Category: Miscellaneous babble

I think the Flying Spaghetti Monster visited me in a dream last night and touched me with His Noodly Appendage.

I was in that odd semi-awake-but-still-mostly-sleeping state that happens a few hours before the alarm goes off. A vision of His Noodlyness appeared and then I was transported to a place that was a mix of recent things, things from the past and things that seemed like they belonged in the future.

In my dream, I was looking for someone, but couldn’t remember the person’s name. First I was in the little building that was constructed for our PET/CT trailer (when it was still in the trailer). Underneath the building though was a basement with a tunnel leading to some kind of underground caves. The basement looked hundreds of years old with old, fragile decaying beams supporting the building above.

There were people around. Some I didn’t know, some that I knew from here, and others that I knew from back home. Then from the cave below one of my roommates from when I was an undergrad student showed up. He climbed up the old beams to where I was and I asked him where I could find whoever it was I was looking for.

And then the dogs woke me up.

TD2 is out in the eastern Atlantic and looks like it could become TS Bertha soon.
Got a few days to watch this one.
From the 5AM NHC discussion:

THE BIGGEST LIMITING FACTOR ON THE FUTURE STRENGTH OF THE DEPRESSION IS THE COOLER WATERS AND MORE STABLE AIR IN ITS PATH. AFTER ABOUT 24 HR ON THE NHC TRACK…SSTS DROP BELOW 26C AND STAY BELOW THAT THRESHOLD FOR A COUPLE DAYS. THEREAFTER SSTS WARM SLIGHTLY AND MOST GLOBAL MODELS FORECAST AN ENVIRONMENT THAT WOULD FAVOR SOME INTENSIFICATION.

Much to my surprise, this blog turns 5 today!

5 years of babble, geek speak and other random things.

In the past 5 years, I’ve gone from feeling alone in the blog-o-verse to discovering a whole bunch of local bloggers and meeting the people behind them.

Looking forward to what the next year of blogging brings.

So why is it that out of all the shirts, pants, socks and everything else that goes into the laundry, my boxers are the only things that always get turned inside out?

Ran into a Science Daily article about some research done at Duke that suggests specifying fuel efficiency in terms of gallons per mile instead of the usual miles per gallon may help people understand better how fuel economy changes as the numbers change.

the current standard, miles per gallon or mpg, leads consumers to believe that fuel consumption is reduced at an even rate as efficiency improves

most people ranked an improvement from 34 to 50 mpg as saving more gas over 10,000 miles than an improvement from 18 to 28 mpg, even though the latter saves twice as much gas. (Going from 34 to 50 mpg saves 94 gallons; but from 18 to 28 mpg saves 198 gallons).

These mistaken impressions were corrected, however, when participants were presented with fuel efficiency expressed in gallons used per 100 miles rather than mpg. Viewed this way, 18 mpg becomes 5.5 gallons per 100 miles, and 28 mpg is 3.6 gallons per 100 miles

I wonder if the researchers realized that this is how fuel economy has been specified in most of the rest of the world for years (albeit in terms of l/100 km).