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Chapman Farms
Santa Paula, CA
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239 ft
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| Calor: |
68.8 °F
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| Frigus in quo Ros apparet: |
52.5 °F
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| Umor: |
56% |
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10.0 mph
from the Inter Austrum et Zephyrum |
| Venti Impetus: |
16.0 mph
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Updated: 12:39 PM PDT die 23o May, anno 2013
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APRSWXNET Santa Paula CA US
Santa Paula, CA
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291 ft
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70.0 °F
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52.0 °F
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53% |
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3.0 mph
from the Magis Auster quam Zephyrus |
| Venti Impetus: |
11.0 mph
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Updated: 12:11 PM PDT die 23o May, anno 2013
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RAWS ANACAPA ISLAND CA US
Port Hueneme, CA
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| Elevation: |
276 ft
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60.0 °F
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| Frigus in quo Ros apparet: |
49.0 °F
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68% |
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12.0 mph
from the Magis Zephyrus quam Aquilo |
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25.0 mph
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Updated: 11:23 AM PDT die 23o May, anno 2013
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The thunder is loud and fun.
There are at least two fires in Ventura county that started after the storm came in so supposing they may have been lightning triggered.
Rain at 2pm was full of big fat drops - also a lot of dirt! I mean, my shirt and arms had lots of bits of stuff on them and I don't know where it came from. Maybe the rain hit hard enough to bounce dirt off a nearby building. Anyway, when that rain ended, I took a shower to get the stuff out of my hair.
Raining right now and it kind of smells like celery.
All in all, pretty surreal, LOL
BTW, where did this come from? Look at the rgb loop and you can see the clouds coming from the west that were showing on the wv last night. But the rain is coming from a lower deck and from the SE. What's up with that? Maybe I should have been reading the discussions but who knew it would rain and stuff?
Hope calpoppy is getting some!
bbl
Throughout the day today I was looking out a north facing 8th floor window in the central San Fernando Valley. A beefy altocumulus that was revealed as the marine layer burned off mid morning demonstrated something was up. (Of course it's intentional, har.) Early afternoon I saw a dry lightning bolt from a cumulonimbus calvus cloud strike on or behind the mountains. By mid afternoon there was fully developed cumulonimbus incus.
I'm still looking for my first August rain in the Dry Slot. Today started out mostly cloudy, so I guess that's a trend in the right direction.
I did go read the discussion yesterday afternoon and They said we'd have another morning of marine layer today before that misery-making high pushes its way towards us. So, my foggy morning brain registered the morning grayness as fog when I woke up. Imagine my surprise when it started sprinkling and then I heard thunder! It stopped 'raining' pretty quick but the thunder rolls on an hour later. Again, lightning-caused fire danger is high.
LC - oh, thanks! Helps to know it wasn't just me. I hadn't seen clouds like that and was intent on work when I heard the rain and for a few seconds thought it was a skateboard on the sidewalk - nearly knocked my desk over to get to the window when I realized it was raining, LOL
Think it surprised LOX, too!
Bogon - yep, it's weird! Well, monsoons in August are not weird but there are usually some signs before hand, and Ventura county valleys rarely see anything from it - mostly just pretty clouds over the mountains.
Hope you get some rain, yourself, though it will be much more than we get and will prompt another round with the mower!
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Will get back to random (and show better manners to my commenters) when the excitement is over ;)
I get to watch something other then plants today!!
Well the first project is almost done!! Just got through with the bind off and now on to the fringe. Watched the video on the bind off, pretty simple, but my start wasn't so pretty. But I don't think anyone but me is going to examine this scarf. And I think it is beautifully imperfect!!
Hope you are doing well!
You're right, the next step will be mowing. Now that the grass has moisture to work with, it will proliferate without restraint. The weather forecast sounds iffy for mowing, though. There might be a window of opportunity tomorrow.
The good news is that I got a new mower last year. The new machine is sharp enough to slice the grass cleanly. Doesn't matter much how tall it is. After all, a blade of grass cuts pretty much the same anywhere along its length.
I still miss the old mower sometimes. With its beat up dull blade it operated by flailing the lawn into submission. That was more satisfying, in a way. The lawn looks better now, but I don't feel it is being properly chastised.
