Excellent Towercam Clouds. Nature Break!

very tasty...but the vid cam guy needs to slow down

Repost from the earlier thread, but has anyone heard about the Australian SAS explosive-snifing dog that went MIA for 14 months in Afghanistan? And was returned to the Aussies alive and well this week?

Loved the slide action. With the horns- that was funky.

is that a Bach trumpet?...wow!

Lost of people must be linking to the video, it is coming in jumpy.

Mmmm...dinner. BBL.

My achievement for the day: surviving my 1.5 hour eval at work. Ugh.
Stop pretending to motivate me, I know you're just using me for my crazy engineering skillz!
/

Happy Thirsty Thursday ™ !

re: #3 Fenway_Nation

Repost from the earlier thread, but has anyone heard about the Australian SAS explosive-snifing dog that went MIA for 14 months in Afghanistan? And was returned to the Aussies alive and well this week?

Perry de Havilland says she should be charged for going AWOL, if not outright desertion.

re: #8 bosforus

My achievement for the day: surviving my 1.5 hour eval at work. Ugh.
Stop pretending to motivate me, I know you're just using me for my crazy engineering skillz!
/

You deserve a nice drink and a quiet evening. Mine are coming up next month, and I've also got to give them to my staff. My attitude is hopeless. Whenever the higher-ups try a motivation technique on me, I just automatically think of the corresponding Dilbert cartoon.

re: #11 The Sanity Inspector

You deserve a nice drink and a quiet evening. Mine are coming up next month, and I've also got to give them to my staff. My attitude is hopeless. Whenever the higher-ups try a motivation technique on me, I just automatically think of the corresponding Dilbert cartoon.

I once worked in an office that was so well run, we asked a guy to take
down a Dilbert. Once.

A pretty serious AGW post:

I have often written here that when people complain about AGW modelling not being 100% perfect, that they leave out the fact that the models themselves frequently underestimate the observed trends. In other words, you will see deniers go on and on about how the models can't be right and that surely the predictions are much more severe than reality.

The opposite is true.

The models are more correct than the pundits would like you to believe, and frequently, they are too soft.

[Link: science.samxxzy.ns02.info...]

Climate models suggest that extreme precipitation events will become more common in an anthropogenically warmed climate. However, observational limitations have hindered a direct evaluation of model-projected changes in extreme precipitation. We used satellite observations and model simulations to examine the response of tropical precipitation events to naturally driven changes in surface temperature and atmospheric moisture content. These observations reveal a distinct link between rainfall extremes and temperature, with heavy rain events increasing during warm periods and decreasing during cold periods. Furthermore, the observed amplification of rainfall extremes is found to be larger than that predicted by models, implying that projections of future changes in rainfall extremes in response to anthropogenic global warming may be underestimated.

Tackhead : What's my mission now? (Click 'play' on the player - top right)

[Link: www.last.fm...]

Look at those Swedes gettin’ they funk on.

If we can export this stuff, and this, why can't we export democracy to the Islamic world?

For a good discussion of "well how much CO2 reduction should we shoot for?"

see:

[Link: arxiv.org...]

That pots-&-pans crashing racket you hear is an entire school district suddenly coming to its senses.

Yeah! I can always count on the Swedes to rock my socks.

/Katatonia rules