Teresa Applies Her Training

The main reason I did videoblogging training at Sun’s Menlo Park offices a couple of weeks ago (rather than at some other time) was to get my colleague Teresa Giacomini ready to film the OpenSolaris User Group meeting she ran in Dresden this week. Looks as if she handled it just fine!

photo by stiefkind

How Do You Measure Snow?

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We’re having a big snowstorm in Colorado today, so I have been discussing with some local colleagues on Twitter how to measure accumulations. I haven’t lived around snow much (til I moved to Colorado last year), so I haven’t done this much before.

@vdotw advised “Measure [with a ruler] at a flat spot, like an outside table.”

Well, okay, we have lots of outside tables at Sun’s Broomfield campus, but they all seem to have accumulated different amounts of snow:

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This one (shown at far left in the photo above) had about 5 inches:

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This one looked more promising:

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And, in fact:

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Thirteen inches! (That’s a fourteen-inch ruler.)

So what am I supposed to do here? Take an average?

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