Or so it has seemed since sunspots began returning back in December. Too late, apparently, to hinder the Arctic cold snap that put much of the northern hemisphere in the deep freeze until recently.
If, that is, you accept the cosmic ray theory of climate change. Many scientists don’t. Meanwhile the sunwatchers among them also aren’t ready to declare the end of the solar minimum just yet. In the last few years, the sun has amply proved how little we know about its behavior.
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Posted in Science/Engineering, Space, Weather/Climate
Tagged cosmic ray theory of climate change, solar minimum, sunspots
So far the weather warriors’ radar is all greens and yellows so, hopefully, that artillery-like thunder rumbling through now and then won’t get much worse. We are forecast to get heavy rain overnight, today and tonight, and are under a flash flood watch. Nice that the temp is in the 50s. Won’t be any snow or ice.
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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Weather/Climate
This is as racy as we get around here, only because we’re trying to run a family blog, considering we have such diverse topics as Cub Scouts and Youth Basketball. But Instapundit says it never hurts the visitor total to throw a little sex into the mix. This lovely maiden (though I’d bet that “maiden” is a euphemism), also called a booth babe and unfortunately unidentified, is from this collection at the Autoblog.
Via (who else?) Instapundit.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Rule 5, Scribbles, Site building
Tagged Autoblog, booth babes, Detroit 2010, Motor City Maidens, Rule 5
I first heard of Scott when Alan Sullivan would occasionally mention his gratitude for Scott’s expert help on this or that tech problem at Alan’s blog Fresh Bilge. So, when I finally got the nerve to migrate TTS from obtuse Movable Type to relatively-easy WordPress, I knew who to call.
Email, actually, via Scott’s blog The Fat Guy. He made it as painless as possible at a reasonable fee and was finished in about 48 hours. He also does “multiple business sites, as well as plenty of personal ones… domain registration and management, web hosting on my server, and web hosting at the super-high-power Rackspace server, for additional fees.” So, if you need site tech help, try Scott. He’s even good at explaining what you need to know when he’s no longer around.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Site building
Tagged Scott Chaffin, site tech, tech help, The Fat Guy, Web design
My own preference for charity donations, for a helping hand in disasters and at major crime scenes, is the Salvation Army. The Red Cross has too much political baggage and too often discriminates, especially in the Middle East. The Sally, however, is pure good works. They don’t care whose side you’re on.
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Posted in Scribbles, South of the Border
Tagged earthquakes, Haiti, Salvation Army
Although, when you think about it, where else could you find a more insane example of trying to balance the aims of the terrorists and their victims:
“Are both sides really teaching to hate? No, not at all. In this article, at least they are treated as being equal. In much of the media, especially outside the United States, Israel is being treated as the party responsible for all these problems. The truth, of course, is the exact opposite. When will the Western media have the courage and honesty to write that truth?”
When real courage and honesty are rewarded over political correctness.
Via Simply Jews.
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Tagged Israel, moral equivalence, New York Times, Orel and Marya, Palestinians
This mystery object from space is expected to whiz by Earth at a distance of about 130,000 kilometers tomorrow. Scientists are stumped by the object, which is 33- to 50-feet wide at most. It’s catalogued as 2010AL30, a 10-meter class asteroid. But who knows. It might be our own space junk. Or an alien probe, perhaps. Even a scout ship? Photo seen from the Skylive-Grove Creek Observatory in Australia.
MORE: The Daily Astronomer speculates on what 2010AL30 could be
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Posted in Blogosphere, Science/Engineering, Scribbles, Space
Tagged 2010AL30, Skylive-Grove Creek Observatory, The Daily Astronomer
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