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My father's baffled by the gas shortage in NYC, so I cobbled together my best explanation of why, revised below.

Right after the storm, early last week: NY Harbor closed to tankers. Some gas stations had no power so there was less gas to go around. There's a gasoline pipeline into NYC, which may have been barely enough to meet the demand at first. At this time the main demand for gas is to run generators where there's no power.

A day or two after the storm, middle of last week: Those gas stations which did have power began running out of gas without sufficient resupply. Businesses reopen, but much of NYC public transit does not, increasing the usage of gas as people drive to work.

End of last week: NY Harbor opened around Thursday last week, but it takes time for that gas to work its way into the system. Meanwhile, people driving to work are starting to need to gas up.

Last weekend and early this week: More of the same, but panic buying sets in, which more than offsets the reduced need for gasoline for generators.

Middle of this week: The gasoline pipeline into NYC suffers some sort of damage, and I think that was the straw that led Gov. Cuomo to ration gas in NYC and Long Island.

The NY Times seems to confirm aspects of my points 1-4.

Does anyone have things I left out, or different explanations?

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.

comments there. Comment here or there.

Are there any busses from Queens to Boston, like say, Flushing?

In cleaning out a box of old crap, I discovered a few college essays I wrote. It would have been 1995-1996, and I 17 or 18 years old. I think they were for the college I did attend, as I recall culling more of them once before (though I specifically recall my Honors essay was about the lights of Shea Stadium, and is not in this batch). I wrote them on a word processor that my Mom gave me after she got a better one and I proved to her I could touch-type (it was my reward for learning to touch type). You would type one line at a time, you could edit that one line, and then it would do that one line as typewriter would. The pages are yellowed, except for some areas with white-out. The font is Courier New, because that's what typewriters can do, and despite it being a "word processor," it simply stored one line at a time and then used typewriter keys to rapidly type that single line out. Each page has the page number typed in, presumably manually, - 1 - , etc. The backs of the pages are photocopies of prints from a book of Escher's work, a letter from RIT about their Physics department that must have been in response to an inquiry I wrote, a page of trite homilies about friendship, and a parental signature page (unsigned) for my high school's Jewish Cultural Awareness Club trip from NYC to the US Holocaust museum.

The subject of "Chapter 8" and "Questioning" probably took place when I was around 14. The astute reader will notice that I fictionalized the sequence at the end of Chapter 8 to make it read better. Titles added now for convenience of referral.

( Chapter 8 )

( Questioning )

( Ender's Game )

( Perception )

Women's experience of the world is fundamentally different from men's. A story about a woman living in Brooklyn.

Here's a mirror image of the chop, so it should be "readable" this way.

People are still stumped so far, so my plan is to bring it with me to NYC next time I go, and see if I can track down someone there who can look at it in person and read it.

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As soon as Joe's Shanghai opens we'll place an order for their famous soupy dumplings (and other things of course) - yes, Chinese take-out. We'll take it over to Nga Boo (Chinese grandmother), who's at a Kosher Jewish nursing home. We're supposed to eat in the non-Kosher cafeteria, but that's often full on holidays so we may sneak the food upstairs and eat on her floor instead. Dad (Jewish) will of course complain that we're being horrible to do so, but he'll be the one who suggests it.

Ah, traditions. :)

Organize photos. No progress.

Record singing - Recorded a a couple.

Road trip to Philly - Thinking about around 4 days taking place sometime in the range of July 24 - August 10 (~~Note to ayashi/kelsin: When's your wedding, again?~~ Thanks!)

Visit the crater photography exhibit - FAIL, it closed June 6, not July 6

Learn programming - in progress, working on "The C Programming Language"

Inbox 0 - doing pretty well with the work inbox.

New: Creative writing - found some old pieces that I'm transcribing, and wrote a fanfic.

Among various other achievements, Elsie B. Washington (1942-2009) is credited with being the first African American to write a romance novel with African American characters. She was also a friend of my mother's from childhood through college. They had grown apart in more recent years not through any dislike, but these things sometimes just happen.

Her brother called my parents today to say that she had passed away. It's a shame, I don't remember much about her except that she was a very vibrant woman and I was always glad to see her. I seem to recall my mother and I getting together with her a few years ago, I think when I was in grad school, and learning then that her health was poor, but I may be reconstructing something that didn't happen. I think it's a shame that my mother and her drifted out of touch, for my mother has few true friends these days.

If I am remembering my stories correctly, Mom and Elsie were fast friends throughout most of their childhoods as the two non-whites in the class. It's interesting to see how these experiences shaped them after both earned degrees in English from City College: Elsie becoming an editor and writer credited with being the "mother of the African-American romance", and my mother becoming a high school English teacher with a favorite class of Asian Literature and going to many Asian nations on a Fulbright and other such scholarships.

NY Times Obituary
Wikipedia page

I wonder who will have touched more lives in the end? I want to think my mother, out of loyalty, but in the end it's not a contest, and they both have made contributions in their own ways.

Current Mood: morose

If you live in NYC, a friend of mine named Steven Zelin, The Singing CPA is holding a "tax party" outside the main branch of the post office (8th Ave and W 33rd St) tomorrow, Tax Day, 10 pm - 12 midnight. He will be performing live folksy guitar and vocals, all songs about tax! This is Steven's fifth annual Happy Tax Day Show, and he gets permits and has sound equipment, and everything.

