Friday, October 24, 2008

Stinson Beach Hot Springs?!?!

heres the tide chart, check it out.
NOVEMBER
W   12      Low   3:30 AM     2.2   6:48 AM     Set  6:13 AM      97
    12     High   9:48 AM     6.7   5:00 PM    Rise  4:22 PM
    12      Low   4:34 PM    -1.2
    12     High  11:42 PM     4.8

Th  13      Low   4:14 AM     2.5   6:49 AM     Set  7:31 AM      99
    13     High  10:28 AM     6.9   5:00 PM    Rise  5:10 PM
    13      Low   5:20 PM    -1.5

F   14     High  12:38 AM     4.9   6:50 AM     Set  8:46 AM      99
    14      Low   5:00 AM     2.7   4:59 PM    Rise  6:09 PM
    14     High  11:11 AM     6.9
    14      Low   6:09 PM    -1.7

Sa  15     High   1:35 AM     4.9   6:51 AM     Set  9:54 AM      96
    15      Low   5:51 AM     3.0   4:58 PM    Rise  7:17 PM
    15     High  12:00 PM     6.8
    15      Low   7:01 PM    -1.6

Su  16     High   2:34 AM     4.8   6:52 AM     Set 10:51 AM      90
    16      Low   6:48 AM     3.1   4:58 PM    Rise  8:31 PM
    16     High  12:53 PM     6.5
    16      Low   7:56 PM    -1.3

M   17     High   3:33 AM     4.9   6:53 AM     Set 11:37 AM      81
    17      Low   7:57 AM     3.2   4:57 PM    Rise  9:45 PM
    17     High   1:52 PM     6.1
    17      Low   8:54 PM    -0.9

I'm gonna share something awsome with you,


because I shared with you such an awesome thing, cool videos is what you owe me.

Science 10yrs ago, used to say that it was thermo-dynamically impossible for bumble bees to fly. Bumble Bees were simply too heavy.
Bumble bees live in a sorority colonies with a dominant laying mum,
They have a thick and heavy coat of insulation that allows them to brave the cold, and begin their pollinating work earlier in the spring. Bumble Bees are very important pollinators. Honey bees come out weeks behind them when the weather is warmer, and therefore aren't good for certain early season fruits, like some apples that blossom long before they show their leaves.

And then the sciencists,
they discovered the vortex power of the bumble bee wing stroke.
Fly's and bees and the rest, paddle through the air, like you or I might paddle along the water, if we were being sneaky.

When you are sneaking around in a Canoe, you don't pull your paddle out of the water,
cause they would drip water, and your quarry would hear you. To keep it sneaky, during the back stroke, ie to return the paddle to the beginning of a new power stroke, you turn the paddle to cut the water when you draw it forward, then turn it out for to push the water during the power stroke. You'll see little vortex's come off the paddle stroke into the water wake. With a real solid stroke you can get five to seven little swimming vortii. Vortex Power enhances the force of the bumble Bee wing stroke, an as air is a "liquid", the bee's cut the wing angle to slice through the air on the back stroke. Its pretty cool.

Check the video out again, it takes magic to see it happen, without camera's.
Which is why you owe me.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Berkeley has the Same Population Density As Berlin

Berkeley is the 35th densest City in the United States, according to Wikipedia Demographic Chart of US cities, this list did not however did not have Berkeley on it, which I edited in after checking the 2000 Census Bureau Data(it seems the census bureau changes their links, so you may have to navigate the pages). So I would look for other significant data. Also the Wikipedia Berkeley page seemed to have been vandalized, to represent a population density of about half of what it truly is, Which I corrected. According to Wikipedia Berlin just equals our Berkeley Density.

The Census Bureau site is easy enough to search, but they provide the raw data per city, and I cant find any charts that list the densest cities in the US. According the Census Bureau, Berkeley' urban density is about 5 times as big as Alameda County's 1,956.3, And almost twice the density of San Jose 5118sq mi. All density data herein will be marked in pop per sq mi. Oakland's density is only 72% of Berkeley's.

