Monthly Archives: December 2010

Leyla Leidecker: Rule 5

Posted on December 31, 2010 | Comments Off on Leyla Leidecker: Rule 5

on-the-grass-LeylaLeideckerBoxer, filmmaker, model, rebbetzin. Boxer?

Via Heeb Magazine.

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Snowfall: Rare or abundant?

Posted on December 30, 2010 | Comments Off on Snowfall: Rare or abundant?

The warmist cult wants to have it both ways.

From the Independent, March 20th, 2000:

“According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become ‘a very rare and exciting event.'”
Meanwhile, almost a decade later…

“….for the second year in a row, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales [and most of the Midwest and East Coast U.S.] is covered with snow. Meanwhile, AGW proponents like the Guardian’s George Monbiot are furiously spinning to make it look like AGW causes more snow, rather than less.”
Weather, as they say, is what causes global warming. And short memories and gullibility.

Via Instapundit.

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Obamalot to run Texas

Posted on December 29, 2010 | Comments Off on Obamalot to run Texas

The permitting, via the executive branch’s EPA, beginning Jan. 2 that is, “on greenhouse-gas permits for companies seeking to build or upgrade power plants and oil refineries…”

Goodbye strong economy and high employment, hello increases in electric bills and the cost of gasoline—all to “stop” alleged global warming. The state will go to court, of course, but how long will that take and what will be the outcome?

Obamalot loves uncertainty and they’ve got at least two more years to whip it by imposing this and similar unilateral regulations without going through Congress.

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The sparrow and the duckweed

Posted on December 28, 2010 | Comments Off on The sparrow and the duckweed

Watching the flying pigs strip the feeder this morning, I was reminded of the duckweed in Lake Austin. Both were introduced, the seed-eating bird to the country and the duck-food weed to the lake and both quickly spread and multiplied.

Mrs. Charm looked it up. The house sparrow was introduced to Brooklyn, it says here, in 1851, to control caterpillars. The weed, I already knew, was sown in the 1940s to attract ducks to Austin’s fake lake created by dams on the Texas Colorado River to create a picturesque scene for the populace. Bird and weed ran wild.

The sparrows now are found everywhere people are, and their seed feeders, of course. They are the most abundant bird in the world. And there are still plenty of caterpillars. The weed was even less successful. It attracted few ducks but became a magnet for outboard motors, clogging them and the lake itself. So much so that the lake is artificially lowered annually to cut back the weed. Heh.

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OMG I missed the Singularity?

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Posted on December 27, 2010 in Blogosphere, Library, Science/Engineering, Scribbles

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The unbiquitous cell phone

Posted on December 26, 2010 | Comments Off on The unbiquitous cell phone

Approaching 3.3 billion—half the world’s population.

“No technology has ever spread faster around the globe: the mobile phone took less than two decades to reach this degree of penetration.”

Actually I had one at work, about the size of a WW2 Walky-Talky, in 1983—which is almost three decades back.

I have a cell, of course. But I usually keep it in the car for breakdowns or other contacts of sudden need. I do not carry it about with me all the time.

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Wassail and etc.

Posted on December 25, 2010 | Comments Off on Wassail and etc.

We here at the rancho in the valley offer our kindest felicitations for your having arrived at yet another of these seasons, and the fervent hope that your punch bowl be filled with spicy liquid merriment and that all of your problems be little ones. Nay, infinitesimals.

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