[FRIAM] Good site to track forest fires

2018-06-04 Thread Tom Johnson
See: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5820/ Tom Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

2018-06-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 08:16:10PM +, Marcus Daniels wrote: > There’s a generation of people that have an irrational dislike of Microsoft > having to do with them being brutal competitors in the 1990s. > Never mind that they now have a huge research organization and are ahead of > many in

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

2018-06-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
There’s a generation of people that have an irrational dislike of Microsoft having to do with them being brutal competitors in the 1990s. Never mind that they now have a huge research organization and are ahead of many in commercial deployment of advanced technologies, e.g.

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

2018-06-04 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, Jon, Nice to hear your voice! But, I confess, I didn’t understand the comment. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University

Re: [FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

2018-06-04 Thread Nick Thompson
Sorry, Glen. I keep seeming to have to apologize to you. Apologies are not really repeatable, in my book, so it worries me. Hm! That's a meta-apology, I guess. Anyway, thanks for reminding me. I am not sure I got the final stroke in that conversation or was just feckless. If the

Re: [FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

2018-06-04 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
Heh, I just had a friend float the idea that Hugh Everett was "laughed out of physics/academia". Now, I'm not a fan of history or biography. But that sounded wrong; so I googled it. Now that I'm an expert, I assert that Everett didn't care about academia and any insult he felt from the

Re: [FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

2018-06-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
You should really hold on to it. Any random thing that hasn't been indexed to death may be worth some money one day. And why not lord over out-of-context quotes on people from time to time? On 6/4/18, 12:40 PM, "uǝlƃ ☣" wrote: Of course. It'll take the exact same plain text format

Re: [FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

2018-06-04 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
Of course. It'll take the exact same plain text format of the file on the Peirce conversation I sent you awhile back. You sent a response about your tools thinking it was some weird format ("djvu"?). I responded that it was merely a plain text file, but never heard back from you. Anyway,

Re: [FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

2018-06-04 Thread Nick Thompson
"I have my own archive, of course. ..." Um. Really? I am up to my neck in houseguests at the moment, but could one, in principle, get into it? Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

Re: [FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

2018-06-04 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
The archive has been down since September of last year, which I've mentioned several times. I have my own archive, of course. I've thought about uploading them somewhere, but few of us ever refer back to previous posts. So, I infer the archives are mostly a waste of resources. -- ☣ uǝlƃ

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

2018-06-04 Thread Jon Zingale
wow. perhaps this is why we can't have nice things. On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:00 AM, wrote: > Send Friam mailing list submissions to > friam@redfish.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > or,

Re: [FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

2018-06-04 Thread Owen Densmore
Ah..could just be http://redfish.com/ is dead. It hangs. (I tried beaming into the admin part of our mail and it hung.) Stephen? On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Damn! And the GMane site is also dead: http://news.gmane.org/ > gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/

Re: [FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

2018-06-04 Thread Owen Densmore
Damn! And the GMane site is also dead: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/ On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Hmm.. You're right: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > > Not Found > The requested URL

Re: [FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

2018-06-04 Thread Owen Densmore
Hmm.. You're right: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ Not Found The requested URL /pipermail/friam_redfish.com/index.html was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. On Fri, Mar 30,

[FRIAM] MS acquiring Github.

2018-06-04 Thread Owen Densmore
Yup, really: I am very excited to announce that Microsoft is acquiring GitHub and expect the agreement to close by the end of the year. While it will still take a few months to finalize, we wanted to share the news as soon as we were able. https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/ I