One More Reason To Listen To Willie Nelson All Night -- Nothing About The Bakken -- September 8, 2016

After this note, or because of this note, I think I'm gonna sit back and listen to Willie Nelson all night, get drunk on legal alcohol or get high on illegal drugs (off the coast, three miles out):

In light of recent incidents and concerns raised by Samsung about its Galaxy Note 7 devices, the Federal Aviation Administration strongly advises passengers not to turn on or charge these devices on board aircraft and not to stow them in any checked baggage.

"... strongly advises..."

Okay, that solves the problem. 

[These are the devices that spontaneously burst into flames.] And people complain about Apple removing the 3.5 mm headphone "jack." LOL.

I think President Obama "strongly advised" ISIS to throw down their arms and return to their caves, and one sees how good well that turned out.

Touch Me, Willie Nelson

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72-Hour Forecasts? Problematic

100-Year Computer Weather Modeling: Infallible

The same scientists -- the NOAA folks -- who tell us that the average global temperature will increase by 2.4 degrees 100 years from now completely blew the 72-hour forecast on Hurricane Hermione.

Link here.

Last week, on Friday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center predicted that by 2 p.m. Saturday, the storm would be within 50 nautical miles of the North Carolina coast. In fact, it ended up about 90 nautical miles east of the coast — well within normal error for a day in advance.

But by Sunday, something changed. In that same Friday forecast, the center’s meteorologists had predicted that by 2 p.m. Sunday, the storm would be about 100 miles east of the Maryland coast.

Yet in fact, it traveled 168 nautical miles east and a little south of the forecasted location — well above the average two-day error of 80.

Some folks are not even convinced it was a hurricane to begin with.

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Body Doubles and Stand-Ins

The Girl In Alfred Hitchcock's Shower

A Murder That Became A Real-life Mystery

A Mystery That Became An Obsession

Roberg Graysmith

c. 2010

Miserably painful to read.

Janet Leigh's body double: Marli Renfro, stage name, not murdered.
Janet Leigh's stand in: Myra Davis, murdered, 1988.