My prediction is we'll be hearing the phrase "shake and bake" for a few days. ;^)
OK, the initial estimate is magnitude 4.5 and I'll give myself that but it was probably less than 100 miles from me. I was surprised to see there was a quake of the same magnitude in almost the same location last night because that one didn't wake me.
Today's quake started out like riding on a dirt road covered with small, loose rocks and faded over a period of about 8 seconds.
Yes, poor Augustus is getting short shrift … well, I did give him credit in this post, as the one who named July and August!
gg - I have folks yelling at me for sending them the Corgi cam link! I'm over it, pretty much, but some I know still can't stop watching. Oops ;)
Don't know what (or when) I'm going to write for August but appreciate the excuse to eat more goat cheese, LOL
Bogon - hey, even Sam Harris has to eat ;)
I had planned on buying that, someday, and am grateful to him for putting it out there for free for a few days. He has a way of getting large concepts across in very few words and “Lying” definitely made me think.
Thanks for your thoughts and … I wonder if there is a cure for systemic lying. There is a treatment, anyway.
My favorite quote, atm:
“You can be honest and kind, because your purpose in telling the truth is not to offend people: You simply want them to have the information you have, and would want to have if you were in their position.”
Sam Harris in “Lying” p.9
Dang but that makes sense.
You wrote:
That made me laugh out loud :) I chopped wood with a machete once, for much the same reason. Very satisfying, if painful and slow and messy.
Good luck with both rain and mowing!
calpoppy - looks like your chances for monsooooon is improving this week. Might even get some thunder here.
My cast on edges always look bad, lol. I practiced a crochet cast on and like the way it looks – matches the standard bind off – so will use that whenever it suits the project. Can't wait to see your pics! Wrap the scarf around a chicken and you can post it to WU! ;)
My little dino is cute, isn't he? I can't remember ever buying a plush toy before but that one got my attention. Maybe for the reason Ylee liked it – the teeth! I was only going to keep him up until someone guessed but no one did so there he sits.
LC – thanks for the on-the-(shaky)-ground reporting! And the graphic. I was wondering if you'd noticed the one last night. I didn't feel either of them. Weird to have two so similar in size right on top of each other. And, since these two followed the Parkfield quake a couple days ago, and it's darned hot, I think your prediction is a safe one!
The Yorba Linda quakes were pretty shallow. That may account for your not feeling last night's or the aftershocks, so much. Glad there doesn't seem to be any damage or injuries!
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Seems we've got ourselves an oil tank fire over in Fillmore. They're letting it burn out (20,000 to 25,000 gallons worth) and just keeping it contained.
Oil refinery fire in Richfield, that started Monday, is already sending gas prices up. And people to the hospital.
Learned the other night, with reasonable certainty, that what looks like a launchpad on South Mountain is, as suspected, more oil drilling.
So ends today's segment of “Cali Oil News”, LOL
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Got a couple videos for your edification but will bring them later. Need to go get my oil changed right now. I know, right?
Yeah, drive baby drill.
Like that's really the answer.
Oops! I'm starting to sound political. My bad!
And I think it's a sad thing that prices and drilling continue to make more media noise than the folks in hospital as a result of the fire or more tons of pollutants going into the air.
Okay, I'm really bad now.
That Shake, Rattle, and Roll (as in quakes) is maybe a good thing, don't you think? Better small, frequent quakes to relieve pressure than wait and build up pressure for the Big One.
"La, la, la! I can't hear you!"
Ylee – excellent points that I'm sure many don't realize – thanks!
In this case, the oil change was for my old (1989) car. I don't go by the 3000 mile rule on that one any more, anyway, since I don't drive it much. The idea was to get an oil change and take it for a long drive before getting the smog check that was due, in hope that would help it pass. As it happened, I got called away from that task on that day and never did get the oil changed. Did pass smog, though!
On the car I drive most I just wait until the “maint reqd” light comes on and tell the car's owner, who calls the dealer shop to find out what scheduled maintenance is due. Easy peasy :) I think the oil is changed every 6000 miles on that one.
Oh! HELLOOOOO! lol Thanks for the bump, just in time :)
Briar – no, you're not bad, at all ;) and thanks for your thoughts and the links. More oil news from awhile back – photos of Deepwater Horizon as it blew. I think I saw a few of those before but not all in one place.
