Science and Technology

RE: Google may become King

by clay on October 19, 2006

I don't know that by adding those extra services it will make them king, it's more like adding jewels to the crown. Google already owns the internet world. Whenever your name has been turned into a verb (i.e., “Why don't you google that”) then you've taken over. Microsoft will never reach that point, at least [...]

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I must do this

by clay on September 21, 2006

Having grown up in south-central Kansas, I had always heard about the space camps that were held at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center (KSCS) though back in my day it was the Kansas Cosmosphere and Discovery Center. Anyway, I remember thinking that it would be pretty neat to be able to go to one [...]

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Was Katrina the problem, or was it the solution?

by clay on August 28, 2006

I’m not even going to attempt to say I understand what went on in New Orleans last year during Katrina. I will say that I think the rest of the Gulf Coast got hit worse (by the hurricane, important distinction) and has not received nearly the press coverage but that’s an arugment for another day. [...]

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More wild and wacky Hurricane of Terror ’06 (TM) predictions

by clay on May 24, 2006

Here’s a prediction about the upcoming hurricane from what, I believe, may be the most reliable sources to yet predict the weather. New Orleans, still down and out from last year’s assault by Hurricane Katrina, is the U.S. city most likely to be struck by hurricane force winds during the 2006 storm season, a researcher [...]

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An inconvenient lie?

by clay on May 23, 2006

Next week brings us the Al Gore concert movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.” I know I posted on this topic yesterday, but more information popped up today. It sounds like the pro-global warming crowd is not being entirely truthful with the public. Read this article from the National Center for Police Analysis. (h/t: PowerLine)

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Nothing like a little overreaction

by clay on May 22, 2006

I’m an armchair meteorologist. I watch The Weather Channel more frequently than most. I was one year into a meteorology degree at the University of Oklahoma before finding out that a full-time job, wife and new child wouldn’t leave me enough time to finish the program. I’m a trained storm spotter and amateur radio operator. [...]

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I just can’t let this one go

by clay on May 12, 2006

I wasn’t going to post about this, but the media keeps hammering it. I just watched this video from WFAA in Dallas about the tornadoes this week. In it, they tell how there was no warning for the smaller cities in the path of the storm because there are no sirens in the communities. They [...]

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Did Global Warming stop already?

by clay on April 10, 2006

Interesting article in the Telegraph today about global warming. Seems that according to the author’s calculations, then temperature has actually decreased. He might not have received the memo about how global warming causes things to cool down also. Can somebody send him that? Seriously, the article seems to be well written and the author,

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Who would have thought?

by clay on March 27, 2006

I guess the ultimate answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything really is 42. Wonder what Douglas Adams would have thought about that? If you haven’t read or seen The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, you will have no idea what this is about. I’m not going to take the time to [...]

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