Owen, Your cloud book looks magnificent! If it lives up to its billing and gives good scientific explanations for the SHAPE of clouds, it will be everything I ever dreamed of in a cloud book. One of my retirement projects was perhaps to write a book called, What Clouds Mean, to explain in detail the processes that give clouds their shape and what can be concluded from them about the state of the atmosphere. Skew-T for the layman. This book may save me the labor.
Take care, Nick Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson > [Original Message] > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 8/17/2006 11:03:59 PM > Subject: Friam Digest, Vol 38, Issue 45 > > Send Friam mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Friam digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Douglas Engelbart's "Mother Of All Demos" circa 1968 > (Edward A. Puckett) > 2. OT: Pogue?s Posts - Getting Hung Up on the Apple-Microsoft > War (Owen Densmore) > 3. Cool Tool: The Cloudspotter's Guide (Owen Densmore) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:36:58 -0600 > From: "Edward A. Puckett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [FRIAM] Douglas Engelbart's "Mother Of All Demos" circa 1968 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I just saw a video of Douglas Engelbart's demo of his group's NLS > system that was given in San Francisco in 1968. I was stunned at how > this demo presages much of today's computer environment, including > the first mouse, (programmable) word processing, hyperlinking and > groupware. Watching this video and observing the codes he inserts to > affect presentation, I was overcome with a feeling that I was > watching the genesis of many things, not the least of which is SGML- > style markup languages. Though the SGML connection may be tenuous, I > cannot help but imagine that this "being in the air" influenced SGML. > > The video is about an hour and a quarter long, but if you're into > this sort of history, it's well worth the time. > > See: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097 > > Also: http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: Douglas_Engelbart_Demo_Face.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 19543 bytes > Desc: not available > Url : /pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20060817/95b1f994/attachment-0001.j pg > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:50:30 -0600 > From: Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [FRIAM] OT: Pogue?s Posts - Getting Hung Up on the > Apple-Microsoft War > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Dede and I have followed David Pogue's books (Missing Manuals) and > writing for quite a while. Recently his NYTimes blogs have popped up > as an interesting site. > http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=114 > > This one is on the Mac/Win debate and for us Macaholics, its kinda > nice to get this sort of perspective. Nothing new .. just soothing. > > -- Owen > > Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:03:51 -0600 > From: Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [FRIAM] Cool Tool: The Cloudspotter's Guide > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > This, in honor of my friend Nick's love of weather: > http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001354.php#more > Great pix of "cloud-al waves" as our family calls them. > > -- Owen > > Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Friam mailing list > [email protected] > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > End of Friam Digest, Vol 38, Issue 45 > ************************************* ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
