Stretching again — time to shake off some rust

Came across this blog recently: https://eight2late.wordpress.com/

Heady stuff. And speaks directly to my  current work challenge — how to talk sense to clever people when they work for not-so-clever organizations. The blog is titled: “Sensemaking and Analytics for Organizations.”

I’m gonna go read more of this and pledge to get back to some exposition and exploration.

See you there.

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21st Century Delta: Reconciling the desired with the possible

A work-related thingy, with a lot of help from my friends and the UC Davis Watershed Science Center.

California WaterBlog

The Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta, as seen from a ship traveling through the Stockton Ship Channel on September 24, 2013. Photo by Florence Lo, California Department of Water ResourcesThe Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta, as seen from a ship in the Stockton Deep Water Ship Channel in 2013. Photo by Florence Lo, California Department of Water Resources

This is this first in an intermittent series of articles on the future of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

By Steven Culberson

Estuaries are hard places to understand and even harder to explain. Estuarine scientists, myself included, have struggled to learn how changes in the San Francisco Estuary led to declining fish populations and waning productivity, particularly in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

We keep searching for what is broken or missing so we can fix or replace it. The thinking is that if we can return or repair these parts of the ecosystem, native aquatic species will recover sufficiently to be resilient in the future.

The trouble is we can’t go back to the way things were more than 150 years ago, before…

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U.S. Soccer, MLS Create Professional Referee Organization to Manage Soccer Officials in the United States – U.S. Soccer

U.S. Soccer, MLS Create Professional Referee Organization to Manage Soccer Officials in the United States – U.S. Soccer.  A step in the right direction?  Dedicated resources towards professional referees in the US would seem to be the next best thing to do…

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Video: ten terrifying landings, takeoffs and flights | Gadling.com

Video: ten terrifying landings, takeoffs and flights | Gadling.com.

Observation: flying

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Observation: cars

There was this nice late-model Ford Mustang parked nearby that I had been coveting. One morning I saw it coming up the street with the right-hand fender bent up and all the way back to the firewall, and out a little hand-made patch rubbed in the fog on the windscreen a terrified face looked. A half a block further up the street, I saw the parked Hemi pick-up truck the Mustang driver had just creamed. Left me wondering why people don’t take five minutes to prep their cars for driving in the morning. I guess growing up in the mid-West and scraping snow off the windows every winter morning was worth something here in the foggy Central Valley. Five minutes. Five thousand dollars worth of damage. Getting off easy, I say.

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