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The Weather Cliff Mass TLDR
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:52 AM
Do you love UW weather guru Cliff Mass, but find his blog has too many words* for your weary eyeballs?
Welcome to Cliff Mass: CliffsNotes edition.
*He is not, it is true, a model of concision nor the master of redundancy, e.g., the header/subhead on the blog: "CLIFF MASS WEATHER BLOG / THIS BLOG PROVIDES MY LATEST FORECAST OR COMMENTS ON CURRENT WEATHER OR OTHER TOPICS."
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Best thursday morning treat EVAR.
Unless one of you chuckleheads is bringing me a cupcake or a cruller. A danish, perhaps?
Unless one of you chuckleheads is bringing me a cupcake or a cruller. A danish, perhaps?
2
I have no need to read it, so can some tell me if it's like Senator John Kerry had a blog? At least, as far as his verbosity, wordiness, and OMG STFUAGTTPA* ?
*Shut The Fuck Up And Get To The Point Already, a neologism that I hereby offer to the Internet gods free of charge.
*Shut The Fuck Up And Get To The Point Already, a neologism that I hereby offer to the Internet gods free of charge.
3
Very funny! I suspect it's written by a student who gets to sit through very verbose lectures by the said professor. Or maybe his spouse and/or kids? Gently poking fun at Dad?
4
Well, Cliff has been on a warpath about math education. Perhaps he should take some writing classes? Or start a reform movement of high school English textbooks?
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So funny! I was just reading some of his prose aloud to my son yesterday - "NW Washington will be hit harder than expected last night". He gets all wound up about the weather (I love that about him), but then he hits "post" before he edits.
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If only he'd stick to the weather rather than suing the Seattle School District over math curriculum. Obviously whatever writing curriculum he was exposed to didn't do him any favors - perhaps he should sue that company instead.
10
I love that so much that it hurts. I've always found Cliff Mass' blog nearly unreadable, although stuffed with valuable nuggets of information.
11
I love Cliff Mass on NPR. But his blog is terrible. This is surely an improvement.
I suppose true weather nerds and post-grad students probably dig his site.
I suppose true weather nerds and post-grad students probably dig his site.
12
i do not consider myself a weather nerd nor am i a post graduate student - but i love reading cliff mass's blog. he is smart, funny, articulate and down to earth.
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I'm so sorry so many Stranger Readers find it difficult to read Cliff's Blog. Maybe you should stick to the pictures on the weather page of the times. But don't whine to me if you get caught short on a partly cloudy day in the cloudy part or can't understand why global warming is making it cooler here.
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