Dan_Harris

ehmmic: Implying nothing! An attempt at humor and a poor job at it I now realize. Anne did graduate from your alma mater about 20 years before you did. murray: I can understand Veneman's comment. I'm sure there are many out there who would believe terrorists to be the cause of anything bad happening. Didn't Al-Queda cause the recent earthquake down here?

Hey, hey, hey. ehmmic and Ann Veneman graduated from the same high school. Maybe that's why Michelle left town and headed north. Uh, wait a minute, I teach at that school. Agggghhhhh!

"Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you’re home. " - Carol Nelson Good stuff, keep it coming.

Great word "cwm". Are you sure he's your son if he didn't know cirque?

Yeah, it does sound like Dave Berry's style. But that's ok because Dave Berry is, well, a funny writer and this piece is funny.

Looney Tunes are classic and Mel Blanc's voices were awesome. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/village/8603/anythis.wav

Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Monty Python stuff. For old school, I still find Abbott and Costello very funny.

Those peaks are part of the Klamath Range. Mount Eddy is the higest point you see from I-5.

"Anyone thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate. " - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Bear with me. Only a few more days. "Surely, if (Santa Claus) were a man, everyone in the universe would wake up Christmas morning to find a rotating musical Chia Pet under the tree, still in the bag." - Anonymous, Santa Claus Must be a Woman

Any luck a person has in life is usually of their own making. The following are some quotes from people that are held in high esteem. "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson "People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have." - Anne Tyler "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?" - Jean Cocteau "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Q: What is orange and sleeps 3? A: A Caltrans truck!

"When I was young, I wrote a letter to Santa Claus every year and he always brought me what I wanted. Now that I’m an adult, I have my children write similar letters to Santa, but the lazy %&!#* never brings them anything." - Unknown

I think we are agreeing Dru. My question concerned the article and, at least my interpretation, of his talking about visible light and not mentioning UV. UV, as well as other forms of radiation, pass through clouds very well (I've had some nasty sunburns to attest to this) and so heating and dimming can co-exist quite well.

glacier I like. "For reasons I cannot begin to understand, when I was about eight years old my parents gave me a pair of skis for Christmas. I went outside, strapped them on, and stood in a racing crouch, but nothing happened. This is because there are no hills in Iowa." - Bill Bryson, I’m a Stranger Here Myself

Wow, Finally get a chance to read and respond. CBS, I understand how the warming works via CO2, and other gasses, trapping IR and keeping it from radiating back to space. I understood the piece to be talkng mainly about visible light hitting the surface. Earth's surface aborbs these frequencies and radiates the IR back and the atmosphere gasses trap these, therefore warming the atmosphere. So if less visible light is reaching the surface of Earth? Now the warming and dimming could be explained in my mind if there were more of the UV and other frequencies (magnetic field weakening?) hitting Earth and radiated back as IR. Dru, The Venutian atmosphere has a surface pressure of 90 time that of Earth, is composed of mainly CO2, and is just a bit closer to the sun than Earth. Those two would help explain the extremly high temps on Venus. Also with no magnetic field to deflect some of the other radiation emitted by the Sun, it would seeem this energy would contribute to the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus. The guy using a dark plate and measuring temps on either side seemd rather simple. I have used sechi discs to measure light penetration of water, seemd to be not very accurate. The photometer made a whole lot more sense. OK, ready to be set straight. Thanks!

Did I miss something in the article? I still do not know how Global Dimming and Global Warming square. Seems less sunlight, less warming.

Two seagulls were flying over a ship when one says, "Look, it's a ship of fools." The second says,"How do you know?" The first responds, "They're looking up aren't they?"

MORON!!!

"I think that Santa Claus is a really big elf on a power trip. " - Christine Rudd

"Oh, sure, The Little Drummer Boy is a beautiful song, for maybe the first 35 minutes. But eventually it gets on your nerves, those voices shrieking “Rum-pa-pa-pum!” I’ll tell you this: If I were taking care of a newborn baby, and somebody came around whacking on a drum, that person would find himself at the emergency room having his drumsticks surgically removed from his rum-pa-pa-pum, if you know what I mean. " - Dave Barry

Here's to Orville and Wilber. They had a dream and perservered. Pretty amazing when you think about it. Sure did change the world in a big way.

This talk has kind of reminded me of the movie "Johnny Got His Gun." The nurses and docs figure out Johnny, who now has no legs, arms, or face due to a mine exploding, is tapping out "Kill me." The nurse asks, "Are we going to?" Officer, "NO!" Nurse, "Why not?" Officer, "Against regulations!"

Last couple of weeks have been great right after the storms. Rain washed all the junk I've breathing out of the sky and left some great visibilty. Could look east and see the peaks of Yosemite like they were right there. I even happened to be on the west side of the valley last week and could still see the snow capped Sierras clearly.