Joseph Palmer

Friday Cat Blogging

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:48:37 PDT

Miko

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:11:40 PDT

http://www.micromark.com/ is a great source for modeling supplies.

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:52:13 PDT

...unless you actually served time in the Yardbirds in the 1960s, a little unaccompanied lead guitar playing goes a long way...

The .sig of Dr. Vintage on the Les Paul forums.

Placing Profits Ahead of Civilization

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:55:31 PDT

Indeed, if there was a defining moment in Friday’s debate, it was the declaration by Representative Paul Broun of Georgia that climate change is nothing but a "hoax" that has been "perpetrated out of the scientific community." I'd call this a crazy conspiracy theory, but doing so would actually be unfair to crazy conspiracy theorists. After all, to believe that global warming is a hoax you have to believe in a vast cabal consisting of thousands of scientists — a cabal so powerful that it has managed to create false records on everything from global temperatures to Arctic sea ice.

Yet Mr. Broun’s declaration was met with applause.

Krugman

This is nothing less that placing profits ahead of civilization.

Fox News: Licensed to Lie.

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:03:03 PDT

On February 14, a Florida Appeals court ruled there is absolutely nothing illegal about lying, concealing or distorting information by a major press organization. The court reversed the $425,000 jury verdict in favor of journalist Jane Akre who charged she was pressured by Fox Television management and lawyers to air what she knew and documented to be false information. The ruling basically declares it is technically not against any law, rule, or regulation to deliberately lie or distort the news on a television broadcast.

ceasespin.org

Friday Cat Blogging

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:38:35 PDT

Diving cat is diving. (Tory James)

Thursday Bee Blogging

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:43:14 PDT

These bees found themselves a nice place under a sprinkler valve cover near where I work. They probably gave the gardener a real scare when he flipped the cover, but they were quite docile by the time I came by, and were were happy to mug for the camera.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:33:37 PDT

BTW, If I'm not blogging, I'm out "Hiking the Appalachian Trail", if you know what I mean...

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:10:41 PDT

Dear Politicians: No Public Option = No donations, no vote from me. (Pass it on)

10 Busted Myths About The Canadian Healthcare System

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:22:58 PDT

2008 is shaping up to be the election year that we finally get to have the Great American Healthcare Debate again. Harry and Louise are back with a vengeance. Conservatives are rumbling around the talk show circuit bellowing about the socialist threat to the (literal) American body politic. And, as usual, Canada is once again getting dragged into the fracas, shoved around by both sides as either an exemplar or a warning — and, along the way, getting coated with the obfuscating dust of so many willful misconceptions that the actual facts about How Canada Does It are completely lost in the melee.

Physicians for a National Health Program 29 E Madison Suite 602, Chicago, IL 60602

Here's part 2 of the article.

Monday Cat Blogging

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:31:30 PDT

T-Chan, Lost in thougt.

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:44:46 PDT

EROEI tells you when the crude oil will no longer be used for energy. — xeroid

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:33:01 PDT

Want. But Can't have.

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:37:09 PDT

We've used up all the cheap, abundant oil building an economy that needs a continued and growing supply of supply of cheap, abundant oil.

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:37:09 PDT

Petition: Ask the National Academy of Sciences to Study Peak Oil

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:30:54 PDT

Oh man. Another Zing old-timer took the door today. It's getting lonely around here.

Last week it was Danger folks calling it quits.

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:08:29 PDT

Last Sunday, Twitter offered manure mixed with ponies, CNN only had the manure. (The other networks went golfing.)

#CNNFAIL

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:21:17 PDT

Yesterday was one of those days when I felt I was being let down by CNN.

Yes, it was Sunday, and the middle of the night in Tehran, but I still felt that it was disrespectful of the very notion of news for CNN to run so much of their regular programming rather than news and background of the Iranian election.

I tried for a time to follow #iranelection on Twitter, just to get my news fix, but the hundreds of updates were mostly redundant, or spam, or stuff that just didn't sound right.

Maybe CNN didn't want want to go wall to wall because they were afraid of being kicked out of the country, but there were a few things they could have done:

1) World Clock: It would be helpful to know what time it was in Tehran.

2) Time stamp the images and film: It would be great to know if the film being shown was from an hour ago or 2 days ago. The producers at CNN have a bad habit of showing random stuff while people are talking, this would be a way to de-randomize it.

3) Give the crawl the wall-to-wall: If you're going to go to old tape of Wolfe talking to the Governor of Alaska (the point where I gave up and turned off) could you at least run the Iran story in the text crawl?

The revolution is being digitized.

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:08:41 PDT

Not sure that I can unthread reality from the flood of twitters about the events in Iran, but one thing is for sure, there will be thousands of gigabytes of photos and video leaking out over the next few months.

Leaves

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:33:29 PDT

Bamboo Leaves, 2008.01.06 Nikon D70 — this was an experiment with an electronic flash offset from the camera.

An Old Story

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:29:34 PDT

...on days when he was in a bad mood he'd wear his hat in the house, and she'd know know to keep clear. When she was mad at him she'd pin up the corner of her apron, and bake cookies. The bigger the anger, the bigger the cookies...

— From a story about an old couple living on a farm, as related to me by a friends parents thirty plus years ago.