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A space for what I am thinking about, technical or otherwise. Short posts, the kind of thing I wish I had found when I was figuring it out.
- Oct 10, 2026
The Wettest Days and the Whitest Winters
Two interactive maps of Minnesota for 2000 through 2025. One shows the 72 hours of each year when the most rain fell on the state, and the other the day of each winter when its snow water equivalent peaked.
rainfallsnowMinnesotaextremesinteractive map - Sep 2, 2026
A Pair of Hiking Boots
A sole coming apart in a river in Puerto Rico, and everything the boots had walked through since 2017.
personaltravelBadlands - Aug 21, 2026
Mendenhall River GLOFs: Suicide Basin, the data, and Juneau's response
A hazard that did not exist before 2011, four annual outburst floods in a row, and what the USGS and NWS records show about the 2026 event.
GLOFHEC-HMSHEC-RAShydrologyAlaska - Aug 2, 2026
The story behind Rang
How Persian art, and a silk carpet from Kashan in particular, became a set of color palettes I now use in engineering maps.
colorvisualizationPersian art
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