Birding

Canada Goose

I went out birdwatching at El Dorado Nature Center today. We had a very good day, counted 40 species in all. Here's one of them.

Reading Club

Starting Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation today....

Reading Club

Started a Reading Club with my son in February. Every day we read for 30-60 minutes (I set the time). He picks 2 books, then I pick one.... I thought I'd at least point out which books we've finished so far. I'll try to keep a log on here every time we finish a book and start a new one.

Here are the ones we've already read, along with my ratings:

Feb: Prey Michael Crichton (Jeremy's pick) A

Feb-Mar: Terminal Man Michale Crichton (Jeremy's pick) A-

Mar-Apr: The Omnivore's Dilemma Young Reader's Edition Michael Pollan (my pick) A

Apr-May: Jurassic Park Michael Crichton (Jeremy's pick) A

I'm enjoying this thoroughly; I'd like to keep an ongoing tally and see how far we can get. :)

What I've realized....

is that the entirety of the Internet is one gigantic case of Confirmation Bias....

Congratulations, Mr. President Obama. Again.

On Hurricane Sandy...

This is an excellent metaphor for Hurricane Sandy and global climate change, the best I've heard so far:

"Eric Pooley, senior vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund (and former deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek), offers a baseball analogy: “We can’t say that steroids caused any one home run by Barry Bonds, but steroids sure helped him hit more and hit them farther. Now we have weather on steroids.”

Very well stated, indeed. Source

My thoughts are with the victims, human, plant and wildlife affected.

LAX Last Year...

Here's a nice video I took last year with my Canon Elph 300. It uses the camera's "miniature" mode that I was really interested in.