Wind from the east roiling the bay

Yesterday, sadly, in the neighborhood

sfgate.com: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/place/article/San-Francisco-fire-a-blow-to-emerging-neighborhood-5308747.php

Another in the "You Are Here" series

Thanks to Spaceref, a link to a paper describing the local set of galaxies within which we find ourselves.

Kinda boggles the mind. Wonder how many other minds there are in this region writing similar papers.














http://spaceref.com/astronomy/the-milky-way-galaxy-sits-among-a-council-of-giants.html

https://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/news-archive/254-news-2014/2419-milky-way-amidst-a-council-of-giants

Biked to and over Mt Tam this weekend

Boy are my legs tired.

That fourth climb was tough.















thanks to:
http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/359871425

public safety building, progress

Recently, moon over east bay

recently, a Mt Diablo hike from North Gate

It was a great day for a hike!

Sutro Tower and San Francisco, from Twin Peaks

Global Wind Map

This is very cool:
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=32.45,52.92,305

about: http://earth.nullschool.net/about.html

feed the oligarchs, see what happens

this quote:

'He is referring to the 2012 book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, in which economist Daron Acemoglu, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argues that societies fail when they move from an inclusive to an extractive economy, meaning an economy “designed to extract incomes and wealth from one subset of society (the masses) to benefit a different subset (the governing elite).”'

from: http://www.thestar.com/news/atkinsonseries/2013/12/13/the_incredible_disappearing_middle_class.html, via: @sarahkendzir

image thanks to: http://economyincrisis.org/content/america-is-caught-in-a-vicious-downward-cycle