Some Data Sets Suck hard??? On the world City Mayors Site Berkeley would Rank as 65th in the world List of cities if it were simply inserted above Berlin, which has a slightly smaller population density. But the world list of cities is rife with inaccuracies. If San Francisco was placed according to the US Census Data, it would rank as the 6th densest City in the world. And New York would Rank as the second Densest City in the world. On this curious chart Berkeley would have a far greater population density then Oakland, San Jose, Sydney, Toronto, Vancouver, and New York which all rate in the 100's. Berkeley's Density is twice as great as Chicago and Melborne which rate in the 120's.

As for Data Sets that Suck, we can check out the main argument for the Measure G climate action Plan. You can find it on Wikipedia under urban density. What the Timothy B. presents is a widely disputed 1980's study by Newman and Kenworthy’s, which plots only 32 cities world wide. Wikipedia sites such a great argument against this that I will include it,
"Others counter that raising densities results in more expensive real estate, greater road congestion and more air pollution. At a broader level though, there is evidence to indicate a strong correlation between the total energy consumption of a city and its overall urban density, i.e. the lower the density, the more energy consumed.
However, there is an even stronger negative correlation between car use and fuel price, i.e. the higher the price of fuel, the lower the car use."

The great wiki source continues with a second map in which the same data is replotted with sq mi area per person. What you get is regional clusters that show how different cultures build different communities and their consume different amount of auto fuel

So the real question for me is where did we did we find these developers tools posing as climate action planners?? I would prefer a Berkeley with less expensive real estate, better air quality, and less congestion.


And where else do we get real accurate data sets for comparing populations.
Please respond in the comment section.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

About Frank Abagnale Jr.

If you have seen the movie catch me if you can read the first google hit you find on the mans real name, it will probably be the true TV story that I found.  And the true TV story is better then the movie, not only are the escapes are grittier, bolder and more numerous, and the hustle with twice as much bustle, but there is less moral to the story. Franks story is the real life experience of a kid with a fair amount of opportunity that runs into everyday domestic trouble his parents get divorced. He starts off sloppy with thievery, moves on up to milking his dads gas card for cash, by faking sales with the help of gas station owners. Gets a taste for having enough cash to drive a nice car and treating the ladies.  The story builds gradually with more and more complex hustles.  He's a con artist, what steps him apart from the rest of the crooks, is his intelligence and his knack for impersonation. And he build it up big, credentials and everything he fakes a being a Pan Am Pilot, a Doctor, a Lawyer, a Teacher, he brilliantly spins the hustles farther, and farther out. And he gets away with them all of them, except the wanted posters, an is picked up in Montreal by airport police. And the escapes, crawls out of custody through the toilet of an airplane bathroom, onto a night time runway.  His hustle cant be stopped, more money at every turn. He even gets busted and cons the jail guards into thinking hes an undercover cop and they let him out of jail. He evades arrest on sheer personality on a dim, surrounded by armed cops in his hotel room, he walks out through the middle of them impersonating an FBI who beat them to the catch.  And in the end he still just wants to settle down and have a real life. But he wont get it cause the wanted posters are still out there and its an ex girlfriend that discovers he's a wanted man and turns him in for the prize.  And he does time in Sweden, France and America. He gets out six years later, without any help from the FBI. Worn out he tries to live real life, but cant keep a job as an ex felon. Keeps getting fired when the record pulls up his felonies.  With out anything but the crappiest work, he knows he can do better, and is worth more, he volunteers time with the FBI, lecturing officers on bank check fraud.  Pretty soon he gets real jobs for banks exposing the fraud, and creates a real million dollar career out of it. What gets me is event the true TV story wants to pretend he is reformed. He didn't reform, he just got a real opportunity to be a successful member of society. And that all any one needs to keep them away from crime, is something to loose, a real opportunity to succeed legitimately. That's what keeps kids away from crime. Real high paying work.

And we can create that. Solar electric, Solar Thermal, and Energy Efficiency improvements like Insulation, are all homeowner retrofits, that have proven investment grade economics behind them.  If we can leverage the credit that cities carry, to improve the quality of our residential and business property, by investing in their money saving solar electric, solar thermal, and insulation improvements we can create incredible amounts of real good paying working jobs for our children, neighbors, and larger communities.  And best of all Solar thermal, energy efficient windows, and newspaper fluff insulation are all products that can be produced locally.  You cant beat this job creating, environment saving, investment opportunity.  And we can give everyone a real job.