So the National Weather Service is saying here that the probability of getting an inch of snow in this part of southern Colorado is less than 40%, but greater than 50%? I guess the model is predicting that the snow will fall up!


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I played with the API and added this map to yesterday's hexagonal grid post:


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I have literally six different blog posts rattling around in my head at the moment. Plus, my earlier post from '08 about latitude/longitude grids got me thinking.... I'm in the mood for a bit of juxtaposition of math and marketing, so that's what you're getting this evening ( Read more... )

For SafeAmericanKids.com, it struck me that some potential clients may very well wish to buy more than one opportunity. So, I changed the "Buy Now" buttons to instead use PayPal's own shopping cart, so that if a client wants, they can do so in a single transaction. This was actually easier to implement than anticipated; yay for PayPal's "create ( Read more... )

Can't fall asleep, despite being tired, so I guess I'll blog. And eat one and a half avocados.

I titled this post, "Resolutions...", because I'll show how a couple of earlier outstanding matters were completed, but now that I think about it, that's also the word one uses at the beginning of the year to start making changes, so... which is it ( Read more... )

Quite a bit of excitement this evening, thanks to a driver who failed to negotiate a straight line. Surprisingly, he only suffered very minor injuries, and no one else was hurt, but his car and Cat Lady's property wall were both totaled. Police are leaning more toward mechanical failure, rather than intoxication ( Read more... )

I can certainly understand how new roads appear; populations tend to grow. But compare this topographic map (USGS '82) with the corresponding current Google terrain map. There are a bunch of road segments which seem to have disappeared in just three decades. So far, I'm guessing erosion/hurricanes or GMaps simply not showing private roads. What ( Read more... )

I found a statement on FEMA's site that said, "Areas with a 1% annual chance of flooding and a 26% chance of flooding over the life of a 30-year mortgage." The statement seemed rather odd; a knee-jerk reaction would be that the figure should be "30%". Then I saw that they took the approach of: 99% chance of staying dry in the first year and 99% ( Read more... )

My CRX has refused to start the last two days. We set an appointment at the mechanic's, and Cat Lady has graciously lent me her car to get to work. I just moved my car into the woods, in hopes that it may prove a bit cooler to encourage it to start for my next commute ( Read more... )