Archive for August, 2008
As if it’s impossible to forget. Especially today with the deja-vu Gustav playing with our fragile heads.
Courtesy of Loki, this open letter from Matt McBride to the Corps requesting that they release the results of surge model runs to public view in the interests of “effectively communicating risk.” We have tons of tools for modeling wind and direction of storms and those all help us make our plans. But having these […]
“It seems like the water keeps following us”
Closed Published by scotth August 26th, 2008 in KatrinaMan, this would totally suck. Of course, watching changes in the spaghetti models of Gustav has us worrying about pretty much the same thing.
Hot on the heels of our discussion at Rising Tide III where the fall of print journalism was a hot topic, the Times-Picayune’s Angus Lind comes up with a real scoop: “Deep Float checks in with the scoop on a new Uptown route”. That’s right, apparently Krewe D’etat will be changing it’s start time and […]
On Saturday’s Journalism panel, there was a fair amount of discussion around cable news. Many bemoan the rise of Fox News but several panelists argued that CNN is “just as bad.” They’re right. It’s terrible. I’ve rarely watched any cable news because it’s just so excruciating and replacing TVs that have been destroyed by bricks […]
So I was feeling all invigorated from attending my first Rising Tide on Saturday. Unfortunately, I ended up working all night and felt like a zombie on Sunday. There was simply no way I could string two coherent words together, much less complete whole sentences. It really was fantastic to meet everyone that I’ve read, […]
WCBF on the backdooring of “shrink the footprint”
Closed Published by scotth August 21st, 2008 in KatrinaSo I put off reading E of We Could Be Famous’s analysis of the New Orleans School’s Master plan for the next 30 years. The local T-P proudly trumpeted the plan which calls for demolishing some 52 schools and construction on 28 over a 30 year period. If one only reads the newspaper it all […]
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Somehow, two and a half years have passed since I accepted my current position and I hadn’t kept my resume up to date. I fixed that today. I had actually kept a company-internal resume somewhat up to date but my public resume has just sat here missing all the stuff I’ve done. There was actually […]
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