
Jun 02 2009
By way of the mighty Jonathan, this piece of excrement… Company Seeks Shield From $40M In Bay Spill Fines A Hong Kong shipping company has renewed a bid to a federal judge in San Francisco to plead guilty to two charges in the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill, but has asked for the right to [...]
Jun 02 2009
Coming up June 8, World Ocean Day: To help promote our collective ocean conservation message on and around World Oceans Day, we urge our Partners to “Wear Blue and Tell Two.” Our recent public opinion research (survey results to be released on June 3) clearly shows that the public is looking to our Partner zoos, [...]
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