- 15:58 UEA climate change hacked e-mails: tried to upload to RealClimate.org: www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2
009/11/the-cru-hack/
- 23:17 Bat, dying off. It matters.
www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2009/11/15/whats_killing_the_bats?mode=PF
- 10:46 Involved in conversation about God, world as it is...I find I can discuss this without having same belief in God as my friend has. Cool.
- 12:04 Did I mention it's SUNNY??!! Glorious!!
(Must rest now; was stacking some wood in lovely sun + breeze. Slowly, I promise! Very slowly!) - 17:05 Uncut version of client newsletter finalized, as are newest contacts. Phew. Now to make website version, cut version, & get it mailed.
Re that God bit: One thing I found interesting was how in the course of responding to some posts recently is that many of us responding felt it needful to clarify our own lack of similar belief. Some of us, not so much. So I was wondering: is it necessary to say you don't share the same ideas (full disclosure sort of thing)? If someone asks for "your thoughts and prayers be with us" or something like that, do you find it needful to explain that you can't quite do as they ask because your beliefs are different? What if the requester is a believer in Faeries, or Norse Gods, or Christian God, or Judaic God? Does how you respond change? What if the believer is sort of similar to you in belief, but not quite? What if you are vastly different? What if the requester is atheist or agnostic, and asking only for well-wishes, and you want to also pray for them?
I'm perfectly happy to talk about my beliefs, but I'm not always sure that mine are particularly relevant to a conversation. This leads me to wonder: can one discuss, debate, analyze, and tease out theological ideas without getting into one's own beliefs, and still do this honestly? I hope so, since that's what I've been doing...I feel like I can ask relevant questions, suspend (as it were) my own disbelief (if any) long enough to say "if so, then what about...?"
Anyway, this natter is mostly an outgrowth of thinking about stuff
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jaipur has been posting, but not just there (of course); my family has a fairly diverse range of beliefs from member to member, and I'm often interested in exploring the consequences and ramifications of a set of beliefs without wanting to get into who's got the truth of it and whether or not we should agree. I suppose this ties into my sense of a sort of independence of validity (someone's feelings about a circumstance can be valid and appropriate regardless of whether I would have the same feelings about or in those circumstance).Clearly, I am beginning to ramble. Ooops. Better head off to bed. Or to watch some very silly TV streaming on Hulu. (
jere7my, thanks for the recommendation for FlashForward. I like the characters less than in Fringe but think (so far) the story has more interesting layers. Fun combo.)- how:working
- 14:48 For readers of my LJ "blog": I've added details & thoughts to the short status update entries (Oct 5-yesterday). (More for me than you? :) )
- 16:15 Ewww. Cool. (via Supergee) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2
009/10/091008-giant-sea-mucus-blobs.html
- 07:47 writing PHP to (ideally) simplify site upkeep. This continues to be more fun that I expect it will, making things work smoothly.
- 10:30 cleaning after microwave tried to kill us / playing with Mo / coding in interstitial moments / lawn + garden too? / planning gaming. Busy!
- 13:23 "13 more things that don't make sense" from New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/special/1
3-more-things - 15:04 Timeline: climate change research, political responses: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9
912-timeline-climate-change.html?full=tr ue
In which a title is almost as long as a post...
- 11:36 *http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/0
9/verizon-faces-boycott-threat-for-spons oring-west-virginia-rally-against-climat e-action.html
There are ways to write to Verizon W also. It just boggles my mind that people are insistent climate change is a hoax and the evidence has been slowly, steadily, accumulating for decades. I'm not saying any one particular model/set of predictions is right. I'm just saying that there's significant existing evidence of change in the past century(based on my reading of the journals, mostly in the 1990s and intermittently in the '00s; I tend to not rely on the news media/press release versions), and definite increasing understanding of interconnections and synergistic feedback, and what we seem to understand at the moment leads to some pretty serious outcomes (even the "mild" ones), even when we change our choices and lighten our individual, corporate, and aggregate effects. - 20:52 I made curryish stir fry (butter, onion, celery, chicken, peanut oil, garlic, cashews) & M said (unprompted), "Mmm, delicious!" **pleased!**
I'm not a very confident cook. I don't enjoy cooking meat (one of the reasons is the ecological costs I'm causing without necessarily bearing). However, that aside, apparently I am occasionally competent at both. Yay!
- 10:34 is enjoying this series of grammar posts: http://ozarque.livejournal.com/tag/amer
ican+english+grammar - 11:01 is in awe (again): hotlink.ellenmilliongraphics.com/ellen/b
annerpostcardshow.jpg She does so much and does it so well! - 20:34 "Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food" by Bryan Walsh (Time Mag Online) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,881
6,1917458,00.html
I wonder if it's coming time to write another post about me, choices, values, analogies, predictions (in my ongoing desire to be clear, right, and yet not arrogantly bossy). Hm.
