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This Episode’s Topics:
- Al Gore sees his shadow
- Let’s go clubbing – free wine!
- Adam must defend his previous TV comments
- Clocks, calendars and why the USA daylight savings time really sucks
- John’s experiences with digital cameras
- LHR Terminal 5 – Adam talks about this marvelous new technology at Heathrow
- Off to Moscow: SVO airport, the big door, and the band
- Russian hotels: Oh Boy!
- Cage Match is the place to hear No Agenda
- John drives through Arkansas and its wine growing countryside
- Now we’re off to Amsterdam, and next stop: Nashville with Bill Gates
- A listener calls in about Clear Channel
- Let’s get into radio and the Equal Fairness Doctrine
- Stan Freiberg was a radio genius
- John wants to know about Twitter??
- Email rants, and John still “gets no spam”
- Another caller solves a mystery!
- The FAA fiasco – triple 7s and flapping wings
- Adam’s still going to Gitmo
- BBC sides with the ISPs
- The Cliff Hanger
Running time: Approx. 100 mins.
The thing about global warming is… it’s *global*. Your corner of the world may have been colder this year, but other places aren’t. Here in Israel, there’s been a heat wave lately, and temperatures were as high as 39 (102 Fahrenheit) for a few days. Such a thing is rare enough in the summer but unprecedented in March. And rains have been lower than expected, for the umpteenth year in a row.
The more I read about global warming the less I really care. There are so many conflicting reports these days, all equally logical sounding, that I’ve stopped pretending that I understand what is going on. Is it mankind? Is it the sun? Is it a natural cycle? Who really cares anymore?
I’m all for living greener, but let’s stop pushing this “global warming” guilt trip onto people. We do far worse damage in other areas of the environment.
The reason that computer clocks stray slowly off the correct time is that the programmers use an algorithm that goes through a loop and counts the times that the routine goes through the loop, and then use that to count seconds, hours, days, etc. The ticks don’t come out even with the way earth people measure time. They know that, but figure it’s good enough. With regular clocks and calenders, the they throw in leap years and suchlike to compensate for the same general effect. Programmers have better things to do than that fine tuning stuff.
IMO, Muscadines make better preserves and jellies than wine, but not much better. They really are, if anything, better just eaten, than screwed around with. Something which is slightly more obscure, for a reason, than Muscadines are Scuppernongs. The name comes from a Creek word that means, “white men will drink anything” These are similar to Muscadines. Instead of being bland and boring, their best features are they are a nice shade of green and photograph well. Both by the way, if eaten before they have ripened, have a next day side effect that make prunes seem like Swiss Cheese sticks with a nice Imodium dip.
the global warming “debate” is a complete fabrication by people who blindly reject the science, and as expected it’s also the path of least resistance for people who don’t want it to be true. when and why did america choose to take a dump on science and reason?