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Daily Camera.com: : CU-Boulder encouraging students to find what makes them \'Happy\' over spring break - Boulder Daily

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:55:27 +0000

All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.

Daily Camera.com: : Judge rules Boulder \'fighting words\' law unconstitutional, but little impact yet - Boulder Daily C

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:22:19 +0000

Frenchman: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits! [makes taunting gestures at them] Sir Galahad: What a strange person. King Arthur: Now, look here, my good man-- Frenchman: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Sir Galahad: Is there someone else up there we can talk to? Frenchman: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder performing arts center idea under study - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 6 May 2013 15:53:23 +0000

The St. Julien has an occupancy rate in the high seventies and an average daily rate around $250. Both of those metrics are extremely high for any hotel. The St. Julien has no real competition - the Boulderado is the only other downtown hotel and it's not in the same league (though it can charge almost as much). Boulder has just over 2,000 hotel rooms for a population of 100,000 - that's a ridiculously small amount (Austin, for example, has twice as many per capita, and that market is also considered to have an inadequate supply). The facts disagree with you, and any hotel operator would salivate at the opportunity to build a third downtown hotel - the demand is that strong. If you want to argue against a downtown hotel because you're a NIMBY, fine, just don't say there isn't demand for a hotel because that's 100% completely incorrect. Argue against the increased traffic, that's a legitimate concern.

Daily Camera.com: : Erie charter school on \'lockout\' because of Connecticut shooting - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:37:52 +0000

Correlation: noun \\ˌkȯr-ə-ˈlā-shən, ˌkär-\\ The state or relation of being correlated; specifically: a relation existing between phenomena or things or between mathematical or statistical variables which tend to vary, be associated, or occur together in a way not expected on the basis of chance alone. Paranoia: noun \\ˌper-ə-ˈnȯi-ə, ˌpa-rə-\\ A tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others.

Daily Camera.com: : Lance Armstrong will be stripped of 7 Tour de France titles, banned from cycling for life - Boulder

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:32:49 +0000

The modern mantra: If you're not cheatin' ... You're cheatin' yourself

Daily Camera.com: : Xcel flooded with solar garden applications - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:06:56 +0000

You are correct. But the math still doesn't add up for solar looking forward. Current global energy consumption is around132,000 TWh. A typical solar panel produces about 13.7W per square foot. For solar to produce the net power produced globally today would take about 8.5 trillion panels. This would cover about 5.38 million square miles and this would be if they all worked 100% of the time, 24/7. But since they don't, we would need three times that amount to produce power around the clock as the world turns. Now we would need about 16 million square miles (about 30% of the land surface area of the globe) and over 25 trillion solar panels! At the low-end cost of 50 cents per watt, it would only cost us $3.6 quadrillion, or about 50 years worth of the global GDP in 2011 US dollars. And they would all need to be replaced every 25-30 years, optimistically. Now consider global power consumption is projected to double in the 50 years (after all, a third of the world's population has never flipped a light switch) and you are close to the theoretical limit of 444,000 TWh for solar (that's if every molecule of sunlight were captured over every square inch of the world's surface). Solar has is uses, but it will always be a complementary energy source, best suited for small point-of-use applications, like solar gardens.

Daily Camera.com: : Xcel flooded with solar garden applications - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:42:55 +0000

Some information presented without comment from the Department of Energy: Federal subsidies for electric power, fiscal year 2010 Oil and Gas: $654M Hydro: $215M Coal: $1,189M Nuclear: $2,499M Solar: $968M Wind: $4,986M Federal subsidies, cost per megawatt hour, fiscal year 2010: Oil and Gas: $0.64 Hydro: $0.82 Coal: $0.64 Nuclear: $3.14 Solar: $775.64 Wind: $56.29

Daily Camera.com: : CU-Boulder to bar guns in dorms, but allow weapons in some family housing units - Boulder Daily Came

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:18:24 +0000

Ever wonder why massacres never happen at the shooting range?

Daily Camera.com: : Rescuers help teenage tuber from Boulder Creek after she became stranded on a rock - Boulder Daily C

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:53:40 +0000

Water transfers heat 25 times faster than air. Stay in 90 degree water long enough and you'll get hypothermia. /this comment must be approved by the site administrator before it will appear publicly

Daily Camera.com: : Judge: Accused Boulder \'potty peeper\' Luke Chrisco competent to stand trial - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:44:12 +0000

Hopefully Mr. Crisco will get some help. Why are jokes removed by the administrator?

Daily Camera.com: : Rocky Mountain National Park lifts its total fire ban - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:29:58 +0000

I agree. /This comment must be approved by the site administrator before it can appear publicly

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder County medical marijuana caregiver sentenced to 9 years in federal prison - Boulder Daily Ca

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:05:06 +0000

A prior conviction for first-degree murder is kind of a big crime, too. But he's just a "caregiver".

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder police: Two men spray bear repellent at fraternity members while on scooter - Boulder Daily

Fri, 6 Jul 2012 02:37:01 +0000

Two dudes on a scooter? Really?

Daily Camera.com: : Eureka! Physicists, including CU-Boulder researchers, celebrate evidence of particle - Boulder Daily

Wed, 4 Jul 2012 23:49:34 +0000

The Scottish Enlightenment continues... <img src="http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5623/458pxroyalarmsofscotlan.png"> Alba gu bràth!

Daily Camera.com: : Attorney: Zoey Ripple, shot in Boulder home intrusion, working on plea deal - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 3 Jul 2012 03:13:50 +0000

sar·casm/ˈsärˌkazəm/ The use of irony to mock or convey contempt. Learn it, live it, love it.

Daily Camera.com: : The battle over Boulder\'s New Frontier Media - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:41:24 +0000

Daily Camera.com: : The battle over Boulder\'s New Frontier Media - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 04:09:40 +0000

Daily Camera.com: : The battle over Boulder\'s New Frontier Media - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 01:15:57 +0000

Or so you've heard?

Daily Camera.com: : Doughnuts return to Boulder - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 1 Jul 2012 22:03:52 +0000

Daily Camera.com: : Red Zone: Policies put more Coloradans at risk - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 1 Jul 2012 12:45:37 +0000

Ideally, I agree it would be preferable to allow the ponderosa pine forest ecosystem to function naturally with periodic fire that burns off ground cover. The problem is that system is long gone - there are far too many trees, too much fuel, and the fires we have now are much hotter, much more intense than a natural wildfire. These fires volatilize nutrients in the soil and lead to huge erosion problems (not to mention the obvious risk of a catastrophic event that could kill hundreds of people like 2009 wildfire in Victoria, Australia). Prescribed or natural fires should be the first choice, I agree, but first the forests must be thinned out mechanically, which is laborious and expensive. The free-rider problem for residents of forested areas is a problem, for sure, but we can enforce building and land use codes if we want to.