The Nightmare before Banff: A Science Coming Out Saga

The story of a coming out science “party” for a young, under-credentialed worker who has found that his greatest expertise is finding fault in the work of others.  But he now, for the first time, must defend his work overturning that of the leading scientists in his field  “at conference.” STORY BOARD Not a horror… Continue reading The Nightmare before Banff: A Science Coming Out Saga

Updated Catalina climo data following the end of water year

Here are the updated plots from the Our Garden location on Stallion where a continuous record has been maintained since way back in 1977 when the Sex Pistols, led by Johnny Rotten, were beginning to alter the face of pop music and pop culture and trigger an alternative music and fashion scene called “Punk.”  Let’s… Continue reading Updated Catalina climo data following the end of water year

Not expected, but it missed anyway

Woke up to Cumulonimbus clouds NW-N of Catalina.  Hmmm.  Here’s the unexpected, pretty sight just after sunrise:   Well, the end of the story (told in the captions) is that a windshift producing this line of heavy Cu and a Cb or two and it “struck” Catalina about 11 AM;  the wind turned from the… Continue reading Not expected, but it missed anyway