Well, the last posting got two rave reviews, one from my completely objective sister Carol and the other from my slightly more objective brother-in-law Frank.
Blogging this meant that I didn't have to send them both e-mails.
Someday my audience will skyrocket above two to include my Mom.
Carol and Frank are the angels helping me set up my podcast with Eric Barendsen and the devil.
Speaking of Karl Rove, I'm not saying he's the devil, but the devil's relationship with him is identical to Rove's relationship with Bush.
So I woke up this morning dreaming about my first podcast, brilliantly titled "High School Math Class." Who wouldn't want to listen to that? Besides a few million high school students?
The podcast made perfect sense in the dream but has me (and you) mystified now.
However, Bob Henson, the longtime NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research, here in Boulder) writer and author of "The Rough Guide to Climate Change" has agreed to be interviewed for my podcast.
I just e-mailed another friend, 90-year-old University of Colorado (CU) professor emeritus of physics and population expert Al Bartlett about being another interview subject.
Al is one of the world's foremost experts on how the population explosion will implode at some point. He's given his famous talk on this subject 1,645 times, so I've warned him that I have only 1,639 more "Truth About Everything" talks of my own to go to tie him.
Al recently gave his talk at Oregon State, Carol's alma mater, last year gave the talk in Australia and New Zealand, and his given it before Congress, who paid such rapt attention that they've never once mentioned population on the Senate or House floors, and regard population as the political third rail where they should all be pushed.
I've talked with Bob and Al many times and I promise they'll be excellent guests and that I'll be a sub-standard host.
I was so excited about my dream (which contained no high school girls, although the round, hairy Kazakstani producer in "Borat" was sitting naked in the front row, which is disturbing) that I went right to work finishing my book, which is now around 1000 pages. Now I have to edit it down to 300 pages.
Of course all this content, the podcast content and the book (and material is swapped between each of these mediums) is copyrighted and I gratefully respect your respecting that. I had a national figure steal material from me like Milton Berle (he didn't steal Milton Berle, they both stole material) and this intellectual dishonesty gives the thief the worst karma they can have in any creative field. Thank you for respecting the intellectual property I've literally worked decades to develop.
What, you're back after that paragraph?
Tomorrow I bike 1200 vertical feet up to my good friend Brian Ridley's house in 99 degree heat, if it's as hot as today was. I don't do well in heat (not that I'm in heat that often) so I'll be taking a swim in Boulder Creek on the way up while wearing a tight-fitting (this is not meant to be arousing) cotton t-shirt that will stay wet much longer than any of my bike jerseys.
And yes, the likelyhood of heat waves like the one we're in right now, with at least a handful of record high temperatures for the date, goes up as the overall temperature averages go up due to global warming. Scientists expect heat waves like the one that killed over 50,000 Europeans in the summer of 2003 could average every other year by 2050 and ramp up to annual events not long after that (this is from Bob Henson's book).
Even though I'm biking tomorrow, I'll be paying the price for my own bad karma of driving too much in the past.
(Great, funny closing sentence goes here.)
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