Steven's musical style blends the storytelling skills of Bob Dylan and the parody of Wierd Al Yankovick with the catchy melodies of Johnny Cash. He's been featured on the Wall Street Journal and you can listen to samples of his original songs at CD Baby.

So tomorrow, April 15, Tax Day, 10pm-12midnight while you're waiting in line to mail your taxes from the latest open post office at 8th and 33rd.

Well, off to NYC for a few days for

rosefox's birthday fun this evening (my Mom says one of her coworkers says the spa place is great!) and to see my parents and Nga Boo the rest of the weekend. I probably won't be reading much LJ, but then again I'm so addicted I might...

Grr, stupid going back to an unpaid account and my NYC icon being gone. I don't feel like feeding LJ any more money right now though.

From my Dad

There's a new Chinese supermarket next to the bagel bakery where I get breakfast. It's aptly named "New York Mart".
Check out their new sign!

At least they got "ATM" right.....
I wonder if the top part of the sign is correct.
What's really weird is that they have several other signs, all spelling the name correctly.

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

Northeastern

This could either mean an r-less NYC or Providence accent or one from Jersey which doesn't sound the same. Just because you got this result doesn't mean you don't pronounce R's.(People in Jersey don't call their state "Joisey" in real life)

Click Here to Take This Quiz
Brought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and personality tests.

This is apparently a new and improved version of the accent quiz we've seen before - it does seem to be more region-specific than before.

I wish I could see all the options.

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

New York City. You are most definitely from New York City. Not New Jersey, not Connecticut. If you are from Jersey then you can probably get into New York City in 10 minutes or less.

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

Yoinked from

tikva.

Next time you're bored in NYC (or most any city) for a day, grab a few friends, a camera, and print out copies of this list. Go to!

Personally, I find the "tightest parallel parking" category a bit cheesy, as the person could've been parked in, rather than getting into the spot in his/her own right.

I went sight-seeing thru Midtown yesterday. Man, am I tired! I'm not used to walking that much. Most of my photos came out slightly blurry b/c I didn't bother with a tripod, but here's a couple anyway.

( po-hotos! )

I also bought myself some pretty funky shoes (scroll down a full screen). I'd tried on some even funkier ones back in Turkey-month w/ JT, but those weren't shaped quite right for my feet.

The reunion was good and eerie. People weren't as scary as I thought. Make sure I post more about it later, just wanted to say that I survived, and it was a good thing. I got home at 3am!

Well, as the subject says, I've decided to go with the car rental. It may cost more, but it's so much more convenient. (Makes me wonder about my committment to saving the environment if I'm willing to pay double for the privledge of dumping CO₂ into the atmosphere. Hopefully I make up for it with other lifestyle choices.) I'm getting a pickup around 9am to get the car, I'll do whatever paperwork's necessary, drive to work to install shelving w/ R**, drive home to pack during dinner, and drive to my parents after dinner arriving late tonight. I'll return the car on Monday since they're not open late Sunday - or Sunday at all.

Hopefully on Monday I can just drive my car the short distance to my landlord's shop, get a loaner from him (he says he should have a Ford Escort), maybe drive it to Cambridge during the week, and get my car fixed in time to go to a wedding in Vermont for the weekend.

I'm looking forward to the reunion. It'll be fun to see some 'splodey-heads from my hair change. I hope they don't make me feel like an idiot for being booted out of grad school, I'm going to have to be careful on how I put it. Hopefully I can spin it as WOW! you're a tenure-track professor! Plus you're helping out people less privledged than we were, and sharing your love of knowledge with the world. *shrug* I think I'm worrying for nothing, but I keep thinking they'll all be Nobel Prize winners, and run multi-million dollar startups and have started free food and condom programs in South Africa... For my classmates, none of that is actually unreasonable.

My scrape/bruise from the escalator incident is starting to itch. That's a good thing, means it's in the healing phase, but it's distracting. The day it had the most (gruesome) colors was actually the day of the wedding, and on said day I wore a skirt with a frilly hem at the level of the bruise. I'm guessing the bright colors in my outfit distracted from the bright colors on my leg. Only orange was missing from the ROYGBV.

At the airport, I found myself nervous on the three-stories-tall escalator down to claim my rental car. When I returned it, I went with the elevator instead.

Current Music: Phantom - "Keep your hand at the level of your eye!"

My well-manicured nails from Friday are starting to scuff today. Even chipping at the ends. They're bright orange, to match the skirt I wore at the wedding: flowers of bright orange, pink, and white, shirt was light pink and bright pink, and jacket was flowers in dark blue, light blue, and white - I was the most garish thing present, and I'm proud of it! The nails clashed beautifully with yesterday's eggplant purple knit blouse. *grin*

Looking back on it now, people wore darker colors than I was expecting. It was a nearly-spring wedding, in the warm Southwest, I wasn't expecting to see winter-in-New-York-City-colored clothes. It's true: people in NYC wear black to weddings.

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Right way chop

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RIP Elsie Washington

Tax Day Show in NYC

Off to see the Wizard

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