Archive for June 13th, 2008

Saving my daughter from two and a half men…

This week my wife and I are selling our TV and entertainment center.
You may be asking the same question Joey from Friends posed to Ross when he told him he didn’t have a TV.

“So what’s all your furniture pointed at?”

Who wants to be tacky luggage?

At first I didn’t believe it.

Last night, while watching my nightly ritual of Scrubs and The Colbert Report, a clip came on about airlines considering weighing people before they get on planes.

But then I found this article in The Times of India, and realized this really is an idea. Read more »

Ignore the models behind the curtain

Global climate warming change reaches new levels of hysteria on ABC:

We really have less than a decade to start getting this right. If we’re still dragging our feet in 2015 I think it really becomes at that point almost impossible for the world to avert a degree of climate change that we simply will not be able to manage without intolerable cost and consequences.

So says climatologist John Holdrens. Fortunately, we don’t have to take his word for it anymore. The science (based entirely on predictive models) has been around long enough we can see long term trends and how they compare to those predictions.

Here’s a graph of actual warming in the atmosphere compared to predictions.

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