Does this mean the refrigerator will crash and need to be rebooted?
Bob Morris @ Jun 7th 2007 08:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
Coming soon: Microsoft Kitchen
Archive for June 7th, 2007
Driest year on record in L.A.
Bob Morris @ Jun 7th 2007 00:23 - Category: Climate change Tags: drought;
L.A. residents are being advised to reduce lawn watering and conserve water. There’s only been 4 inches of rain since July 2006. The Eastern Sierra mountains where L.A. gets half its water had the second lowest snowpack on record. So it’s a double whammy, and the driest year on record.
It’s still Spring too. Wait until the full blast of summer heat hits. It virtually never rains in L.A. in the summer, so little relief can be seen to stave off L.A. from going into “full drought mode.” Last summer, when we lived in Van Nuys (part of L.A.) there were at least 60 days in a row over 90 degrees, 19 days in a row over 100, and it peaked out at 119 degrees, the hottest ever recorded for L.A. So yeah, I think the weather in L.A. is changing, and global warming is what’s doing it.
As blogged here before, virtually all the water for L.A. comes from hundreds of miles away via aqueduct, a quite lunatic scheme, when you think about it. What will happen when the required amount stops flowing and a drought lasts for years? Because that’s what predicted for the southwest. Los Angeles is so not ready for that.
Tip: Asymptotic Life, who also notes that coastal Los Angeles has been having unusually humid and foggy weather with gardeners losing plants to mildew, something which virtually never happens, and that this change is also consistent with the predicted effects of climate change.
Julie Amero granted new trial
Bob Morris @ Jun 7th 2007 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
This never should have gone to trial in the first place. Amero, a substiute teacher, had been found guilty on charges of exposing childen to porno because a computer kept popping up porno ads.
Her conviction was overturned and a new trial granted. The problem was an idiot prosecutor looking for notches on his belt who was also clueless that bots made the ads and Amero didn’t. Or maybe he did know and just wanted the notches anyway. May everyone involved in this pointless and sick prosecution of Amero get fired or demoted for incompetence.
Let me amend that. The judge ruled a police detective gave “erroneous” testimony and “false information.” He should be indicted.
Bizarrely, the judge criticized bloggers for publicizing the case, yet the resultant publicity is unquestionably a major reason the conviction was overturned.
