OK so in our first-year graduate class in physical oceanography, we introduce a simple model of the Earth’s radiation balance where we show how having an atmosphere to absorb and radiate back a portion of the long-wave radiation emitted by the Earth keeps the Earth’s surface from being frigid. It’s actually really…

Isn’t it always.

the servers at the bagel store I go to every morning hate me because I am extremely picky about the amount of cream that can be in my coffee. there’s one lady who makes it perfectly, but if I don’t get her, I drink my coffee black. I hear you with the too creamy thing. I used to like a little sugar, but for a while…

I prefer my coffee with heavy cream or hazelnut creamer. I drink it black because I drink a lot of it and also like to zip my pants.

Yeah, I feel allowing smoking somewhere 1) public, which means I will be coughing and choking and gagging and 2) where people eat, so yay we get smoking smell along with our food, seems stupid.

Yeah, they lost me there, as well. Much like religion (I hear also another hot topic in the South), I am of the belief that anyone is entitled to their own proclivities, but they aren’t entitled to force them on me.

To celebrate Columbus Day, I have discovered a mall in my town! I am naming it “Queen Mary Mall”. The people at the mall seem to think it already had a name, but *I* discovered it! I mean, there were a lot of people milling around - but *I* had never been there before!

In an email to Jezebel, Reali wrote that in her five years in New York, she has witnessed the rapid gentrification and skyrocketing rents of the L.E.S. and other neighborhoods.