New Orleans Flood Control April 30th, 2002 @ 9:56 am PDT
I’ve been to N’Awlins several times in the last decade or so. It’s one of my favorite cities. Part of its charm, I think, is that you can feel the Mississippi River’s omnipotence no matter where you are. Even as you walk along the streets, with the water far from view, you know it’s there. […]
Get a Degree April 29th, 2002 @ 6:16 am PDT
nf0 has written an article that describes How to Add the current Temperature to a Movable Type Blog Entry. (I cannot imagine why you would want to post the temperature which corresponds to a blog entry. But I’ve worked with databases and users long enough to know that no niche should ever go unfilled. Someone, […]
Windy City March 13th, 2002 @ 4:06 pm PST
It is so windy today that it’s blogworthy. It’s crazy windy. Sixty and seventy mile per hour gusts windy. Shaking the windows windy.It’s very odd. Trees are actually being felled. One right here in Studio City.
Weather March 7th, 2002 @ 4:10 am PST
It rained in Los Angeles today. Rain? <Princess Bride>Inconceivable!</Princess Bride> An inch of rain in Los Angeles will cause flooding. I grew up in Daytona Beach and spent the 90s in Gainesville, Fl. Rain was not unusual. In Daytona it rained like clockwork from 3 to 4 pm pretty much every day for eight or […]
Storms February 22nd, 2002 @ 5:43 pm PST
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30. The East Pacific hurricane season runs from May 15 through November 30. But why wait? Get a jump on Nature’s Greatest Storms by visiting the Tropical Prediction Center now! Or just take a blink over to the Weather Underground for your not-yet-quite hurricane season […]
Warm in Gainesville December 1st, 2001 @ 9:06 am PST
“I brought a fleece,” University of Tennessee student Lance Pasco said mockingly as the temperature rose to 85 degrees in Gainesville, Fl. “For God’s sake, why did I bring a fleece?”
Doldrums September 4th, 2001 @ 9:32 am PDT
It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity. I just spent a week telling all my New England relatives how wonderful the weather is in Los Angeles and what a great place this city is to live and work. And then I returned. Dumb move on my part I guess. For at least the tenth time […]
Weather Control August 3rd, 2001 @ 9:20 am PDT
A company in the United States claims it has invented a powder that can be used to remove clouds from the sky and even stop the development of hurricanes. [link via me-fi]
hurricanes February 20th, 2001 @ 12:39 pm PST
I was never really nervous about hurricanes when I lived in Florida.
BladeRunner February 8th, 2001 @ 8:13 am PST
Director Ridley Scott took issues already noticeable in the 1980s, such as urban development, genetic engineering, and, of course, climate change, and took them to what he thought was their next logical stage. So what else did Blade Runner get right? link via Follow Me Here …
