I think we’ve had two evenings with short snow—without accumulation—and one significant hailstorm—with accumulation—in eleven years here. Intriguing.
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(I’ve realized I need to deal with a much-too-high interrupt rate at work, in part by ensuring I take out a bit of time for leisure. Here’s an entry I started in April.) Over the past few years, my reading rate has climbed; perhaps I’ve unwittingly dropped a periodical, or maybe I’m getting back to [...]
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Big news for our household: the New York Times has an article on the announcement of the discovery of Mapusaurus roseae, which is larger than Giganotosaurus (which is in turn felt to be larger than Tyrannosaurus rex). Both Mapusaurus and Giganotosaurus were discovered in Argentina, and perhaps hunted Argentinosaurus, a huge plant-eating sauropod. Ben’s home [...]
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I’m still a bit woozy from a late night disk recovery at home which kept me up until about 4am Wednesday morning, but I thought I would point out two items in an old area of interest of mine: theoretical physics. First, Physics Today has devoted a special issue to Hans Bethe. Bethe’s range and [...]
Stephen’s one of the so-called “rocket scientists” in the Solaris 10 Technical Discussion being offered as a NetTalk tomorrow. (It’s at 1pm PDT.) You can register for the live session (or for details about hearing a replay later). (You would think folks would rather hear from computer scientists or software engineers or operating systems designers [...]
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Dina presented her poster, “Creating Access to Data of Worldwide Volcanic Unrest”, at the AGU 2003 Fall Conference (in San Francisco) today.
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Stephen was at Brown today to give a talk, “Topics in resource management”, at the Technical Center for Scientific Computation and Visualization. He had a chance to walk around the campus and its surroundings and see what’s new.
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Dina gave a talk on “Creating a worldwide database of volcanic unrest” for the Volcano Hazards Team seminar series at the USGS, Menlo Park.
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We enjoyed a spectacular view of Mt. Shasta during a recent flight to Portland, OR. (Dina was attending a volcanology workshop; Ben and Stephen planned long walks around the grid layout of Vancouver, WA–which should use the motto of “the city that grows before your eyes” given the amount of construction we saw.) From Ben’s [...]
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