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Ezra Goldschlager  //  Oklahoma City, OK
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Archive for

January 2010

 
Jan 25 / 2:09am

LinkedIn: What've you done for me lately?

by Ezra Goldschlager
Recently I've had a renewed interest in LinkedIn. I'm not sure why,
but it's happened. I'm curious about the system as a whole, in terms
of its concrete worth to members. I have an entirely unscientific
poll with a laughably tiny sample size going on here:
http://polls.linkedin.com/p/74858/ktpso ... If you're a LinkedIn
member, please pop over and vote.
 
Jan 16 / 11:27pm

Inversion

by Ezra Goldschlager

As a relatively new resident to Salt Lake City, I hadn't yet heard the term or known of the phenomenon "inversion" when one day I awoke thinking it was snowing outside, only to realize that it was not snowing but instead the local area was immersed in some sort of white, non-foggy haze.  I later learned that this is basically all of the pollution in the area being prevented from escaping upwards, because of pressure/wind barrier that is particular to parts of the world with specific geographies.  Rumor has it next time it snows, this "inversion" will lift.  It's been 2+ weeks without snow now, and everyone is starting to get antsy for a storm.  

I'm told that if I were to drive about 15 or 20 minutes up the mountains, I would clear the inversion and it would be a bright & sunny experience.  I would also be able to look down and see the smoggy cloud just sitting over the valley that is SLC.

 
Jan 3 / 7:36pm

Plink

by Ezra Goldschlager
Why is it that an XL sweater can be shunk down to a child's size small
if laundered improperly, but we have no way to get it back to its
original size? I mean, it's not like there is any less physical
material there. I propose that we call this process of getting stuff
back to its original size "to plink" (unshrink is too unwieldy), and
get some people working on it ASAP.