Commission Impossible

Anthony Watt's nightlight with built-in temperature station?

A solid guess, but there are no air conditioners associated with this piece of technology.

Lon

Too easy. The front of the USS Enterprise.

Not the front of the Enterprise, but the bridge as viewed top down.

BTW, my air conditioner research has paid off in a big way. NASA has reordered the historical temperature records. 1998 is no longer the hottest year.

http://climatesci.colorado.edu/2007/08/08/giss-has-reranked-us-temperature-anomalies/

and

http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts

Hi, Lon:

Since you shamelessly plugged the Chico Corsa event I'll shamelessly plug a new running event that the Chico Running Club is putting on Sunday, October 7. It's a trail run half marathon (13.1 miles) in Upper Bidwell Park. Be there or be square. All political persuasions are permitted upon payment of entry fee.

For an entry form and other info take a look at:
http://chicorunningclub.org/bindocs/HOTEntry.pdf

-- Greg

Yeah i am gullible enough to try anything and dumb enough to try it twice.

I actually tried to join the SEIU street cleaners union by dialing the number on your ad. I got a voicemail and realized during my message that you probably meant to write 867-5309

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny

I am sure you are laughing right now, but not the poor innocent soul that is now the new union leader of Chico's first street cleaners local.

***TJ I removed part of your comment to reduce the likelyhood of ranting occuring on or near this blog. I hope you understand, it was funny though***

Anthony,

I'm sorry, but Gregg once again guessed it right. It's the front of the USS Enterprise from some artsy painting. Gregg must have got all up inside my head while he was painting his giant peace sign murals and what-not all over town. I can't shake him.

How very cool that the work you and others did caused Nasa to reevaluate their temperature records (or begin to reevaluate). Personally, I always thought 1934 was hotter than 1998. And it was a dry heat.

It is pretty funny that it was the movement of air conditioners at a site that caused them to modify an important data set.

When you're done with the whole temperature research thing lets get together and determine the "sexiest year" in the history of the U.S. I'm guessing when that day comes you'll be ready for the change of pace. I'm going with 1977.

Lon

Greg,

Just for the record I don't know anyone in the Chico Corsa group. But I am always willing to plug local events, especially recreation related ones. If you, or anyone, has a cool local event that you're working on send me the info and I'll probably post it.

As your race gets nearer shoot me a reminder through the blog and I'll put something up.

The thing to remember is that this blog is high volume marketing power. If you take all of my 3 readers and multiply that by 30 days, that's 90 opportunities to get your message or event in front of my three readers per month. If you broke that down to opportunities per reader (the math gets hairy here) it's somewhere between 20 and 40 opportunities, I don't have my calculator with me, so that's as close as I can get.

Now, you also need to adjust for felony jail time that reader 1 typically serves. And reader 3 is often heavily medicated. Reader 2 is a lot more dependable but recently forced NASA to admit that global warming was a hoax (but only during 1998, so he's got like 76 more years to go, hell be busy).

When you adjust for those considerations I can guarantee you at most one reader per day will see an event posted here. That's me. But I'm really fun and you'll want me there.

Lon

TJ,

Thanks for letting me know about the typo in the political ad. It should have been 867-5309. Me and the boys at the SEIU were expecting a lot more phone calls than we got. Now we know why we didn't get them.

I'm going to have to look for another campaign manager. My last ad had emporium spelled wrong. My largest contributor, Tom's Asphault Emporium, was not happy.

So my campaign manager is out. It's too bad because he's worked night and day for nothing but a couple of free meals on this thing. I guess on the upside he starts first grade next week, and I probably would have lost him anyway.

Lon

On your way to SF? Visiting Dan Nguyen-Tan at his home there huh?

I work for peanuts and Taco Bell, by the hour if you need any help. I am not to good graphically with my spellin but I sure am cheap.

Jason,

I have another project in mind for you. I'll be posting about it soon.

Where are all these rumors of Dan living in SF coming from? I'm sure if he didn't live in Chico he would have mentioned it on his blog.

Lon

"Where are all these rumors of Dan living in SF coming from? "

About a year ago his mom told me that he was living in SF.

Mom's don't lie...

Mark,

Can you give us the URL for his mom's blog?

Lon

"Mom's don't lie..."

And neither do IP addresses. Last personal email I got last week fron Dan NT came from an IP address in Bay Area. I checked back to look at 2 previous emails from him, and they also came from Bay Area IP addresses.

But I'm sure he would have mentioned it on his blog...

Anthony

Well, let's all be fair. Even if Dan has moved to SF and has never mentioned it on his blog, there's no reason why he would want to keep that information from anyone here.

He probably just forgot to tell us. Or, more than likely he just has a friend there that he likes to visit. A blogging friend.

Lon

Okay, okay -- lighten up on the DNA database thing and I promise to stop puking downtown. Regularly.

Laurie,

You promise me your vote, I promise to exlude you from the DNA database. That way I get what I want and you can continue puking to your heart's content. Politics, yeah!

Lon