Nix Bits

This Time Magazine article asks the question “Could Florida Survive the Big One?”  I think the answer is “no.”  Americans, it’s time to consider abandoning the state of Florida.  We can just move Disneyworld and Universal Studios a few hundred miles inland to somewhere near Atlanta and it’s all good.
Florida is just kinda out there [...]

Actually, we’ve been back for a while but much too mentally drained to post. We felt an enormous wave of relief opening the door to the house and seeing everything just as we had left it. That moment of opening the door on return was so vastly different from our last evac and [...]

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 [...]

Man, 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So 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 [...]

Gotta check it out.