Tom Metcalf
@thmetcalf.bsky.social
Physicist, cycle-commuter, urbanist, homeowner, dad. Coffee drinker. Youth baseball scorer. Amateur astronomer and chemist. From Sacramento. Government scientist in DC since 2001.
This is Roy Jones, PE teacher at Sutter Middle School in Sacramento in 1987, in a photograph with George Foreman, who has just died. The photo is from my 8th grade yearbook.
March 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This is Roy Jones, PE teacher at Sutter Middle School in Sacramento in 1987, in a photograph with George Foreman, who has just died. The photo is from my 8th grade yearbook.
It's not always deceptive to start the y-axis of graphs at a value other than zero, but it often is. I used 4.08 CCF of water in Jan 2024 and 7.18 in Feb, a 70% increase. But the graph that DC Water shows me makes it look like a 1700% increase!
December 1, 2024 at 3:31 AM
It's not always deceptive to start the y-axis of graphs at a value other than zero, but it often is. I used 4.08 CCF of water in Jan 2024 and 7.18 in Feb, a 70% increase. But the graph that DC Water shows me makes it look like a 1700% increase!
What a bummer for my first Bluesky post. On the metropolitan branch trail right now.
October 13, 2023 at 2:29 PM
What a bummer for my first Bluesky post. On the metropolitan branch trail right now.