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| Friday, October 31, 2003 |
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Fire season rained out 
| | It sucks that it's raining (hard) on Halloween. But it's a relief that it's raining at all. Our first in many months. |
| | Hope the rain moves east to help put out the remaining fires. |
Overleft radio
Tony 2 Cubs: I'll blog you to victory in one year
| | The Mets are an unusual team in that we had a philosophy from Day One. Casey Stengel made sure of that. The Mets philosophy is that we don't have to win to be true to our philosophy. If not this year, it'll happen soon enough. Also part of the Mets philosophy is years of drifting in and out of love. But there always seems to be a Mookie or Benny just around the corner, to capture our hearts and pull it out in extra innings, regardless of how many ex-Cubs are on the team. |
| | The Mets are not just like every other team. An essential element of the Mets Effect is the losing. So many fans walk out when their team loses. These are not fans, and teams with such people calling themselves fans cannot pretend to have any philosophic depth. |
| | The Cubs Philosopy, of course, needs no explaining. What the team needs is some fucking help. Not much, just... enough. |
| | what id like to do in the cubs blog is give people an idea of what it's like to be on the road with the most loved team in sport. what the grind is like, what the lifestyle is like. |
| | of course i would write every day, several times a day. i'd interview the players, the fans, the coaches, the bartenders, the opponents, the celebs, the politicians, the vendors, the parking lot dudes, the merch sellers, the coppers, and the hall of famers, and of course they would all tell me cool stuff that just doesnt make it in the daily paper (that owns you) every day. |
| | but it would fit quite nicely in the cubs blog. |
| | and, no offense, to cubs.com, but theres lots of people who love the cubs who would Never go to a website to read about them because theyre not into the daily sports page thing. |
| | but they would be into the daily blog thing because its different, its more man-in-the-street, but in this case it would be man-in-the-bleachers. |
| | He offers to move there and work on the project for a year. Because that's all it will take: |
| | in fact thats that the blog will be called. |
| | the year the cubs finally won the world series. |
Baby's first spam?
Storm of Light
| | NASA's October 2003 Aurora Gallery has some amazing photographs of the aurora show that the current series of solar storms has been putting on. Here's a shot from the USAF Defense Meteorological Satellite Program that shows auroras that are not only brighter than the city lights below them, but blurring the city images as well. If you look at the yellow outlines of state, provincial and Great Lake boundaries, you'll see that the brightest auroras ran in a line from Southern Quebec and Ontario through Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota — right over the cities of Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Milwaukee and Sioux Falls. |
| | That was at 0214 UTC on 30 October, or 9:14pm, EST in the U.S. and Canada on 29 October. In other words, the night before last. Since auroras run up to 800 miles high, they are visible up to 1000 miles away or more. Which is why we have sightings as far south as Florida and Texas. |
| | Though subsiding, the latest storm is still going on (as of dawn here in Santa Barbara). According to the NOAA POES Auroral Activity Map, there is still intense activity where it's still dark: over the Northern and Yukon Territories of Canada, nearly all of Alaska, the entire northern border of Russia, and the southern reaches of New Zealand and Australia. |
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