FlaSoxxJim

Minitab was brutal, just the data input was enough to make me want to gnaw my leg off to get away. I'm glad my hardcore statistics days are behind me, and all I have to do is know enough StatView to get the undergrads going.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 10:55 PM) No, I'm dead serious. It must be this cold I'm coming down with. Making me all dizzy when I walk. But seriously, I am getting a cold and it blows ass. Just don't catch that killer Chicago Superbug - killed 3 kids already.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 10:50 PM) Holy f***ing s***, I actually agree with like everything you are saying tonight. What the f*** is going on! Rats on a sinking ship start to get along right before the end too.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 10:42 PM) Here's a pizza trophy. Thanks for providing the only laugh I've had in the last hour.

QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 10:40 PM) It's called karma. We are happier when the other team loses than when our eam wins. No. A Cubs loss on a day the Sox win is mere icing on the cake.

Where is the jerking off smiley when you need it? That's sooo weak, sox-r-us. Then again, if people can blame Black Sox and Billy Goats and keep a straight face, I think your Cicago Karma theory might fit in just fine.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 10:17 PM) I wish it was earlier...I could go for getting ripped right now. That Westmalle Tripel you have lying around should do the trick.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 09:55 PM) Rowand has misjudged more balls this week than he has in two seasons. start to wonder what the hell is going on Then he goes and makes spectacular plays like the inning-ending running grab he made earlier tonight. Very frustrating. :banghead :banghead

Damn, Rowand burned on a flair to center.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 06:39 PM) Rockwell, Berry Gordy's nephew. Rockwell, crappy hair bands and parachute pants were the three worst things to come out of te 80s. That said, I got a smile out of this line from that Rockwell song: "People say I'm crazy, just a little touched, but taking showers reminds me of 'Psycho' too much."

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 06:11 PM) STATISTICA THOU ART MY NEMESIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Statistica is a cakewalk. Systat on the other hand (the big ugly hairy mainframe version). . .

You better email him so we know what's coming down the pike.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 02:45 PM) We cannot make fun of his wife because of her smile just because she had a kid? People made fun of fetus spears for the last ten months now... i do not see much of a difference. Both are women who got pregnant and are married. Agreed, but I'll delete the post so as not to offend. Sorry Mrs. AJ. Sorry, Joker.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 02:21 PM) Picture of one of the tallest buildings in the world... Check out that superstructure. I don't know how al lthat weight is supported.

You make me weep I wanna cry Just when You said '05 We'd be Winning Now we're Dying Trying We were alone All by ourselves Top of the ALC shelf We were winning Now we're Dying Trying It's tearing me apart Oh every every game With every El Duque start Oh what can I say Your tearing me a part Oh It won't be long now 'Til your at home In Octo-o-o-o-ber No, it doesn't seem fair We were winning Now we're Dying Trying They'll be tearing you apart Every session at SoxFest Tearing you apart There'll be nowhere to hide We were winning Now we're Dying Trying And it's our turn now to cry-y. Na Na na Na na Na Na na Na na Na Na na Na na Na Na na NA NAA. . .

QUOTE(Balance @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 12:44 PM) I'm getting married in February.... Running out of time to back out. . . j/k.

Very good news indeed. Big ass storms are great – as long as they stay out at sea or weaken substantially before making landfall.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 11:38 AM) "Every mammal instinctively develops an equilibrium with its surroundings but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and you multiply until every natural resource is consumed. There is another creature on this planet that operates the same way. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. And we, are the cure." -Agent Smith. Much as I would like to let the Matrix be my guidebook to life, I think Tex's prof is as correct as Smith Prime. Yes, all animals generate toxic waste products (COv2, ammonia, ect.) That would pollute the environment to the point of inhabitibility if the system were closed. But they are not closed, they have either/or the capacity for wate export or waste processing and so a balance is acheived. Agent Smith got it right in that humans don't know when to stop. Rather than existing within environmentally defined carrying capacity boundaries, we test the elasticity of the system by cramming more people into a system than it was designed to handle. And the problem in doing that of course is that elasticity is not infinite. They boundaries of the system must either eventually snap back or break.

