It’s been too long since the last substantial update, and they’re still missing some important bug fixes and necessary additions.

Bug fixes:
WLS loses my saved sign in information when it encounters any connectivity issue.

Necessary features:
Eliminate the 20k file limit: I had more than 20k pictures when you first increased the limit.  Get it started at near 100k, work up from there.
Programmatic folder addition: I have to manually set up every folder every time I reimage a computer.  BS.  There needs to be a way to do this with at least a registry edit, if not a command line option.
Common folder sync options: in the options dialog, there should be a tab with check boxes for “pictures”, “music”, “favorites”, “documents” etc.  Check the box, it syncs that folder in your profile with the corresponding folder on skydrive (or at least with every other WLS client).
Skydrive sync support: I know it’s coming, but I want to stop hearing excuses or a total lack of communication.  Just get it done.

Fin rant.

There's a group of scientists, and they have developed theories that explain the most basic rules of the universe. God appears to the lead scientist and asks that science not forget him.
So the scientist looks at god and says "God, if I can demonstrate that I have all your power, will you acknowledge me as your equal?"
God says "Fair enough. If you can equal my accomplishments I will bow before you."
So the lead scientist grabs a handful of dirt, looks at God and says "Just as you did, I too will take this pile of dirt and create life. Will that be satisfactory?"
God says "Sure. But first make your own dirt."

Part one got dropped.  I’ll repost it some time, but it was just brining the pork belly and frying up a small salted slice.  It had the taste and texture of a pork chop.  Not at all like bacon, not at all crispy, and it had a fairly grey color without much browning.

I took a slice from the experiment brine bag, the one with the liquid smoke added.  I made sure to vary the thickness so I could see how different thicknesses cooked.  After one day of brining, I noticed a significant difference in texture and taste.  It actually had some of the crispiness to the fat that you’d expect, even in the thicker sections.  It seems that after even one day of brining, it improved tremendously.

He’s not really worth mentioning.  That is all.

With the lack of advancing fronts, this puppy might spin up and actually hit land.  Maybe.  But don’t hold your breath.

There’s been a few additions and one deletion.  I’ve got to get by Wimberley to try their place out.  Most of this info is from the Texas Brewpub Report.

HTTP: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&encType=1&cid=86E0371A36435FA2!1971
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http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT1+shtml/012047.shtml

In other news, aren’t the local low temps awesome?  It’s practically fall!

Invest 94L is well on her way to becoming TS Erika. 

In other news, signs of a long, cold winter are all over, especially on the eastern seaboard.

The nice cool temperatures the SE United States got yesterday and today will make the invest head out to the atlantic.  It might get a name, but it won’t be a big deal.

This morning, I noticed that the air is holding a chill.  It isn’t coming with its own, but it’s holding it well.  Fall is going to come early, I’m pretty sure.

This makes me want to go do fall stuff.  Stuff like drinking dark beer, eating savory thick food, having fires, and driving.  This fall, I’d really like to see Fredericksburg and New Orleans again.  I think I should also see Destin.

Mmm, fall.

There’s a nice pretty rotation behind the wave just coming off Africa.  Looks like a decent chance of it spinning up into something more fun.  Guess we’ll know more this time tomorrow.

You can't see the rotation from this water vapor image, but see the funkiness between the canaries and africa? Yeah. Rar.

Ana died with a whimper.  Claudette did too.  Bill is getting big, but is only a threat to Bermuda.

There’s an un-invested area of interest just off the yucatan (about 85’W 20’N) with rotation and pressure characteristics that make it worth attention.  Steering currents would send it to the central Texas coast.  It likely won’t develop into much.

Ana is still a generic threat to the gulf

Bill is headed off to the Atlantic to die:

Invest 91L might become Claudette in the next six hours and looks to come ashore over Pensacola:

Wow this has been one active day.  It might be easier to whine about what isn’t affected right now.   Okay here we go:

Invest 91L is off Florida and tracking for New Orleans or so.  Might become a TD, maybe.

TS Bill grew FAST and is well formed way off Africa in the Atlantic.  You can also see the next area of interest in the wave coming off Africa now.  This might become Hurricane Claudette:

Bill should easily become a hurricane but is now tracking up east of Florida and might be a fish:

TS Ana, of course, is a day and a half off Puerto Rico and tracking for NOLA too:

So, busy day.  Wonder what tomorrow will bring.

Both are currently tracking to the Gulf inside Florida.  Okay, the-future-Bill will need to shift a little, but it sounds good…

TS Ana:

TD3 to be Hurricane Bill:

Okay, maybe Ana, but I’m thinking the leading area of interest has potential to spin up and swing north.

My completely unofficial amateur prediction is a north to central mexico hit by a cat 2 or 3.  The gulf is blazing hot in places, so there’s some energy available.  The steering currents are all screwy from the previous invests that are up by Florida now – we can get more accuracy when they calm down.  With any luck, we can get this puppy up a little north to Texas in a couple of weeks.

Get your water bottled!

From the NHC:

I still think it will go out to die in the atlantic.  Oh well, maybe she’ll make TS Ana.

Invest 99L is trying to spin up over the eastern Atlantic ocean.  I’d put very good money on this one being, at best, a minor named storm, skipping up off the east cost, and dying in the north Atlantic.

I hate this year’s hurricane season.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo/gtwo_atl_sub.shtml?area1#contents

It’s the only one circled, below (Fig 1).  I told you guys to watch it Wednesday when it was hopping off Africa.  Looks like others are on the bandwagon.  The steering currents are potentially favorable to bring it over the Yucatan and up the Texas coast.  It will have to make it across some moderate shear off Central America (Fig 2), assuming the shear stays in place, which is likely for a week.  It’s also lined up for a good shot of hot water off the NE of South America, extending west from Guyana (Fig 3), though the Gulf has been cooling a little and western temps are low enough to moderate any storm.

This is still a couple of weeks out, so don’t place much stock in this at all.  As always, be prepared for hurricane season, but don’t go crazy.

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