- 15:29 recommended: http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/08/cli
mate-change-and-national-security
Hopefully I will have time to follow + read linked pp -- they look tremendously interesting - 20:19 Fascinating! http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/maga
zine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect
Someone asked (me?) about placebo the other day... who? Was it in SWAPA? - 22:10 Our neighbors' cattle drive down Main Road followed by a hoedown: gallery.me.com/johnnylion1#100098 (wish I coulda been there!)
- 05:47 Took Orca to vet on Saturday: tumor on bladder. This explains lots from last half-year. Dr Ellen says maybe a month. I'm not ready.
- 07:24 Hacker changes road sign's message www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/2009
0503/NEWS02/90503012/1007/RSS02 - 12:40 Swam again... joined the gym. Must work more to afford it, but on all the other hands, I can't not do *something* and so far this draws me.
- 16:02 Organic farms are ...where? Fancy that! Check out the graphic at www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/business/03me
trics.html - 16:26 "The Great Disruption": www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08fri
edman.html + tinyurl.com/cqt68u - 19:12 Home again, home again...
Spent some time this early a.m. checking out
http://www.eredux.com/ -- looks at some energy consumption stats and demographics, both in the US and world wide. Vermont's a serious slacker on the public transport stuff (as of 2002 data) but was doing well in terms of not putting out CO2. It doesn't sure CO2 adjusted per capita, though, so our low impact is more likely due to fewer people in the state rather than actions by those people.
http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics
http://www.realclimate.org/ -- this one also has an LJ feed (http://realclimate.livejournal.com
This was all more or less via another article on my flist, from worldchanging: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/0
Time to feed the dog, get on with the kid and work bits of the day.
http://www.eredux.com/ -- looks at some energy consumption stats and demographics, both in the US and world wide. Vermont's a serious slacker on the public transport stuff (as of 2002 data) but was doing well in terms of not putting out CO2. It doesn't sure CO2 adjusted per capita, though, so our low impact is more likely due to fewer people in the state rather than actions by those people.
http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics
http://www.realclimate.org/ -- this one also has an LJ feed (http://realclimate.livejournal.com
This was all more or less via another article on my flist, from worldchanging: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/0
Time to feed the dog, get on with the kid and work bits of the day.
Fantastic day with lepi, turbocat, some 2- and 4-leggeds from Faerie Court Farm, and other good friends. Made even more wonderful because cookies began, continued, became even more numerous....
Mmm, cookies.
Yesterday scanned 4 or 5 pictures (old and new), which I will post after I have a chance to format them for the web. Yay for doodleworks. Am making progress on a series of 3 sample illustrations for a kids book, and am in consequence discovering I know jack-all or less about the colors of shadows, let alone where they go, and then let alone again how I can put them there on the page. Hrmph.... Not knowing about the ok-ness of web publication in advance of paper-book pub (should I be so lucky), I'm not posting these for feedback, but wish like heck I were.
In other news, forruthling: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/0
In case you wondered why knowing about climate change/global warming is important:
lepi, turbocat, some 2- and 4-leggeds from Faerie Court Farm, and other good friends. Made even more wonderful because cookies began, continued, became even more numerous....Mmm, cookies.
Yesterday scanned 4 or 5 pictures (old and new), which I will post after I have a chance to format them for the web. Yay for doodleworks. Am making progress on a series of 3 sample illustrations for a kids book, and am in consequence discovering I know jack-all or less about the colors of shadows, let alone where they go, and then let alone again how I can put them there on the page. Hrmph.... Not knowing about the ok-ness of web publication in advance of paper-book pub (should I be so lucky), I'm not posting these for feedback, but wish like heck I were.
In other news, for
ruthling: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/0Portland [the one in Oregon] is rolling out onstreet bike parking to accommodate the myriad of cyclists who need a place to stash their bikes while they work, shop, and plot to change the world.
In case you wondered why knowing about climate change/global warming is important:
when at customs, the officer of Homeland Security asks about the goal of my visit, I proudly tell him about the training. He goes: “Why that’s a mistake! They will brainwash you! They claim it's all about that carbon dioxide...but do you even know how much carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere?” I do - 380 ppm (parts by million) - but quite frankly, I’m thrown. I get myself together and tell him that there’s a non-controversial correlation between the CO2 levels and the global temperatures averages, and also about how CO2 triggers the atmosphere to take up more water vapor, which in turn also works as a greenhouse gas ... but to no avail. The people in line behind me are stunned, and so am I. I thought I was going to Tennessee, but somehow I landed in the State of Denial.via http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/0
...Two hundred people coming from all fifty US states, from Slovenia, Uganda, Bali, Mexico, Canada and Belgium (supposedly, out of 4500 applicants for that session). The youngest is 14, the oldest must be the mid to late sixties. There are scientists, business-owners, students, editors, post-doc researchers, sales executives, professors, lawyers, architects, engineers, actors, nurses, writers, physicians, ministers, etc. All committed to do something about the climate crisis.
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