So I get an email this morning from a colleague with a quote from an article in it.
Using satellite and aerial imagery, research scientists from the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration have calculated that
approximately 162,000 square kilometers of the United States is covered
in turf — an area roughly three times larger than any irrigated crop
currently under cultivation. And lawns are thirsty, consuming
approximately 270 billion gallons of water a week in the U.S. — enough
to irrigate 327,000 square kilometers of organic vegetables.
I immediately wrote back the following, only reading the above paragraph:
After lawns are replaced with veggie gardens.
Tiger Woods’ Caddy: Ok Tiger…now you want to hit this one over the arugula, and past the broccoli….coming to a rest just to the left of the pumpkin patch, but stay back, you DON’T want to be swatting that ball through the pumpkin patch. After that it should be a clear shot to the mirco-greens.
Tiger: I’m kinda hungry….
Warning, esoteric GIS related post follows.
I often like to be able to generate a quick histogram of an ASCII raster file that I use for some of my models. I can do this inside of ArcGIS on a GRID file, but I like to be able to do this directly on an ASCII sometimes. Python to the rescue…
Continue reading ‘Histogram of an ASCII Raster’
This is the best summary of solar energy capture methods that I have seen. It has the advantage of not being written by a science writer and gets just technical enough to help you understand the various methods.
I started working on my PhD proposal and decided that it would be best done as a wiki. I have been using MoinMoin for a wiki in my lab with my labmates. I like MoinMoin, but I don’t like how much of a pain it is to install it on debian. I decided to go back to mediawiki as it seems to be performing a bit better these days and is increasingly the standard wiki markup. So I have a mediawiki set up now for tracking my research, my reading and my PhD proposal. I might even get really brave and do my whole dissertation in wiki form.
Continue reading ‘Wikifying my life’
Synergy is a network KVM. It is great if you have multiple computers. I have a setup with a Powerbook, WinXP and Ubuntu Laptop all controlled by the same keyboard and mouse (across four screens) merged together into one desktop. It is a beautiful thing… Some simple config examples after the jump.
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