Here are a couple pictures of the storm from my front yard, over neighbors’ homes across the street.
This one is looking south-southeast, out over the Atlantic. Those angry looking clouds are headed my way. The carousel is spinning from left (east) to right, with these clouds below heading away from me, to the west.
A few minutes after I took these, the heavens opened up.
New Orleans is now a potential (but still unlikely) landfall, but Rita may be headed for Houston. It’s right in the cross hairs at the NOAA site. This can’t be good for oil futures, either.
[Update at 2:50 PM EDT]
Yup, oil prices are up three bucks.
Wait until the next hurricane hits New York. And it’s almost certainly “when,” not “if.”
As a loyal Wolverine (and the pain of 1998 never goes away completely), I’m compelled to post these Cornhusker jokes, via (bravely) Jonah Goldberg, who’s in the heart of Cornhusker country.
Do I need a “College Football” category?
As a loyal Wolverine (and the pain of 1998 never goes away completely), I’m compelled to post these Cornhusker jokes, via (bravely) Jonah Goldberg, who’s in the heart of Cornhusker country.
Do I need a “College Football” category?
As a loyal Wolverine (and the pain of 1998 never goes away completely), I’m compelled to post these Cornhusker jokes, via (bravely) Jonah Goldberg, who’s in the heart of Cornhusker country.
Do I need a “College Football” category?
It occurs to me that the Baroque Cycle would make a great HBO series. Someone on an email list suggested Angelina Jolie as Eliza, but I think that Diane Kruger would be a better choice. I’d go with Christopher Lloyd as Isaac, and Johnny Depp as Jack Shaftoe.
Any other suggestions? Who would play Daniel?
My six year old daughter coined this. Not to be confused with defunct Katrillion.com. I found someone who saw a katrillion bloggers link pictures of looters. No one with “katrillion dollars” and “Katrina” yet.
You’d think that when number two in the polls plays number four, and number two just barely wins, that’s exactly what would be expected, so the polls must have had it right, at least in terms of relative ranking.
So why did Ohio State drop to number nine?
The argument presumably is because they shouldn’t now be rated above so many teams with no losses, but the only reason those teams don’t have losses could be because they haven’t played Texas or USC (or Ohio State). I remember back in the eighties when number one and number two played each other during the season (I think it was Michigan and Iowa, but it might have been Michigan State and Iowa), and number one eked out a win against number two. By any consistent logic, they both should have retained their rankings. The fact that number two fell then, and tOSU fell today, is a testament to the fundamental irrationality of the process.
Legendary bluesman Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown has died.