NCFocus

Stale blog offering Perspective on ideas, issues and life from Nevada County, California - belaboring the obvious since 2003

Wednesday, November 04, 2020

NCVoices.us (the news etc aggregator) may be coming to an end.

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Well, thus is sad.  The rather wonderful and reliable web hosts who've kept NCVoices.us up (along with journo101.com and warming101.co...
Friday, August 14, 2020

FYI, NCVoices is underperforming

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Tuesday Aug. 18 update: It was *really* underperforming, it turns out I broke it late Sunday night (Aug 16; obvious advice: do not mess with...
Monday, May 02, 2016

Belated, sad E-bike update

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Some years back I handed off my e-bike (UrbanMover Sprite electric-assist) on long-term loan to a friend of a friend who wanted to use it ...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

The NCVoices.us scripts are not feeling well

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I'll try to fix it this weekend. March 2 update on fixing  ncvoices.us :  It's mostly working again, though there's still mor...
Monday, January 18, 2016

2016 update

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No, I don't live in Nevada County anymore.  Yes, many of the posts in this blog are crap.  (Whether they were equally so when I posted ...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

Livin' La Vida Verde: LWV April panel notes and commentary

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Meeting: Sat. April 13, 2013, League of Women Voters of Nevada County ( link ); a 4-person panel presentation and Q and A on "living g...
Friday, November 30, 2012

Drone assassinations, Beale AFB and civil disobedience on Sharon Delgado's blog

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... although you wouldn't know it from NCVoices , whose script isn't parsing her blog feed correctly (the post "Resisting the ...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

NaNoWriMo, OctoLearnMo

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(revised Oct 6,8) You may know that November is NaNoWriMo , National Novel Writing Month, for those so inclined; according to this LA Times...
Sunday, September 02, 2012

Excellent NYTimes op-ed on how horse-race journalists are falling short even in horse-race analysis

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Why Campaign Reporters Are Behind the Curve "This is why [even non-science parts of] newspapers are worth reading," - me (*)

Worse than models projected: Record low arctic sea ice already, and still another couple weeks to go

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Click for the animation: Uncertainty is not our friend. The risk can be greater than models suggest: for Arctic sea ice, the loss is hap...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Lessons learned (or at least taught), #234567 and #234568

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Lesson #234567:  When you submit a letter to the editor, suggest a title for it.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Solutions journalism sketch: Hirshman's Pond trail issues

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I'm one person and there's too #$%^& much to do, most of it far more important than this, but I think it's worth at least la...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

EXCELLENT "climate weirdness" NPR Fresh Air interview with Climate Central's Lemonick this a.m.

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This is why NPR deserves our support - in an hour or so, asking good, open-ended Qs and then letting his guest talk, Fresh Air host David ...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Marooned in meatspace, more or less (PITA computers...)

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Apologies for any failures to attend or respond... connections are spotty, so please be patient.
Sunday, August 05, 2012

Nevada County environmental activists, it's past time for vision. Why so quiet?

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What does the future hold for our rivers?   Are our river protectors aware? From the [U.K.] Independent, Heatwave turns America's wate...
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