ben brantley’s blog

For at least half of the country, it’s now now the new year, so I can post my well-wishes legally. Happy 2006!

On this, the last day of 2005, I thought I would find something statistical and trendy to share with you. There is a risk you will find it really boring, however. Read on if you wish to take a chance.
Like most folks, I get a lot of spam. And, like for most [...]

I would just like to state, for the record, that whoever decided we should continue to use regular flat-head screws is an idiot. I imagine there are certain very special circumstances where flat-head is the way to go (when you need a very thin head on your screw for furniture work, perhaps). Otherwise, [...]

Of course, the day after the sun-drenched, from-a-humid-land parents leave, the snow finally comes. It’s been snowing all day, but we only have about an inch here on the ridge. I think the wind blows it around over and over, like one of those Christmas snow globes, without actually depositing very much. [...]

I’ve been remiss in posting about our plethora of holiday adventures! We were lucky enough to host Ma and Pa B. for the week, and we had spectacularly warm, sunny weather to enjoy together. Alas, we didn’t receive any big dumps of snow, but that’s okay!

Everyone seemed to feel the Christmas festivities left [...]

Some of these NWS weather guys are… interesting. I like to read the “forecast discussions” where they tend to babble on about models, shearing, retrograde blah-de-blah, and so on. Sometimes you can get a glint of understanding about what might happen in the weather down the road that the pretty icons on [...]