I’ve got a secret to confess: I’ve been working remotely from my childhood home in Colorado this week. I flew out last Sunday. That whole plan turned out to be really fortuitous, considering this afternoon’s Doppler radar: Me in the center, with all the badness heading in the wrong direction… This storm, easily in the Read More

The New York Times Sunday Magazine had an interesting article last week on some new research and a book about burnout. (For those into the Podcast-o-sphere, NPR covered this as well.) It mostly focuses on data from Wall Street brokers, a cutthroat existence to be sure, but it also has interesting perspectives from social workers Read More

I noticed yesterday that it’s been one year this week since I started working at MoCo. For some reason, it feels like I’ve been here longer. Much longer. Maybe it’s partially due to the fact that joining MoCo was actually a return to the project for me. I interned on Netscape’s Build Team a few Read More

Finished up some fixes to my NOAA Metar Microsummary tonight, including: Fixing the wind parsing code to handle AUTOmated and CORRected METAR reports Munging the visibility parser to handle fractional visiblities (i.e. “1/2SM”) correctly Parsing (and removing) variable wind direction reports (i.e. “12315KT 300V340 4SM”) Reformatting the reporting of visibility to be “vN” over “NSM”, Read More

I’ve been suffering from a bunch of thinkos1 today, and I was trying to explain to rhelmer what that was all about. I eventually just broke down and just showed him the “Winnebago Man” video2, which my friends and I have used for some time now to explain when we’re having a… thinko-filled day.3 Watching Read More