2020 Hindsight
Fri Jul 8 23:45:08 EDT 2011
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Mighty Yosemite - Crossed another item off my bucket list: Go to Yosemite. Specifically, go to Yosemite Valley, the central place of it all. (too many years ago, I backpacked on a trip that went somewhere inside the boundaries of the national park. But that was far, far away from Yosemite Valley itself.) I went there the weekend [...]

Fracking - What is fracking? Here’s an explainer movie. MIT has created a website to help landowners rate Landmen — the gas company representatives who get landowners to sign leases. Reuters describes the site: “We have a lot of information [about drilling] from the industry, and from the states,” explains Chris Csikszentmihályi, director of the Center for Future Civic Media, “but [...]

Migration - Hey? What’s this? I just get myself back on this blog and then I say I’m going quiet again? Well, there’s old business, and there’s old business. Like old techy server business. It’s time to migrate this blog from one server to a different one. With all the creakiness of a 10-year history, including legacy cruft [...]

There is a fork in the road - in Pasadena, right near Huntington Hospital. I saw it in my rear-view mirror when I drove downtown the weekend before last. There’s a fork in the road located at the fork in the road at 866 S. Pasadena Ave, Pasadena Just now, I got whispers (and pictures!) of it in my email inbox. I hear tell [...]

Groundhog Day - This groundhog day we observe the earth on her circle journey round the sun. Bisected — no, quadsected– by four invisible points: not north, south, east, west, but summer, winter solstices, spring and fall equinoxes. If that were an ellipse shape in Adobe Illustrator, and you’d select Object > Path > Add Anchor Points, four more [...]

more testing - I didn’t want to have over a month’s downtime here. Right now I’m trying to add new posts so that the old station fire ones — with video- will scroll down the page. I think I’ve been captivated by the White Screen of Death, but fixes don’t quite work. Yet. I’ve been elsewhere and paying attention [...]

testing - if I quickly post something new, will that “unbreak” my site?

Upgraded WordPress, design tweakage in progress - I heeded the urgings to upgrade WordPress, dangit! and did so. Something happened to my old, old theme. While I investigate, I plunked in this new, hybrid one, instead. Some stuff may come back, some stuff may stay that way. Oh, and was I planning to do site redesign this week? No, I was [...]

Dissent of the Day - Today is the day I’m feeling it. The oppressing heat and humidity and smoky air (kiss all that healthful exercise goodbye)… …the buildup of whatever emotional pressure after I “wasted” all of yesterday worrying and surfing and watching the fires encroach the observatories of Mt. Wilson …and watched the live web-feed of eye-in-the-sky helicopter footage of flames [...]

John McPhee: Los Angeles Against the Mountain (Fire Edition, part 1) - Published in the New Yorker magazine in 1988, which later became a chapter in his book, The Control of Nature, John McPhee eloquently describes that mountainous California habitat — chaparal. [via Susan Orlean via LA Observed] (link goes to part 1 of article, so it’s a nice taste for you). This book is now [...]