a weblog of whereabouts & interests, since 2010
We have a lot of documentation to complete for our Blueprint, and so we’re knuckling down and cranking out the documentation. It is cold and snowy outside, but Salt Lake City taught me that there is still a long way down if you’re in the 20s (°F). The Japanese TV channel in the hotel room reports that Ulaanbataar, the capital city in Mongolia, is sporting a withering temperature of -18 °F (-28 °C).
I’m in Pennsylvania, in the Pittsburgh area again for a few days. Moon is just north of Pittsburgh airport, and Mars is where the hotel is. It’s a 40 min drive to the hotel. There is snow on the ground but the roads are clear of snow and ice. Just watch out on the turns for iced surfaces !
P.S. So the black birds (Ravens) won the Superbowl, and no word from officials at the Superdome and its energy company, Entergy, as to what caused the 34 minute black-out. A circuit breaker worked as designed, but why did the circuits become overloaded? ‘It’s NOT Beyoncé’s fault*’ says James L. Kirtley Jr., professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
*Beyoncé and her dancers put on a dazzling, hologram-assisted halftime show on a lit-up LCD-like stage floor.
It’s Sunday afternoon in Seattle and I’m watching Superbowl XLVII. The San Francisco 49ers are playing against the Baltimore Ravens.
There is new artwork up on the partition that separate Seattle City Light’s new substation construction site in South Lake Union from the street. There used to be a bus stop right here, but the sheltered bench and post were removed last year. But for now I see the No 8 bus is stopping there again .. must be because construction is currently scheduled to start only in Jan 2015. 
I am following the current discussions to make reforms to the broken US Immigration laws with interest. The 11 million illegal immigrants in the country will have to go ‘to the back of the line’, some people are fond of saying. Well, probably so – but that line is very, very long. Check out this chart that appeared in ‘Reason’ magazine in 2008 .. Legal Immigration Chart.