You might also be interested in a first-hand account of the Earth Summit back in June(?) in Rio from a young activist. It and the comments which follow are a bit depressing but, ultimately, the young woman's optimism wins out.
One school of thought says that little earthquakes take the pressure off. However, it may just add pressure in another area of the fault. Or, it could be a foreshock of a bigger quake. Wish we knew!
Bogon - oh, I don't know. Maybe I'm just feeling contrary today but, it seems to me, Democrats aren't saying much, either. Lots of double-speak on both sides, no one actually addressing issues or considering solutions. Some double-speak is more pleasant to listen to, however, depending on one's POV, LOL
Wait, that came off as much too "fair and balanced" when, in fact, I agree with you! Just frustrated at the level of discourse, on all sides, I guess, even though some are worse than others.
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Some while ago (years, I think), I wrote in the blog about hotspots in the mountains just north of SP and our little valley. I occasionally try to find more info and never can – seems no one has an ongoing investigation. The hotspots are either from oil-ish deposits that caught fire and are smoldering underground (which is a fire hazard) or they are indicative of something coming up through the faults (which is significantly scarier).
Well, an ongoing underground fire is being blamed for a fire that broke out yesterday north of Fillmore and south of the Condor Preserve (maybe 10 miles NE of here), and I learned from the newspaper report that local fire crews keep the areas around that are cleared of brush in anticipation of just such an occurrence. I am assuming, though I don't really know, that this is the same type of hotspot that I read and wrote about, previously. Interesting, no? Someone's watching, they're concerned, but nobody is really researching it, that I can find. Well, anyway … somebody might remember that topic from way back, so I'm “updating”.
Oh, and, the fire is out, apparently.
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The videos I promised some days ago … well, one of them …
Research on moral behavior is fascinating, don't you think? This TED talk is both entertaining and informative (and, as usual, relatively brief).
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My concern for the SPPD is unfounded – a newspaper report says that they're all fine. That's good.
Local paper has want-ads for police officer and a chief. If anyone's interested. lol
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Here's a major time suck for you – a site that has full documentaries online for free. I watched “What Darwin Didn't Know” last night and it went well enough after I adjusted the quality down. [Note that NOVA did a similar doc called “What Darwin Never Knew” but the one I watched was the BBC's.] Most of the docs (if not all) are available on youtube but it's nice to have them all in one place and reasonably well organized.
Think I'm going to watch the Tesla biography tonight … but there is a current one, perhaps the first in a series, called “Culture in Decline: What Democracy?” which looks like something I ought to watch. We'll see.
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So, yeah. Halfway through August and my blog title still says “July”. My best idea for a new blog is about July, anyway. Maybe I'll just let it run, as is, for awhile.
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Oh, weather. It's been hot, but, not very hot. Perfect for me, really, as long as I'm not here at the computer where the heat trapped in the room can get oppressive. Nice and toasty outside, with a pleasant breeze.
Late last night there was a small chance of rain in our forecast and it looked okay on the satellite. But, no go. As I noted in calpoppy's blog the other day, the Pacific is winning this round in the battle with the high pressure, as it usually does, so the monsoon is not getting here.
There is a low out there, wrapping some monsoonal moisture … but it is a long way off and I don't know when, where, or if it will come ashore. Er, maybe I should read the discussion … nah. I've had as much luck as they have had this summer.
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So my laptop is now a frying pan and I'm off to enjoy the breeze :)
But, aren't you glad I dropped by? harhar
Most Republicans are sold on the program. They will do nothing to raise taxes on the rich, tighten environmental laws that might obstruct business as usual etc. Some of the Democrats are still wrestling with their consciences, but they don't have the votes to override Republican stonewalling.
Believe it or not, there is still a left end to the political spectrum. You won't hear about it on Fox News, but there are examples of left-leaning rhetoric if you look for them. I ran across one this week. It's a talk given by anthropologist David Harvey, followed by a q & a session. If you watch the whole thing, it takes about an hour and a half.
For those of you who don't have that amount of time, here's the short version.
Tangentially related (via Occupy) is this story.
The new totalitarianism of surveillance technology | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The story gets better and by that I mean worse and it's not very long.
It made me even more motivated to take this action.
