My daughter Sara has (apparently) been settling into her new job and home in Los Alamos, NM. She's also gotten back into blogging, and her writing is quite good, if I may kvellCat Lady and I went to play bingo last night. It was the first time I ever played. While I'm not a fan of gambling, I was still able to have fun. (I'm the type that keeps ( Read more... )

We had a very fast turn-around on this, from script to video in just two days. Video shot and edited by http://StudioTrovato.com . I'm very happy with the final result, if I don't say so myself:

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The Mt. Etna tour is offered by New Travel Services; it looks like a lot of fun.

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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So I was learning more about the Valles Caldera, the supervolcano to where my daughter just moved, and I googled "obsidian", one of its flows. For simpler searches, Google has been displaying brief summaries, which is generally fine, except that the third sentence for this particular search's result summary was: "The most common use for obsidian ( Read more... )