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Friday, May 09, 2008

Solution for Global Warming

I've got the solution! We solve the problem... And no surprise... The its all the fault of the dimwits south of the equator. Thats right! Those lazy jerks have created so little land (and by extension so few plants) that when its summer in southern equator CO2 levels spike because less trees are warm and happy and breathing fast.

My solution? Lets help those southies out and crack open the sea floor (I'm thinking in the pacific or Indian oceans) and make a big new continent. Then the trees and other plants will grow and blam! Problem solved.

Your Welcome.

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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Montana - Only Getting Better.

According to my nifty 2007 Farmer's Almanac temperatures will increase by roughly 3.7 degrees by the end of the century. However the distribution is far from even. The north will get the majority of that warming. Most warming will come in the form of night time temperatures and milder winters. So essentially Montana will be getting far nicer while the south, say New Mexico will be getting only slightly more unbearable. There is an upside for everyone. The milder temperatures in the north will reduce heating costs more than the increased need for air conditioning in the south. So energy demand from heating and cooling should diminish. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2007 got its information from a study done by Stanford Researcher Dr. Thomas Gale Moore and the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Summer's End

It promises to be a crazy winter here in Butte. The two most reliable sources of weather information (the Farmer's Almanac and Robert) both agree that this winter will be all over the place, i.e., hot and foggy and cold and dry and rainy and snowy and windy and calm and all manner of other adjectives.

There will be a few things we can count on. 1) The days will be short. 2) We will have weather. 3) Most of the weather will be in or from the sky. 4) I will not regrow my hair.

South West Montana Summer '06 was a good time. I had some friends and family out. I went floatin' a few times. We made a bunch of progress on Silver Bow Properties, LLC and somewhat less progress on Silver Bow Software, LLC. All in All, a great time was had.

Now it's late fall and we're even coming up on the end of hunting season. I'm pleased to report that I'll have a freezer or mule deer steaks, ground venison, mule deer salami, and jalapeno cheese venison kielbasa. Oh, and the head will make a great dog toy. Disturbing pictures to follow.

It's been brought to my attention that not all of you know what I look like anymore. I've shaved my head and face; but I promise I'm not running from the law.


I'd like to thank Billy-Bob for posting this picture of us floatin' the Jefferson to his myspace profile.

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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Mammoth Mountain

My brother reports that the hot springs at Mammoth Mountain were closed on his most recent hiking excursion because of irregular heating activity. Mammoth Mountain is a dormant volcano that is in the process of waking up. Considering the recent California Earthquake, the changed activity at Yellowstone, some local MT earthquakes, and the fact that my dogs couldn't be naturally this dumb, we might be entering a time of increased geologic activity. Which is a good news / bad news situation. Bad because Natural disasters cause horrific human tragedies; Good because natural disasters make for excellent TV.

So if I had to place one chip on the Roulette Wheel of Earthquake and Volcano Eruption Prediction I'd go with: 6.5 or greater in the Portland/Seattle area within 18 months. You read it here first.

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Friday, June 16, 2006

Best Wishes to the West Coast

On top of an active plate boundary is probably not the most ideal location for a major metropolitan area, Much less four (I'm counting Seattle, Portland, San Francisco Bay Area, and the Greater Los Angeles Area, your counting might differ). It's probably hypocritical of me to bash the Gulf States and not mention the doom and gloom that's eventually in store for some lucky location on the western seaboard. Though, at least the west coast can comfort its self in the notion that earthquakes aren't a yearly calamity.

Recently the active faults have given California a warning shot in the form of a mild 4.3-ish quake. Now is the time to check your earthquake kit; friends. If you have an earthquake policy make the payment on time this month.

Speaking of which, Yellowstone Park is up to some of its own unusual antics. Some normally clear water is getting discolored and normally dormant geysers are coming to life. Its going to be a mess when that volcano decides to be born. I hear FEMA loans are 3%. Yes! Construction money!

Here is a nifty USGS offering: Interactive map of California Earthquakes.

Well. That might have been the most pointless post ever.

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Monday, June 12, 2006

Best Wishes to the Gulf States

Hurricane country is piss poor place for a house. By the way the Federal Government already has a map of the possible destruction that will be caused if Lake Okeechobee overflows but wont release it because it "might help terrorists". I just bet that FEMA will happily put your needs above national security concerns despite now being controlled by the Department Homeland Security. For those of you without sufficient sense to leave I want to wish you the best of luck for the 2006 Hurricane Season.

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Friday, May 19, 2006

Wee! Lightning!


Tragically, I'm ill equipped to take pictures of it.

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Thursday, December 08, 2005

Three Dog Nights

The Australian Aborigines (I think it's them, perhaps its the Mongols?) rate the coldness of a night by how many dogs you'll need to cuddle with. The coldest is a 3 dog night. It was also a band from the early 70's; but I digress.

For the last couple of days the low has been in the negative 20's and the highs have been in the single digits. Currently its about 2 and I'm enjoying both degrees. Truth be told its not as unbearable as one might think. We don't have winds so no wind chill, normally its sunny, and the air is very dry. Though I've learned a lot of interesting things about the cold. Let me enumerate a few of them.

  • Trucks start but they don't like it.
  • The refrigerator never turns on. Its more like a cabinet
  • Below -10 it hurts a bit to take a deep breath.
  • In the short trip from the supermarket to the car flowers will wilt and die.
  • Pipes burst
  • Locks freeze
  • Large amounts of store shelf space that used to hold ice melt, space heaters, and heat-tape sit empty between shipments
  • Pedestrians become less willing to dart in front of cars on icy streets.
  • Ice cream sounds less appealing
  • The office admin has trouble typing with gloves on.
  • You find yourself dry-humping a space heater
  • You can make zero radius u-turns. With some practice you can even do them on purpose.
  • An apparently unfrozen bottle of water will flash freeze when you try to drink it.
  • You drink more; not only because it warms you up but also because alcohol remains a liquid at colder temperatures,

Speaking of burst pipes: Over the summer we scavenged the power cords for the heat tape. And come this year only some of it got plugged back in. I discovered the oversight and plugged it all in. It, of course. had froze and burst. That basement is pack to the gills with hastily stacked trim, doorframes and faux brass headboards. To turn off the water I had to scramble over all this while getting drenched. When its -20 out and 20 inside, it's not fun to be wet.


The Continental Divide in the Morning from the Colorado Mineyard

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# posted by Max : 12/08/2005 05:05:00 PM 0 comments

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This great list was stolen from A History of Montana by Kodak.
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