The Blackboard

I came across Horation Algeranon’s blog the other day, and it gave a link to your February 21, 2008 Post:
“Spatial Variations in GMST Really Do Matter.”

I think your equation (5) should have (1- cos (phi)) rather than sin(phi) to be consistent with
Algeranon’s formula (Tr – Delta T cos(2phi)) since he started from the poles (phi = 0) and ended at the
equator (phi = pi). I’m sure your numerical integration implicitly used the correct (1-cos(phi)).

- Alan McIntire

Alan-
My equation 5 is a surface intergral. It contains both a sin(phi) and a cos(2phi) term. One describes the temperature weighting, one describes the area of a strip with width dφ on the surface of a sphere with radius 1.

Montana May Snow
Minnesota Fishing Snow
Clearly Humans’ Fault.

everything is green
yet still chilly and cold…brrrrrrrrr!
spring is late this year!

I don’t get the metaphorical use of “soggy”, a I think that “Illinois” is too phonetically squishy-sounding for good haiku.
I liked Squirrel Girl Haiku better.
Give use more squirrels please.

Moshpit invited me over here. What are the rules on trolling and tit-ripping?

The rules are:
1) No name calling ad homs etc.
2) No pretending you get to assign other people homework.
3) I make them up as I go along and
4) If I decide you are obnoxious, I write a plugin that deals with your specific type of mis-behavior.

Right now, one person, who will not be named (except to say it’s NOT boris), can see their own comments right away, but other visitors don’t see them for the first 6 hours they are up.

So what was the offense that got the person put on the 6 hour delay?

Raven:

Repeatedly insisting that I provide spreadsheets, do specific calculations to his bidding, arguing by link– rather than giving synopses, continuing to insist on the same point over and over and over after everyone ranging from stone cold denialists to hell fire warmers had told him he was wrong. (And worse, insisting that I redo all my calculations his way, when he could perfectly well do them himself.)

To deal with him, I modified the “Boris” plugin, took boris’s name out, and put the other person in.

The original boris plugin just told boris he should slow down if he posted 3 comments in a row on the same thread with no one answering. The new plugin was designed to prevent others from wasting their time arguing with the troll. I’ll be extending the “slow down” plugin to let me add a variety of people, track IP addresses and do a variety of things. (That is, I’ll do this if I attract a lot of trolls.)

Writing on nature
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic…

Curt:

Reading your haiku
ending up with dot dot dot
makes belly to laugh