In pursuit of the truth

I posted this to my personal Instagram story yesterday and got mostly affirming comments. The coverage of COVID-19, the current president, and former president, have solidified my position that very few prominent journalists are in pursuit of the truth. Most media is heavily editorialized on the right and the left. Turn off the TV!

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Blog SEO and Keene travel guide

Oh the art of search engine optimization! It’s taking me well over two months to get listed on Bing, which will also get me cross listed on DuckDuckGo, one of my favorite search engines for privacy purposes. It would be nice for people to find this website in more places than just Google.

I wonder how useful this site will be for people in the future. Ironically, one of my coworkers asked me recently for travel recommendations for Keene, NH. I used a lot of the same info that I used in my post about Walpole.

Other highlights about the Keene area:

The power of the pen

A coworker asked me this week to write him a letter of recommendation, which got me thinking about all of the things that I’ve accomplished in the last 5 years of being in the post-college working world.

I’m going to try to be more proactive about writing on here even if it is short, because it’s a good mental exercise.

Jordan Peterson is right on the money about why we really need to write. The ability to write and the ability to reason go hand-in-hand.

Windy weather

“All models are wrong, but some are useful,” according to the famous statistician George Box. The same can be said about weather models. Believe it or not, there is more than one forecast model. Most sites and apps in the US use the North American Model (NAM), which many meteorologists and weather observers question its accuracy.

I think the best solution is to have access to more weather models, which is why Windy is my go-to weather website and mobile app. Windy currently supports five weather forecast models, and even allows the users to compare all models on one timeline view for any given location.

I was introduced to Windy by a coworker several years ago, and I’ve been impressed so much that I currently subscribe as a premium customer. It was developed in Javascript by a helicopter pilot to initially help show wind information. The website and app are constantly getting new updates and new layers for the map. I find the rain & thunder, cloud cover, Infra+ satellite, temperature, and wind layers to be most interesting. Personal weather web cams can be submitted to the site, as I’ve done for my Sunapee Harbor Webcam. Highly recommend windy.