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.