We're ~25 miles east of NYC and not a flake in sight (and assuming Mike Palij lives in NYC, I don't imagine he'll be doing a lot of shoveling!).
Patrick -- Patrick O. Dolan, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology Drew University Madison, NJ 07940 973-408-3558 pdo...@drew.edu >>> On 12/19/2009 at 11:24 AM, "Serafin, John" >>> <john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu> wrote: > Don't know about that Frostburg place, but where I live in SW PA, we have > about 3-4" in my driveway right now, and it's still snowing (although not at > a > furious pace). I'd be happy to see this move off toward NY! > > Over the years of teaching statistics, I've sometimes toyed with the idea of > having students do a semester long project where they record local weather > predictions and then do various analyses related to accuracy. Never gotten > around to it, but I'd guess the error would be large. Especially when it > comes to snowfall, I think the forecasts tend to purposely err on the high > side. > > As for favorite holiday music, no single song comes to mind. But a Serafin > tradition is to listen to the Nutcracker. If time permits, we'll also queue > up Handel's Messiah (nice background music during the traditional Christmas > eve dinner). Oh, one individual favorite that just came to mind is Bing > Crosby & David Bowie doing Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth. Very cool > combination. And then there's Carol of the Bells (I have it by Robert Shaw > Chorale, but have heard many other versions). Hmm, guess I do have some > individual favorites. > > Happy shoveling, Mike! > > John > -- > John Serafin > Psychology Department > Saint Vincent College > Latrobe, PA 15650 > john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu > > > > ________________________________ > From: Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> > Reply-To: TIPS posts <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:17:18 -0500 > To: TIPS posts <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > Cc: Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> > Subject: [tips] Anybody See Any Snow? > > On the east coast of the U.S. there is supposed to be this > lollapalooza of a snow storm moving north which is supposed > to hit NYC and leave 8+ inches of snow (*yawn*). So far, > no flakes (outside of the usual ones that one encounters on > the streets of NYC). But I hear that there is a little bit of > snow now around Maryland, round a place called Frostburg. > Is this true or another misrepresentation by the eastern liberal > elite media establishment? > > By the way, anyone have a favorite Holidays song? I'm > partial to Annie Lennox's version of "Winter Wonderland". > > > -Mike Palij > New York University > m...@nyu.edu > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
