[FRIAM] Clouds

[Nicholas Thompson]

Owen, 

Your cloud book looks magnificent!   If it lives up to its billing and
gives good scientific explanations for the SHAPE of clouds, it will be
everything I ever dreamed of in a cloud book.  One of my retirement
projects was perhaps to write a book called, What Clouds Mean, to explain
in detail the processes that give clouds their shape and what can be
concluded from them about the state of the atmosphere. Skew-T for the
layman.  This book may save me the labor.  

Take care, 

Nick 

Nicholas Thompson
nickthompson at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson


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>    1. Douglas Engelbart's "Mother Of All Demos" circa 1968
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>    2. OT: Pogue?s Posts -  Getting Hung Up on the Apple-Microsoft
>       War (Owen Densmore)
>    3. Cool Tool: The Cloudspotter's Guide (Owen Densmore)
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> From: "Edward A. Puckett" <blackguard at voltaic.com>
> Subject: [FRIAM] Douglas Engelbart's "Mother Of All Demos" circa 1968
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> I just saw a video of Douglas Engelbart's demo of his group's NLS  
> system that was given in San Francisco in 1968.  I was stunned at how  
> this demo presages much of today's computer environment, including  
> the first mouse, (programmable) word processing, hyperlinking and  
> groupware.  Watching this video and observing the codes he inserts to  
> affect presentation, I was overcome with a feeling that I was  
> watching the genesis of many things, not the least of which is SGML- 
> style markup languages.  Though the SGML connection may be tenuous, I  
> cannot help but imagine that this "being in the air" influenced SGML.
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> The video is about an hour and a quarter long, but if you're into  
> this sort of history, it's well worth the time.
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> See: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097
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> Also: http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
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> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:50:30 -0600
> From: Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
> Subject: [FRIAM] OT: Pogue?s Posts -  Getting Hung Up on the
> 	Apple-Microsoft War
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> Dede and I have followed David Pogue's books (Missing Manuals) and  
> writing for quite a while.  Recently his NYTimes blogs have popped up  
> as an interesting site.
>    http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=114
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> This one is on the Mac/Win debate and for us Macaholics, its kinda  
> nice to get this sort of perspective.  Nothing new .. just soothing.
>
>      -- Owen
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> Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net
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> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:03:51 -0600
> From: Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
> Subject: [FRIAM] Cool Tool: The Cloudspotter's Guide
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam <friam at redfish.com>
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> This, in honor of my friend Nick's love of weather:
>    http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001354.php#more
> Great pix of "cloud-al waves" as our family calls them.
>
>      -- Owen
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> Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net
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