Tell your senators: End warrantless spying on Americans
As the article says, "So much for smaller government!"
We can try petitioning the Senate. We can try to work the system, but I fear the system is already broken. It seems to me that we are at war. It's a class war of aggression that we (ordinary citizens) did not start. We may have to finish it, though, before it finishes us.
Note that I have always been, and remain, a peaceable, easygoing guy. I do not consider myself a rabblerouser. It's just that I fear peaceable and easygoing are not going to avail from here on. I, for one, do not welcome our new overlords.
Glad to see you weren't vaporized by a hot spot, sp, although it sounds like your laptop is trying to do it to you, anyway! :)
I think we'd all rather just get on with our lives. But, a decent society comes with implicit "some assembly and regular maintenance required" instructions.
LowerCal - gee, thanks. If it weren't Disney I'd be less disappointed. I like Disneyland.
As for cctv and facial recognition used inappropriately - I do think we have more to "fear" from corporations than from government, at the moment. Problem is, it's getting harder to separate the two institutional forms, and the next President (and Congress) will pick at least one Supreme Court Justice and those folks, all together, will help determine how and when these technologies are implemented.
Riffing ...
In related news, the FAA is set to give the green light to using drones over U.S. airspace (more than they already do, that is). Hey, what could go wrong?
What it comes down to, in this case, is that billions of dollars were poured into developing drone tech for use in the "War on Terror"(tm) and the private companies that make and run those programs want to keep the money flowing. Our government is only too happy to oblige. Thing is, our government is determined by the voters, still, so it is ultimately our call.
You know, I've been thinking ... this may be what is behind the gun lobbies, too. I mean, it's obviously about money but what I wonder is if the makers of things like assault rifles just are not willing to take only what they can get from the military, so fight for the "right" of citizens to own those weapons of mass destruction. Just musing ... which leads me to privately-run prisons that need criminals to stay in business and, in fact, need more and more criminals, with longer sentences, in order to grow their business and satisfy their shareholders. Thus, we need more activities to be criminalized and that means we have to catch the "bad guys" and what better way than with drones and cctv and facial recognition tech?
It is a lovely little police state we're building here, isn't it?
Ylee - chicken! ;) I don't blame you ... and I know that if you have the time, you jump right in :)
Not vaporized, yet, but there was a series of small earthquakes just 5 miles away this morning, following a few others on the same spot in the past week. Happened the other side of Sulfur Mountain, which is just north of me and along a fault line that runs with Santa Paula Creek and Highway 150. It's called "Sulfur Mountain" for a reason - it reeks of sulfur and is another area that was tapped for oil. Hmmm ... geologically active, oil, sulfur, hotspots ... I'm telling you, there's a volcano waiting to blow back there!
Or, you know, not. I'm all in paranoid mode, thanks to Bogon and LC, LOL
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PSA: if you are a youtube member and hate that you can't see "uploads only" anymore and don't know how to fix it ... change your favorites or bookmarks link from http:\\youtube.com to http:\\youtube.com\my_subscriptions and then you get new videos that you have not watched to show up.
Took me weeks to bother to hunt that down, LOL, so thought I'd pass it on.
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Did you see the story on npr about how a new species of insect was found on Flickr? So, there you go. An upside to all the newfangled technology.
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Going to try to get around wu today but ... it's kind of hot, and really humid (by my standards), and I may just head oceanwards.
The trial of the punk band, Pussy Riot, has concluded, and the three women have been sentenced to two years in prison after five months of pretrial imprisonment. Their closing statements have been posted online.
I read through two and a half of them. Here are a few quotes from the second, Yekaterina Samutsevich's, statement:
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Today’s educational institutions teach people, from childhood, to live as automatons. Not to pose the crucial questions consistent with their age. They inculcate cruelty and intolerance of nonconformity. Beginning in childhood, we forget our freedom.
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… if approached from the point of view of Christian culture, we see that meanings and symbols are being replaced by those that are diametrically opposed to them. Thus one of the most important Christian concepts, Humility, is now commonly understood not as a path towards the perception, fortification, and ultimate liberation of Man, but on the contrary as an instrument for his enslavement.
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[The people] no longer have a sense of themselves as citizens. They have a sense of themselves simply as the automated masses.
