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Summer Wanes

Saturday, August 29, 2009

This morning’s swim was extra wet, Hurricane Danny’s peripheral rain plopping on the lake’s still surface.  The lake was 20 degrees or more warmer than the 52 degree air temperature and especially quiet, the rain and chill keeping inside the occasional fisherman I see during my just-out-of-bed ritual.  I don’t know how many more morning [...]

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The Real America

Friday, November 7, 2008

Timothy Egan’s post on the NY Times Blog captures some noteworthy facts on Tuesday’s election.  It begins “[g]uess who won Joe the Plumber’s vote.  Not Joe the symbol and unlicensed tax-dodger coming soon to a garage sale near you, but the ral people about $42,000 a year, the median income for plumbers and pipefitters.  Barack [...]

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Weather Stats

Friday, August 1, 2008

July weighs in as washout in today’s Globe puts numbers on my dock-based rainfall analysis:

6 inches of rain in July, compared to July average of 3.06 inches
6th wettest July since 1920
9 July thunderstorms, compared to July average of 4
21 thunderstorms in seven months of 2008, compared to annual average of 17

Meteorologists predict the heavy weather, [...]

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Water Water Everywhere

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Hydrologists use a concept called a “100 year flood,” which describes an event with a recurrence interval of 1% per year, or an event with a probability of occuring once every 100 years.  One  could use other recurrence intervals, such as a “10 year flood,” with a ten percent probability of occurring each year.  I [...]

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Brimming

Monday, June 30, 2008

We installed the dock in early June with about 6 inches of freeboard. I install it close to the spring water level, knowing the level will decline by summer’s end.  However what goes down sometimes goes up first.  June has seen a lot of rain.  Three days ago lake water lay about two inches below [...]

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Don’t Go to Law School

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

I’ve posted before that prospective law students must honestly consider their prospects for success in law school because, unless they attend one of the very top-ranked schools, their job opportunities will be limited if they are not ranked at the top of their classes. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog recently interviewed “law school [...]

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Science 101

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Following a discussion of employment law this week a student sent me this article: Biologist fired for beliefs, suit says. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute fired postdoctoral researcher Nathaniel Abraham from his position in the biology lab because he believes “that the Bible presents a true account of human creation.” Abraham was hired [...]

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