work in progress

I have spent parts of several decades learning the active.
The passive role is very difficult for me at this time.
I can and will take that path.

breakfast

I cooked. Crepes.
This day I drove her for glasses so she could renew her driving licence.
She passed.

local radar and Forecast

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=mux&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

Here is your forecast office:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.77397129533325&lon=-122.28057861328125&site=mtr&smap=1&marine=0&unit=0&lg=en

The Feds do a wonderful if conservative job.

All I can do is polish on it a bit. Look at the radar and the wind and think locally. That works for individual systems but I usually can't guess any better than they can. Katrina was a rare exception.

Shook?

Go and experience: http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/index.html

California is fighting with the National Weather Service. Try: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/nepac/wv.jpg

That should give some idea. There is an animation of half hour images here: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/nepac/loop-wv.html

An enthusiast based weather compilation is here: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

Do not neglect the header and side bars.


I would do better working for something like IDEO the Exploratorium does not pay.

My Daily Reading

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/

http://agonist.org/

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://www.ianwelsh.net/

http://slashdot.org/

Listen to

http://www.wnyc.org/ The AM feed

http://www.vpr.net/listen/stream/ The BBC world service stream.

http://www.wpkn.org/ontheair.html Just for fun, when the world is too much with me.

Read as available:

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/

http://firedoglake.com/author/94/ or, http://agonist.org/diary/stirling_newberry (snit? no recent posts.)

http://fafblog.blogspot.com/

Look at:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/

http://www.technologyreview.com/index.aspx

only a beginning.

Food

I cook.
For many years I insisted that I cooked in self defense.
For the last ten years mother has not been up to cooking successfully.
I am not an obligate carnivore. I am an omnivore.
I rarely cook vegetarian for myself. I have no objection to the practice and can produce good food under those strictures.
I admire Alice Waters. I have her bread book.

apology: The book is Nancy Silverton's "Breads from La Brea Bakery"

Parsons II

I was graduating again. I had an actual BFA. Commercial professional employment escaped me again. There was nothing in the Parsons list of opportunities that was any kind of a fit. I had been doing art and tool technique as a student employee. Systematic design was still blocked. My supervisor, the Pratt student, knew something of my earlier education. I was hired to operate the product shop and given a couple of electives as financial supplement. This lasted two semesters.
The dummy shipped a Mac to his home address. He was fired. I lost support. I moved to foundation where I was the wrong sex, the wrong age, the wrong sexual orientation, the wrong belief system and had the wrong philosophy of art.
Worst of all, I was unfashionable. I was summarily fired in the spring. I came home that evening to mother's announcement that her mammogram had come back with a hot spot.

Incompatible operating systems

Microsoft and Apple intentionally keep their file systems incompatible with each other. I think it is an effort to preserve user base and thus income. There seems to be no way around this policy.
There are several ways to assault the problem. Both Linux and BSD will read and write these files. The learning curve to make use of this feature is steep.

The simple approach I know is to use email. An incompatible file received as an email or an email attachment will not open but it can be stored or compressed. It then can be uncompressed and emailed back to a compatible system. Compatible file formats, such as PDF, JPEG, GIF etc will run after mailing.

I am completely serious. Action will not get any easier for me until death resolves my a domestic situation. I find that I can act at this point but need an explicit invitation from you before I call on my siblings and say "Your turn."
A quiet meeting on "neutral ground" could easily resolve all doubts.
Your words, if they are not such an invitation, will be closely attended to.

It was you in front of the Forrest Avenue Stop & Shop. I am very sure. You were dramatically unwilling to be accosted.
Thus I did no more than nod in passing. Shock does strange things. I am still reeling. HCH

Weeks' trip.

I shall fly to Key West Sunday, Take a day or two to rest and prep a car and drive back to New York.
Blogging and other contact will be light. Trip will take seven days plus depending on passengers and dog.

Make it march

Marla helped me get the research papers written. I would do the library work, mail her the references and a lead paragraph and an outline of the logic. It worked for academics. Aesthetics and criticism I found I had to write myself.
I wanted access to the tools so I took student employment in the product design shop. My supervisor was a John Sweeney, graduate student in architecture at Pratt. His professor was William Katavolos. I allowed myself to be drawn into their project for a few weeks. First encounter in twenty plus years. I pushed on toward graduation in December 1994.

bed.

I had asked for as much computers as we could squeeze into that semester. There was a course in illustrator and photoshop on Macs. I found that the work was easy. I could read the manual and make sense of it. My Algonkin Park pictures made a splash. First roll of film I had shot since Halifax. Autocad was a dream for this pencil draughtsman. Alias turned out to be of little interest. The required hardware was a fifty thousand dollar Unix Sparc station. I put a teapot I had worked up fifteen years earlier on as project and passed the course.

I enjoy . . .

http://officialpibgorn.livejournal.com/

Links to "pibgorn" and "9 chickweed lane"