Comments on: A Writerly TGIF

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:28:26 +0000

well, we suspected that NSA and the rest were spying on us... now we have a whistle blower who informs us than it's worth than we thought. And he's had to go into hiding which I consider profound.

Derechos intrigue me too.

Looking forward to reviewing John's course.

And somehow I'm not surprised particularly 20 year olds think everything on the 'net is free.

Sigh... stgy safe!

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:24:43 +0000

Haystack -- a good way to put it, Paula.

John, we normally have 90-degree weather by now. It's been a glorious 70-degree plus spring (or colder). If there hadn't been so much rain, it would have been ideal, but the rain makes for such gorgeous greenery.

By: John Soares

John Soares — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:33:49 +0000

Thanks for the shout-out about my new course Lori!

I've been following the news about the impact of the derechos. Weather always fascinates me.

Out here in the west we mostly get heavy winter rains that cause flooding and summer thunderstorms that cause wildfires.

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:08:14 +0000

We've had a few derechos blast through over the years. Imagine a stampede of giants running over an line of ant hills. Those ant hills are cities. They usually have straight line winds. The only good thing is the leading edge and high winds are in and out fairly quickly.

Actually, one forecaster said they're like super-sized bow echos. Scary.

While I'm speaking in analogies, the other night I heard an ethics expert discussing the NSA phone records thing. He said the information is being accumulated, but each call isn't monitored (can you imagine how boring that job would be?). He said tracking terrorists is like searching for a needle in a haystack, but before you can do that you need the haystack. The phone records are the haystack.