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 11:23 AM) Well I was more under the impression that scientists were divided as to whether or not climate change is the primary factor in increasing hurricane frequency and/or strength. Again, that is naysayers taking a single piece of the puzzle and taking an intentionally incorrect statistical approach and saying you cannot state conclusively that this or that storm would have not occurred has man's footprint not been part of the landscape. Good for you that yoiu are including storm frequency as well as magnitude in the discussion, because a lot of naysayers realized the incresed storm frequency of the last dcade was hurting their own arguments and they instead started talking only about magnitude. The take home message is that warm circumequatorial water is the engine for tropical storms. Any increase in seasonal high water temperatures or the duration of these seasonal highs will, on average, produce more and bigger tropical systems. If those increases are part of a natural large-scale cyclic event, the hurricane seasons will intensify. If the increases are due to human activity, the hurricane seasons will intensify.

Oh lordy that is pathetic. Yet, I sooo want one of those Canada sphynx cats.

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 10:52 AM) I'm glad to see progress is being made on the matter, but what action am I supposed to take when the scientific community remains so divided on a particular issue? The truth is that the scientific community is not nearly so divided on the issue as the naysayers have led the public to believe. Not by a long shot. Your post points out one of the very problems the scientists are facing. Scientists aren't in the business of "proving" anything. So the naysayers exploit that by demanding to see "the proof." That's not how science works. Science is a reiterative process that accumulates a body of evidence that either supports or refutes hypotheses that have been proposed, thereby refining those hypotheses that hold up under scrutiny and abandoning those that don't. The hypothesis that anthropogenic greenhouse emmissions are contributing to a global temperature elevation that is more rapid than the sorts of fluctuations seen in the historic or geological past is bolstered by a preponderance of peer-reviewed scientific data. Yet, sadly, since this doesn't "prove anything" per se, non-scientist policymakers, politicians and industrial CEOs and lobbyists continue to get air time and perpetuate a misconception that the majority of credible climate scientists are deeply divided as to whether climate change is in fact occurring.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 10:41 AM) What is a code white, since I will never do any of these. That's when someone just Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Baybayay. . .

I assume this is getting a lot of local coverage but I'd not seen it posted here yet: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=1146813

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 09:36 AM) http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/crocodile.asp Pictures are real...but from the Congo in 2003... You beat me to it. Thanks.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 02:12 AM) Jim - I'm having trouble following the conversation. To what site or previous discussion or whatever do your references to Singer and Spencer pertain? The search function here is disabled right now. Thanks. My rant above was in response to Kong dismissing the 'friggin bloggers' at RealClimate and elsewhere. All due respect to Kong as a poster I enjoy here, but the pervasive attitude that those of us concerned with anthropogenic climate change are being alarmists or Chicken Littles is by now tedious. The Singer note is my cutting to the chase on where the climate change naysayers are going with this. They exploit the cautionary nature of science itself, the concession that "there is no way to prove that [insert hurricane here] either was, or was not, affected by global warming," much as Big Tobacco relied on the fact that no single incidence of cancer or emphesyma (sp?) could be absolutely linked to smoking. The fact that Singer was a primary mouthpiece for Big Tobacco and is currently pimping himself as a tool of the no warming camp is, to me, quite telling. The Spencer note is me giving voice to my exasperation over the fact that THE sole credible source of data suggesting a lack of upper atmosphere warming has been turned on his ear and this is not a major news story. The same issue of Science from two weeks ago had another paper that similarly exposed flaws in the weather ballon-based measurement evidence for a lack of atmospheric warming (the correction factors the original scientists used were wrong and hence real atmospheric temperature increases were systematically underestimated). Human-induced global climate impacts are systemic and syndromic, and that is a fact that will continue to be fully exploited by those who think confronting the issues is not in our best economic interests. Any single climatological anomally can be held up by the naysayers who will tell you you can't be sure climate change played a role. What they refuse to do is to examine the entire body of evidence and compare what is happening now to any other slice of time in the historic or geological past. It's Tobacco Wars all over again, but with much higher stakes. It should have registered in the public consciousness that the landscape changed dramatically when both Exxon and GE publically launched campaigns to develop technologies to deal with climate change in May. BP and Shell execs had by then already conceded that the real question was not IF? but HOW MUCH and HOW BAD? But Exxon (which has exposed as being secretly instrumental in getting Bush to not sign on to Kyoto) never backed away from their stance that climate change was a myth. For 15 years Exxon has been at the helm of the campaign trashing sound science in favor of their well funded junk science bio-prostitutes who have persuaded the public and the press that the cerdict is still out on global warming. Add people like Don Pearlman and former chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality Philip Cooney who made changes to descriptions of climate research results (lessening their perceived impacts) that had already been approved by government scientists and their supervisors, and you can see what a well orchestrated, well-heeled dis-information campaign the no warming contingent has put together.