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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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I Could Visualize the Adiabatic Lapse Rate
Fall ended, and my winter started in December. It may be due to a warming global temperature – but in the seventies, when much of my life was dedicated to snow surveys, I would have been explaining it by la nina. Add the tilde to the second n – the Spanish word for little girl, Read more
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Getting All the Government We Pay For
Ignore the dangling participle in the headline. I know it violates the rules of grammar, if not conversation in my neighborhood. Lately, I’ve been looking at the state closest to Montana in population – Rhode Island. Until this last decennial census, it had two congresscritters and we had but one. Next year, the shoe goes Read more
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I like the IRS Life Expectancy Tables
I have reached the age where IRA disbursements are mandatory. A dozen years back, life expectancy tables became personal, as opposed to a general demographic exercise. I walked away from my oncologist with a 3 year prediction, and I didn’t really like it. On the other hand, a dozen years later, I believe that I Read more
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A New Ice Age is Coming
Some of the stuff a guy reads is contrarian. That’s OK – science moves ahead by questioning the existing explanations. Science World has an article describing the potential for a new “mini-ice age” hitting us around 2030. It isn’t my field, but I did teach Indians of North America – and my timeline started as Read more
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Hoover Soup
I ran across a recipe for Hoover Stew – the website said “content other than actual recipes on this site is copyrighted material” so I figure I can copy the recipe and add my own commentary. 1 16 ounce box of elbow macaroni|2 16 ounce cans of stewed tomatoes1 16 ounce package of hotdogs1 16 Read more
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Our Communities by ACS Numbers
I listened to a comment about the median household income in Trego – and defaulted to my professional statement before retirement – “That’s American Community Survey data, and it’s not very good for small communities.” When I checked it, the $36,458 median household income for Trego translates as “somewhere between $27,478 and $45,438. ACS data Read more
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