Awesome site counters

You know those admin pages that have a counter on them, big enough, bright enough and styling enough for the silver screen (a la The Social Network)?

Well after bumping into the "Awesome CSS" buttons article, I thought this would be a good trick. The JavaScript code (counter.js) and setup is very minimal.

Try it out here: http://www.guesttime.com/members/ledlogic/counter

Groundwater Models I've Known

Saw this online... I wonder if they were ever able to tweak that model to match the dry cleaner pump test:

http://www.geo.sunysb.edu/lig/Conferences/abstracts99/White.pdf

For a while after moving on from my groundwater days, I thought about it, and if you can't simulate that kind of drawdown using a single fracture simulation in a equivalent porous media model alone, there is not a chance you can get that to occur in the complexities of a full scale, multi-layer flow model.

By the way, this is still one of the most hilarious ground water stories:

http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/files/freeze_gw.pdf