Looks like the SPC’s High Risk for today is verifying. Check out all the radar-indicated tornadic signatures (purple triangles) shown in the above view from the Wichita KS airport high-def radar. It’s a chaser’s dream day, but there are a l…
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. At least it seems to be when I watch movies these days and find myself making mental notes on apparent editing skills or lack thereof. Take Bogart films for example. His films are classics and I own a good many because I just love Bogart. He is […]
We’ll have low temperatures bottoming out in the upper 30’s by tomorrow morning, with winds slowly decreasing all night. I don’t think we’ll see frost here in the ‘Burg, but we could have a slight bit of frozen dew on car tops and hoods in the mo…
[My wife was asked to prepare comments for a reflection on Mother’s Day to be shared with the congregation at the Sunday morning mass at the Saint Francis of Assisi parish on Sunday, May 9, 2010. With her permission, I am sharing her Mother’s Day speec…
If your computer crashes on resume with any version of Ubuntu after 9.04, and you have a Radeon video card, this might be your answer.
Open a terminal and type the following.
sudo echo options radeon modeset=0 > /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf
Then reboot, and you may have resume back. I did.
If you care about the techie details, read on.
Kernel Mode […]
Given that the cold front passed through the Northern Virginia area around 10:00 a.m. I was not expecting a chase today. I was headed to the metropolis of Orange this morning so I couldn’t have chased anything that happened east of I-95 anyway.&n…
Which do you prefer? I shot almost exclusively outdoors from late 2007 to early 2010. As I’m sure you can tell from my work, I’m extremely comfortable shooting outdoors and in studio. Natural light doesn’t scare me nor does using strobes in my studio. …
Which do you prefer? I shot almost exclusively outdoors from late 2007 to early 2010. As I’m sure you can tell from my work, I’m extremely comfortable shooting outdoors and in studio. Natural light doesn’t scare me nor does using strobes in my studio. …
Which do you prefer? I shot almost exclusively outdoors from late 2007 to early 2010. As I’m sure you can tell from my work, I’m extremely comfortable shooting outdoors and in studio. Natural light doesn’t scare me nor does using strobes in my studio. …
With the passage of this morning’s cold front we will see (a) drastically cooler temperatures and (b) winds more characteristic of March than May. The official NWS Sterling forecast mentions gusts up to 40 mph today, and high temps will remain in…