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And Cory Doctorow, over at boingboing, also quoted her.
Anyway, thought it was relevant to our current discussion, in its way.
note, ftr: found those links from Stephen Fry's twitter feed.
I like what you said:
I think we're due for a tuneup. Hope we can find the manual.
The video I'm watching now is the most outrageous thing I've seen in a long time. It's a two hour film, but I was convinced in about ten minutes. This is an action item, which transcends party politics. Spread the word.
There. That was fun :)
Bogon - the manual is also a work in progress, in need of updating as we become more aware of what works.
It looks like maybe that video is the first you've heard of that line of thinking on 9/11. The folks who are spreading the word go too far in their conclusions, without the evidence to back it up. They sound like nutters and that makes it easy to dismiss. If there is any truth to the claims it won't be found out in our lifetime. Yep, this is me suggesting apathy, LOL
Glad you found something to watch there - it's a cool site!
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Want some good news about government? Unlike previous administrations, Obama's government is doing the actual job of government in at least one way - cracking down on Medicare fraud. Maybe you've seen stories about this. I have, but thought they were basically publicity stunts, despite the size of the busts. Nice to see that it continues apace and the bad guys are getting busted. Go, Big Government!
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Also, I was reading about the deportation of undocumented immigrants which is holding steady at about 400,000 each year of the Obama presidency. What's really different, though, is how ICE is doing their job. They haven't the funding to process everyone who ends up in the system, let alone to go out and find anyone who has managed to stay out of the system, so they used to just go down the list, processing whomever came up next. This too often meant that criminals remained here and free. Now, ICE has been directed to prioritize processing of criminals and get them out, while suspending the process for those who are no threat to the public to save time and money. Some folks don't like that and want everyone out and I get that but, hey, if you aren't willing to fund the agency, it ain't gonna happen. With limited funding, it only makes sense to focus on the bad guys immediately, and deal with the rest when there is some breathing room. Efficiency in a government agency. Whodathunkit?
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Today is Space Day in California! Gov. Brown is touring JPL today and issued a proclamation :)
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Today's weather - boring!
From the discussion:
"A stretch of very dull weather then sets up in the wake of todays
low. The area will be under the eastern extreme of an upper high 800
nm to the west-southwest of l.A. There will be weak onshore flow and night
through morning low clouds and fog across the coasts and coastal
valleys. Maximum temperatures will be a little below normal. The atmosphere will
be dry and stable with not even afternoon build ups expected over
the mountains"
seewulater :)
It seems to me that there is quite a bit of evidence. We have video from every news feed in New York City. There are thousands of eyewitnesses. There are samples of dust and refuse. The folks interviewed for the show have impressive credentials. What they said made sense to me, more than the official government version. Those buildings were demolished. Who did it? Who had the power to pencil whip the official report?
Maybe I'll end my days in an asylum, but I'm not going to let this lie. I can't.
What have you found besides that video?
I'll try to visit you in the asylum :)
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Here's Gov. Brown's speech at JPL, yesterday. It's political, as I suppose it must be, but some good stuff in there.
Couldn't ask for a nicer day. Dry, clear, sunny, warm, breezy. Ho hum :)
Facial recognition is just a passing fad; during our children's lifetimes, I wouldn't be surprised if DNA scanners become the ID'er of choice!
Bogon came up with a really good video in #69. I had to watch it twice because that cartoonist's hand moves faster than my poor brain comprehends.
Over on LC's blog, I followed a link for a cute video called "We're NASA and We Know It". I clicked on the author's name and discovered "TrapWire Kickstarter", which although technically it's defined as satire, is way closer to the truth than some might think. Anyway, in the for-what-it's-worth department, thought you might enjoy:
I didn't totally buy into that program. I liked it better when domestic spying was against the law. But in a case like this I'm inclined to believe that turn about is fair play. If the government has nothing to hide, they surely won't mind if we reopen the investigation into the events surrounding 9/11. It is alleged, after all, that members of the government are all pledged to public service. They work for us. Any hint of malfeasance or impropriety adversely affects their ability to govern. They should be models of cooperation.
:)
2) Appropriately cautious
3) Inventive
...or she fell into a pile of yarn?
Maybe Trap Wire got SP. Knitting needles are pretty subversive.
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