Bill Capehart
@billcapehart.bsky.social
Climate scientist, meteorologist, resiliency, legos, snark, cats, horrible person, South Dakota Mines prof. All opinions are mine, but I'll blame my employers for my typos.
I think the Times is trolling you.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I think the Times is trolling you.
Nice to know that Black Hills Energy has its priorities right. #SouthDakota #PowerOutage #CascadingFailure #StillDark
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Nice to know that Black Hills Energy has its priorities right. #SouthDakota #PowerOutage #CascadingFailure #StillDark
This is what you get when you train an AI by letting it use the internet.
November 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is what you get when you train an AI by letting it use the internet.
My only gripe has been the lack of professional-friendly "shapes." But, I can actually *use* KN's "animations" compared to PPT's awful ones, and KN's plays nicer with Adobe fonts than PPT, so I can comply with our univ's "communications policy" like Veronical Lake surrendered to the Japanese.
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
My only gripe has been the lack of professional-friendly "shapes." But, I can actually *use* KN's "animations" compared to PPT's awful ones, and KN's plays nicer with Adobe fonts than PPT, so I can comply with our univ's "communications policy" like Veronical Lake surrendered to the Japanese.
Wow! It IS funny when this happens to other people.
"Solidary, brother"
"Solidary, brother"
October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Wow! It IS funny when this happens to other people.
"Solidary, brother"
"Solidary, brother"
Didn’t Biden do that last year?
October 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Didn’t Biden do that last year?
Lame achievement unlocked.
October 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Lame achievement unlocked.
It’s a tribute to the town’s resiliency master plan the way it rebuilds itself every 24 hours. That or rioters are very discrete.
October 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
It’s a tribute to the town’s resiliency master plan the way it rebuilds itself every 24 hours. That or rioters are very discrete.
Wrong football but … lightning WOULD be cool.
September 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Wrong football but … lightning WOULD be cool.
OK now you got me started: This is a REAL slide set from an old COMET workshop on hydromet @ NCAR (NOT MINE!!) circa the late 90s when Powerpoint was new.
I'm not sure why but the "typewriter leter-by-letter" feature isn't on one of the slides. And yes, it made the clackity clack noise.
I'm not sure why but the "typewriter leter-by-letter" feature isn't on one of the slides. And yes, it made the clackity clack noise.
September 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
OK now you got me started: This is a REAL slide set from an old COMET workshop on hydromet @ NCAR (NOT MINE!!) circa the late 90s when Powerpoint was new.
I'm not sure why but the "typewriter leter-by-letter" feature isn't on one of the slides. And yes, it made the clackity clack noise.
I'm not sure why but the "typewriter leter-by-letter" feature isn't on one of the slides. And yes, it made the clackity clack noise.
Yup... Every program needs a presentation for that.
September 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Yup... Every program needs a presentation for that.
The new ones just aren’t the same. God I miss the pleather sliding case and the clear feel of pushing the buttons down.
September 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The new ones just aren’t the same. God I miss the pleather sliding case and the clear feel of pushing the buttons down.
Damn they're on to us
September 14, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Damn they're on to us
What's more, have any of these doomer-zoomers SEEN our climate change textbooks from the late 80s and 90s? (I pull it out about this time each semester, I do my environ modeling class.)
September 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What's more, have any of these doomer-zoomers SEEN our climate change textbooks from the late 80s and 90s? (I pull it out about this time each semester, I do my environ modeling class.)
I'm doing the traditional 2-layer Earth's radiation budget model in Stella, for my systems modeling class, where I break out my REAL climate doomer textbook from grad school! Back then, global warming was the BEST-case scenario. And all my students can say is "he hand-drew all these graphs!?"
September 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I'm doing the traditional 2-layer Earth's radiation budget model in Stella, for my systems modeling class, where I break out my REAL climate doomer textbook from grad school! Back then, global warming was the BEST-case scenario. And all my students can say is "he hand-drew all these graphs!?"
I should defer with someone who can discuss the folklore &0 spiritual significance of the various PNW water creatures but they aren’t “here be dragons” European map monsters since they’re present there enough to be familiar creatures and represented as such. There’s lots of photos of them out there.
September 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I should defer with someone who can discuss the folklore &0 spiritual significance of the various PNW water creatures but they aren’t “here be dragons” European map monsters since they’re present there enough to be familiar creatures and represented as such. There’s lots of photos of them out there.
I miss my old textbooks. They were so much more optimistic. (Cheaper, too).
August 21, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I miss my old textbooks. They were so much more optimistic. (Cheaper, too).
We warned you all, some of us since 2011. Meanwhile, you might want to have a word with all those pretty people in Santa Monica. Noem can't win reelection in a state where incumbency is king without stealing from her Democratic opponent's platform. But Pee-Wee German is the pride and joy of SoCal.
August 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We warned you all, some of us since 2011. Meanwhile, you might want to have a word with all those pretty people in Santa Monica. Noem can't win reelection in a state where incumbency is king without stealing from her Democratic opponent's platform. But Pee-Wee German is the pride and joy of SoCal.
When you get to Congress don’t let her forget how she voted to teach astrology in science classrooms. (Unless Trump throws her under the bus first.)
August 12, 2025 at 4:28 AM
When you get to Congress don’t let her forget how she voted to teach astrology in science classrooms. (Unless Trump throws her under the bus first.)
If their base were to find out how DEI also includes rural students, first-generation students & veterans, they would just find another acronym to lie about... like "ABET." They've already admitted that it's all an empty smokescreen for culture wars, it's just rebranded "CRT."
August 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If their base were to find out how DEI also includes rural students, first-generation students & veterans, they would just find another acronym to lie about... like "ABET." They've already admitted that it's all an empty smokescreen for culture wars, it's just rebranded "CRT."
So you can’t. Thanks is for playing.
August 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
So you can’t. Thanks is for playing.
