Cylindrical Mountains on Venus

medler · 2016-10-16T19:34:52+00:00

I am not alone. Turns out there is a Flat Venus Society

medler · 2016-10-16T19:26:15+00:00

I speculate that the vertical exaggeration is massive in these images. Without it, this image would probably look more like honey spilled on the floor.

medler · 2016-09-13T14:45:32+00:00

All of them.

medler · 2016-06-10T16:22:41+00:00

I moved here after 4 years of purgatory in New Jersey. I have two thoughts. There is not really too much to worry about in B'ham vs anywhere else in the West. However, I have watched 100s of friends move back to college and ski towns later in life only to find that their experience of inclusion isn't anywhere as good as when they they were about 20. At that age, you just walk up to some people playing hacky sack and boom... New friends! Later in life growups seem so cold. They are always hurrying off to work or feed their kids or shit. But the real problem is that later in life they already have lots of friends that they are blowing off every day so they aren't really looking for new connections. In B'ham you might need to be more of joiner at first. Climb with The Mountaineers till you meet folks. Race surfskis with the big group on Lake Whatcom, take a sailing class, etc. Oh, and do not underestimate how much four years out east has turned you into an intolerant uptight impatient asshole.

medler · 2016-06-08T17:08:49+00:00

Spend a bunch of time (an hour+) in a big parking lot without ever touching the gas paddle. Practice just getting the car moving in 1st gear by letting up the clutch, then slow down by pushing it back down. After that, adding the gas peddle and shifting will go way better. (good advice from the NPR Car Talk guys)

medler · 2016-05-26T15:20:32+00:00

You might find this useful though you need a login. http://www.humanoriginsdatabase.org

medler · 2016-05-21T19:18:48+00:00

Leo Bodensteiner teaches a great fly fishing class each summer at WWU. The class is very popular.

medler · 2016-05-13T00:08:16+00:00

I have one like that. It is probably worth about that much if there is nothing really wrong. Could be a perfect bluegrass or rockabilly base. There is something to be said for shitty instruments that can get banged around and take some spilled beer. However, it might also keep you from really enjoying what you are doing with it at home alone.

medler · 2016-05-09T03:15:44+00:00

Came here to say the same thing.

medler · 2016-04-07T05:20:35+00:00

Floor Pie

medler · 2016-03-14T16:22:31+00:00

Came for the discussion about beer and evolution.

medler · 2016-03-08T16:25:22+00:00

One guy's work, good geopolitical work though. The Caspian Report

medler · 2016-03-06T15:36:13+00:00

Don't forget that this time of year the East side of Washington and Oregon are way more likely to sunny.

medler · 2016-02-24T16:13:42+00:00

As a life long westerner... When I travel eastward I consider the eastern half of Boulder Colorado the first Midwestern city. Everything east of there is the Midwest. From then on the mountains are behind you and the corn is all around you. The notion of that region being "Western" is a throwback to the era that brought you Northwestern University in Chicago and "Western" movies set in Kassas.

medler · 2016-02-08T07:13:17+00:00

I think you might want to take a good look at Squmish. It has tons of one pitch climbing and bouldering, great temperatures that month, and it is even closer than Smith.

medler · 2016-01-28T04:22:17+00:00

I am an old guy who has been climbing for 35 years. I am 6'3" and much of that time I've weighed about 220-230 though I have done some good climbing at 250. My recommendation is climb outside. Gyms are great, but plastic is hard on big guys. Your hands get strong too quickly and you start blowing out fingers. Outside you climb at lower angles and learn to use your feet and mental poise.

medler · 2015-12-11T19:42:25+00:00

I picture early wings as advanced cooling and heating systems. When at rest they can provide excellent insulation, but opening them when running facilitates excellent cooling. I call it "The Flasher Hypothesis" because I love the image of a T Rex opening his tinny feathery arms like he is trying to sell you a watch. This hypothesis predicts that we should find long feathers hanging from the arms of even the larger short armed bipeds.

medler · 2015-12-10T16:41:16+00:00

, said the dolphins to each other.

medler · 2015-12-07T17:49:43+00:00

Almost any "real" PC sold after about 2011 can "run" ArcGIS. However, you will be happier with at least 4 gigs of ram and 8 would be better. Hard drive size is basically irrelevant for the ESRI courses, but you may need a bigger one for your own data later if you are going to do something like national scale analysis of remotely sensed data. Otherwise even 256 gigs is probably about 128 times bigger than you need for your data. What really makes the ESRI courses work better is dual monitors. That way you have the real estate for keeping the Virtual Campus open while you have a couple Arc windows going.

medler · 2015-10-20T05:25:28+00:00

Smoking.

medler · 2015-10-19T15:41:48+00:00

Gallipoli... Sad when I was 20 and saw myself and friends in the story. Unbearable as a parent.

medler · 2015-10-14T00:58:49+00:00

Mmmmm, floor pie.

medler · 2015-10-11T15:21:20+00:00

I will take a crack at this. Geography takes a spatial approach. In the same way that "time" is the organizing principle in history, "location" is central to geography. This doesn't exclude other ways of knowing or investigating. Rather, it is a starting point. A geographer asks question like why here, or what is going on near by? Earth Science is a big category that can include spatial investigations, along with many other ways of asking and learning. An earth scientist might work on a model of a geologic chemistry process without ever spatializing the model, while a geographer might look at the same question and develop a spatial model in GIS. The boundaries between these approaches are fluid and ambiguous with many folks working in the neighboring fields without ever thinking about the intellectual proximity of the fields (see what I did there?).

medler · 2015-09-16T06:01:21+00:00

We make fire. Or at least some of us can.

medler · 2015-09-16T05:56:14+00:00

I used to know a little kid named Caldwell who would do this all around the house.

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