camp-o-cold

The semi-annual trip of the FBSA in attempt to train for Rainer III journeyed to Denver area this last weekend. The Emporia member of the group of course traveled the furthest. The trip was curiously scheduled around a Cowboy Junkies concert at the Fox Theater in Boulder and the Membership rally of the American Homebrewers Association (regretfully we missed the rally on Saturday night).

However, the main attraction was a winter accent of Saint Mary's Glacier near Idaho Springs. Most of the first day involved digging in to set camp. Self arrest techniques were practiced the first day. With the conclusion of the evening, we discussed the organization of SPSA and enjoyed our own home brew (more to follow about BootHill Brewery).

Saturday morning was hardly an alpine start, but the practicing of crevasse rescue was completed none-the-less. After a quick bite to eat at Tommy Knocker Brewery, a stop at REI Denver, and a quick trip to a random bathroom, I finally left for home around 5:00pm.

Cloud seeding

Since yesterday I separated the darkness (blogspot with out geosall) from the light (blogspot with geosall), the creative team behind Geosall agreed that today we would make an attempt to work on the water and sky. So, if you were an Anglican Protestant in Ireland in the early 1600’s (also if you live in Kansas today) the exact date this blog is referring to is Monday, October 24, 4004 BC.

So 6000 years ago, somebody thought it would be a good idea to separate the sky and water, but now we are trying to put the water back into the sky. In the article on cloud seeding, we learn that Vail, CO has been running a cloud-seeding operation for 29 years. Is this news to you? Well the U.S. military has been doing it since the 40's. They even tried to seed hurricanes through what they called Project Stormfury.

Solving the problem of Grad-School

After years of mental pain and anguish I've realized that there is a way to take the pain out of writing papers and finishing thesis/dissertations. Here it is:

Make a conclusion first and then selectively use (and discard) data, observations, and theory to "prove" that conclusion.

So, if there are any students out there looking to remove the discomfort of graduate studies by not being able to anticipate a conclusion from the beginning, I suggest the following graduate school:

http://www.icr.edu/index.htm

Here, at this school, you get the opportunity to "prove" the right answer, knowing the right answer before you even enroll. If this sounds alarming and non-scientific, don't worry! The school is accredited!! Not by the US Department of Education, but by another organization which is accredited by the Dept of Ed. And thank goodness for the latter relationship otherwise they would have to accredit themselves and there would be no reflected glory ("reflected accreditation").

in the beginning

In order to keep up with modern tech, I have joined the blogging world. In my blogs I plan to:

(1) follow no rules of grammer or spelling
(2) plagiarize other people’s ideas and words
(3) post only occasionally
(4) offend as many people as possible
(5) refuse the right to accept any comments or constructive criticism
(6) include absolutely no satire, parody, or sarcasm

With that said, I hope that you enjoy my occasional rants, ignorant political commentary, impiety of fundamentalism, and contempt for people similar with similar crass behavior.