I’m not appealing for sympathy or anything, by my prep for a conference (for which I leave this friday) has reached full panic mode, I have 100 exams to grade by thursday and I got no sleep because last night I mixed up Dayquil with Nyquil. Expect light blogging from me. About the conference, if …
Archives for December 2005
Football Thread
Congrats to the Mountaineers, who finished the season yesterday with a win against South Florida, finishing Big East play unbeaten. Looks like we will now face the Georgia Bulldogs in the Sugar Bowl. Today, of course, the big game is the Steelers versus the Bengals. Go Steelers! *** Update *** Congrats to the Bengals, who …
Open Pants Thread
I picked up a pair of hemp jeans, Patagonia brand, the other day. I know that you guys care about everything I wear, but hemp is especially awesome. They’re my favorite pair of pants now. It wears lighter than denim, has a cool dress-casual look and the material is practically unbreakable. Of course it’s expensive …
See It For Yourself
A few days back I linked to a report that pushed back recorded climate history to some 650,000 years ago. In a nutshell, today’s greenhouses are completely off the charts as far as history goes. I’ve posted one figure from the papers* that I think captures everything that I was trying to say in a …
Hitting the Lottery
So one day, you are just lying somewhere in abject poverty with a very grim future in some backwoods third-world (excuse me, “less developed”) country, and out of nowhere swoops Angelina Jolie, who picks you up and whisks you off to Hollywood to live a life of luxury. Some might say that was a touch …
Al Qaeda Agent Killed
More dead terrorists, and that is always good news: One of al-Qaida’s top five leaders, a key associate of Ayman al-Zawahri, was tracked down with U.S. help and killed by Pakistani security forces in a rocket attack near the Afghan border, officials said Saturday. Hamza Rabia, believed to have become al-Qaida’s operational commander after the …
Plame Update
Eight Mystery Pages! The stuff of movies!: There are eight blank pages in the public version of a decision the federal appeals court in Washington issued in February. The decision ordered two reporters to be jailed unless they agreed to testify before a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a C.I.A. operative, …