Um. I mean 2 days...
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Posted By jules to jules' pics at 6/15/2011 08:44:00 PM
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Another comment and reply
Some time ago, some people wrote a comment on our "multiple constraints" GRL paper. We originally thought it could be safely ignored (beyond the public comments we added), but one or two people asked about it, so we eventually penned a reply, which has now been published here. It didn't seem to us that the comment was very useful - they didn't seem to like the approximations we made (and clearly flagged), but didn't provide any evidence (or even argument) that the approximations made by others were any better, and didn't provide their own analysis either.
CP does not adopt the widespread policy of inviting a reply to be reviewed and published alongside the comment, but instead invite the commentee to add a public review. That sounds ok in theory, but it means we didn't get to see or critique the revised version before publication, as the review process goes underground at that stage. I was particularly peeved at their unfounded potshots at our more recent Climatic Change paper.
Anyway, it seems like ancient history now, though there has still been very limited effort to address the issues we raised...
CP does not adopt the widespread policy of inviting a reply to be reviewed and published alongside the comment, but instead invite the commentee to add a public review. That sounds ok in theory, but it means we didn't get to see or critique the revised version before publication, as the review process goes underground at that stage. I was particularly peeved at their unfounded potshots at our more recent Climatic Change paper.
Anyway, it seems like ancient history now, though there has still been very limited effort to address the issues we raised...
[jules' pics] Trees
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
[jules' pics] Churches
The hunt for 2nd churches of anything American remains fruitless. One small town we visited called Page, in Arizona, contains little other than churches, mostly either 1st churches of X or Unified churches of Y, all lined up along the main street. I couldn't bear to photograph such unanimous division, so instead...
Green River, being practically a ghost town, has just three churches, of which this is one:
In cuddly Boulder, one church has taken the bold decision of investing in stewardship of the environment, by exposing half a massive roof to the sun, which is nice of them:
But why are they using 5KW all night?!
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Posted By jules to jules' pics at 6/08/2011 02:11:00 PM
Green River, being practically a ghost town, has just three churches, of which this is one:
In cuddly Boulder, one church has taken the bold decision of investing in stewardship of the environment, by exposing half a massive roof to the sun, which is nice of them:
But why are they using 5KW all night?!
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Posted By jules to jules' pics at 6/08/2011 02:11:00 PM
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
[jules' pics] Condor!!!
This is not a condor:
It is a raven in the snow at Bryce canyon. Aren't the pretty yellow and pink rocks lovely?
We did, however, see condors at Grand Canyon:
Oh. um. I mean:
James was carrying the binocules and the condors swooped around for a while so actually we both got really good field-of-view filling memories and the photo was taken just to prove it wasn't actually a raven - here's a 100% zoom:
Do you think all that gubbins on their wings - tags and transmitters - has a deleterious effect, as was recently suggested for the flipper tags on penguins?
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Posted By jules to jules' pics at 6/07/2011 12:43:00 PM
It is a raven in the snow at Bryce canyon. Aren't the pretty yellow and pink rocks lovely?
We did, however, see condors at Grand Canyon:
Oh. um. I mean:
James was carrying the binocules and the condors swooped around for a while so actually we both got really good field-of-view filling memories and the photo was taken just to prove it wasn't actually a raven - here's a 100% zoom:
Do you think all that gubbins on their wings - tags and transmitters - has a deleterious effect, as was recently suggested for the flipper tags on penguins?
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Posted By jules to jules' pics at 6/07/2011 12:43:00 PM
Monday, June 06, 2011
[jules' pics] Another flower
The orange flower called globe mallow, apparently used by Native Americans to cure stuff. Photo taken in Capitol Reef park.
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Posted By jules to jules' pics at 6/06/2011 12:36:00 PM
Friday, June 03, 2011
To Bo(u)ld(er)ly go...
I don't really like running much - I tolerate 20-minute jogs as a way of staying active when unable to do anything more interesting, like cycling (or in a previous era, rowing) but that's about as enthusiastic as I can get about it. Jules and I tend to take our running shoes with us when we go to conferences, but the reality doesn't often live up to the good intentions. One problem is that running only very infrequently has the inevitable result of making our legs incredibly stiff and sore, so in an attempt to prevent this, recently we started running in the hills behind our house about once every week or two. This seemed to have paid off on the recent EGU trip to Vienna when we managed several early morning jogs along the canal without crippling ourselves.
Anyway, we found ourselves in Boulder over the recent Memorial Day weekend, and on Monday there was nothing much to do...except the Bolder Boulder 10k road race. This is a huge event with over 50,000 people (many more than the London marathon) starting in waves of a few hundred at a time every minute or so for a couple of hours, followed by a professional race over the same course. And somehow we found ourselves signing up for it.
Our goals were basically limited to hoping that we would make it round without too much pain, and with no previous experience over this distance or much idea how fast we could run, we entered in the middle of the joggers category. I was lucky to soon find someone heading off at what seemed like a nice pace, so I followed her all the way round the course:
and was dragged to a time of something under 51 minutes, which was quite a surprise. I hope she wasn't too annoyed off by my wheezing along behind her. Jules went at a more leisurely pace, as per our original plan, and took a few pictures on the way round. Despite this she was only just outside an hour herself.
Not sure if I'll be giving old Stoaty much of a run for his money any time soon. And I certainly don't plan on any marathons! But it was surprisingly fun to take part in a big event with huge crowds cheering all the way round.
Anyway, we found ourselves in Boulder over the recent Memorial Day weekend, and on Monday there was nothing much to do...except the Bolder Boulder 10k road race. This is a huge event with over 50,000 people (many more than the London marathon) starting in waves of a few hundred at a time every minute or so for a couple of hours, followed by a professional race over the same course. And somehow we found ourselves signing up for it.
Our goals were basically limited to hoping that we would make it round without too much pain, and with no previous experience over this distance or much idea how fast we could run, we entered in the middle of the joggers category. I was lucky to soon find someone heading off at what seemed like a nice pace, so I followed her all the way round the course:
and was dragged to a time of something under 51 minutes, which was quite a surprise. I hope she wasn't too annoyed off by my wheezing along behind her. Jules went at a more leisurely pace, as per our original plan, and took a few pictures on the way round. Despite this she was only just outside an hour herself.
Not sure if I'll be giving old Stoaty much of a run for his money any time soon. And I certainly don't plan on any marathons! But it was surprisingly fun to take part in a big event with huge crowds cheering all the way round.
[jules' pics] Transport
Wondering how to blog the trip. Chronological would be too dull. Perhaps I should have themes. Of course this means that many of the posts will simply be called "rock". This one, however, is "transport".
A truck:
A train:
[Location: Rockyplace, USA]
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Posted By jules to jules' pics at 6/03/2011 02:23:00 PM
A truck:
A train:
[Location: Rockyplace, USA]
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Posted By jules to jules' pics at 6/03/2011 02:23:00 PM
Thursday, June 02, 2011
[jules' pics] flowers
We are back in Japan now, in a semi-conscious sort of a way. I have a bazillion photos of Amerika to bore you all with for weeks to come! Here are two showing some rocks and some paintbrush flowers taken in Zion National Park.
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Posted By jules to jules' pics at 6/02/2011 10:30:00 AM
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Posted By jules to jules' pics at 6/02/2011 10:30:00 AM
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