Half time flashback

New Rules March 4th, 2011:



Excerpt of a comment I wrote on Einstoned-onfb's Facebook blog:

March 20 at 12:09 pm
Cat Brown

...I’m also looking forward to see if Bill gets his own Ben and Jerry’s flavor in tonight’s New Rules; all week comedians like Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon and George Lopez have been shameless corporate shills, running around licking spoonfuls of Ben and Jerry’s. The other week I noticed Bill sneaked Willy Wonka into New Rules around the same time Nestle’s Willy Wonka Candy ran an ad campaign.

They say there is no such thing as bad publicity, truth be told if that Haagen Dazs ejaculation fantasy was paid for! Here's a stain that's not coming out.


March 25th New Rule:




Posted on Einstoned's Facebook page April 7th, 2011:

This would be a good name for the dream ice cream...

Posted here and now:

The look that melts...

Katia's surgical strike

My family calls me Catie. Hurricane Omar... Oh Maher... Hurricane Katia... Catie Ah.

So far hurricane Katia has been a regal, major hurricane never touching land. It's been a joy to identify with her... until she arrived in Northern Ireland, Bill's European origin. Today, her center went over Malin Head, Ireland. Malin in french means pain in the ass oh. I admit there's a grain of subliminal truth in there somewhere, but however it happens it's purely from the subconscious... I think. Which brings us to tropical storm Maria. She hit the islands south of us as a tropical storm, degraded to a depression when she arrived here, and regenerated back to tropical storm status after she passed. This picture tells a thousand words.

The forecast was for her to hit us as a tropical storm, not a hurricane. That in itself is surprising for a peak of the season storm developed off Africa. Even more so when she effectively extinguished as she arrived. As Dr. Masters had warned, "Islands on the right side of the storm, such as Anguilla and Barbuda, will see the full force of the storm, with winds of 45 - 55 mph." St. Maarten is next to Anguilla, so we were supposed to get the full force of the storm. Besides fizzling out, she made a little jog to the right so that the worst side was no longer in our path.

When she passed near us as a fizzled blob, Dr. Masters described her shape as a squished question mark. In his words: "Tropical Storm Maria doesn't look much like a tropical storm--on the latest satellite imagery it looks like a squashed question mark instead of a spiral."

The next morning I isolated this still picture from an animation. She had puffed her question mark back up.

Again today, the question lingers; it looks as if it's even bigger! Our incredulity printed in a massive cloud pattern?

This season marks the first time none of the first eight storms reached hurricane status. Meteorologists are wondering why weather systems have been so slow to develop over the Atlantic... whispering sweet lullabies as they tiptoe through the islands in the form of waves, depressions or weak tropical storms.

Emily in particular defied all the models. She passed below us as a tropical depression then became a tropical storm, stalling 90 miles south of Port au Prince and hovering there for 24 hours, leaving everyone in suspense as to whether she would wipe out the people living in tents. No computer model predicted this bizarre halt. In Dr. Masters words, "this motion or lack thereof is still something the models aren't analyzing well."

Here is a patois tweet from Haiti as Emily finally made her dramatic move north and spared the fragile city, dissipating over Santo Domingo.

@Apach_laLilianne Dupoux

Le'm di nou ti bout te sa yo rele #HAITI a ce nan plat main bon Dieu li chita kap travay sou li!Li we nou pat ka pren#Emily, li epargne nou!

Google translation:
Le'm tell us little that was known # Haiti to dip in main dish best God sat working on it! He saw we could not take # Emily, she spared us!

@MinnickJay

Thank you for praying for Haiti, if you did. No hurricane, not even rainstorms. They are very happy.
via TweetDeck

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Next item of note: Tropical storm Harvey made landfall in Dangriga, Belize. Dandriga’s name meaning is ‘sweet water is close at hand’. I read that as ‘more magical excitement coming up!’

Irene was supposed to hit North Carolina as a cat 3, but degenerated quickly to a cat 1. Snippet readers must of sucked a stairway to heaven because her eyewall collapsed when she was forecast to strengthen - at practically the same hour I posted a blog about Morehead city and excused myself in order to get busy... 5:40 am. Her rains hit hard but the east coast and NYC were spared the science fiction scenario.

Here's Dr. Masters again: "Satellite data and measurements from the Hurricane Hunters show that Irene continues to weaken... Figure 1. MODIS satellite image of Hurricane Irene taken at 11:50 am EDT Friday August 26, when Irene was a Category 2 hurricane with 105 mph winds. The eyewall collapsed several hours before this image was taken, and no eye is apparent."

At 2:00 am on his previous post, Dr. Masters had written:
"Irene is forecast to make landfall on the North Carolina coast Saturday afternoon. It will likely be a Category 3 storm, with wind speeds around 115 mph.

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...And Katia passed north of us as a tropical storm and only sent gorgeous waves. As a powerful cat 3 with a brief intensity to 4, she weaves artfully and is expected to avoid all land. I guess that’s what Dandriga’s ‘sweet water ahead’ was alluding to!

The serious stuff is next, I promise.

In an earlier post I noted Nanmadol can be summed up to the computer term nan (not a number) Ma Doll. I took comfort that it could mean age is not a number and I'm not so old after all. Then I found out about tropical storm Tokage which was absorbed by Typhoon Ma-on back in July. Tee is also a computer term used to view and save an output from a command. And ok age, well it speaks for itself. Not to forget tropical storm Noc-ten. This blog might be a confidence booster for baby boomer girls!

Then there's Bill, who's posting videos again following his summer break. This week he pledges to get rid of 'Eric Cantor the talking prick' and also brings up the Gertrude Stein exhibit in San Francisco, probably sending a coded message to his new girlfriend about his recent trip there.

On his website the screen shot looks like this:

Out of curiosity I looked it up and I happen to be the ideal weight for my height and age... although I might scale back a few dollops of yogurt dessert.

Katia swirls by

Yes, I'm putting off the long winded analyses of recent hurricanes for later. In the meantime check out Katia, a good girl... like yours truly. The forecast for the islands tonight is clear.

The view today

Nanmadol: as intricate as a crop circle

Hurricane Nanmadol in the Pacific has 'dol' at the end so I kept looking at that name. Then I found the meaning of Nan. It's a computer term which stands for 'not a number'. In an earlier post I brought up my age, just about 50, and I joked about Hurricane Ma-on and tropical storm Gamma.
Not a number. Ma: Doll.
My heart is overflowing with love for such poetry. Here's another one: Irene made her second landfall at Little Egg Inlet, NJ.

Deep love sigh...