Archive for August 31st, 2006

Too much water in my name, part 3: too much acid in my water

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Since we’re on the subject of water (again), had yet another fun experience. Earlier this week, K noticed a couple of inches of water in the pan under our hot water heater. Yep, it seems to be leaking. This is the water heater that I installed one year ago. It was […]

Too much water in my name - part deux

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

We had a batch of thunder showers come through last night. We got about 2, maybe 3, inches here. Sometime during the evening, K and I ask each other, “what’s that noise?” Turns out we had a leak in the roof that was dripping down (and through) the second story wall, onto […]

Dropping SAT Scores

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Matt Yglesias sees the recent Washington Post article describing the fall in SAT scores after the most recent test changes and asks what’s the big deal. On the face of it, Matt makes some good points. Scores are only down 7 points (5 in reading and 2 in math) and for any given […]