One of the first “live” videos I ever saw broadcast on the internet was back in 1995(!) and it was the Jarre Concert for Tolerance on July 14, 1995 at the Eiffel Tower. I remember being able to stream the…
March is a very special time of the year for earthquake nerds like myself. This month has several big quake anniversaries which I will be marking with special posts. The first is the Great East Japan (Tohoku) Quake of March…
A long time ago on this site (at least 10 years ago or more) I had a routine with the Oscars where I would join a pool and try and predict the winners. Over the years I have started watching…
I’ve spent the last few hours getting Charo.info back up and running. It was the last of my web sites still rattling around on the old server. Grand plans were had to re-do the entire site, but like when this…
Andy Woodruff is a cartographer that I follow on Twitter and he posted a link to a fun way to see the distortions inherit in different map projections. I only wish that I was half the cartographer that Andy and…
Despite a brief rainstorm a couple of weeks ago, there had been a lack of significant rainfall for almost a year here in California. This week, the weather people Re forecasting a real gully washer. In real LA fashion people…