Cool lightning video of the day
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Slowed down to 300x actual speed: More here and here.
Author Archives: Brendan
Did the stimulus fail? And if so, why?
Gregory Mankiw makes an analogy: To understand the challenge government economists have faced over the past year and a half, it is useful to imagine the case of a physician trying to treat an ill patient. The patient presents herself in terrible shape; the physician has never treated a condition with symptoms quite like hers before; and the causes of… Read more »
By the rising of the moon
It seems like, every time I go running, I see something beautiful in the sky. Last night, it was the rising Full Buck Moon, sitting right smack in the middle of the Earth’s shadow — or as I like to (inaccurately) call it, the “anti-horizon” — low in the eastern sky. The view in the western sky wasn’t bad, either.
Top of the world
On Saturday, Becky and the girls and I had a fun day-trip adventure in the mountains, visiting St. Mary’s Glacier and Echo Lake and then heading up Mount Evans, the only “14er” that you can drive to (almost) the top of — on the highest paved road in North America. If you can’t tell from the above shot, it feels… Read more »
Pillars of shadow
Remember those anticrepuscular cloud shadows that I posted a picture of the other day? Well, while out running this evening, I saw some more — and also the accompanying crepuscular cloud shadows on the western horizon. Behold, both sides (west and east) of the same sky-wide pillars of shadow: A few minutes later, the view on the western side became… Read more »
6 points in 2.8 seconds
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I had never seen this before, but stumbled on it today via YouTube. It’s USC at Oregon, January 7th, 1999, and it’s pretty freakin’ sweet. The action starts at around the 1-minute mark of the clip. Here’s a contemporaneous news article about the game. And here’s a 2008 interview with the Trojan hero that night, Adam Spanich.
Chase the rainbow
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Here’s a 20-minute video, compressed to 48 seconds, of that rainbow I photographed yesterday, slowly moving to the right (as the clouds move to the left) and then eventually disappearing. In the early part of the clip, there’s also a hint of a second rainbow, off to the right of the main rainbow. Anyway…
Heaven’s light?
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A rainbow, framed by a church: It was right over the church earlier, but got more spectacular as it inched away — though not nearly as spectacular as another well-framed rainbow that long-time readers might remember.
Heeeere comes Bonnie!
I blogged over at Sullivan’s Travelers about newly designated Tropical Depression Three, which has just formed over the Bahamas. It’s likely to become Tropical Storm Bonnie, and to move through the Florida Straits and into the Gulf of Mexico. That expected track virtually guarantees that this storm will get a whole lot of media attention, far more than your average… Read more »
Thanks for the memories, Reggie Bush, and also, f*** you
Twitter: RT @USCFootballNews: “The Trojan Family honors and respects the USC sporting careers of those persons whose actions did not compromise their athletic program”